Robots to collaborate, communicate and share: languages to understand each other. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Robots to collaborate, communicate and share: languages to understand each other.

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The word « Robot » was created in 1920, it is a Czech word meaning “chore”. For years the robot has been considered an enemy, nowadays it is seen as an industrial opportunity to do things that are both sustainable and fulfilling, while creating value.
Robotic learning is essential if we want to deploy it in industry and in our societies. A project like this will help participants (students, parents or teachers) to understand and appreciate how robotics can be useful in their lives.

The use of robots at school will increase student motivation. They are scalable, innovative and creative educational tools that allow students to use digital technology as an enjoyable way to solve the problems they face. The multidisciplinary approach of robotics also makes the involvement and expression of all easier. Thus, students will be able to increase their knowledge and develop their curiosity as well as their communication skills. Students will also improve their science skills. Interculturality strengthens creativity and develops a growing taste for foreign languages, with concrete opportunities to practice them.

Robotics is a good way to develop a thirst for entrepreneurship. Firm visits, testimonials from entrepreneurs and a simulation game to create and promote a business will immerse students in a work environment. We want to give them the opportunity to get a glimpse of the real world and feel more secure and confident as for their future career choices.

Each activity will be thought and developed to include a European dimension of education.

The number of partners in this project (six) makes it complex but also extremely rich. The range of activities is diverse as all the partners have made their contribution to the global program. Some areas of expertise have emerged: organization of European projects, coordination, electronic twinning, robotics, entrepreneurship, environmental protection, cultural actions. Each partner has taken responsibilities of a specific area.
We have decided to work in pairs so that a school in which teachers are experts in one of the different fields can tutor another institution in need to improve their knowledge and skills about it.
Each of the partners being experts in different ways, we will all learn from each other.
In the process, the pairs will have the responsibility to organize the activities within their areas of skills.
The group is composed of schools from different countries in Europe. Thus, it offers the possibility to discover and understand a wide range of social and economic contexts.

The use of the eTwinning platform (presentation, mobility preparation, mobility, post mobility) will help students’ interaction. Audio-visual productions will testify. The live broadcast of a play organized in the Czech Republic will be a fantastic moment to share.
Two periods of staff mobility are planned.
Six periods of students’ mobility are scheduled:
– Presentation and discovery of robotics
– Robotics and protecting the environment
– Assembling and programming robots: mechanical and artistic fields
– Robotics competition: junior Robocup
– Entrepreneurship, Robotics and Culture (Theater)
– Robotics Challenge and Entrepreneurship

For students, the objectives are diverse.
Some assessments will be conventional. Linguistic, creative thinking, problem-solving, robotics and programming acquisitions will be assessed according to targeted skills. A common frame of reference will be created and shared.
Other objectives are less obvious: progress made on the desire for entrepreneurship or the discovery of European citizenship.

Teachers will pursue a dual objective: to reinforce “pupil-centered learning” in order to develop the autonomy and independence of the learners, and to discover the educational systems of the partners as well as improving their language skills.
This project will allow us to seize the opportunity to improve our educational methods in order to adapt it to social realities. This, to lead our students to have a better understanding of the world they live in.

To sum it all up, we aim to:
– Develop a long-term relationship between partners to help students socialize discover different cultures and practice English.
– For the teachers, to improve professional skills by sharing national teaching practices.
– Increase the knowledge of environmental problems, robotics and develop a thirst for entrepreneurship.
We think these 3 objectives are tightly linked and necessary to develop a will for a better future in which Europe must take its rightful place.
We want to help our students seize this challenge in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 43226,39 Eur

Project Coordinator

Max BRAMERIE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Ebesi Arany János Magyar-Angol Két Tanítási Nyelvu Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Muvészeti Iskola
• Zakladni skola a materska skola Teleci
• I.E.S. LA ALBERICIA
• 9th Gymnasium of Ilion
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 28 im.K.I.Galczynskiego w Bialymstoku