This project includes 52 people: 4 teachers and 32 students (2 Italian and 2 Austrian teachers as well as 16 Austrian and 16 Italian students) who take part in short term mobility that last 7 days, furthermore 4 Austrian and 4 Italian students take part in a Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils of 41 or 40 days and attent the partnerschool in the period. Addditionally 4 more Austrian and 4 more Italian students attend the partnerschool for 3 months each within the long term mobility. One aim of the project is to create audios, videos and collect pictures about different cultural aspects during their stay in the partnerschool. At the end of the project there will be a project presentation where the videos are shown to the audience which consists of students, parents, teachers and representatives of various schools and the media. To secure the dissemination of the videos also during teacher seminars the videos will be shown and can be downloaded from a website. To prepare the participants of the project to create good future teaching material initial communication between them even before the activities start is needed and will be done via eTwinning and whatsapp. A whatsappgroup will be implemented in order to collect ideas, discuss facts and provide advice. Other goals of the project include better competence of foreign language skills, decrease prejudices, getting to know a new culture, traditions so that the participants can be called European citizens. The latest trends showed that our youth has to have international experience in order to compete at the labour market. The students will get the Europass certificate as well as a certificate by the partnerschool.
This project included as well as short term mobilites and long term mobilities. Students from the BG Tanzenberg and the partnerschool IIS Giordano Bruno in Perugia, Italy could either attend the other school for a certain period up to two months on their own, or could visit the other country within a group journey, which lasted one week. As the teachers wanted that the students got to know each other quite quickly we decided on various activities and started with giving different topics (all regarding our curriculum) and the students' goal was to create interesting or/and funny videos in which they dealt with the topic. Additionally, also fotos were taken that showed specific aspects of the given topic. At the end a selection of the fotos and videos were uploaded on our created website: https://erasmusplustanzenbergperugia.wordpress.com. To secure the dissemination of the videos also during teacher seminars the videos were shown and can still be downloaded from a website. Another focus of our exchange was to increase the foreign language competences. This aim was quite easily reached during the longer periods at the partner school, where our students attended classes in the foreign language and additionally were taught in the foreign language by natives in additional lessons. One more important aspect was to get to know a new culture. As the students were placed within host family this goal was reached easily, as they could understand the way of life of a family in the foreign country. For the students that stayed for one week only a special programme was organised so that they could see Austrian culture, including tasting our lovely food. Reciprocally, when Austrian students went down to Perugia, they could taste lovely Italian food and got to know their culture and also traditions. In Perugia itself we could get to know several Christmas traditions. Finally, with the help of this project we can call many of our students real European citizens. They got to know how important it is to live in a United Europe which offers various opportunities. As they could experience one of these opportunities they hopefully will go abroad in their future again.