Shapes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Shapes

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 Schools Only

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

In the project of “Shapes” in the frame of Erasmus+ three secondary schools from the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey enhanced the European dimension of education by promoting joint cooperation activities among them. The project of “Shapes” arose at schools that prepare their students for studies at universities. These schools had already cooperated before. The partners studied regular geometrical shapes and symmetry around us, and they see that this way they have brought a contribution to the decrease in the number of cases of underachievement in Maths and Science.

In the project the aims of the partnership were to show geometry as a part of our life and as a part of the nature around us, to get a new view of the world around us, to explain that geometry belongs to the basic knowledge that connects a lot of disciplines, and show that geometry can be interesting and amusing.

The participants of the project were students and teachers of the school. Direct participants were about seventy, indirect participants (students involved in presentations, CLIL lessons and competitions) more than four hundred.

The common work and above all four short-term exchanges of groups of pupils have taught the participants about countries and their cultures, improved the language knowledge, motivated them to study languages, shown how to work in international teams and contributed to building new Europe. Besides short-term exchanges two transnational project meetings were organized.

Main activities of the project were: taking and making photos of regular shapes around us, visits of galleries and museums, competitions in painting and creating regular shapes, competitions in puzzles, CLIL lessons and preparation of materials that help teachers teach geometry in an interesting way.

The most crucial results are the common catalogue of cards with regular shapes around us with explanations of the shapes, three mathematical stories named “Back in history”, the presentations on regular shapes, three CLIL lessons, sets of geometrical puzzles, a multilingual geometrical minidictionary and works of art.

According to the questionnaires, thanks to the project and its dissemination the attitude to geometry at direct and indirect participants has improved. Thanks to the involvement in the project the local public has learned about the programme Erasmus+ and about the international efforts and cooperation of the participating schools, is aware of them, and appreciates them.

The digital products are available on the project websites, so teachers and students may benefit from them also in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59250 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnazium Brno, Slovanske namesti, prispevkova organizace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Alves Redol
• 4th General Lyceum of Chania
• KORFEZ FEN LISESI