This is an initiative that is arisen from EU Commission Strategy for 2020 in term of improving basic skills of new generation for better future of European Union. It aims to develop necessary basic skills in Social, Entrepreneurship, Participatory spirit, Artistic, Language skills and Digital competences. As the project team, the coordinators of the partner schools, we strove and worked on the issue how to improve lack of basic skills and stated the needs in our schools as by taking observation of teachers and students via two surveys. - The students are unmotivated because theoretical classes are not engaged with practical learning. - The schools are not an enthusiastic place for students and lack of leisure activities causes lack of motivation attitudes according to school, classes so this is bringing lack of basic skills and academic success. Lack of practical training became the central area according to our study that connects the problem with the solution. We placed MUSIC in the centre and by leading our students to the musical activities inside the school, we will engage them with schooling, increase their motivation and develop their basic skills. Our working methodology is stated on creating activities with real situations for students outside the classes by setting up three students clubs. We aim to connect students with music, English and technology by the help of these clubs and provide students extra activities. Three different subjects whose actors are teachers and students. We will set up clubs for these subjects (include 2 teachers and 30 students in each club) and clubs will produce materials, activities and real situations. Teachers will create clubs’ work programme and supervise the students. School administrative staff will support the teachers with all kind of activities. MUSIC: 1. hold courses for musical instruments (such as guitar, violin, flute, piano, percussion and more) 2. help some of the project partners setting up a school radio 3. create school songs 4. perform a song contest 5. help some schools creating a school choir 6. help some schools setting up school bands 7. organize concerts at the end of each meeting LANGUAGE: 1. prepare a theatre play in the target language (English) 2. perform the song contest in the target language 3. perform role play activities 4. listen to songs in English with their lyrics and memorize them 5. invite famous people to school 6. match students with their peers and provide communication tools (forums, social media) TECHNOLOGY 1. prepare a digital magazine which will include students' products 2. search for 3D materials for theoretical classes 3. organize software courses to develop ICT skills - to organize web-game competitions - to create a website of the project and run it - to create e-twinning accounts and run a partnership The project includes 4 short term exchange of students and there is 12 mobilities for students for each school. Project team will observe activities, products and performances so they will decide who will participate in these meetings. Participating in exchange meetings will be a kind of awards for students and selection criteria will be announced at the very beginning of the activities to be fair and transparent. PARTICIPANTS Students/teenagers: There will be teams of 90 students in each partner organisation so 450 in total will take part actively in project activities. Approximately 1000 students/teenagers will indirectly be affected. Teachers/Adults: There will be teams of 8 teachers in each partner organisation so 40 in total will be active in project activities. Approximately 100 teachers/adults will indirectly be affected. Administrative staff: The head teacher/chairman and a deputy head will take part in the project, Approximately 20 administrative staff will indirectly be affected. Families: The number of the family members will be 300 in total and they will contribute to introduce the host country’s culture, tradition and to prepare traditional food for international evening. Approximately 480 family members will indirectly be affected. Local community: Local community like local press, municipality, directorate of national education and PTA will help to disseminate the project to a wider community. Approximately 800 people from local community will indirectly be affected. RESULTS AND IMPACTS Through our project the five partners intend to create both short-term and long-term tangible and intangible results and to achieve the biggest possible impact as leading students to overcome lack of self-esteem, basic skills and provide holistic learning as an innovative practice. Project website will provide continuous access to the general information of the project activities and progress.
"Rhythm is Life, helps you survive" project helped us meet the European Commission's 2020 strategy in terms of improving the basic skills of the new generations for a better future for the European Union. It developed the fundamental skills necessary in social work, entrepreneurship, in a participatory spirit, in artistic, linguistic and digital skills. As a project team and coordinators of partner schools, we have worked to improve the lack of basic skills in foreign languages, music and ICT. During the project work we focused on practical training. Since music is a matter of great importance in the participating schools we put music at the center. By bringing our students into music within the schools, we have engaged them with education, we have increased their motivation and developed their basic skills. In this project the English and ICT clubs have supported our project work as students in developing the foreign language and digital skills, thus favoring their future employment. The working methodology was based on the conception and development of extracurricular activities by establishing 3 student circles. In these clubs, students studied music, English and technology. In each of these clubs the teachers worked with the students and produced real materials, activities and situations. The teachers developed the club work program and supervised the students. The school's administrative staff supported the teachers in all activities. Preparatory activities Meetings were held before all the mobilities to define the intent and purpose of the project, we carefully chose the participants, prepared the mobility agreements and with commitment to quality, we defined the various initial, intermediate and final activities. These meetings were held by the project coordinators and chaired by the school directors. Computer tools were used to improve and qualify the digital skills of the participants. (web platforms, insert images, documents, comments, online forms, ...). Communication between the project representative and the participants took place throughout the duration of the project, even in a mixed way. Language preparation took place via web applications. Furthermore, useful presentations were created for participants before, during and after each mobility. All the preparatory activities have been evaluated and monitored with online questionnaires before and after each mobility using paper forms and Google forms. We had 6 meetings with the following contents: 5/8 November 2017 HUNGARY During this opening meeting the koordinators met personally, the details of the project work were discussed and the preliminary organisations started. 26 FEBRUARY / 2 MARCH 2018 GREECE As for ICT we created the project website, organized web game competitions, started e-twinning accounts and managed a partnership. We chose the project Logo. 14/18 MAY, 2018 ITALY As for the main topic, that is MUSIC we have created school hymns; re-elaborated popular traditional songs; performed a singing competition, which was rather a folk songs show; visited higher-level musical institutes the Music High School in Sorrento and the Music Conservatory; organized concerts: one at the church in Massaquano and one at the end of the meeting in Moiano school. 12/16 NOVEMBER 2018 ITALY Regarding the topic ENGLISH LANGUAGE each partner have prepared a theatrical work in English; performed a singing competition in English; acted role plays, listened to songs in English, invited famous people to school 16/23 MARCH 2019 HUNGARY With regards to the main topic, that is MUSIC, we concluded the activities planned with the students: sang school hymns and project anthem in the languages of the partner countries, as planned; re-elaborated popular traditional songs; performed our songs; organized concert at the end of the meeting. 24/28 June 2019 TURKEY Closure meeting when we evaluated the results and the impact; and discussed the final report. Dissemination (within the school, on other schools, on the territory) has been carried out since the beginning of the project on different levels: We held meetings with families and some press agencies based on the presentation of the project; The project was presented to the teaching staff in the schools; For every mobility we met the local Mayor, deputy Mayor and councilor for education; Brochures, flyers and posters were created to publicize the meetings.