SIT for School: Smart Innovation Technology for School Erasmus Project

Project Title

SIT for School: Smart Innovation Technology for School

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: Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The project “SIT for School: Smart Innovation Technology for School” stems from the need advanced by the I.T.I.S. “Biagio Pascal” and by educational institutions that have joined the partnership in Poland, Turkey and Greece, to focus on students, school staff and families who relies on the education and future of the schools to these educational institutes children, as well as to all stakeholders, the importance of resorting to increasingly digital education, which is able to keep up with technological progress at European and worldwide level.

Specific project objectives are:
1) to enhance the digital skills of students through transnational exchange activities that make the students players of the action;
2) to create a digital didactic environment, that is able to meet the requirements related to digital skills advanced by school users;
3) to increase transversal skills and the knowledge of oral and written English in participating students;
4) to realize a network of knowledge at a territorial and European level that is willing to support the learner in developing and enhancing their digital skills.

“SIT for School – Smart Technology Innovation for School” is addressed to different direct and indirect beneficiaries:
A) the project provides for the involvement of 128 students of classes III and IV (for a total of 32 students for each partner school and 8 students for each transnational exchange), even if the project establishes the active participation of both students who will take part of the mobility than of the entire class group;
B) teaching and administrative staff: 2 teachers will accompany the student delegation during each transnational exchange, in order to support students from an educational and emotional point of view. The administrative staff will act as a management support for the realization and the development of the project, guaranteeing the support to the teachers responsible for the project in the economic and administrative management;
C) families of students and relevant local stakeholders.

The project will last 24 months and will involve n. 32 students of the third and of the forth classes of the Institute and will include 4 transnational exchanges in Greece, Poland, Turkey and Italy lasting 7 days: 5 training days and 2 travelling days which will focus on the following topics:
– Activity 1 – technological knowledge on a national level and digitalization analysis in the world of European education;
– Activity 2 – the challenges of technology: knowing the digital world and defending yourself against its challenges. Digital security activities and knowledge of the potential and limits of social networks among the younger generations;
– Activity 3 – Robotics in my home: robotics challenge among partner institutes. Presentation of examples of national technology excellence on a national level;
– Activity 4 – School and technology: analysis of teaching methods in the digital and technological field. Adapting education to the European Digital Agenda.
The project partnership can therefore estimate that “SIT for School” will produce:
– improvement of one point in school results in 50% of students and half a point in another 50%;
– activation of training courses and work related learning activities in the sectors of the project for 50% of the participants;
– a study period abroad for 20% of the participants: of these, 15% will obtain a linguistic certification;
– improvement of the scholastic results in the classes where the teachers at least the 20% of the students
– improvement of educational results in the classes in which the teachers serve at least 20% of the students, following the use of teaching methods learned during the project (lessons in foreign languages, simulation of activities through digital support, us of laboratory facilities, virtual exchanges with other European classes thanks eTwinning);
– enhancement of the Educational Offer: it will be consequential to the adoption of teaching methods aimed at creating innovative and open educational environments, as well as the activation of extra-curricular activities more careful not only to training needs, but also to social needs, through a greater awareness of cyberbullying;
– development of management skills: the administrative staff will have become more familiar with the use of the tools available for Erasmus + in the administrative and accounting management of projects, as well as in the activation of extra-curricular educational courses;
– progress of project competences, which can be translated into the increase of candidate project proposals within the Erasmus + framework and activation of agreement protocols with local companies for the realization of internships and dual-training systems – learning and working related to the sectors involved in the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119784 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO TECNICO INDUSTRIALE B. PASCAL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Istanbul Ticaret Odasi Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• 1o GENIKO LYKEIO AIGIOU
• Zespol Szkol Technicznych im. gen. prof. S. Kaliskiego w Turku