With the Skills of the Future for a Successful Job and Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

With the Skills of the Future for a Successful Job and Life

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The European Reference Framework of Key Competences defines the competences as each European citizen needs for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. It invited Member States to ensure that their education and training systems are able to equip people with these competences.

The aim of the project is to enable students to develop original solutions and ideas while relating them to concepts. The qualities that the students will gain overlaps with the abilities that the current business world requires nowadays. In the global sense, students need to improve these skills in order to adapt to the complex life styles that the competitive information era necessitate.

This project has been designed for the purpose of improving our students’ acquisition of basic skills. They will be familiar with the key principles and components of Project Based Learning. With this aim, 5 countries identified the needs of the students thanks to some surveys and the Erasmus +project that the 3 countries have been carrying out for the last 2 years. In Estonia, 3 teachers from each country will get a seminar about 21st century skills. Then in 4 countries with the help of the activities 5 students from each country will practice these skills.

We tailor the working methods based on participants’, attitudes, needs and profiles to ensure high productivity. The methodology is highly practical and participative. We embrace collaborative working methods which foster mutual learning and cooperation among partners. Our focus is upon learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and or /in the classroom. The pedagogical methods which we are going to use are; experiential training, best practices exchange, learning by doing, group and peer work activities.

Because surveys have proven that students tend to forget the knowledge after exams or after their graduation.21 st century skills are the skills that they will be using all their lives. However, the management of the project is not the system of putting the activities one after the other, it will be a set of operations including control, skimming, reporting procedures at all stages during the whole cycle. According to the strategic and European developments of the schools, leadership, creating strategies, taking effective decisions, planning, creating an organization culture, positive motivation towards learning, education management, Corporation with the stakeholders are the essential elements. This Project has been designed to fulfill all these necessities. And it is sustainable in terms of integration of competences into lessons and flipped classroom method.

IMPACT:

Students will ;
– come forward with their ideas at all stages of development
– try learned techniques and expand their new skills
– know that mistakes lead to better learning, they will make them to gain their own aims
– break down potentially overwhelming projects into manageable tasks
– be more confident and aware of their needs to be successful in school and in life
– be better equipped for life
– improve attitudes about learning in school
– improve self-esteem, social responsibility, problem solving strategies and communication skills

TEACHERS
Teachers and principals will:
– become effective thinkers by assuming multiple roles and tasks
– observe other countries’ administrative and educational methods and techniques, share
experience, ideas and suggestions
– promote good practices in education, cooperation and combined effective action in order to reach
common goals
– improve professional development by acquiring new training techniques in an innovative way to
introduce key competences in the school curriculum
– obtain concrete techniques and methods about 21st century
– improve the knowledge/techniques/methods to make the lessons more interesting within the classroom
-establish relationship between the disciplines
– use the results of the project as the materials for researching for other institutions and for European instruments

Parents and local societies will:
– feel welcome in whatever region of the world they happen to find themselves
– consider each individual on their own merits
– not to refer to a special group but intend their message to be universal
– oppose racism, tribalism, regionalism, religious bias and all kinds of segregation of any kind
– be tolerant and respectful of other people’s cultures
– recognize that events happening in the far end of the world away from their country can have a real impact on their life
– get interested in international news,- be positive towards European projects and values
– add a value to the quantitive and qualitive commonwealth of the society

All participants will:
– be actively involved towards a better understanding of the real European dimension
– improve communicative skills in foreign languages
– get involved in strategic orientation of open and effective principals.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 116901 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kanepi Gümnaasium & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Suleyman Demirel Anadolu Lisesi
• Osnovna sola F. S. Finzgarja Lesce
• IIS Petrucci Ferraris Maresca
• Tehnicka skola