Unternehmerisches Denken und Sprachliche Vielfalt – eine Brücke in die Zukunft Erasmus Project

Project Title

Unternehmerisches Denken und Sprachliche Vielfalt – eine Brücke in die Zukunft

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

With this project, we helped our students to learn important skills that, according to the EU, young people should use when starting a job successfully. Especially for students who fail at a grammar school and continue at a Realschule, i.e. a middle school, it is essential to have good skills in different foreign languages as well as in entrepreneurial thinking. Additionally, in places with high rates of unemployment as e.g. in Rhauderfehn, Zwickau and Zarnesti these skills lead to better job-related perspectives that enable young people to find a good job instead of living in poverty.
With the help of this project, students have realized the need to learn foreign languages because they had to work in various mixed groups with students from our partner schools. That is why students did not learn the language on an abstract level but by using it in real life experiences. This process could only be realized by frequent student mobility.
Aims of the project:
– development of new material for bilingual classes applying digital media
– training of listening, reading and writing skills in the mother tongue and in the foreign languages German and English
– study of touristic and economic structures of the participating regions to form job-related perspectives on a European basis
– learning how to organize and realize guided tours and other events for tourists and how to retain them after the project (tourism in this case is meant to be an example for entrepreneurial thinking)
– training of social coexisting
– adoption of a critical attitude towards topics like environment and climate, also in relation to entrepreneurial thinking
– stimulating for lifelong learning and mobility
Participants:
– 30-35 students aged 12-16 per year per school, including their parents and 8-10 teachers as well as representatives of the region and economy in question
Description of activities:
– permanent cooperation of students in international groups on meetings in order to develop planned projects
– 6 meetings as requested and 1 extra meeting
– 2 transnational meetings per year, in 3 meetings teachers were supported and taught by external experts in CLIL-teaching
– use of foreign languages and coeducation in 6 CLIL-lessons per meeting
– role plays and discussions in order to train applications in the touristic sector and stimulation of entrepreneurial thinking
– compiling a multilingual dictionary for the word fields tourism and choice of employment
– training of speaking skills in mixed international groups e.g. in reading competitions
– use of new media such as eTwinning and Facebook, compiling an own Erasmus-website
– visit of relevant local museums and exhibitions
– visiting a learning center on mountain ecology
– modelling future holiday resorts and presentations
– application training and business games
– multilingual guided tours and travel brochures
– conception of a learning program based on water/shipping
– teaching by Klimabündnis Wien and cooperation with Verkehrsbüro Blaguss Wien
Effects:
– didactically and methodically edited material for bilingual classes with a practical orientation and relation to various subjects
– 90 detailed, proved and corrected CLIL-lessons
– a personal application portfolio in the mother tongue and a foreign language
– multilingual dictionaries focusing on economy
– portfolio and exhibition on wind energy per international student group
– compiling and publishing of a manual on how to found a company in mother tongue and foreign language
– modelling projects appropriate to local characteristics, e.g. an eco-friendly holiday resort + photo documentation or a model of a wharf
– conception of a learning program based on water/shipping
– multilingual travel brochures
All activities aimed at stimulating linguistic diversity and entrepreneurial thinking!
Coordinators, teachers and headmasters of the participating countries met twice a year. Aims: detailed planning, evaluation, checking the compliance of project decisions and stimulating the cooperation with local representatives and economy. Additionally, teachers were trained in teaching CLIL-lessons.
Expected benefits in the long run:
The resulting products, skills and experiences are to be used in future lessons, too (also by others). The application portfolios will not only be used for real applications but are also available as an example in schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157390 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnasium Rhauderfehn & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Bundesgymnasium 18
• LICEUL TEORETIC MITROPOLIT IOAN METIANU ZARNESTI
• KOMPAKT – Schule mit Zukunft gemeinnützige Schulträgergesellschaft mbH – Oberschule
• Augustenborg Skole