Running Out Of Time Erasmus Project

Project Title

Running Out Of Time

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Our transnational project ”Running Out Of Time – ROOT” is focused on Environmental Education for Sustainable Development & includes 6 different education institutions from Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Romania, Poland & Spain. We will comprise all type of participants: students(11-14), teachers(different knowledges, skills & experiences around the same target) parents, school staff, local communities, municipalities, local governments, universities & administrations in a participative or contributive way.
In the time period in which results of the environmental destruction are clearly seen, the importance attached to environmental formal & informal education in the institutions has increased. In our professional opinion as educators of a new generation, the expected learning outcomes of curriculums are not enough to develop skills, values & perspectives on sustainable environment education. We have concluded that educational programs in this group of countries do not include sufficient subject & student acquisition on ‘Education sustainability’. So it is our main wish to use different learning & teaching approaches, prepare curricular & extracurricular activities, discuss international approaches, identify current trends in EE & ESD, to be able to implement the curricula.
For the accomplishment of the project activities, we will implement different Multiple Intelligence approaches such as Science, Language(native & foreign) & Social Studies pre-defined with partners. Our activities will be predicated on living-learning environment education including Multi Intelligences, Interdisciplinary approaches, cognitive & affective skills with motor skills integrated both in curriculum & extra-curriculum activities. Some of the extracurricular activities will raise students’ self-confidence & self-esteem, increase their nature consciousness, make an impact on the awareness about environmental problems globally, not only locally, & enhance their English speaking skills. These activities will comprise different intelligence areas to increase awareness & get information about other partners’ countries’ nature, culture, traditions, history & lifestyles.
The partnership between the schools will be based on cooperation, effective communication & shared responsibilities, which are set & stated in the project application. Before exchanges students will meet online & prepare presentations as well as some materials connected with the subtopic of each meeting. This will be done in CLIL lessons aimed at improving the students’ speaking/writing skills, as well as providing communication with their international peers through safe platforms (TwinSpace).
During mobility, students will take part in the project workshops, seminars & lectures, & visit important sites. They will work in international groups to make final products connected with the topic of each meeting (posters, debates, exhibitions, etc).
After each exchange & the project’s ending, students will keep their cooperation by means of eTwinning, the project website, the project FB site & social media.
Responsibilities will be on compliance with procedures & timing agreed among each partner country on preparation meetings at an early stage of the project. The Coordinating school will oversee the activities & ensure that they are completed on schedule, that the project objectives are met as planned &, if necessary, to make additional meetings & arrange additional tasks.
Different assessment tools such as Internal & External assessments will be used to evaluate the taxation of the project & its objectives before, during & after their compliance, throughout the duration of the project. These internal & external assessments will involve formative & summative methods.
For the dissemination of the project Erasmus+ Projects Result platform, eTwinning Platform, TwinSpace, project websites, school’s webpages, social media profiles & others will be used to publish the results as widely as possible. Several different communication tools will be used by everyone to ensure the access of dissemination results both in native languages of partner countries & in English. As a collaboration & cooperation platform TwinSpace & eTwinning will be used to improve the activities, make & create new ones after the end of EU Funding.
Students will go on communicating with their peers from other European countries, improving their English skills & strengthening their bonds with peers.
The project will support students in gaining different points of view on European countries’ culture, history, lifestyles, & languages in order to respect & understand them. We will work to accomplish a transformation in the minds of our students’ generation about the surrounding world, making them aware of the consequences of their actions, namely in what the environment sustainability is concerned. Ultimately, these ROOTS for life will survive in their spirits & instigate a change in behaviour in the years to come.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180726 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo “Curtatone e Montanara” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Rio Tinto
• BALIKESIR CIGDEM BATUBEY SECONDARY SCHOOL
• COLEGIO PÚBLICO INFANTIL Y PRIMARIA Nº9. LAS CULTURAS.
• PALATUL COPIILOR BISTRITA
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 3 z Dodatkowa Nauka Jezyka Bialoruskiego im.Jaroslawa Kostycewicza