Space Race Erasmus Project

Project Title

Space Race

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Space Race is a secondary schools international STEM project to design, build, and control vehicles to explore the atmosphere, surface, and oceans of an imaginary planet. Pupils will have to learn coding and design technology skills to be able to over come challenges set for them by their partner schools. The project will develop links with industry and higher education institutions to sign post pathways into the STEM professions. It will particularly target disadvantaged groups and those children with fewer opportunities. The five schools involved come from the United Kingdom (two), Germany, Spain, and French Guyana. Each country will host an exchange of pupils and each exchange will have a different theme (Land, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Launch). The final exchange will be to French Guyana and enable a visit to the European Space Agency’s launch site. The outcomes will be highly skilled teaching staff in the STEM subjects, motivated and skilled pupils prepared for work in the STEM industries, and schools with a raised profile within their local community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150208 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tile Cross Academy & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Lycée Léon Gontran Damas
• Welbeck – The Defence Sixth Form College
• Stadtteilschule Horn
• FUNDACIO PRIVADA FUNDACIO CHAMPAGNAT (