The Village Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Village

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

This project consists of the creation of a virtual city called The Village with its social economic and cultural structures. The project aims to develop key linguistic competences (French, English and Spanish) in students using the urgent 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development in the world and some of its 17 SDGs as a context to do so. Our schools believe that these goals must be nurtured in the young minds of our students by being an integral part of the curriculum. The project, aims to use project based learning in MFL and transnational collaboration among learners, as tools to tackle the 2030 Global Agenda while developing key competences which in return, in the long term, will foster employability, socio-educational development (becoming better world citizens) and entrepreneurial skills in our students. Consequently, the project will allow our pupils to explore creative initiatives in order to tackle the SDGs through the creation of a virtual city, The Village, where these SDGs will have been tackled and achieved. The project intends to explore and tackle goal 4 (Quality Education), goal 6 (Clean water), goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities), goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), goal 13 (Climate Action) and goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions). The project will be blended between 6 physical mobilities and 15 virtual activities through the use of eTwinning. The latter will be vital in the smooth running of the mobilities and will create real opportunities and contexts for large amount of students (school specific MFL classes) to collaborate outside mobilities, another great asset of the project, while increasing motivation to learn a MFL.
The project aims to achieve the following objectives:
1. To develop high quality linguistic competence in French, English and Spanish, three languages taught as MFL in the partner schools.
2. To create awareness and reflect on the SDGs and finally developing actions to achieve these goals in our Village.
3. To develop CLIL (cultural language, integrated language) in the MFL classroom by learning through projects and transnational collaboration.
4. To develop critical thinking in creativity in our students through transnational collaboration.
5. To develop awareness about climate change challenges and how, creatively, we can overcome these, via the creation of environmentally friendly houses, energies, good consumption habits and sensible water consumption. This means to reflect on current lifestyles and promote change.
6. To develop entrepreneurial skills via the creation of an invention aimed to tackle climate challenges.
7. To create awareness about the importance of democratic action and equality.
8. To explore cultural heritage and promoting a love for diversity and social inclusion.
Objectives 1, 3, 4, 6 are linked to the horizontal priority “Supporting individuals in acquiring key competences”: languages, entrepreneurial mindset, critical thinking and creativity, cooperation in science (via environmental issues), technology and arts, developing skills in climate action and developing social competences.
Objectives 2 and 5 are linked to the horizontal priority “Environmental and Climate goals”.
Objectives 2, 7 and 8 are linked to the horizontal priority “EU citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy” and “Creativity and Culture”.
The project will involve 72 students, directly, aged 13-15, from the three different partner countries. 24 students (12 from partner schools and 12 being local participants) will take part in each physical activity. However, thanks to eTwinning, a larger amount of students will participate in the project via the preliminary activities, increasing its overall impact. The methodology of the project is group work and analysis of data, sharing of ideas and transnational collaboration.The project will use Padlet to produce final results, plus physical murals and displays, which will make up the structure of the Village.The final product will be a Padlet/range of physical displays showing our Village and the composition of its social, economical, educational, cultural, and political structures. These structures will be divided in 6 blocks, corresponding to the 6 planned main activities as follows:
Activity 1: Our inhabitants, the social structure of the village.
Activity 2: Our identity and our city, our values, our, flag and our city design.
Activity 3: Democratic participation, our government.
Activity 4: Our environment, our energy and our houses.
Activity 5: Our heritage, our food and our traditional costumes.
Activity 6: Our education and our inventions, designing our school.
Activities 1 to 3 will be completed during Y1 of the project and activities 4 to 6 during Y2. Overall, the project, under 6 school exchanges, presents a perfect opportunity to create awareness of global issues while developing linguistic skills and fostering real communication among all participants.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160800 Eur

Project Coordinator

The King’s School Ely & Country: UK

Project Partners

• COLLEGE CHALOUPE SAINT LEU
• IES ANDRES VANDELVIRA