What we wanted to achieve for our students: - students that stand strong in 21st century skills; - international learning activities that enable our students to improve their knowledge of foreign languages, to collaborate with other foreign students, to get in contact with foreign experts and to learn from foreign experiences; - students with a positive attitude towards other languages and cultures; - active students who are motivated to take their learning process into their own hands; - to make an important contribution for the reinforcement of the opportunities of young people in the neighborhood of the school What we wanted to achieve for our teachers: - a professional and innovating team of teachers that stand strong in the exchange of good lesson practices, also with foreign partners; - to keep the job as a teacher motivating and manageable through exchange and collaboration What we wanted to achieve for our school: - Through a thorough project-based approach, we want to ensure that the knowledge and good practices acquired in this project are systematically disseminated in the entire school. This project-based approach will be evaluated and adopted in future projects.
Being a traditional Jesuit college with a reputation of offering its students secondary education of high standards, Xaveriuscollege saw itself confronted with a number of challenges to prepare its students also in the 21st century for higher education. In a context of stronger diversity as far as cultural and social economic backgrounds are concerned, we felt the need for our students to invest in a more innovative pedagogy, to reinforce the digital skills of teachers and students and to create opportunities for students to confront their own cultural and social economic background with other European contexts (internationalization). An Erasmus project seemed us the ideal opportunity to invest both in such a wider European context with many opportunities for international encounters as in the exploration of innovative learning strategies and digitization.