With languages you find the way to get a job and to accept your responsibility for the environment. Erasmus Project

Project Title

With languages you find the way to get a job and to accept your responsibility for the environment.

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Considering their own identity and cultural heritage we teach our students 21st Century Skills with creative and outcome-oriented thinking.With this project we want to offer basic competences to our students for a successful scheme of life in the European context.
Those include job-related competences in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing in the foreign languages German and English as well as the awareness that learning a foreign language is necessary.
We want to implement these important competences in practical learning rather than in abstract learning
Therefore, students come across e.g. culture, conventions and also traditions of other countries. As working in mixed groups is obligatory, students have to put that knowledge into practice.
We want to stimulate the self-confidence and the sense of responsibility of our students and ask them to take on this responsibility to grow as a EU-citizen and to take responsibility for the environment(Participation).
Objectives:
-Students realize that successful learning and working in Europe includes to familiarize oneself with languages, traditions and habits of other cultures, to accept those and to adapt the own way of life without losing the own identity.
-the willingness to learn from each other, to show tolerance and consideration for eachother and to be responsible are values that are necessary to save equal opportunities for all children in a united Europe.
-With the help of project-oriented work and especially the intercultural dialogue together with partners from the other schools students promote their development of competences, their autonomy and responsibility, their problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
-we want to stimulate the teachers and parents to accept that our children want to have their own responsibility and to accept their way of thinking in conservation of nature and our future.
-Stimulation of lifelong learning and mobility.

Number of participants:
30-35 students (aged 12-16) per year/per school, parents and supervising teachers (about 8-10 per school).

activities /methodology / results:
–Training teachers in teaching CLIL and implementing modern media in two staff training Events with workshops, try-outs , hospitation, discussion and evaluation.
–using a foreign (German and English) language in shared lessons, with new material to perform practically relevant, interdisciplinary, bilingual lessons (i.a. 10 well-elaborated CLIL-lessons per school).
–students constantly work actively in multinational groups during the 5 LTT-weeks and produce project Tasks together with the students from other countries.
–students reflect the LTT-week with the help of a diary (In the foreign language German or English)presenting the highlights of the week
–the students will debate in the “Erasmus-Youth Parliament”) and take proposition to the subjects “Tourism, labour and the impact for the environment” and they give us some proposals for future.

Impact /benefits:
When we break down the barriers of languages and cultural diversity by learning, working and sharing experiences, we reduce prejudices and encourage a feeling of “We are Europeans” in future with respect for other people and the environment.
Also, co-students that are not directly involved in this project profit from this European identity and the experiences from teachers to practice bilingual education .
By the implementation of CLIL-lessons and the experiences of the teachers, the knowledge of a new method can be put into practice in schools.
All products are provided on the internet /Twinspace with the result that they can be used in lessons in the future (also by third parties).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164883 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting Lauwers College & Country: NL

Project Partners

• LICEUL TEORETIC MITROPOLIT IOAN METIANU ZARNESTI
• Franz-Jonas-Europaschule
• Základná skola – Grundschule, Hradné námestie 38, Kezmarok
• Budapesti XX. Kerületi Kossuth Lajos Gimnázium