Your environment, a European cultural heritage that INCLUDES you! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Your environment, a European cultural heritage that INCLUDES you!

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: Environment and climate change; Inclusion – equity; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

“e-nvironclusion” is an Erasmus+ KA229 project for the exchange of good practices through the exchange of students. Our main objective is to foster social, civic, intercultural, linguistic competences and critical thinking, promoting social inclusion, working in a collaborative way, using digital tools in teaching processes and educational policies on coexistence, strengthening the European dimension to build up a capacity for cross-border cooperation and to cope with new challenges. The project lasts 2 years and involves teachers and students from Hungary, Sweden, Italy, Lithuania and Spain, with 6 transnational meetings for 10 teachers and 80 student aged 15-17. In the implied centers there is a deep motivation to work on the issue of social inclusion in the classrooms, although each of us focused on different problems. Analyzing the differences and similarities of each of us we share common goals that unite us to develop our e-nvironclusion project together. We all aim to foster social inclusion, to share new knowledge and key competences, to use active methodologies aided by digital tools, to raise student´s awareness of the European common ground and the existing cultural heritage through the exchange of good practices, to find opportunities to learn foreign languages. Each center can contribute its own experience to achieve the success of a common project and joint results that will have as an added value the participatory and intercultural approach of the proposal.
Our activities are designed for the knowledge of the three types of “environments” of our project with an interdisciplinary treatment. Activities will be carried out before and during the mobility:
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: activities directed to the knowledge of different intervention strategies for the resolutions of conflicts in a peaceful way. Training in social skills to manage these conflicts to increase self-esteem, enhance communication and avoid situations of early school dropout risk, favoring inclusion.
CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT: The human being through his social history is configuring a task within his cultural scope and in turn is configuring new cultural contexts that entail changes in nature that sometimes harm or benefits him. Activities aimed at understanding the evolution of employs, gender stereotypes, traditions maintained, role of religion and politics, in accordance with our priority to prioritize the social and educational value of European cultural heritage and its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: the activities will be focused on the knowledge of environmental problems for their conservation, recycling, reducing and reusing, the laws in this regards, in accordance with the horizontal priority of promoting new participatory and intercultural approaches to heritage and initiatives aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue with teachers and students.
The project also aims to promote innovative practices in the digital era. Therefore, our activities will also focus on updating digital learning materials and tools both in the aspect of acquiring knowledge, communication tools, applications for the dissemination of he analyzes and conclusions carried out, with especial emphasis on enhancing the creativity of students in the activities that are carried out.
The project will combine physical mobility with virtual exchanges through e-Twinning platform, both before, during and after as a tool for project implementation and follow-up. Students will collaborate through the sharing of e-Twinning activities as well as create opportunities to improve interpersonal, linguistic and digital tools. It is a good tool to maintain contact between the associated centers, to connect among us to create online activities, empowering the exchange of ideas and linguistic competences, shortening distances and motivating students in something innovative.
Apart from the tangible results expected: reports, surveys, digital dictionaries, workshops, database, plays, videos, artistic creations, European Green Paper, photos, equality plan, web pages and blog reports, the strategic results that the project expect to reach are: consolidation of coexistence plans, new way of dealing with conflicts, awareness of the importance of natural environment and cultural heritage in the EU, awareness of the importance of cooperative work, management of digital tools, fostering critical thinking and improving linguistic competence.
The expected medium and long term benefits are: improvement of the collaborative work and communication tools, of planning tasks, of detection of training teachers necessities, inclusion of European dimension with linguistic and cultural contents, use of new evaluation methods, improvement in perception of their own capacities, communication abilities, social abilities,self-evaluation, linguistic competence in a foreign language, digital tools for an academic purpose,

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119937 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES VALLE DE ALLER & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Europa 2000 Kozepiskola
• ISTITUTO TECNICO COMMERCIALE E PER GEOMETRI MARIO RAPISARDI
• Thorildsplans gymnasium
• Vilniaus r. Avizieniu gimnazija