TIME for digitalization Erasmus Project

Project Title

TIME for digitalization

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In the pandemic context, which changed the perspective towards the educational process, moving it in the digital area, some common weaknesses (such as low digital skills, lack of digital experience and lack of the ability to use digital technology both for students and for teachers) have come out. The novelty of online teaching led to the necessity of creating partnerships and collaboration in using digital resources. Such a partnership has been created through this project (“TIME for digitalization”). It aims at advantageous exchanges of good practices between four partners (Colegiul National “C. D. Loga” Timisoara- Romania, Colegiul National “Moise Nicoara” Arad- Romania, 1o Geniko Lykeio Aigiou- Greece, Gimnazija Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj-Serbia) and at the creation of links that will be the premise for future collaborations.

The general objective of this project is to create a digital environment for a sustainable teaching process in order to facilitate institutions` involvement in education all over the Europe. This digital environment is meant to design learning activities that offer students the opportunity to develop new transformative competences and to improve their visions, which can contribute to the navigation across a wide range of situations and to the insertion on the labor market.

The project`s aims:
1. Developing 24 teachers’ online teaching skills by participating at a certified training in digital methods of education, for 8 weeks, in 2021;
2. Developing 24 teachers` digital competence (key- competence by European standards) by practicing original materials and teaching scenarios on “TIME” topic, during 24 months;
3. Increasing and consolidating 400 student’s digital competence and trans curricular vision by implicate in attractive international activities;
4. Building of a digital library with open educational resources, based on the experiences developed in the collaboration between the 4 schools, focused on the co-curricular teaching of the concept of “TIME”.

The main project activities:
1. Teacher training. Participation of 24 teachers from the 4 partner schools in the courses offered by UVT (online): “Educational and digital resources for online training”;
2. Good practice sharing. Teachers will inter-attendance, inter-assistance at lessons or educational activities, followed by the creation and testing of OER (the 4 Intellectual Outputs);
3. Cooperation between students. Students will develop 4 mini eTwinning projects, using new digital approach about TIME, in cross curricular learning.
4. Creating a digital library with open educational content: “Cross-curricular analysis of TIME” which include 4 Intellectual Outputs. Digital formal/ non-formal teaching materials related to TIME (videos, presentations, lessons plans etc.)

The project’s outputs:
1. 24 teachers with improved digital and pedagogical skills and another 100 who were inspired to improve their teaching style;
2.Trans curricular analysis of TIME: Four Intellectual Outputs: TIME for LITERATURE and ART; TIME for MATHS and PHILOSOPHY; TIME for ROBOTICS and SCIENCE, TIME for STEM and HISTORY.
Project website and an informative brochure with the contents of the educational resources;
3. 400 students who benefited from good quality education, interactive lessons, had the opportunity to develop their cross-curricular skills and to enlarge their vision of life. Four eTwinning projects.
4. An Open Educational Library, which include 28 OER, made in an international collaboration: Digital formal/non-formal teaching materials related to TIME (videos, presentations, lessons plans etc.)

Intellectual outputs/activities
O1-TIME for LITERATURE and ART, responsible Colegiul National “C. D. Loga”
O2-TIME for MATHS and PHILOSOPHY, responsible Colegiul National “Moise Nicoara”
O3-TIME for ROBOTICS and SCIENCE, responsible- 1o GENIKO LYKEIO AIGIOU
O4-TIME for STEM and HISTORY, responsible- Gimnazija Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj.

This project is expected to have a significant impact on participating schools (teachers and students), as well as on other schools that will use the open educational resources created. The long-term impact of the project is, on the one hand, the use of the open educational resources in the teaching process at European level and, on the other hand, the inclusion of the preparation of teachers for interdisciplinary teaching in the national educational systems. This will have a direct impact on students- better prepared for the demands of the labor market.

TIME is a modern concept that aims at bringing together four schools, at least 24 teachers and 400 students, ready to ask and answer questions from an interdisciplinary point of view. Their interaction and the Open Educational Library Digital that will be created (containing formal/ non-formal teaching materials related to TIME) will lead to a better understanding of the geopolitical, historical, cultural and religious context in which we live.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87030 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul National “Constantin Diaconovici Loga” Timisoara & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Colegiul National “Moise Nicoara”
• 1o GENIKO LYKEIO AIGIOU
• Gimnazija Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj