Own Your Learning 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Own Your Learning 2.0

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project “Own Your Learning 2.0” will involve four European countries (Finland, The Netherlands, Ireland, and Portugal) working in partnership. Our main aim is to foster and strengthen pupils active participation in learning by involving them in the planning process of the project’s preparation and implementing. As a partnership, we are all committed (through a number of effective strategies) to meeting the specific needs of every pupil in our organisations, regardless of social background, ethnicity, learning disabilities etc. and therefore including and motivating every student to perform to the very best of their ability and to enjoy the activities. During transnational project meetings, we will share strategies for embedding digital tools in lessons, and adopting alternative learning environments used in our individual schools, through demonstrations and explanations.

The project aims to educate all participants in terms of developing intercultural knowledge and understanding through planned activities on themes including language learning, health and wellness, information technologies, and foreign language learning. All outputs (in each of these areas of study) will be shared, presented to partners during project management & implementation meetings, collated, discussed, evaluated and finally produced as one collaborative product, for example, in the form of an eBook/ eMagazine, tutorial videos, and documentary. Pupils will take ownership of the project activities, through which we specifically aim to raise the profile of digital competences and foreign language learning in each of our schools. Most of our outputs will be digital so we have put in place training sessions to develop competences and confidence in this area for both staff and pupils. All our results will be uploaded to eTwinning and project website which will be the virtual space that provides the tools for collaboration, presentation and evaluation.

We value the importance of language learning as an essential skill in facilitating the development of inter-cultural understanding. Again, pupils will take ownership of this aspect of the project by creating tutorials in their own languages (i.e. their content and presentation), according to identified needs and to their relevance to the project content. Tutorials will be uploaded on eTwinning, thus providing a teaching and learning platform for their partners in other countries.

Overall, this will be a very exciting partnership that will involve a variety of innovative, creative and challenging project activities that are planned and implemented by pupils. It will impact positively on many people including those directly associated with our organisations and those who are not.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103754,84 Eur

Project Coordinator

Latokartanon peruskoulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Moimenta da Beira – Escola Básica e Secundária de Moimenta da Beira
• Killorglin Community College
• SintLucas