Passport to the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Passport to the future

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“Passport to the future” is an interdisciplinary project focused on development of competences that will increase effectiveness of a professional start-up of young Europeans. The main project’s goals are: diagnosis of the situation on the local, national and EU labor market, equipping students with knowledge and skills necessary to make educational decisions guaranteeing employment and professional success, improving competences to facilitate success on the labor market, including mathematics and natural sciences, IT and linguistic skills, an indication of the wide and practical application of mathematics, especially in relation to new technologies, creating opportunities for information exchange, confronting methods of solving problems with students and teachers from other countries.
Activities aimed at achieving project objectives are included in four areas:
1. The European labor market
2. Knowledge and competences as a condition for development of new technologies
3. Developing mathematical and logic competences in an unusual way
4. Mathematics for humanists
Through the implementation of our project, we want to show the conditions of the European labor market and competences that will allow our students to succeed in their future professional life. The 21st century is inevitably connected with sciences and modern technologies and their development is related to maths. Implementation of the first theme’s tasks will help students to: gain necessary knowledge about employment opportunities, preferred occupations and education trends, internships, provide practical skills that increase their chances of professional success. Project participants will take part in workshops on starting their own company, possibility of obtaining EU subsidies, conducting an interview and preparing a CV. Since maths is responsible for development of computer science and further civilization progress, within the second theme we want to show how new technologies enter our everyday life. Implementing topics related to automation and robotics, we will show young people the future world and improve their mathematics and IT competences.
By implementing a block of maths and logic skills, we want to improve mathematical skills in an interesting and unconventional way. Planned activities include: mathematical culinary workshops, mathematical city game, solving logic-mathematical puzzles in the escape room, match and mathematical marathon, logic-strategic games, mathematical competition, stock market simulation and classes using the experiment method illustrating the application of maths in sport and traffic. The fourth theme will prove that maths is universally present and permeates many fields constituting an important aspect of the humanities’ development. We will organize a debate on the humanistic aspects of mathematics, a competition for a reportage about maths in art, drawing workshops, literary competition for a poem about mathematics or photo competition The adopted project methodology will minimize (or completely eliminate) the risk of irregularities and the variety of methods (workshops, games, competitions, presentations, lectures) shall keep our students interested in the project. Secondary schools’ students(aged 14-19) as well as their teachers will be participants and recipients of this project. Two schools provide general education and two vocational one which ensures experience and good practice exchange. We assume that over 200 students will be directly engaged in the project’s activities(105 students will participate in international mobilities ), but all other students in our schools will have the chance to learn from the project.
The project’s results include: knowledge about the EU labor market which will help participants to make decisions related to career development, increase mathematical, IT and language competences (both students and teachers), increase in communication skills and openness to other nations’ values and culture.
The following will be created as permanent project’s results: studies and presentations on national and EU labor market, knowledge on employment conditions and starting own business, preferred occupations and candidates requirements, manuals on how to prepare for an interview and write a CV, scenario of the mathematical city game, competition regulations , sets of tasks for mathematical matches, mathematics and logic competition, mathematical marathon, scenarios of classes using the experimental method, IT workshops, applications of mathematics to establish regularities in nature, presentations on new technologies in various fields of science, photo exhibitions.
Potential long-term benefits shall not be overestimated because they involve the students acquiring both practical knowledge that they will use in future and development of the ability to think logically, improve the English language, exchange experience and finally expand both students’ and teachers’ intellectual horizons.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130538 Eur

Project Coordinator

LO Nr I im. Jana III Sobieskiego w Olawie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE PALAZZOLO ACREIDE
• EPRALIMA – ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DOALTO LIMA – COOPERATIVA DE INTERESSE PUBLICO E RESPONSABILIDADE LIMITADA
• Silales Simonas Gaudesius gymnasium