Short Films for School and Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Short Films for School and Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

1. Six schools from Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovenia have joined in the project which aims at improving digital skills and literacy with the means of producing short films. With the rapid development of digital technology and their societal implications, we observe the falling behind of the schools and the teachers. Schools are being equipped with new digital devices, but they need time and knowledge to adapt. Through this project, we address technical, cultural and didactical issues in the area of film making in the lessons.

2. The main objective in this project is to strengthen the pupils’ ICT SKILLS FOR FILM-MAKING. This includes also making short films for lessons, for European idea and social issues, and to learn about prominent short films. The pupils will work on social and multicultural issues in their project films; they will raise their SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS. Parallel to both objectives above, we will pursue the objective of FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE. The pupils and teachers will use English for the communication and in the products. Altogether, we will take some efforts to develop CREATIVITY & CRITICAL THINKING with our pupils while producing media contents.

3. Number and profile of participants:
In the core activities, there will be 130 pupils, 14-18 years old, some of them with fewer opportunities; at least 24 teachers (4 from each school) will be involved in mobilities or working in project teams in the school with subjects English, ICT, social sciences and others. Indirectly affected by the project will be 1200 pupils, involved in the local activities or hosting, and at least 60 teachers, involved in local training courses, activities and hosting.

4. Activities: Five countries in the project will hold 5 pupils’ exchanges and one initial teachers’ meeting. In the teachers meeting (C1) we will learn about media literacy and film making, technically and didactically; management of the project will be discussed. The first pupils’ exchange (C2) is about short film. The pupils will learn about the genre short film, about its production. They will develop scripts and put them into life. They will get known with some of the prominent short films of the country (as well as in other exchanges). In C3, the pupils, in international teams, will develop a short film, related to specific school subject. In C4, the pupils will reflect on the EU. In several workshops, they will learn about the European idea and try to include it into their existing knowledge and beliefs. In C5, the pupils will learn about producing cartoon with computer software. They will try to develop cartoons in the field of Citizenship Education, addressing social issues related to Europe. In the last exchange (C6), they will exchange the views on Europe, in the discussion in in some of their products, and will review their past work. They will discuss the problem of advertising and the visibility of the European idea.

5. Methodology.
Tasks should be equally distributed among the partners. Every school sets up one LTT activity. One is responsible for communication design, one for ICT, one for compilation and publishing, local events are in the responsibility of every single partner. There will be regular video conferences, regular activity checks every six months; the communication should be bundled up and be tracked in order to avoid overload and misunderstanding.

6. Results and impact:
Pupils: better English level, skills regarding film making, critical thinking and creative techniques of producing media content; higher awareness of social issues and multiculturalism; better team abilities, negotiation skills and organisational skills.
Teachers: knowledge on different school systems and schooling approaches; increased usage and deployment of digital tools in the classroom, better English knowledge and their multicultural skills.

Some desired products are: TwinSpace of the project, with materials and didactical guidelines; short introduction to the history of short film in every country; technical and didactical guidelines on several topics of producing short films; a set of teaching/learning materials ‘Short films in the classroom’; at least 25 didactic short films and short animated films for a specific topic in one school subject; short film on Europe; filmed story about one social issue from every partner school; the project website; 6 fliers.

7. Longer term benefits:
Teachers will include and produce more films in the lessons. More eTwinnig or similar projects in the partner schools. Institutions will gain important insights into European schooling and become member of European community. Through internationalization, they will change their existing school culture, for being more open for 21st century skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164084 Eur

Project Coordinator

Srednja sola Domzale & Country: SI

Project Partners

• GO! atheneum Grimbergen
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Niccolò Machiavelli
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho II, Alijó
• Pazinimo licejus
• Osnovna sola Venclja Perka