Ready to Engage in Active Literary Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ready to Engage in Active Literary Skills

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The IIS Colasanti and the other institutions that make up the partnership intend to promote the acquisition of skills and competences aimed at developing a sense of belonging to European citizenship, through studying and analysing literature.
REALS Project arise from the idea of IIS Colasanti management body to open the school outwards, in particular to open up to Europe in order to compare and acquire good practices already in place at partner schools.
Literature has been chosen as a teaching-educational tool shared on the assumption that the great problems of human existence treated in literature constitute the common roots on which European citizenship is based. So that literature contributes, as it did and does in national consciousness development, also to the strengthening of the European conscience.
Through the REALS project, partners schools start a comparative survey among European Countries, managed by students, on literature teaching aimed at the discovery and the study of European citizenship’s foundational values, for strengthening critical thinking and for establishing an open and inclusive school.
Main objectives:
• Opening school to an European dimension through cooperation and comparison among schools
• Acquisition by students of social, civic and intercultural competences, promoting democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and active citizenship with particular regard to immigrant students
• Strengthening of critical thinking and of the student’s active role
Specific objectives:
• Identify basic and transversal skills in order to develop the critical sense and to stimulate the active role of the student through laboratory activities of reading, analysis and study of European literature
• Acquired social, civic and intercultural competences aimed at the development of social inclusion and active citizenship through the shared reading and study of European literature
• Assisted formation of a European consciousness through the knowledge of common cultural roots given by the analysis of common themes of European literature
Expected results:
• Jointly identified by staff a strategy of teaching literature through laboratory teaching and the use of ICT
• Implementation of joint laboratory activities by the students
• Increased sense of belonging to European citizenship
Activities:
• Short-term staff training event
• Short-term exchanges of students groups
Methodology:
1. preparation: staffs creation and strengthening of their skills
2. implementation: mobilities
3. project evaluation and results dissemination
Envisaged impact:
• Within the schools the project aims to achieve, for students, the development of the critical sense, of social, civic and intercultural competences, of the awareness of one’s belonging to European citizenship; for staff, an improvement in the skills and abilities related to laboratory teaching, through the use of ITC and an improvement of their methodological and didactic awareness in the structuring of the paths; for institute, an improvement in the educational offer and a greater opening of the school towards the EU;
• At local level, the project aims to reinforce the sense of belonging to European citizenship and to create the basis to stimulate other subjects to create other partnerships for future projects ;
• At regional and national level, the project intends to draw attention to the issue of European citizenship related to education and to the transfer of skills to students, especially in order to influence policies;
• At UE level, the project intends to inform and inspire others to formulate new project ideas in the framework of the Erasmus Plus Program and other programs and to influence future school education policies.
Longer-term level:
• Inside schools: for staff, improvement of skills and abilities, improving the structuring of the paths and a personal enrichment that will accompany them throughout the career and for the whole private life ; for students, development of one’s own critical sense, of social, civic and intercultural competences, of the increased awareness in relation to one’s belonging to citizenship and of foreign experience.
• Within the partnership, each institute will benefit in the long term from an improved training offer, a greater openness towards internationalization and towards the EU.
• Outside the schools: increased sensitivity and interest in the issue of European Citizenship and an increase in the sense of belonging

Project Website

https://reals.home.blog/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42087 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “Giuseppe Colasanti” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Escola Profissional de Moura
• Gymnázium Dr. Karla Polesného Znojmo
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO PIO FEDI