Promoting European Awareness and Key competences Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting European Awareness and Key competences

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Context/background of the project.
The Project idea of PEAK was born in 2013; it was based on the experience of GIFT, Growing Innovations For Teaching, granted by EU. The Partnership, after setting up the first project group, developed some proposal focuses, around which building up an additional network of European partners with specific areas of expertise. Partners set up a project proposal targeting to meet the strategic objectives that the member countries of the European Union aim to pursue through the priorities set out in the Europe 2020 strategy and the four planned objectives:
• to ensure that lifelong learning and mobility become a reality
• improve the quality and effectiveness of education and training
• promoting fairness, social cohesion and active citizenship
• encourage creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training.

Objectives.
The project has identified the development of teaching profession at the centre of its action as a strong point for the improvement of educational systems and the consequent strengthening of students’ key competences. The project aimed to promote confrontation and sharing among all those working in the educational system and consider it necessary to provide young students with growth models based on democracy and the coexistence of peoples, through cooperation, networking and peer learning. In terms of expected results, the objectives of the project and, in particular, the development of competences identified as central issues of training expected to be achieved:
1. digital skills and, in this case, the use of methodologies and technological tools to improve teaching discipline;
2. the language skills as a communication tool and with particular attention to the increase of teachers able to support the CLIL methodology in the Italian classes;
3. awareness of European citizenship, so that participating schools take the commitment to include specific modules or targeted learning pathways, both within the curriculum and in the study plans of the teachers involved in disciplinary specificities.

Number and profile of participating organisations.
The IPS “Albe Steiner” of Turin, Applicant Partner, took care of the administrative activities, of the official relations with the Italian agency INDIRE; dealing with quality protocols and mobility certifications- EuroPass.
ANFIS, a teachers’ training professional Association, certified by MIUR, has been the coordinator of training courses for pre-mobility.
ACMOS – youth association, skilled on active citizenship, within the LIBERA Piemonte network, with a leading role in the educational proposal on the issues of legality.
ALCANTARA Group, based in Cordoba, oversaw the communication aspects through social media; developing workshops and seminars on the theme of cyber bullying.
BURGAS FREE UNIVERSITY (BFU), is a Bulgarian private University, specialized in teaching languages and ICT – based teaching.
The technical institute “L. EINAUDI “of Verona has established a network of schools in the area, contributing to the spreading and dissemination of innovative practices promoted by the project.
The Rakovski High School in Burgas has dynamically participated at the mobilites, encouraging the dissemination of the objectives and results of the project through dissemination activities in the Bulgarian territory.
Leeds BECKETT University, new Partner, specialised in Language Teaching, expert on the Flipped class methodology.
The SALESIAN COLLEGE, in Limerick, Ireland, a new partner of the second project-life year, active in project dissemination.
EUFOR, a network of secondary schools in Sardinia, a new partner of the second project-life year, active in dissemination of results.

Description of undertaken main activities.
The project activities have been carried out through the comparison and sharing among teachers coming from different countries on the topics of Ciber Bullying, teaching / learning through ICT, research on distance learning approaches, on innovative methodologies such as the Flipped Class.

Results and impact attained.
For teachers, beneficiaries of training and mobility:
1. Development of professional skills with particular regard to digital and sharing planning;
2. Increase of the ability to realize an active teaching based on the use of ICT.
3. Increasing awareness of the importance of enhancing good teaching practices, based on a real competence approach in a European wide network;

Longer-term benefits.
Promoting European citizenship in younger generations is a fundamental aspect of the historical and social context today, especially in the light of the triggering of some processes on the political and economic level within the European Union.
The expansion of Erasmus enables individuals and groups of different ages to participate in exchanges, and through mutual understanding, to feel they are European citizens.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 298812 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Professionale Statale Albe Steiner & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Istituto Tecnico Economico Statale LUIGI EINAUDI
• USR PIEMONTE MIUR
• St Mary’s University College
• Liceo Classico G. F. Porporato
• BURGASKI SVOBODEN UNIVERSITET
• Instituto Alcántara, S.L.
• Lycée bilingue de langues romanes ” G.S.Rakovski”