Take care and share – Skills for Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Take care and share – Skills for Life

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project started with 5 primary schools with students from 6 to 11 from Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy and the UK. Because of organisational reasons the british partner dropped out off the project in 2017. The idea of this partnership was to share and exchange best practice methods been used and proven in school life to improve their student´s achievement in relevant and high level basic and transversal key competences in a life long perspective through formal or non formal education and training to develop an active citizenship. Also the partners enhanced the quality and learning offered in education and training by developing new and innovative approaches and supporting the dissemination of best practices. The main aspects of this project that had been set up for the duration of 36 months has dealed with social and emotional skills, learning abilities and teaching strategies, the awareness of the importance of a healthy life style and the inclusion of children with special needs and migrants. In 2016 we expected to have more refugees to be part of our schools but found out that this group was smaller in the end. The project fostered the equity and inclusion in education and training and enabled quality learning for all as well as it promoted the participation of disadvantaged groups by developing social, civic and intercultural competences and media literacy. Innovative education and training has been important as teachers involved shared teaching strategies, work methods and resources for educators and learners they use in their daily school routine and that have been proven. A change of mind and attitude from individualized learning to personalized learning for the best of both the child and the society the child is living in was visioned.This project liked to support teachers to deliver high quality teaching from early childhood education on, to deal with complex classroom realities and to adopt new methods and tools for their daily school routine that are used and well known by their partners in order to improve the quality of services for better learning outcomes and to ensure a good start in education for all. The project especially aimed at developing a holistic and age appropriate pedagogical framework in which the benefits can be carried through to other school education levels so sustainable efficiency is reached.The project aimed on supporting teachers in dealing with diversified groups of learners, for example, students with special needs, refugees or asylum seekers and migrants. It adopted collaborative and innovative practices from each partner school to facilitate the learning process for all students from the beginning of their school life. By addressing underachievement in the basic skills of maths, science and literacy through more effective, innovative, ICT- and evidence-based teaching methods it tried to react on the various diversities in teaching experienced by the participating teachers every day. Therefore the project focused especially on student centred and problem-based active learning methods using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and on fostering critical thinking skills by addressing the cultural and/ or environmental context in teaching sciences. The partners aimed on developing didactical materials to increase the motivation of their students in terms of learning especially in the fields of social and emotional skills, maths, science and literacy and to design necessary changes and improvements at the institutional level within their schools. Students and teachers of all schools visited each other and got to know the best practice methods, for example Service learning, Rock and Water, Outdoor Maths and Gardening, at their partners´ school in a natural school surrounding. Afterwards they took back these methods to their homeschools to introduce their classmates or students and colleagues to these methods to work with them and to evaluate them. There have been meetings with teachers from other schools to inform them on the experienced methods so that they could benefit from this project without being involved directly. In addition the best practice methods and the experiences of all partner schools were published in a webbook of best practice methods that has been linked to the project´s website to open the material and the experiences to other teachers and interested people. We think it is important to offer as many opportunities to get in contact with people from other countries all over Europe in a safe surrounding to keep up the European idea, even in young childrens´ minds, to foster tolerance and respect towards each other and to open ways to learn from each other. This way everybody took the best from this project and its activities. All in all this project equipped children, but also adults involved in the various activities with a set of skills that prepared them for their future life as European citizens.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117270 Eur

Project Coordinator

Franziskus-Schule kath. Grundschule -Primarstufe- & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Heathfield Academy Trust
• Furulidskolan
• Istituto Comprensivo Carlo Piaggia
• Basisschool Sint Jozef