“Take a chance” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Take a chance”

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our project “Take a chance” lasted 2 years, 4 semesters, in which we dealt with 4 areas: student motivation, reading comprehension, active methods in teaching science and social competence, which supported our schools in preventing early school leaving.
As part of the project, 2 trainings for teachers, 3 meetings of pupils and 4 meetings of coordinators were carried out.
The assumed goals were:
For teachers
– strengthening their professional profile through participation in training: “Professional teachers’ burnout and motivation of students”, “Modern teaching methods, using IT tools”,
– expanding competences in the field of European project management, in preparing documentation, time and human resources management,
– deepening the level of knowledge during the exchange of experience
– increase motivation to learn foreign languages and self-improvement,
– getting intercultural experience,
– deepening communication skills.
For pupils
– increase of motivation to learn
– improvement of teaching results
– improving their skills in 4 key areas
– increase of faith in their own abilities as well as commitment to performed tasks.
– breaking the language barrier and appreciating the importance of knowing foreign languages
– deepening of intercultural competences: openness, tolerance and acceptance
– skills to work in international groups
For schools
– deepening knowledge in the field of European project management, financial planning and management,
– enriching the didactic base with new solutions
– raising the prestige of schools in the local community
The project involved schools from Poland, Greece and Portugal, from areas struggling with socio-economic problems
Our schools play an important role in social and cultural life in our regions. We shared common goals: prevention of early school leaving, willingness to continue learning, openness to other cultures. Schools participating in the project have many years of experience in running European projects.
During the project, the following activities were carried out:
workshops for teachers in Greece were organized – “Teachers’ burnout and student motivation to learn” and in Portugal – “Active methods in science teaching”.
Thanks to these trainings, teachers gained knowledge about coping with occupational burnout, ways of motivating students to learn and using active methods during classes. Based on the acquired knowledge, they prepared training for teachers in individual schools and workshops for students.
Teachers enriched their workshop with new active methods (experiments). This knowledge helped them motivate students to learn, develop their social skills, learn their logical and critical thinking.
Three of the students’ meetings took place in Portugal, Poland and Greece, during which the students had the opportunity to learn informally, because learning is not only a school. This allowed students to develop language skills, break the language barrier, become more open to different cultures and tolerance, their self-esteem was increased During these meetings, students took part in workshops during which they worked in international groups implementing tasks resulting from the subject of the project.
There were 4 meetings of the coordinators during which the most important principles of cooperation, ways of implementing project tasks, financial management as well as evaluation and dissemination of the project were discussed.
The project prepared a number of information materials that enabled dissemination and promotion of the project results.
For this purpose, the Twinspace platform is used, the blog project websites of participating school and leading authorities, as well as traditional methods of promotion in the form of posters, leaflets, information at meetings, meetings, articles in the press, interviews.
Each of the partners was involved in the dissemination of the project in their country – dissemination conferences took place, which met with great interest of the local community and teachers from the neighboring schools were invited, and the information materials were prepared in the appropriate language of the partner country.
The project implementation also influenced the promotion of schools in the region.
The developed materials that are the results of the project have been published on publicly available platforms, and links to them are posted on the websites of our schools so that they can be downloaded and used by other educational institutions
Thanks to the very high activity of teachers who engaged in the implementation of this project, we can say that they noticed the benefits of this kind of experience.
Each of the schools can see only positive sides from the implementation of this project, we will certainly cooperate with each other in the future. Teachers taking part in this project gained motivation to acquire knowledge and have already written new projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97005 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. H Sienkiewicza w Konopiskach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Resende
• 4 EPAL KAVALAS