Responsibility for me and you Erasmus Project

Project Title

Responsibility for me and you

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; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Our project is called “ROMY“: Responsibility for me and you. In this project, the students are to be strengthened and encouraged to take over the responsibility for their own lives and life in our world in general. These two aspects of self- responsibility and the responsibility for your life in this world will be pursued in two pedagogical-didactic strands. On the one hand issues that affect the lives in this world are to be prepared and communicated concerning their content. On the other hand training as a fundamental skill for the self-formation of the career must be considered vital for the realisation of the responsibility for the students’ own lives. In keeping with the European educational ideal of “scientific literacy”, which manifests itself in the PISA study, a total of three sub-projects (learning activities) on the two issues of transhumanism and astronomy are to be performed.
Three partner grammar schools (Italy: Riva del Garda – Liceo Andrea Maffei; Sweden: Malmö – S:t Petri skola; Germany: Dortmund – Stadtgymnasium Dortmund) were involved in the conception, organisation and implementation of the three sub-projects. As the content of this project was based on that of the predecessor project “SPACES” (VG-S2S-K-NW-14-001580), the preparations could fall back on already existing structures. These were changed and adapted to the new circumstances. This revision was carried out in a project meeting in Dortmund preceded to the sub-projects and further during the following sub-projects.
The concrete preparation of the sub-projects was performed in workshops and courses on site by the involved teachers and students of the partner schools.

Objectives of the project ROMY:
• In dealing with the sub- topics „Astronomy/worldviews in the course of time and transhumanism the students will become aware of the relevance of scientific findings as being essential when addressing socially relevant topics from social sciences, philosophy and the arts. Therefore scientific literacy is a prerequisite for responsible action in society.
• The work of the pupils in a European project should make them experience that dispute and participation can only take place on a global scale: Both gaining scientific knowledge as well as the impact of these findings on our lives must be considered in a global way.
• But if knowledge is indispensable for a responsible action, it is the responsibility of the individual to get hold of that knowledge.Neither the responsibility for their own life nor for society can be perceived if the basic knowledge is missing.
• In order to acquire this knowledge in specific situations, without overtaxing yourself completely, certain cognitive and emotional strategies that optimize the everlasting learning process are required. In this project ROMY core competencies are to be acquired using the concept of self-regulated learning.

One teaching-learning activity took place at each of the partner schools (see below). The guest students were accommodated in the families of the students of the host school for six days. The “international working weeks” were divided into workshops on the respective topic of the subproject, a supporting programme and leisure activities.
In the workshops, the students had the opportunity to collect and supplement their knowledge from the preparatory phases in order to finally create an appropriate product (posters, dialogue scenes, film). Each learning activity was embedded in a programme: Visits to scientific institutes were organized, where scientists demonstrated and discussed the possibilities of scientific careers and life perspectives to the students.
The products of the workshops as testimonials of the students’ performance were demanding and appealing at the same time. In all cases, the choice of products allowed a large part of the school community to participate in the success of the projects: Entire school classes and the college were invited to the poster session, the theatre performances and the presentation of the video films. Thus, the Erasmus+ project ROMY could be anchored as an attractive and profitable part of school life not only among the students and colleagues directly involved in the project, but also among the school communities of the partner schools.
In addition, the partner schools were able to learn and appreciate the effects of computer-based teaching on class structure and class design using the S:t Petri skola as an example.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65865 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stadtgymnasium Dortmund & Country: DE

Project Partners

• S:t Petri skola
• Liceo Andrea Maffei