School adaptability as the key to develop a child’s potential Erasmus Project

Project Title

School adaptability as the key to develop a child’s potential

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The SCHOOL-ADAPT project responds to the Europe 2020 priorities in the area of education and training, youth and early school leaving in the context of globalization and labour market integration. With increasing migration into and within an already culturally diverse EU, even more efforts in the educational system are needed to respond to the needs of pupils with a migrant background and to prepare schools, teachers and parents for growing diversity in today’s classroom.

The SCHOOL ADAPT project is the answer to the detected needs both on the EU, national and local levels of the project partners. It aims to develop, test and implement a comprehensive system supporting the adaptability of school-age children (6-14 years old) in new school setting/environment with collaborative participation of schools, parents, experts and project partners in the partnership countries. The project consortium is a complex partnership composed of 5 different organisations (NGOs, SMEs, schools) from 4 EU countries – PL, CY, IT, ES.

The project objectives are:
– Foster adaptability of school-age children (6-14 years old) to use and boost their learning potential and to meet the requirements of education system of the unknown environment
– Help children and young people from migrant backgrounds in the project countries to become well-integrated into the education system abroad and through this into society
– Contribute to improving migrant pupils’ overall school performance and well-being
– Prepare highly qualified, special primary and lower-secondary educators & teachers to work with migrant students
– Tackle educational disadvantages and early school leaving by giving migrant parents’ opportunities to support their children in their learning in the project countries
– Reduce social isolation and perceived barriers to full integration among migrant children

Target groups of the project:
– primary and lower-secondary school students (6-14 years old)
– parents
– primary and/or lower -secondary school teachers
– primary and/or lower-secondary school experts–school psychologists, educators, management staff

In the course of the project, 5 IOs will be produced i.e.:
1) O1: MODEL OF WORKING WITH A PUPIL RETURNING FROM ABROAD TO THE NATIVE EDUCATION SYSTEM – This inclusive educational model will facilitate the challenging experience of migration-adaptation process of children (6-14 years old), support inclusive school communities for all students and alleviate the risk of school failure and drop-outs.
2) O2: MODEL OF WORKING WITH A FOREIGN PUPIL COMING TO NEW COUNTRY (ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN PUPIL) – This inclusive educational model will facilitate the challenging experience of migration-adaptation process of children (6-14 years old), support inclusive school communities for all students and alleviate the risk of school failure and drop-outs.
3) O3: TRAINING TOOLKIT – PUPIL ADAPTATION – The purpose of this output is to transfer the models of working with returning pupils (O1) and those coming from abroad (O2) into customized teachers’ training. It will be a professional development programme for tutors, educators, teachers / would be teachers to create a productive and inclusive learning environment in a diverse classroom.
4) O4: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES E-LEARNING COURSE FOR TEACHERS – it will be all-in-one on-line learning platform with 5 on-line trainings (8 hours each training) for lower and upper-secondary teachers, educators to develop the attitudes, knowledge, and skills to make their classrooms effective learning environments for all pupils (including children from different cultures) and transform pedagogy.
5) O5: M-LEARNING FOR PARTENTS – The purpose of the product is to develop skills of partners for supporting children in the process of changing schools and adaptation to the new education system and a new peer group, linguistically and culturally different. The training toolkit for parents will be available in the form of m-learning (short forms up to 20, tutorials) developed in multimedia form.

The O1-O5 will be available in EN, PL, GR, ES, IT on project website, free of charge and without any restrictions to their use.

During the project implementation, partners will develop other results to support:
1)process of elaboration of the IOs, pilot testing -templates, guidelines and reports
2)promotion and dissemination activities – PD Plan, project website, promotional materials and reports
3)exploitation of the IOs – Exploitation Strategy
4)evaluation and quality control of the project activities and products– Quality and Evaluation Plan, quality reports, evaluation tools&reports
5)management – Management and Financial Plan, progress reports, interim report and final report, minutes of TPM and Skype calls.

The partners will also organize Short-term joint staff training (C1) in Cyprus for 12 trainers/teachers from partnership and short-term exchange of group of pupils (C2) in Italy for 16 pupils aged 13-14 years old.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 318506 Eur

Project Coordinator

Polska Fundacja Osrodkow Wspomagania Rozwoju Gospodarczego OIC POLAND z siedziba w Lublinie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol im. Unitow Podlaskich w Wohyniu
• C.F.C.D.C. CENTRE FOR COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT CYPRUS
• OMOSPONDIA SYN. GONEON DHM. SXOLEION LARNAKAS
• Associacio Programes Educatius Open Europe
• ASSISI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL + FONDAZIONE PATRIZIO PAOLETTI PER LO SVILUPPO E LA COMUNICAZIONE
• Xenion Education LTD