Teenage Travel Guide Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teenage Travel Guide

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

In our project about 20 students from Germany (Bonns Fünfte, Bonn) and 20 students from Spain (Liceo Mediterráneo, Almería) will participate. It’s both schools’ first experience with Erasmus+.
Our first objective of the project is to give the students the possibility to get to know another culture. Most of them would never have this possibility due to their social status. In our project “Youth Travel Guide” many competences and disciplines are combined.
First of all it contains a language exchange as the German students are learning Spanish and the Spanish students are learning German. With the project we ensure a lively exchange between cultures, the students have to talk about things that are typical for their lives as German/Spanish students. This discussion will give the students the opportunity to reflect their lives with the lives of the other teenagers. The most important point is to not just see differences between the two cultures, but to realize the similarities that exist in their teenager-lives although there are a few thousand kilometers separating them. Not only their lives but also their surroundings such as family and both cities are the topics of the exchange and give everyone even more bases to discuss. While getting to know even their own city with another eye, the students ensure the esteem of cultural heritages which exist in both cities.
Another objective is to combine many disciplines that also refer to classes taught at school such as Music, Arts, Physical Education, History, etc. This interdisciplinary approach helps to connect synapses and is a really important part of the students’ intellectual development.
Excursions such as visiting the opera and a museum in Bonn will broaden the students’ horizons and the examination with certain cultural heritages and in connection with that also with history in a way that is interesting for a bigger amount of teenagers is a really big achievement.
The preparations for the exchanges will take place in class at school. Here, the students will work on necessary vocabulary and etiquette that has to be thought of when visiting another country and living in another person’s house or flat. Furthermore, the students will already get to know the other group via Skype to already start working on the material.
The students will not only work on the project during the periods of exchange but also work on these topics during their Spanish/German lessons at school as these topics are not only important for the project but can also be found on both schools’ curricula. Therefore, the results (the Youth Travel Guide of both cities in a print version) will not only be important for all the participants of the exchange but also serve as material for other teachers and fellow students. As there are more schools in Bonn and Almería that already participate in the Erasmus-Program it is thinkable, that more Travel Guides can be created to build a net of more Travel Guides.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 3000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bonns Fünfte – Inklusive Gesamtschule der Bundesstadt Bonn & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Colegio Liceo Mediterraneo