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Borderless Garden : a school to develop key skills in Europa

2017-1-FR01-KA201-0375202017Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalizedGood practice
Countries: FR|PT|IT|ES · Grant: €115,275
Pedagogy and didacticsCreativity and cultureKey Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) - basic skills

Project summary

The strategic partnership project "Garden Without Borders: A School for the Development of Key Skills in Europe" brings together a number of European organizations differently involved in school education, unemployed youth and training of their trainers. The project is based on a common desire to: 1) design, implement and test effective strategies for the improvement of key competences for specific target groups of schoolchildren and unemployed youth: - the outline of a "virtual garden without frontiers" as a common cross-cultural field of experience and a vector for the development of key competences, to motivate learning and to remedy the shortcomings in the fields of science in an environmental and Cultural, but also oral and written communication, mathematics, learning the computer tool, and that of humanistic culture. - the cross - sectoral approach: it is dominant in the education of school children, but the priorities are also to address shortcomings in the acquisition of basic skills in the education of unemployed young people. It therefore targets different audiences, enabling the transfer and validation in the partner structures of the project of "best practices" thanks to the transculturality of pedagogical methods and to the transversality of learning. The goal is also to target the general public, involving a wide range of different partners to implement, disseminate, and network these tools and best practices. 2) to share and share these experiences between teachers and educators in order to create and validate tools, especially to manage diverse groups of learners, and to reach the most disadvantaged. Through European cooperation, trainers will learn how to exchange, share, pool and reinvent a transcultural field like the European garden, which is conducive to social cohesion and transcultural dialogue. The expected impact on their learners are : - developing key skills - and knowledge - - encouraging creativity, self-confidence, a desire to learn, intellectual curiosity, openness to cultural diversity, awareness of the richness and diversity of the European cultural heritage of gardens - create an increased motivation for the culture of other countries. From this cooperation, the partner structures will develop new teaching strategies and new tools to be used in the training of adults and teachers, to plan future opportunities for teaching modules.

Final report summary

The strategic partnership project "Garden without Borders: A School for Developing Key Competences in Europe" has enabled the collaboration of several European bodies that are differently involved in school education. the partners were able to design, implement and test effective strategies for improving key competences for specific target groups of schoolchildren and unemployed youth: they constructed the outline of a "virtual garden without frontiers" As a shared cross-cultural ground of experiences and a vehicle for the development of the key competencies of their learners. The results show that motivated learning addresses the gaps in science in an environmental and cultural context, as well as oral and written communication, mathematics, computer literacy, and that of humanist culture. - the cross-sectoral approach allowed a real exchange and sharing between academics and teachers of colleges and high schools, artists and scientists, very favorable to the production of quality training tools, whose exploitation allowed to reach the big public and unemployed youth. - the best practices have been pooled, shared between teachers in order to create and validate tools, in particular to manage diverse groups of learners, and to reach the most disadvantaged of them. Through European cooperation, trainers have learned to share, share, pool, reinvent a cross-cultural field such as that of the European Garden, which promotes social cohesion and cross-cultural dialogue. The expected impact on their learners was: - develop key skills - and knowledge - - to foster creativity, self-confidence, the desire to learn, intellectual curiosity, openness to cultural diversity, awareness of the wealth and diversity of the European cultural heritage of gardens, - create an increased motivation for the culture of other countries. From this cooperation, the partner structures developed new teaching strategies and new tools to be used in teacher training, to plan future opportunities for pedagogical modules.

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