WOMEN AS SPIRITUS MOVENS TOWARDS EQUALITY IN THE EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP Erasmus Project

Project Title

WOMEN AS SPIRITUS MOVENS TOWARDS EQUALITY IN THE EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

The project “Women as Spiritus Movens towards equality in the European citizenship” has far exceeded our expectations. It has been recognized in Spain as an example of perfect transition from Comenius to Erasmus+, of integration of Long Term Mobilities in Erasmus+ and as a Good Practices project in KA219 (Annual Dissemination Event organized by Spanish National Agency, 20/12/2016). Additionally, it has been chosen by the Polish National Agency to be presented during the international eTwinning conference in Florence as a unique citizenship project using etwinning platform (September 2016).

The main working platform for our project was twinspace in eTwinning, where we uploaded, shared and disseminated all our products.

As the situation of women differs from country to country, all the schools involved agreed on the importance of working towards the equality in many fields: civil rights, salaries, decision-taking, participation in public life, early dropout from school and job opportunities. Gender violence was one of our concerns and we needed to make use of education and European experience to prevent any kind of discrimination and enhance mutual understanding between men and women.

We encouraged foreign language usage and the development of IT skills, not as the main purpose of the project but as a tool to achieve other goals. This project supported entrepreneurship among the young and adjustment to the current economic situation by combining education with practical solutions.
Our priority was students` responsibility for their learning process, e.g via their individual mobility. It was successfully proved in the long-term mobility exchange, a unique experience offered in this project, to open students´ minds and consequently change their lives.

With the constant demand for enhancing the quality of teachers’ work, we exchanged ideas and teaching experience and designed a manual of good practices, in the form of an e-book. Besides, teachers elaborated a Pedagogical Programme to be easily disseminated and used by every teacher, school, association, or other institutions in Europe working in the field of equality and citizenship.

This project also aimed at coping with the need of internationalization of our schools in order to meet future demands, the need to educate competent European citizens by improving all their basic competences and the need for improving our teaching/learning skills according to the strategies in education in the 21st century.

Although this plan had been prepared by teachers, students played a significant part in it. Moreover, they took an active part in planning, development and evaluation of the project, learning how to carry out surveys and interpret the obtained data in order to write different evaluation reports with the use of tables, percentages and graphics.

In this project we put special emphasis on the development of students´ and teachers’ digital skills through the use of new i-tools, such as applications for tablets and smartphones, e-books, online newspapers, digital open educational resources, etc. In fact, more tools than initially planned were explored and used (e.g issuu, padlet, kahoot, etc.).

The objectives were explained in such a way that they are measurable and quantifiable via indicators. To evaluate aims, tasks, project activities, project meetings and products/results, we developed the “Follow-up and Measurement Plan” in which quantitative and qualitative ways of evaluation were applied.

Open Educational Resources, such as the Manual of Good Practices and the Women as Spiritus Movens Pedagogical Programme, as well as other products (app, Q.R Codes, online newspaper, e-book, a documentary film, a DVD with a flashmob, glogsters, prezi presentations, scientific researches, business ideas, etc.) will always be available for free download through the links offered on Twinspace, Erasmus+ dissemination platform, website and blogs. Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/2456/home

The project has been widely disseminated starting from the local level, through regional up to national and international levels: lectures on “Good Practices” in national training workshops and international conference, etwinning, website, newspapers, radio, TV, the internet, social nets, etc.

The key competences of the main participants of this project, students and teachers, improved significantly. Both students and teachers enhanced their digital skills and analytical abilities. They raised their awareness about the EU citizenship, women´s influence on European civilization development, healthy nutrition, social exclusion, limiting stigmatization of young people and acting as volunteers. They learnt to appreciate the role of their own and other cultures and women’s contribution to the development of Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187240 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIO DIOCESANO SAN ATÓN & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore G. Mazzatinti
• LYCEE SUD MEDOC
• OZEL DARUSSAFAKA LISESI
• IX Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. C. K. Norwida w Czestochowie
• Kuopion klassillinen lukio