READING WITHOUT BORDERS Erasmus Project

Project Title

READING WITHOUT BORDERS

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

“READING WITHOUT BORDERS” is a project for pupils aged 6 to 14 years old and their teachers. Nine different countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Spain, and Turkey) and nine different schools participate in it. The duration of the project is 24 months /September 2017-August 2019/and it involves Transnational meetings and Learning Training Teaching Activities of both the teachers and the students.
By promoting Reading in our everyday life the project aims to increase children’s motivation to read and to make reading relevant, sociable, and thought-provoking. The children will develop their general knowledge, imagination and a better understanding of having European and global identity, understanding their role, rights, and responsibilities. The project will help them to act like a grown-up citizen, formed through good practices, developed from transnational collaboration and realized through active reading and learning process.
By transnational cooperation between schools, educating students will improve their communication skills. They will begin to understand the world better and in a much deeper way. The project activities will help children to reach their full potential.
“READING WITHOUT BORDERS” aims to make pupils be aware of social problems in their lives, family, neighborhood, school, the environment and get them prepared for their future. The project will help the children become caring, concerned citizens and it will give them the skills and confidence to make a positive contribution to their communities.
Reading will also improve the education of disabled students, as they will participate in equal terms in all the activities. Furthermore, the use of foreign languages and ICT skills will be improved by exploiting experiences in new, fun and intriguing ways. The project will offer many different types of working such as: working on projects, controlling conflicts, developing group skills, becoming responsible, using playful and creative elements, by means of music, dance, theatre, drawing, artistic recycling, the use of new technologies and other innovative tools. We expect only positive results to come out of this project. We expect that our school communities will experience positive changes in the school context, curriculum and actions and in relation to parents, local community and people from other cultures/countries. We believe that a school needs to be open to society, easily adaptable to changes, sensitive to the problems not only of the local community but of the whole European Community. In this way, the citizens that are educated in these schools would be ready to contribute to a diverse and dynamic society, in Europe and throughout the World.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143560 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovno Uchilishte Hristo Smirnenski & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Deleni, Iasi
• I.C. 1Mazza-Colamarino
• INSTITUTO VAZ SERRA, SOCIEDADE DE ENSINO, CULTURA E RECREIO SA
• Carrowholly N.S
• Zespol Szkol w Pobiedziskach
• 3rd Gymnasium of Trikala
• Sehit Abdulkadir Yuzbasioglu Ortaokulu