Our students are losing contact to nature because of their preference for using the media. This sad development is also to be observed in rural and small town areas. All the participating towns are similarly small so that we see a better chance of achieving our aims. We would like to counteract this development by offering the pupils attrative possibilities how to spend their time outside in a bodily and mentally rewarding way. The objectives of our project are a hightened awareness of the environment, an improvement of the pupils' body intelligence and of their cultural knowledge of diverse European countries. We are four schools with approximately forty participants for each transnational teaching activity. Each participating country will stage its meeting in a way that is to make the participants acquainted with each country's environmental and cultural trades.In this context we would like to emphasize outdoor activities accompanied by cultural and environmental issues. We would like our activities to be student centered and we want to integrate the students in organizational and idea-developing matters and questions. We hope that the project will result in a better sensibility for the environment at home and abroad in an improved body intelligence and a cross-European mutual cultural understanding. By making project results available to everybody via internet-platforms, we would like to secure the potential long term benefits.Furthermore we expect the relationships between the participating schools to last beyond the running time of the project.
The underlying theme of this project was to enhance the European dimension of education by promoting joint cooperation activities in the schools outlined. This process assisted pupils and teachers to acquire and improve skills in the areas of geography, language, IT, history and social awareness/integration. The participation in the activities described has enriched a sense of teamwork, sociocultural relations, project management and the use of ICT. There was an increased multilingual capacity and an enhanced motivation towards language learning among staff, pupils and the wider school community. All of the participant applicants demonstrated a common ethos with regard to an understanding and appreciation for their role in their community ranging from that of a local one to a European one. They have an appreciation for advancements and developments in society and through this project, have been able to analyse a means of directing towards a more productive and socially aware European environment. These were investigated and researched in a cross-curricular fashion under a variety of headings.In all of the three visited countries, a lot of fieldwork was carried out out od doors as well as typical national sports were practiced so that body-learning was definitely a part of all the three mobilities. Being out of doors a lot, the pupils and teachers necessarily developed an awareness for the state of their surrounding environments and changes for the worse were keenly noticed. We have established really impressive Ersamus-corners at all three schools which are constantly being observed by the whole school community and by people who visit the schools. The eTwinning platform was fed with new material.Teachers and pupils are still in actively contact and are planning another project together next year.