Reach Out Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reach Out

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The partnership behind “Reach Out” consisted of a school and a youth-organisation (leisuretime) from each of the 3 countries DK, LT & PL + University College Absalon (DK), who was been responsible for research/intellectual output during the project.

The schools did already back in 2014 set up 3 goals for their international projects:
– free student exchanges in school-time as an integrated learning tool
– teacher swob
– workshops in schools with artists from other countries.

The 3 involved schools are member of the network “Exchanges for All”, which is consisting of 15-20 schools around the Baltic Sea and first of all has been busy with implementing mobilities for 8th grade students, but did miss implementing “workshops in schools with artists from other countries” and was interested in seeing, which impact this did have as an alternative or amendment to the mobilities.
The 3 leisuretime structures all had experiences with such workshops and knows well a row of artists, both national and international, who during Reach Out project were working at 4 schools: 2 in Guldborgsund (DK), one in Klaipeda (LT) and one in Wejherowo (PL), which all were visited 3 times by 3 artists following a program developed in a national-funded project in 2010:
Day 1:
– 8:00: Warming up for the whole school – International & artistic introduction to the project
– 8:30: Joint presentation circle for all participants, where each person at least says “My name is…. & I’m ….years old”.
– 9:00: Workshops of Dance, Percussion, Circus and/or visual arts, where the participants on forehand have signed up for one.
-13:30: Joint evaluation circle for all participants, again making everybody give a small statementin English.

Day 2:
– 8:00: Warming up for the whole school – International & artistic introduction to the project
– 8:30: Joint circle for all participants, again making everybody give a small statementin English.
– 9:00: continuing Workshops of Dance, Percussion, Circus and/or visual arts,
-12:30 Presentation of workshop-results to the rest of the school.
-13:15: Joint evaluation circle for all participants

This program did secure, that the whole school was taking part in for example morning warming up, and so all student did increase their intercultural knowledge and -understanding and their feeling of being a European and/or global citizen.

Project Website

https://exchangesforall.eu/about-reach-out-research-project/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99690 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stubbekoebing Skole & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Wejherowskie Centrum Kultury
• Klaipedos vaiku laisvalaikio centras
• Klaipedos Sendvario progimnazija
• PROFESSIONSHOJSKOLEN ABSALON S/I
• ARTTRAIN
• Spoleczna Szkola Podstawowa nr 1 im. Janusza Korczaka