(Re-)Discovering motivation Erasmus Project

Project Title

(Re-)Discovering motivation

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Context/background of the project: all participating schools realized that their joint challange was a lack of motivation in students during puberty which led to
underachievement and even school failure. In order to change this, we wanted to use alternative ways of teaching and explore the importance of rich learning
environments, which we did throughout the whole project.
Objectives: Raise the students’ motivation and thus improve their way of learning, create a better school performance, raise self-confidence in students, and
have less school drop-outs. This was done in the key areas of mathematics, science, and literature. We also gave them hands-on experiences, e. g. they baked and cooked like in the Middle Ages, learned how to write with ink and feather.
Number and profile of participating organisations: 6 schools from Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey. Including 1 primary school, 4
secondary schools and 1 vocational school. The vocational school left the project after the first year.
Description of undertaken main activities: We did workshops and went on excursions to rich learning environments during LTTs; the students worked on the storyline in between these
meetings. And the teacher’s passed on their new experience to other teachers of their respective schools.
Results and impact attained: Intrinsic motivation of the students was increased, their horizons were broadened, English language skills were highly increased,
alternative ways of teaching were implemented in the daily teaching routine, using social media platforms was fostered.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140080 Eur

Project Coordinator

Leibniz-Gymnasium Altdorf & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Instituto Educación Secundaria La Rosaleda
• CBS Holk
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Sousel
• Osnovna sola Lava
• BORUSAN OTOMOTIV ZEHRA NURHAN KOCABIYIK ORTAOKULU