Seaside Towns Erasmus Project

Project Title

Seaside Towns

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Our partnership project stems from a need and the eagerness to arouse in our students both a higher level of commitment and motivation to learn and to provide teachers with new and more specific educational tools for their everyday work. Our target is that this increase in students’ motivation and teachers’ training could be a major channel to help reduce early school-leaving and school failure within those students who seem to be less engaged because of their social status or cultural difference (foreign students).
But other than all these targets, we also aim at spreading in our schools the knowledge of foreign languages, a more international attitude, the developing of some key competences, the use of new technologies as well as to deepen the cultural and artistic heritage of the cities we live in. To reach our goal we have considered our cities as real “bases of operations” to start from. They are our students’ everyday world and therefore it is here that they feel more at ease. The three cities involved in the project are all coastal cities, which will be the focus of our activities. These activities will be carried out by 15 to 18-year-old students from all the three schools (roughly 300 kids). Some of them will be chosen for the exchange programme: those who are financially disadvantaged or with learning disabilities, as well as the ones who will show a particular commitment in the project and prove especially helpful.
The project activities will focus on two targets: the students and the teachers. Those linked to the students will be part of the syllabuses of the different school subjects and are,
– an economic research on the impact of the port in our cities;
– a past and present photo tour of our maritime towns and an exhibition preparation to be displayed in the three cities involved.
– a setting up of a “ startup” with students related to the business sector of tourism.
– literary and theatrical activities related to our coastal towns

As to the teachers we have scheduled three training opportunities during the first two years of the project development, with a special focus on:
– planning, implementation and evaluation of different learning settings;
– development and evaluation of key transversal competences;
– educational benefits of new technologies for the teachers, with special reference to school inclusion of disadvantaged students.
We aim at implementing these activities by means of new teaching strategies which promote: cooperative information research and a relevant acquisition of a shared knowledge, use of foreign languages as a means of communication ,the use of ICT as a tool to learn. The main target of the project, i.e. communication among the students and their inclusion, will certainly be the very centre of the project itself.
We believe that this kind of educational approach is more engaging that a lecture-based class and can therefore lead to an improvement in the students’ performance, in their language skills and as a consequence to a decrease in early school-leaving and school failure. At the same time this will ensure the students a deeper knowledge of the cultural heritage of our cities.
Besides, we hope that over the long term the participating schools will keep on using a student centred educational approach based on authentic learning, encouraging students to create tangible, useful products to be shared with their world, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by our coastal cities. Finally we hope our project will encourage teachers to foster lifelong learning which further deepens their competences, skills, and knowledge.

Project Website

https://www.facebook.com/Ciudades-al-borde-del-mar-Citt%C3%A0-a-Bordo-del-Mare-Seaside-Towns-103271104520970/about/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97970 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Benito Pérez Armas & Country: ES

Project Partners

• IIS SAVOIA BENINCASA
• IS “Duca Abruzzi – Libero Grassi”