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Think… act….and make a better world.

2016-1-IT02-KA219-0246502016Strategic Partnerships for Schools Onlyfinalized
Countries: IT|PT|EL|UK|LT|EE|PL|ES · Grant: €188,445.83
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesInclusion - equityEarly School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

It is necessary to improve the quality of education system in order to give appropriate answers to the modern society : employement, stability,democratic and responsible partecipation in the social life and in a globalized world. These chances have to be ensured to everybody also to students with fewer opportunities as required by Europe Stategy 2020. The project is the result of an attentive evaluation that all partners have implemented inside their school communities, using the CIPP model. It has provided useful information to identify needs and target groups to address it. The data analysis showed that an increasing number of students with behavioural , social,economic and linguistic problems achieve incomplete skills. The project aims to: OBJECTIVES for STUDENTS and TEACHERSPreventing and fighting discomforts and subsequent drop-out promoting the acquisition of life-skills.Implementing interactive methodologies by ITC use .Promoting the dissemination of innovative practices within European schools.Supporting the awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity within Europe through virtual and not virtual exchanges of partecipants in the project.Training " flexible adaptive thinkers"Improving students and teachers’ linguistic skillsPromoting educational training aimed to foster an efficient social integration using inclusive approaches.Supporting teachers and students in the development of OER. Placing the differences of each one at the centre of the educational processes so that everyone becomes builders of own competences and able to give a value to its own lifeEncouraging teachers and students to take future individual mobility initiatives and class exchanges OBJECTIVES for COMMUNITYMaking Institutions aware of the project issues that will be supported by Erasmus+ fundingInvolving communities for a more project efficacyPromoting a more united societyEncouraging the development of projects and European policies Ensuring commitment to Erasmus+ programme through a relevant and dynamic project.The project will involve Italy, England,Estonia ,Greece ,Poland,Spain, Lithuania,Portugal.The partners have been chosen on the basis of previous European collaborations ( England and Poland) and through the e-twinning platform. They have got skills, interest and enthusiasm that are essential for the project success. Besides in all school comunities that will take part in the partnership there is a large number of students with behavioural,linguistic,economic and social difficulties. The selected partners have international experiences as partecipants and project managers in European project. That will be an added value to the project. The activities planning is based on a specific WBS definition. It will point out the relationship among the project aims, functions, and roles of all actors involved. The activities will be developed in the field of active citizenship aiming to inclusion,solidarity and cooperation. They will be organized in three themes: sport, eating and environment relevant for students' interests and so more winning.Each activity will be divided in tasks reported in the GANTT CHARTActivities will be carried out through collaborative approaches in formal and informal settings:-Debate-Cooperative learning-Problem solving-Learning by doing-Role playingWorkshops, seminars, events, visits connected to the activities will be organized in each country and association, Institution members and testimonials will take part in them.Promotional gadgets will be delivered during the events.Students will developed knowledge ,competences and responsabilities. Besides they foster metacognitive learning, start up research processes and develop positive relationship.Activities will be monitored continuously thanks to the project website, social media and Mobility Tool that will provide detailed information about the project in progress. The organization and managment structure is the result of shared choice of division and coordinating of tasks as you can see in the attachment "Planning functions".The community will be integral part of competences coproduction.The project will have a positive impact on students, teachers and community by:improving social, linguistic and digital competences. improving disadvantaged students integration in the communityspreading common inclusive practices in Europe thanks to the project implementationimproving specialist methodologies with international comparing thanks to Erasmus+good practices will be integral part of school curriculastrenghtening network of relationships on the territorygiving to school a European dimensionThe project will help to social,economic cultural growth of the whole society thanks to the development of knowledge,competences peculiar of human life.

Final report summary

This project is the result of an attentive evaluation that specific project grups of the partnership have implemented inside their school communities. The used pattern was the Context,Input, Process Product. It has given useful information to identify the needs and the target groups to address it.The data analysis elaborated by the project teams thanks to the auto evaluation report and the Annual inclusion Plan and the data of several researches available on Ministerial websites has shown that a growing number of students with behavioural problems achieve incomplete skills. They often live in situations of social, economic, cultural and linguistic discomfort and they show alienation towards school and society: as a matter of fact, this proposal contributes to achieving the European objectives in the field of skills identification and anticipation (Education and Training 2020- new priorities for European cooperation on Education and Training). Objectives for students, teacher and community. -Prevent and fight discomforts and subsequent drop-out, promoting the acquisition of life-skills.- Implement interactive methodologies based on the ITC use .-Promote the dissemination of innovative practices within European schools.- Improve students and teachers’ linguistic skills-Promote educational training aimed to contain behavioural problems in order to foster an efficient social integration by using an inclusive teaching .- Make Institutions aware of the project issues that will be supported by Erasmus+ funding- The partner involved in the project are: Italy (coordinator),Estonia, Lithuania, Poland , Greece , UK, Portugal, Spain.Each school involved in the project have students with social, economic linguistic and behavioral problems. Students who attend the partner schools are from 10 to 18. The diversity within each school is a major strength and it as been the central to partners' motivation in taking part in this project. Main activities carried out during the first year: first video conference meeting among teachers and students, sharing and realizing behavioural grids learning students processes, satisfaction grids, digital presentation about territory, social and cultural peculiarities of each country, creating a project logo, motto, anthem, website and facebook page-Working on food and eating with reference to typical products recognized by the EU-Collecting information in a multimedia product,organizing a friendly volleyball and basketball match,defining a working, communication and dissemination plan, open day devoted to the preparation of project typical dishes. The project was monitored by sharing and publishing outputs in the Facebook page and project website. Besides the monitoring was realized by: whatsapp group, mails, phone calls to ex changing information and solve daily problems of organization. The first year outputs can be divided in tangible results such as the competence acquisition and not tangible ones connected to quality life: fostering personal wellbeing intended as self being and doing essential for active citizenship;improving social relationship involving in social life; increasing opportunity for exchanges -increasing self-esteem, respect for others, sense of identitfy, visits to local factories and associations to deepen the eating topic (GMO, Food labels reading, the short chain, intensive farming, FAO, importance of bio products), realizing a fairy tale book (Fiabe di cioccolato),sharing of realized products (power point, videos etc.)in Lithuania and in Portugal, creating a typical project dinner gathering ingredients coming from all countries of the partnership.

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