Schools as Learning Communities in Europe: Successful Educational Actions for all Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools as Learning Communities in Europe: Successful Educational Actions for all

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Schools as Learning Communities in Europe aims to establish and scale up a network for the implementation and exchange of Sucessful Educational Actions (SEAs) in Europe. SEAs have demonstrated the improvement of school results, coexistence and social cohesion in all the places where they have been implemented. These actions have been implemented in very diverse contexts (rural and urban, with high and low socioeconomic index, impoverished areas, etc.) in different countries. With this network, schools in Spain, Cyprus, Italy and the United Kingdom will lead an international exchange of Success Educational Actions and will create the basis for deepening and strengthening the scientific knowledge applied to the improvement of education systems in Europe.

The basic objectives of the project are:
-To promote the development, transfer and implementation of Successful Educational Actions and the transformation of Schools into Learning Communities with the collaboration of universities and regional educational authorities.
-Implement Successful Educational Actions in European schools
-Establish the first network of schools as Learning Communities in Europe.
-Provide a structure, materials and skills in participating countries to implement SEAs in a sustainable way.

To this end, it was created a consortium of 9 partners, including 5 schools (belonging to all the participating countries), 2 universities and 2 regional governments.

The main activities that have been carried out with the project funds have been:

1. Intellectual object. The realization of 10 training modules that are available free and open access on the project web page: http://seas4all.eu/outcomes-2/. These modules are available in English, Italian, Greek and Spanish. They have served for the internal training of the participating schools and for the scale, self-education and sustainability of the project once the financing has finished.

2. Multiplier Event. An International Conference has been organized at the end of the project which has brought together more than 700 people from different European countries. This conference has presented the final results of the project and the training modules developed during the project. In addition to face-to-face assistance, the conference has been broadcast live and its videos have had 570 downloads since then.

With the management and implementation budget of the project, several activities have been carried out, which we summarize below:

Preparation activities:
-Creation of the Logo and the web of the project.
-Development review and translation of evaluation tools.
-Production of Brochure.http: //seas4all.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SEAs4All-Brochure.pdf

Implementation and follow-up activities
Described in section 5 of this report, presentation meetings, training of teaching teams and regional government advisors were carried out in all countries. After this phase all the partners began with the implementation of at least 2 Success Educational Actions or the follow-up of in the case of the universities and the regional governments.

Dissemination activities
Described in Section 6 of this report, numerous dissemination events were held in each of the countries.

Results and impacts achieved:
The project has improved the educational results, coexistence and social cohesion of the 5 schools and their communities involved in the project (as evidenced in section 6 of this report, Annex 6.13). It has created scale capabilities with the 2 Universities, the 2 governments involved and the intellectual object and multiplier event produced. It has extended the SEAs benefit to 14 new schools (2 in Italy, 6 in Cyprus and 6 in the UK). Finally, it has extended the project to a new territory since the Ministry of Portugal has begun to promote the implementation of SEAs in 10 schools.

The benefits of the long-term project are the consolidation of the good academic results, coexistence and social cohesion, in schools that are part of the network but above all the presentation of aan​educational intervention that can improve the education system of any country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114807 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• West Earlham Junior School
• UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
• Escola Mare de Déu de Montserrat
• 18th Primary School of Limassol – Ayios Antonios
• Spinney Primary School
• CONSEJERIA DE DESARROLLO ECONOMICO Y COMPETITIVIDAD-EUSKO JAURLARITZA-GOBIERNO VASCO
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL