The project “GAME” which stands for “Genius And Mission in Education” was born and conceived as an action plan to renew and to review the teachers’ profile through innovative approaches and more attractive methodologies to practice with students, the main character of the teaching/learning process. The project would offer to our audiences another perspective to be more modern, dynamic and ready to integrate good practices and new methods into daily school activities.The main objectives of the project deal with the improvement and implementation of more stimulating educational methodologies to empower and motivate learners, from childhood to youth, to love school and to feel it as a safe, comfortable and friendly place where learnings and knowledges are not simply transferred but also experienced and lived in cooperation at local and European level.The project “GAME” will be played by the Strategic Partnership Team composed by ITALY as Coordinator country and LATVIA SPAIN, ROMANIA and GREECE as Partners countries. All the Partners have common experiences in European projects in the field of Education, Training and Youth and they are interested to enhance and strengthen their cooperation in order to promote the European values such as social inclusion, anti-discrimination, active citizenship, solidarity, tolerance, respect for others, intercultural learning and understanding. The project will focus on a wide range of activities to strengthen the 8 Key European Competences through the application of Non Formal Learning approach. All subjects will be included the planned activities and each school will experience activities at local and international level during the “short-term exchanges of pupils”. Students and teachers will work together to carry out some Missions based on practicing games, experiences, experiments linked to daily life reality, acquiring knowledges and contents from experience. This way they will exchange good practices and will improve also their speaking in foreign languages.The methodology to teach new learnings will be focus on the quality rather than the quantity of contents. Teachers will apply innovative integrated approaches such as Non Formal Learning methods useful to develop people as individuals, people’s confidence, self-esteem, personal strengths, and crucially a rounded sense of purpose and fulfilment which fundamentally improve attitude, life-balance, and emotional well-being. Developing people as individuals, which is at the heart of Experiential Learning, also implicitly enables learning methods to fit each person's own preferred learning styles and natural preferences, because learners are encouraged and helped to learn and develop in their own ways, using methods which they find most comfortable and therefore enjoyable. Through project we intend to develop in students insight skills and attitudes and to improve their interpersonal relationships. Students will meet friends from different European context and will compare their learning styles. Teachers will promote naturally inclusive activities in their educational programs and will improve their professional competences. Schools through this ERASMUS+ European Project will earn visibility, will grow in experience and will improve their own educational and cultural standards working in cooperation.The impact expected is about the improvement of the quality of the educational student formation as a man and a citizen at an international dimension. Students through all Social Networks and Web resources will disseminate the project to widespread the good practices they learn through NFL activities. Teachers will gain experience by spreading horizons through contacts with colleagues from other countries. They will share and compare innovative methodology and educational good practices.Schools will benefit from this European experience in education, considering it an added value for the growing of each school community, families and local authorities and other participating organizations.Most of the activities planned for the implementation of the project do not need financial requirements and this means that they will be maintained even after the end of the EU funding: Web page, Facebook profile, Google Plus and e-Twinning. This means that there will be free access to the outputs of the project which will be collected and published in a Booklet titled “Genius And Mission in Education: exchange good practices”. The cooperation between the partner schools will go on by growing stronger through new projects which will be carried on via e-Twinning or other kind of Erasmus+ mobilities. Partners will continue their activities with the partners' school in the future, thus, the sustainability of results obtained through the project, will be kept on.
The project GAME (Genius And Mission in Education) was addressed to teachers interested in strengthening their own profile in teaching methodologies to support and promote inclusive education. In this era, characterized by strong cultural and social issues mainly due to globalization, international crisis, loss of real and trusted relationships which are all important to balance the teacher's role. Nowadays, according to the lifestyle changes and evolution, teachers have to both to keep their professional profile high as guides for their students' lifelong learning process but also to be innovative in their methodological approaches. Students are not motivated and interested in studying to enhance their own cultural background, to have a meaningful role for their own and for their European cultural development. They seem to not be really involved in their school life, isolating themselves, increasing individuality more and more against the forms of cooperation and friendly relationships. They sometimes have the attitude of excluding their mates who have social and economic issues to deal with. The partners of this project cooperated to face this critical situation through more attractive and training programmes integrating good practices and new methods into "daily" activities. Teachers and students worked together to create a positive and dynamic environment inside the class-context applying formal and non-formal learning activities as good practice in education to widespread it at local, national and European level. The project “GAME” was played by the Strategic Partnership Team composed by ITALY as the Coordinator country and LATVIA, SPAIN, ROMANIA and GREECE as Partner countries. All the Partners had common experiences in European projects in the field of Education, Training and Youth and they were interested to enhance and strengthen their cooperation in order to promote the European values such as social inclusion, anti-discrimination, active citizenship, solidarity, tolerance, respect for others, intercultural learning and understanding. The project focused on a wide range of activities to strengthen the 8 Key European Competences through the application of Non-Formal Learning approaches. All school subjects were included in the planned activities and each school experienced activities at local and international levels during the “short-term exchange of pupils”. Students and teachers worked together to carry out some Missions based on practicing games, experiences, experiments linked to daily life reality, acquiring knowledge and contents from experience. They, therefore, exchanged good practices and improved their speaking skills in a foreign language too.This project developed students’ insight skills and attitudes and improved their interpersonal relationships. Students met friends from different European countries and compared their learning attitudes. Teachers promoted naturally inclusive activities in their educational programs and improved their professional skills while students developed their formal, non-formal and informal competencies. The School Community gained in quality and improvement of its institutional role in the European perspective of creating the basis for a real and active Citizenship’s development. Schools through this ERASMUS+ European Project earned visibility, grew experience-wise and improved their own educational and cultural standards working in cooperation with others. Most of the activities planned for the implementation of the project did not need financial requirements and this means that they will be maintained even after the end of the EU funding: Web page, Facebook profile, Google Plus and e-Twinning. This means free access to the outputs of the project collected and published in a Booklet entitled “Genius And Mission in Education: exchange good practices”. The cooperation between the partner schools will go on by growing stronger through new projects which will be carried out via e-Twinning or other kinds of Erasmus+ mobilities. Partners will continue their activities with the partner- schools in the future, thus, the sustainability of results obtained through the project, will be kept alive.