Viruskenner International Erasmus Project

Project Title

Viruskenner International

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Infectious diseases are on the top 10 list of threats for human health according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Today the infectious COVID-19 virus, which started in China and has spread around the world quickly, is a serious item in the news and moreover affecting and endangering societies all over the world. However, infectious diseases have been of great importance to fight for human kind health safety for decades if not centuries and it is important for people to be aware and know how the transmission of viruses can be largely reduced.

The two partners in this project, the Karel Keizer College from the Netherlands and the ITT Buonarroti from Italy, will establish an international collaboration in which 36 young students in the age of 13-15 years old, as global citizens, raise awareness and create tools by working together, with the aim to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

International collaboration stimulates students to approach topics from different angles and with different perspectives. Aside the fact that these schools build up their capacity for cross-border cooperation, they specifically cope with the challenge to innovatively educate about infectious diseases and find new methods to integrate into their curriculum. During this project, activities will take place in order to support the students in various ways. In masterclasses students will be informed about basic virus infections and preventions. Also in mixed groups of nationalities, students will use ICT tools to further develop the basic knowledge gained during international workshops. In particular they will use collaborative platforms in cloud (such as eTwinning) to constantly collaborate remotely. Each group will collaborate in order to create materials to be shared among other students of their schools.

The schools will work together with the existing programme: VirusKenner. Viruskenner is a proven programme to help to create more awareness about viral diseases and the way we can fight the transmission of these viruses. Prevention remains the best strategy to fight infectious diseases and epidemics so it all starts with education and raising awareness among students to ensure a positive and long lasting effect, in society, but specifically on the participating organizations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Keizer Karel College & Country: NL

Project Partners

• ITT MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI