Reporters without frontiers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reporters without frontiers

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: Integration of refugees; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Context / background of the project
The project ‘Reporters without frontiers’ examined interdisciplinary and intercultural on the one hand
(a) everyday realities of young people in Europe
and on the other hand
(b) Europe’s current problems and approaches (refugee issues, socio-economic distribution and equity issues, environmental issues, quality of life issues)
To this end, transnational student teams prepared and conducted interviews with external stakeholders and prepared them for presentations.
The interview partners were representatives from the fields of politics, economics, social affairs, environmental NGOs and alternative projects.
The media used were photography, video, sound, text and any combination of images and text. The work with artistic-documentary means transformed abstract contexts into something tangible and offered a new, pictorial-linguistic level of reflection. The own and above all foreign languages were made practically usable, image and sound were experienced in their universality (the language of art is international).
ICT was used throughout for communication and presentation.
The students all lived in host families.
Each TLT meeting lasted 10 days.
In addition to their preparation and follow-up, the TLTs in all partner countries developed twelve photo topics on the everyday life of the students.

Objectives
The project set itself the following goals for the participating pupils:
– Continuing to expand the knowledge of the history, political-social, economic and geographical facts of all partner countries.
– Extending active language competence in English in everyday and technical contexts
– Creating a favourable communication atmosphere in a foreign language
– Raising awareness of and becoming aware of one’s own and other cultures
– Strengthening general communication skills in the context of European Citizenship
– Experiencing and appreciating different European lifestyles and cultural contexts in everyday experience with host families
– Fostering and strengthening creativity and constructive criticism in the context of transnational teamwork
– Becoming aware of and relativising one’s own points of view in the context of transnational teamwork
– The learning of journalistic research, documentation and presentation forms in teamwork across cultural borders.
– Expanding cultural competences and cultural openness in a European dimension
– Strengthening self-confidence and self-awareness in a European dimension
– Active, reflective handling of photo, video and sound artifacts
– Active, reflective use of the Internet and social media
The project set itself the following goals for the participating teachers:
– Improving their pedagogical concepts and applying new teaching methods within the framework of exchanging ideas with European colleagues.
– To expand their knowledge of the theory and technical and creative practice of photography, videography and sound work in audiovisual-linguistic contexts.
– Strengthening the European dimension of their teaching
– To sustainably increase the motivation of the teachers involved through the cooperative European work on the project.

Number and profile of participating institutions
There were five schools involved in the project:
IES Ángel de Saavedra (Córdoba / Spain): continuing, general education, public
Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti (Reykjavík / Iceland): Secondary school, general education, public
Gymnasio Mesovouniwn Me Lykeiakes Takseis (Kefalonia / Greece): Secondary school, general education, public
Lycée privé Paul Claudel d’Hulst (Paris / France): Secondary school, general education, private
Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium (Heusenstamm / Germany): Secondary school, general education, public

Description of the main activities carried out
TLTs were prepared, carried out and followed up in all partner countries involved.
According to the principle ‘More value for money’, more teachers and students took part in the project than was provided for in the application form.
TMs took place in Heusenstamm, Paris and Reykjavík (for the evaluation, planning and adjustment of work processes, results and products).

Achieved results and impact
The results achieved are in line with the objectives set out above. Only the organisational details had to be slightly readjusted in order to fully achieve the planned objectives.

If relevant, long-term benefit
The long-term benefit consists in…
a) the sustainable expansion of competences in accordance with the objectives described above
b) the awareness of the problems addressed in the project among external stakeholders
c) the usability of a proven and transferable project structure in new contexts of content

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164551 Eur

Project Coordinator

Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GYMNASIO MESOVOUNIWN ME LYKEIAKES TAKSEIS
• Lycée privé d’Hulst
• Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti
• IES Ángel de Saavedra