School is Fun! Come on Time! Erasmus Project

Project Title

School is Fun! Come on 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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The project conducted by seven institutions which were from Turkey (Ahlat District National Education, Ahlat District Governship, Ovakışla Secondary School), Italy (NGO), Poland (School), Spain (School), Portugal (School).The main objective of the project was to help to reduce early school leaving and help the students who have some disadvantages about agriculture or socio-economic reasons.Thanks to this project, we tried to develop and support the education and training ways of educators and school policies about early school leaving. Also, we aimed to collaborate with other countries that have the same problem or that have mostly overcome this problem. Participants searched innovative solutions, learn about new techniques, procedures, implementations. During the implementation of the project, seminars, workshops and trainings carried out by the partner organisations collaboratively. Research , questionaires, discussions, exchanging good practices, training, seminars are some of the methodologies that used in this project. Different activities carried out in the project. These were “organizing notice board -Erasmus+ Corner-“, designing a web page, preparing a brochure to introduce the project, creating a getting to know activity ” My hometown” among organizations, face to face meetings, creating video recording of the seminars and trainings, organizing dissemination seminars, applying questionnaires, creating a school newspaper, using local media (radio, TV programs, newspaper), recording short films about early school leaving, 0rganizing a slogan competition among students and exhibiting the posters, preparing a booklet about the project activities and results, improving an instructional programme about reducing early school leaving. After the implementation of the project the following results expected:-an observable decrease of the number of the students who drop school.- an observable number of school droppers or potential droppers expected to continue education.- teachers, directors and the staff working in Ahlat District National Education and Ahlat District Governship got more well-informed and aware of disadvantaged children and how they overcomed early school leaving.-to contribute to reduce inequality of opportune among students.-to strengthen school-parents relationship thanks to innovative techniques and methods about reducing early school leaving. – students who were probable to drop school changed their minds about leaving school thanks to strong school-parents relationship.- parents to be more conscious about education-teachers and directors to be more creative, open-minded and innovative;- teachers and directors and staff working to improve their language skills.- to respect to each culture different nations.-to have open-minded students and parents who have awareness of education- to have social and cultural interaction with other countries.- all participants to be aware of EU projects and Erasmus+ projects.-to have language diversity thanks to different languages.All the results published in paper and online versions were examples of good practices after the end of the project.The project had some impacts on “children” such as a considerable increase of continueing education, awareness of the importance of education, developing European consciousness, personality development and raising self-esteem, gaining knowledge of the lives of children in other European countries, motivation for attending school, having knowledge of the negative effects of early school leaving for their future.The project had some impacts on “parents” such as raising consciousness about the importance of education, having strong relationship with school and teachers, encouraging and supporting the school attendance of the children, possibility of raising awareness of EU. The project had some impacts on ” teachers, directors and other participationg organisations” such as gaining information about new techniques methods, practices and enforcements about school leaving, acquiring skills of overcoming of school droppers, improving professional profiles, having ability for working in small teams, gaining the willingness to help and support other teachers, acquiring skills of using communicative English, establishing long lasting relationships with the other partner countries, exchanging knowledge and experiences among partners, acculturation with European partners, raising awareness on EU projects, enhancing and enlarging the prestige of the institutions among the local and national area.The project results benefitted by:- participating school teachers, directors, students, parents,- stuff of Ahlat District National Education, Ahlat District Governship-other European schools and instutions that want to utilise from the project results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166585 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ahlat Ilce Milli Egitim & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Arnera società cooperativa sociale ONLUS
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE BARCELOS
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 5 im.Szarych Szeregow
• Ovakisla Ortaokulu
• AHLAT KAYMAKAMLIGI
• Fundacion San Juan y San Pablo