Track it don’t lose it Erasmus Project

Project Title

Track it don’t lose it

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our three vocational schools from Cyprus, France and Portugal worked collaboratively for two years on the project called “Track it don’t lose it”. We decided to work together because our schools experienced the same difficulties such as many of our students came from deprived backgrounds, many were issued form the immigration, many of them were on the brim of dropping out school and they did not have full access to the same opportunities as the students that attended schools in general secondary education sector.
We agreed that our students from different social, ethnic, economic and disadvantaged social categories needed to get the best and the most innovative way of teaching and we were convinced of the benefits of the European projects on our participants.

We had three main objectives in our project:

1. Providing guidance and help to the participating students by teachers to write an IT program for asset management of products in our schools. This greatly helped them to improve their ICT skills.
2. Establishment of students companies by group of four international students under the supervision of participating staff. This helped the students to improve their entrepreneurship and many other skills which they would be needed in their future work life.
3. Giving motivation to feel European citizens.

Our three schools were very complimentary because each one brought its expertise needed for the project. France was the coordinator and was responsible for the good communication throughout the project. The coordinator, as an eTwinning ambassador, was also responsible for the creation and organization of the Twinspace on eTwinning plateform. They also helped with the creation of mini companies. Portugal brought its long experience in doing many European programs and had a strong cooperation with Mozambic which enabled us to disseminate and offer our IT program to their partners. Portugal had an important role into the success of the creation of the mini companies by our students because they monitored this task. They were also responsible for our project advertisements, our dissemination plan and our website. Cyprus had a strong expertise in programming and with their partnership with the faculty of Limassol they taught our students how to program and to write an IT program. They also supervised the creation of the manual user for our IT program.

The three transnational meetings one in each country (France, Portugal and Cyprus) spread at keen moments of the life of project took place at the beginning, in the middle and at the end were very important for teachers and headmasters to organize, manage, implement and adjust the different tasks of the project. In between three Learning Teaching and Training activities were held in Cyprus, then in France and finally in Portugal. They were highly appreciated by the students who met and share to work in collaboration in the writing and the testing of our IT program, on updating the website, creating the mini companies and presenting them. Our project’s different steps and results are visible on the Twinspace and any school which is interested in our IT program can use it for its own purpose.
Our Twinspace allowed our students to in between and during the LTT. They worked on the summary of our LTTs and produced newsletters, leaflets, videos, user manual for our IT program, created a multilinguism dictionary brainstormed on entrepreneurship and they exchanged and discussed into forums. They also evaluated their work and the project. The staff was always helping and facilitating the students in achieving the best possible results.

The impacts on our participants were numerous by participating and working in collaboration it enhanced our innovation in education and it allowed our students to create and IT program which is going to serve the needs of our schools and also it gave them the keys to develop entrepreneurship. They used their professional’s skills in order to realize a concrete work and the different steps for this It program was integrated naturally into our curricula. Our students’ social skills were strengthened because they had to work with persons from other countries, to communicate they had to speak English which was our common language though they learnt some phrases and words from our partners. They discovered the countries and the culture of our partnership. Working in international teams gave them confidence. We managed to combat early school leaving because none of our students left school. They passed all their exams and they continue to do studies and apply to do longer mobilities abroad in doing work placements. All the skills acquire during this project was very profitable for their future life as responsible citizens.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 61960 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Louis Blériot & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Cooperativa de Ensino de V.N.Famalicão, CRL – E.P. Cior
• C’ TECHNICAL and VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION and TRAINING LEMESOS