Skills of the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Skills of the future

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Skills is the first ever project between schools from Luxembourg and Greenland. Our objective is to improve the communication abilities and language skills of participants, create materials which can be used by other schools or communities , improve the team work skills for both students and teachers, improve the use of ICT and to promote the understanding of different cultural heritages.
The participants are:
– Students: 22 from Greenland and 20 from Luxembourg (13-15 years old) in international meetings; more than 200 students will attend the dissemination activities and in total 2480 will benefit from the project’s results (the schools’ students)
– Teachers: 3 teachers from Greenland and 3 teachers from Luxembourg in the international meetings. The target groups will consist of all the teachers in the partner schools, about 300 (=40+260) teachers.
– Parents: 44 parents from each school who will participate in hosting and in dissemination activities.
– Local communities’ officials’ representatives, experts, policy makers and other stakeholders: 2-4 from each country, who will participate in the implementation phase of the project (and in the conferences or discussions organized in the international meetings)

Activities will be part virtual collaboration projects, part head to head cooperation when the school exchanges takes place. The pupils will be introduced to a number of apps that will enhance their abilities to work on projects as well as their abilities to pitch and present the project results and products. During 12 months the pupils will go through intensive IT courses and cooperate across the Atlantic, producing articles, videos and podcasts. They will learn to work together in a foreign language and will be inspired and inspire each other. A part from the focus on IT, which can be perceived merely as a digital toolbox, much of the learning experience will be when the pupils get to dig deeper into European and Inuit culture. What can we learn from each other and where are the similarities? What are the common challenges we face as citizens of the world? Products will be shared with local communities and will introduce the Inuit culture to the Luxembourgish community and the Luxembourgish culture to the Greenlandic community.

We expect the tangible results to be:
– A project website on eTwinning
– Improved awareness of other cultures
– Improved knowledge of other cultures
– Improved use of ICT
– Improved language skills

We believe our project’s results will benefit a large category of people, due to its topicality. Any school or institution will be able to use the project’s results as they will be available on eTwinning, on the Erasmus results platform and via links. It will have a direct impact on the future curriculum in the schools involved in terms of including IT in the different courses.
We believe that it will give all pupils involved a head start in their future learning journey and on the future labour market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 49994 Eur

Project Coordinator

Atuarfik Hans Lynge & Country: GL

Project Partners

• Lycée classique de Diekirch