Young Europeans in Action: Helping you, helping me out! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young Europeans in Action: Helping you, helping me out!

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Social dialogue; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Our Erasmus+ Project Young Europeans in Action: Helping you, Helping me out! was born with the aim of improving coexistence at all participant schools, giving prominence to the role of students in the very centre of the life of the schools, promoting their autonomy and responsibility by means of collaborative activities. In order to reach this objective, we all set off in this adventure after past experiences with other European projects, or in the improvement plans applied at each school. The association has provided an European value when sharing this background,experiences, achievements, learning from them as well as developing new perspectives in issues such as peer mediation or the organization of break time activities by students or the implication of disabled students in the life of the school.

We are six schools from Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Poland and Denmark that share a common interest in developing an European dimension in our curricula, in such a way that the whole of the school communities (students, teachers, families, other staff) might benefit from this perspective that has enriched the teaching and learning of teachers and students alike these two years. We all have kept open, collaborative and innovative attitudes in order to reach the goals set in the making of the project, and we all have included its basic features into our School General Programs. Among the most important objectives, we can highlight the following ones:

– We have improved coexistence at our schools by diminishing the number of conflicts, using dialogue and critical reflection, setting effective foundations to be applied in the future.

– We have improved collaborative attitudes and the search for agreed solutions in a school context, avoiding aggressive attitudes within at school.

– We have introduced in an effective manner the roles of mediator students, helping students and environmental agents as models to improve coexistence a school.

– We have given responsibilities to students to organize break time activities, developing their autonomy.

– We have applied strategies that have improved the linguistic competence in foreign languages in students and teachers, as there has always been a genuine interest in communicating ideas with others using different tools, establishing bonds, and promoting interest in other cultures and traditions.

– We have used digital communication tools with educative aims when creating materials for the Project as well as when communicating with other people, either teachers and/ or students.

– We have been able to involve students, teachers, families and institutions in the different activities of the project, and we have increased the collaboration with other schools with the intention of improving our methodologies thanks to the Exchange of ideas, boosting creativity and innovation.

– We have integrated disabled students in the Project activities, which have let them share experiences with students from other countries as well as with students at their own school.

During these two years, we have carried out the following activities: creation of the Erasmus+ Corner at each school; creation of the official logo of the Project; organization of break time activities by students; writing of peer mediation plans with the intention of introducing them in each school; organization of the Good Manner Week and of the Days of… (Europe Day, Safer Internet Day, Peace Day…); design of the official T-shirt of the Project; preparation and performance of roleplays and adverts that promote peaceful coexistence; creation of project calendars; volunteering actions: creation of a Good Practice Guide…

We have also reached the most important aim of the Project: improve coexistence at each school. We have also been able to introduce peer mediation, break time activities organized by students, the promotion of a common European ideal, reached by working together with students and teachers from other countries, the integration of disabled students in trhe different actions and the implication of students, teachers, families and institutions.

We have also known other education realities, and we have worked in a collaborative manner creating documents that will be beneficial to other schools which might want to inspire in our achievements.
Finally, most part of the Project activities will remain at our schools as we will keep on trusting our students in the organization of activities: mediation, break time activities, helping students, good teaching practices, and we will keep on working for an European educative concept that might facilitate future meetings with schools from other countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158620 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO DE ENSEÑANZA SECUNDARIA NICOLAS ESTEVEZ BORGES & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Nordskolen
• Istituto Comprensivo Maria Montessori
• AlytusDzukija basic school
• Hodmezovasarhelyi Liszt Ferenc Enek-zenei Altalanos Iskola
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Swietej Jadwigi w Swierklanach