The idea of our project comes from the necessity of offering our students curricular activities complemented by extracurricular activities, with a special emphasis on developing their various skills, on also giving chances to 'underprivileged' students and diminishing exclusion, drop-out rates and a lack of school appetite and on giving them the chance to discover and unfold their diverse intercultural skills. Students of each school will set up clubs (ISC = International Student Club) at their school. These will be included in a “Europe Center” at school, which coordinates resources, meetings and topics. This center will reach out to the other European schools, creating a European network and international clubs, working on the same project / topic. These will concentrate on topics relevant for Europe and the future. The clubs created depend on the interests of students and teachers in each school and can vary from year to year. They may include a choice of the following: 1. Media /Journalism Club 2. International Job Market Club 3. Marketing Club (International Marketing) 4. Entrepreneurial Club 5. Financial Investment Club 6. Theatre Club 7. Debating Club 8. Travel Club 9. Health / Fitness Club 10. Eco Club Considering the variety of issues that can be addressed in the clubs and the flexibility of our project, we are convinced that many students and teachers will find attractive topics to join clubs. Moreover, each center will be able to expand in time, as a result of dissemination activities, the possible impact on the centers by the products of the project and the creation of new ideas, both during the project period and beyond. The clubs encourage students to gain knowledge and understanding, to compare and evaluate different countries, to grow awareness and to develop social, economic, professional and linguistic skills and entrepreneurial thinking and acting. They will work together via different communication ways like the project homepage, an internet forum of the project, video conferences, eTwinning etc. The results of the club projects will be finished at international partnership meetings. Learning/teaching/training activities, will be presented, evaluated (analysis SWOT with questionnaires) and will be published. The planned activities will bring about a broadening of options in job orientation and more flexibility on the job matket and the students' private life. Our project will have the chance to be permanently disseminated because, after the end of the project, the Europe Centers will remain an important component of each school and will be able to develop other types of European cooperation. The results of the individual clubs will be documented as project results of their own right and will be published as an inspiration for such projects for other schools. The project also emphasizes how schools can install certain clubs in the lessons of various subjects. The structure of international cooperation that will be built up and tried out in the project will be documented extensively and will be offered to the schools in Europe as a readily usable structure.
The idea of our project came from the necessity of offering our students curricular activities complemented by extracurricular activities, with a special emphasis on developing their various skills, on also giving chances to 'underprivileged' students and diminishing exclusion, drop-out rates and school fastigue and on giving them the chance to discover and unfold their diverse intercultural skills. Students of each school set up clubs (ISC = International Student Club) at their school. These were included in a “Europe Center” at school, which coordinates resources, meetings and topics. This center started to reach other European schools, creating a European network and international clubs, working on the same project / topic. These concentrated on topics relevant for Europe and the future. The following clubs were created dependend on the interests of students and teachers in each school: 1. Media /Journalism Club 2. International Job Market Club 3. Company start-up Club 4. Debating Club 5. Travel Club 6. Eco Club Considering the variety of issues that were addressed in the clubs and the flexibility of our project, we achieved that many students and teachers found the topics attractive and joinend the clubs. Moreover, each center was able to develop in time, as a result of dissemination activities, the possible impact on the centers by the products of the project and the creation of new ideas, both during the project period and beyond. The clubs encouraged students to gain knowledge and to understand , compare and evaluate different attitudes and habits of the countries, to grow awareness and to develop social, economic, professional and linguistic skills and entrepreneurial thinking and acting. They worked together via different communication tools like the project homepage, in the internet forum of the project, video conferences, eTwinning etc. The results of the club projects were finished at international partnership meetings. Learning/teaching/training activities, were presented, evaluated (analysis SWOT with questionnaires) and published ( e.c. www.sifec.eu). The activities created a broadening of options in job orientation, more flexibility on the job market and the students' private life. Our project has the chance to be permanently disseminated because, after the end of the project, the Europe Centers remains an important component of each school and is able to develop other types of European cooperation. The results of the individual clubs were documented as project results and were published as an inspiration for similar projects for other schools. The project also emphasized how schools could install certain clubs in the lessons of various subjects. The structure of international cooperation that was built up and tried out in the project was documented extensively and was offered to the schools in Europe as a readily usable structure.