The love of reading Erasmus Project

Project Title

The love of reading

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

Nowadays, a gradual distancing of young people from the book is observed by teachers. The written word has lessened due to image and sound. Reading a book isn’t one of teenagers’ priorities. This has as a result us to see daily, students in the classroom who can not comprehend a text, do not apply critical thinking, can not express their ideas and feelings. What is more, they find it difficult to learn, read and write. These difficulties lead a lot of pupils to their struggling to keep up with their classmates’ development. They fall behind in school, find it hard to succeed in universities and some of them drop out of school. As teachers, we are aware that the friendly relationship with a book helps:
• The development of language expression
• The critical thinking
• The creativity
• The development of the pleasure to read
• The strengthening of the interpretative capability
• The development of their emotional world
Also, as educators, we know that good communication is vital for successful learning and that’s why we chose the activities (theatrical sketch, videoclip ) developed, related to the topics of the literature books, to lead to the development of communication skills so as to help pupils understand and explain the world around them, share ideas and feelings.
In the suggested project, 5 schools(Greece,Spain,Czech,Italy,Cyprus) and 2 libraries(Czech,Romania) take part. All partners have great experience in implementing projects, except for the library of Iasi (Romania), which participates in a European project for the first time, but it has great experience in local projects, and even wider one, as a lending library as well as organizing Reading Clubs.
Moreover, the chief coordinator has organized previously 6 Erasmus projects and the coordinators of Greece, Spain and Cyprus have cooperated successfully in a previous Erasmus+ project. Finally, the chief coordinator and the coordinator of the Spanish school have already cooperate with great success in 3 projects.
The teachers participating in the project (teachers of Language, Literature, Sociology, ICT and Foreign Languages) are very experienced in organizing and taking part in Reading Clubs. The two libraries have great experience in organizing and managing an e-library (dealing with thousands of visitors), Reading Clubs and web Reading Clubs. The experience and quality of the partners guarantee the successful implementation of the project.
During the project, 4 transnational meetings will be realized. In these meetings the following activities will be carried out:
• the validation of the responsibilities’ sharing and activities’ undertaking
• the explanation of the e-library’s creation and functioning
• the explanation of the creation and functioning of the Reading Clubs
• the supervising of how the project is implemented every year
• the evaluation of the project’s activities every year
• the supervising of the creation of the library
• the preparation of the first International web Reading Club
• the final evaluation of the project and the writing of the final Report.
These meetings will contribute greatly to the success of the project.
However, the main activities of the project will be the 6 Language, Teaching, Training meetings, from which the five ones will be carried out with the physical presence of pupils at the partners’ schools, while the 6th meeting will be a pilot web Reading Club. In each one of these meetings, creative activities (theatrical sketch, video-clip,illustration,collage, creative writting) will be realized relating each time to one of the chosen topics: Youth and Family, Youth and History, Bullying-Racism-Xenophobia, Science Fiction, Arts and Sports, Classic Literature for Young People, topics which are interesting and attractive for young people. Before each meeting the participants will have read a literature book of their country related to the topic of the meeting and, through the activities which will take place there, they will develop the skills relating to:
• speech
• language
• writing
• critical thinking
• imagination
• creativity
• and emotional pleasure.
These activities will, also, make pupils love the book -which is the main aim of the project. The pupils will love the school and they will develop more skills which will lead them to higher education and there will be a blocking to early school leaving. At the same time, they will develop skills in English language and digital technology (through the e-library and the Web Reading Club), they will get familiar with the culture and customs of other people and they will become active members of the multicultural Europe.
These benefits will be long-term because the e-library and the Web Reading Clubs will be operating, even after the end of the project , with participation of pupils from all the E.U . The Library of Ostrava will be responsible for the e-library and the Library of Iasi will run the Web Reading Clubs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 204128 Eur

Project Coordinator

3o GYMNASIO KILKIS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Moravskoslezská vědecká knihovna v Ostravě, příspěvková organizace
• My School srl
• Biblioteca “Gh. Asachi”
• IES Aguadulce
• Gymnasio Latsion
• Gymnázium, Praha 4, Na Vítězné pláni 1160