Besides traditional education, nowadays, the school should take care of developing both basic and transversal skills. But the team has also detected other transversal skills not developed enough in schools which are necessary to have. They are the new literacy cluster. The communication skills are essential for success and happiness. People who are good communicators are more successful in their jobs and handle their personal relations much easier. Knowing how to search and evaluate information makes the difference between an active, responsible and aware citizen and and easy-to-manipulate person. Each day one is faced with the consequences of financial illiteracy; very many people are on the edge (of bankruptcy) because they do not understand what they sign or they chose the wrong financial strategy. We must provide this kind of literacy in schools as well. The objectives of the project are: 1. Enhancing digital integration in learning and development of open educational resources by developing 3 new curricula and linked open educational materials for new literacy cluster including financial, communication and information literacy. 2. Developing ICT, mathematics and language skills and students' creativity, initiative and entrepreneurship using innovative methods. 3. Strengthening students' position in labour market and encouraging their personal growth by developing their communication, information and financial skills. In the project will participate students from partner schools included in short-term exchanges of students (60 students), students who will participate in new curricula implementation and will use new digital materials (at least 180 students in partner schools). Students with low achievements and study difficulties will be encouraged to participate in project activities. In the project will participate teachers in partner schools who will implement the curricula (at least 9 teachers competent for the subject), the teachers who are interested in using project outputs and results and will be accompanying persons during the short-term exchanges of students (at least 60 teachers) and staff in partner institutions who will work on the new curricula and digital materials and will participate transnational meetings and/or short-term joined staff training (at least 20 persons). In topic-related conferences (multiplier events) will participate 90 persons (30 in each country) from media, local community and relevant institutions and 40 persons in closing conference. In teachers training (multiplier events) will participate will participate 90 teacher from other schools. (30 in each country). The project will have 6 activities in which intellectual outputs (communication curricula, information curricula, financial curricula, open materials for communication literacy, open materials for information literacy and open materials for communication literacy) will be made. Before the curricula development, the research about students' needs will be conducted in partner schools. The content of the curricula and methodology will be selected based on the research. After the curricula is made and approved, partners will work on the digital materials. Each lesson will be followed by appropriate digital materials containing an introduction part with an initial quiz, materials based on the lesson subject, evaluation based on learning outcomes, homework assignments, methodology and explanation where and how the lesson can be used within the existing curricula if applicable. During the project 3 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils will be conducted. The short-term students exchanges will be used as a pilot-curricula implementation and evaluation tool. The testing and evaluation of the project outputs will provide information which outputs should be improved. All the outputs which will not meet the requirements will be redone. One short-term joined staff training will assure all staff included in intellectual outputs have needed skills and knowledge about learning outcomes based curricula and innovative teaching methods. The intellectual outputs will be used in new school activities in partner schools after the project is finished. It is expected it will be used in other schools too. That will be enabled through the project website. It will be written in 4 languages (English, Croatian, Spanish and Italian) and will contain all intellectual outputs. The students who will participate in the short-term students exchanges and the new school activities will improve their skills and knowledge about communication, information and finance. That will help the students to successfully manage their finances, get the information wanted and have efficient communication in their future life, both business and private. The students will develop their ICT and mathematics skills, creativity, social and civic responsibility, initiative and entrepreneurship and improve their language skills.
Along with traditional education, nowadays, schools should take care of developing both basic and transversal skills. But we have also detected other transversal skills that are necessary and not developed enough. They make the new literacy set. The communication skills are essential for success and happiness because people who are good communicators have more successful and fulfilled business, social and private life. Also, knowing how to search and evaluate information makes the difference between active, responsible and aware citizen and easy-to-manipulate person. Finally, each day one is faced with consequences of financial illiteracy reflected in being on the edge of bankruptcy because they do not understand what they sign or have chosen the wrong financial strategy. We must provide these kinds of literacy in school as well. The objectives of this project were: 1. Enhancing digital integration in learning and development of open educational resources by developing 3 new curriculas and linked open educational materials for financial, communication and information literacy. 2. Developing ICT, mathematics and language skills and creativity, initiative and entrepreneurship among students by applying innovative methods. 3. Strengthening students' position in labour market and encouraging their personal growth by developing their communication, information and financial skills. In the project, students from partner schools participated through: being included in short-term student exchanges (60 students), participating in new curricula implementation and using of new digital materials (min 180 students per school), participating in other activities such as logo competition, poster making and ICT workshops. Students with low achievements and study difficulties were also encouraged to participate. In project participated teachers from partner schools who worked on implementation of the new curricula (at least 9 teachers competent for the subject), the teachers who were interested in using project outputs and results and who were accompanying persons during the short-term student exchanges (at least 60 teachers), and staff in partner institutions who worked on the new curricula and digital materials and, also, staff that participated in transnational meetings and/or short-term joined staff training (at least 20 persons). In topic-related conferences (multiplier events) participated approximately 90 persons (30 in each country) from media, local community and relevant institutions and also 50 persons in closing conference. In teachers training event at the beginning of the project participated 20 teachers from partner schools. The project had 6 activities in which intellectual outputs (curricula and open materials for each literacy – communication, information and financial) were made. After each curricula was made and approved, partners worked on digital materials. Each lesson was followed by appropriate digital materials including an introduction part with an initial quiz, materials based on the lesson subject, evaluation based on learning outcomes, homework assignments, methodology and explanation where and how the lesson can be used within the existing curriculas if applicable. During the project, 3 short-term student exchanges were conducted. These were used as a pilot-curricula implementation and evaluation tool. The testing and evaluation of the project outputs provided information about which outputs should be improved. All the outputs which did not meet the requirements were redone. One short-term joined staff training ensured that all the staff included in producing intellectual outputs had needed skills and knowledge about learning-outcomes based curriculas and innovative teaching methods. After the project finished, the intellectual outputs were used as new school activities in partner schools. It is expected that they will be used in other schools, too. That is enabled through the project website which contains all intellectual outputs which are translated and written in 4 languages, just like whole website (newliteracyset.eu). In line with project's objectives applicat school went a step further and made online courses for some of the topics covered by curriculas. For each type of literacy 2 online courses were made, so in total 6 online courses where students can go through the materials independently using just their mobile phone and athe their own pace. The students who participated in the short-term students exchanges and the new schools activities improved their knowledge and skills about communication, information and finance. Hopefully, that will help students to successfully manage their finances, get the needed information and have efficient communication in their future life, both in business as well as in private sphere. The students upgraded their ICT and mathematic skills, creativity, initiative, entrepreneurship, social and civic responsibility and improved their language abilities.