Pangea Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pangea

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Background of the project: before we started to write Pangea project we wanted our teachers and students to work together and gain experience in international cooperation and we wanted to focus on creativity and we also felt that our students don’t really like reading and they don’t know much about other countries literature which we thought were crucial if we wanted them to understand other nations culture. This project fitted well into the internationalising strategy of the school as six schools work together which gave the opportunity both for the students and the teachers to cooperate internationally, to practice English language, to meet peers from other EU countries.
Objectives: our objectives were to promote the improvement of reading skills by reading short stories of six nations. We also aimed to make our students to study about cultures, international communication and as we involved ICT tools another objective was to make the participants use these tools to write a blog and to give presentations in different creative ways. At last but not least the promotion of the study of the English language was highlighted among the objectives as all the materials, lesson plans, the short stories, the communication went on in English.
The participating organisations were Gimnazjum Nr 5 w Przemyslu from Poland (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/poland/), Avonbourne Academy from UK (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/united-kingdom/), WinNova from Finland (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/finland/), MATSO Denizcilik Anadolu Meslek Lisesi from Turkey (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/turkey/), IES GABRIEL MIRÓ from Spain (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/spain/) and our school, Andrássy Catholic Business Academy from Hungary (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/pangea-teams/hungary/). The schools represented a wide range from general grammar schools to different types of vocational schools.
We undertook the following main activities: we had six international project meetings where teachers and students representing their schools worked together in international teams and each of the schools presented one short story from their national literature using dramatisation, presentations, puppet show, mock-ups and cartoons, comics (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/). Between the transnational meetings the schools involved students in great numbers to read the short stories and to find creative ways to present them. In the schools there were exhibitions, afternoon literature classes, performances which the members of the participating groups published on the blogs of the project. The teachers worked on creating lesson plans and collecting tasks while they also annotated and supplemented the students’ work (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/category/lesson-plans/). The students received education to use ICT tools like Prezi, cartoon making programmes, blog writing.
Results and impacts: our students have become more motivated to read in their mother tongue and in English. They gained experience in working in international cooperation. The number of participants at the national English reading competitions has tripled at Andrássy. Our students have become more open-minded and curious towards other cultures. The teachers have shared the tasks, excersises, lesson plans, presentations they had produced on six websites. The students and the teachers learnt to use several electronic devices such as desktop computers, laptops, e-book readers, tablets and smart phones. They have learnt to create tasks with ICT tools and they have learnt to use Prezi software. The organisational and intercultural skills of participants also have improved. Another very important result is a website (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com) which contains all the blogs, lesson plans, activities that we have done.
Longer term benefits: since we published the results of the project online all the teachers of literature and English will be able to use these materials of the short stories for motivation and cultural improvements in their classes. Another long term benefit is that the participants have become committed to reading, studying, getting to know other nations, habits; have gained experience in foreign countries which will enhance their willingness to take part in other international projects; have become more motivated to improve their English language competences. (https://pangeateam.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/final-reflexion-about-pangea-project-by-ricardo-canovas-spanish-teacher/)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130775 Eur

Project Coordinator

Andrássy György Katolikus Közgazdasági Középiskola & Country: HU

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION SECUNDARIA GABRIEL MIRÓ
• Gimnazjum Nr 5 w Przemyslu
• Avonbourne Academy
• MATSO Denizcilik Anadolu Meslek Lisesi
• Länsirannikon Koulutus Oy