Smart City Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart City

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: Creativity and culture; Natural sciences; Energy and resources

Project Summary

To strengthen the student’s interests in the field of natural science in the context of an increasing heterogeneity at our school Stadtteilschule Fischbek/Falkenberg, Hamburg and with that the newly evolving challenges in language acquisition (especially in German and English) are the main objective of our “Smart Cities” project. In every European city a speech-sensitive education due to the increasing migration plays a vital role in our everyday school life. In addition, the phenomenon of relatively weak student performances within the MINT-subjects is obvious in Germany’s city states. In response to these developments, our school together with our district officials have developed a project with the core topic “Smart Cities”, in which the natural habitat in our school forms a green axis with our school’s neighbourhood. The outcome of the international project, in which we cooperate with three more European schools, are to be used for future projects at each participating school. Each institution that is involved in this project will have the chance to implement the experiences of the programme within their individual future education programmes in order to ensure sustainable projects. Especially a change in perspective achieved by an international exchange programme strengthens the student’s interests in natural science and aims at enhancing student performance (expertise and communicative skills) on a long-term level. At the same time, language acquisition skills will be improved. Within the individual project activities at each participating school, students will be confronted with the various fields of natural science in connection with technical expertise, drama and cultural history. They actively take part in presentations, local excursions and meetings with the local officials as well as companies on the sport. From the collected material and information the students prepare various forms of presentations: media-supported oral presentations, information leaflets, furthermore the create and form mini-drama plays on stage or even create innovative technical products in the field of “Smart Cities” bearing sustainable and ecologically friendly city life in mind. All products of the individual school’s project in every participating country will actively be presented to the school community and its district. According to the selection of various activities at each school and diversely applied methods we furthermore aim to ensure a sustainable improvement in social skills such as teamwork, intercultural communication as well as respect and tolerance.
Our aims are to connect each school community with its surrounding district with joint events and meetings allowing a context-based language acquisition and exchange; to compare our experiences with lesson models (especially project-based education) from other European schools and exchanging know-how and expertise; and finally we aim at applying the synergies and intercultural experiences that our group of about 18 students (year 8 to 11) and 8 teachers will make abroad in our lesson plans and everyday school life. All of the participating teachers have long-term experiences in teaching heterogeneous learning groups since our school (StS Fischbek/Falkenberg) represents a broad spectrum of heterogenous students in each form from year 1 up to 13. Despite all of the above objects we are confident to say that our students will make experiences at all the participating partner schools from we can all considerably benefit in order to ensure language acquisition skills and improving natural science skills at the same time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103440 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stadtteilschule Fischbek-Falkenberg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Istituto Superiore Statale Luca Pacioli
• Hermanos Escuelas Cristianas-Colegio LaSalle
• Gymnazium, Unicov, Gymnazijni 257