Wake up my European senses Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wake up my European senses

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Natural sciences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Our project is based on the finding that school should evolve on one hand by making the pupils more active and autonomous in their learning, and on the other hand by using new technologies. Those technologies are now part of the day to day of the young people and can also help the pupils, in particular those who are struggling with traditional way of learning.
We used the flipped classroom approach to make our pupils in control of their learning. Therefore, they have been fully involved in this project. With the help of their teachers, they were guided to discover, then master the scientific approach organized in four steps: asking questions, formulate hypotheses, experiment and conclude. That method helped to frame our presentations and was a key part to get a sustainable result that everybody could use in the long term.
All along the two years’s project, the children have created videos posted on a Youtube channel, open to everybody and easily accessible. The topic of the videos was about the five senses. They were referring to three domains: history, natural sciences and art. They allowed each partner to present themselves, their environment and their way of working. Each and everyone can now compare the history of the partners’ regions, build and improve her scientific approach, and be introduced to the world of art.
In science, the video clips showed experiments depicting the way the five senses worked and their purpose.
In history, the videos showed, using the five senses, a historical period that is typical for each region of the different partners. Greece presented the ancient Greece. In Belgium, with the partner ARC-Hab, an association which reveals a gallo-roman villa ruins, we focused on late Antiquity. In Italy, the partners, located near a castle, introduced the Middle-Ages. And the Spaniards, living near Barcelona, presented modern architecture and especially Art Nouveau.
In art, everyone showed techniques used in different art domains.
To start the project, each partner made a video showing their school using the five senses: what can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted. A drawing contest was organized for all the pupils to create the project logo. The Belgian logo was chosen.
After, we worked for three months on one of the senses and we presented the work during the meetings: three videos, at least, about history, science, and art. The meetings allowed the pupils and the teachers to review and evaluate the work done. During the second meeting, the teachers wrote three evaluations sheets: one for the pupils, one for the teachers, and one for the parents. They were circulated after each mobility to every person involved in the project. That allowed an on-going evaluation of the activities, our work and get the feelings of all those people during the two years.
During the second mobility, we collectively created an anthem in five languages for our project to make the pupils even more involved. We sang that anthem at every meeting.
Result: more than one hundred videos posted on that platform making possible to every teacher and child to share their discoveries. The channel will stay open after the project in order to be used by everyone and eventually to add new videos.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85400 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole communale Turpange & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Groupe d’Archélologie de Habay
• Escola Les Aigües
• Dimotiko sxoleio Neou Rysiou
• Istituto comprensivo Lelia Caetani Sermoneta