The following secondary schools from five different countries are part of our project partnership: IES Comarcal (Valencia, Spain), Istituto Statale di Instruzione Superiore F. Enriques (Castelfiorentino, Italy), Otto-Hahn Gymnasium Ostfildern (Germany), Ühisgümmnasium Lähte (Lähte, Estonia), Vammalan Lukio (Sastamala, Finland). In compliance with the UN's Global Goal "Sustainable cities and communities" the project "Young people and urban citizenship - Students managing photo and video projects on urban chances and challenges" focuses on building young people's urban citizenship by offering them opportunities to explore various fields of urban chances and challenges. Participants will carry out projects revolving around cultural, environmental, technological, economic and social aspects of the topic "Urban chances and challenges" as well as aspects of sustainability. The projects will result in photo documentaries and video clips, which will be displayed in virtual and real exhibitions. The project not only aims to provide knowledge on urban chances and challenges and to develop the participants' sense of urban citizenship, but by making students manage their projects autonomously we also intend to improve their project management skills and competences. Photo documentaries and video clips respectively a vlog being the final outcomes of our project work, we expect to improve the participants' digital skills. Online communication and collaboration, e.g. through Twinspace will contribute to achieving this aim. Last, but not least we want to improve the participants' intercultural competence and language skills by making them carry out the projects in teams composed of all participating nationalities. By boosting all the above-mentioned skills and competences, we hope to enhance the students' chances of EU-wide employment in the future. The project particularly targets students of upper grades, aged ~15-18, these students entering the world of work in the near future, and therefore benefiting most from the project activities envisaged in this project. In the course of the project, students will have the possibility of carrying out various projects in their home schools and during five transnational meetings, one at every school. Each meeting will be attended by a minimum of 6 students and 2 teachers from each country. Before each meeting participants will be required to do research on the set topic of the upcoming transnational meeting. During the meeting, participants will together embark on photo and video projects on a specific aspect of the topic "Urban chances and challenges". The project work in Germany will mainly be centred on cultural aspects of the topic, in Finland on technological aspects, in Estonia on economic and cultural aspects, in Italy the project work will concentrate on social aspects, more precisely on the question how to deal with mass tourism, and in Spain the project work will revolve around aspects of sustainability e.g. in relation to transport, food and tourism. Final project work products in form of photo documentaries and a vlog will be made available not only to participating schools and their school communities, but as well to a wider public. All products will be presented in virtual and / or real exhibitions after each transnational project meeting. On top, all project results will be uploaded to Twinspace. We furthermore will document our project activities during our transnational meetings in form of a brochure, which will as well be used as a means of dissemination. After our transnational meetings, participants will be required to carry out additional projects, integrating the knowledge they have gained during our encounters and applying the project management and digital tools and skills they have acquired. Participants will also be encouraged to communicate and collaborate online with students of our partner schools. Surveys at the beginning and at the end of our project as well as of each transnational project meeting and personal interviews will help to evaluate whether the project's objectives are met. If necessary, adjustments will be made. All participants will enormously benefit from our project. They will enlarge their knowledge of urban chances and challenges and hopefully become more engaged as urban citizens. We expect the project to boost their digital skills and to significantly develop their project management skills and increase their intercultural and linguistic skills. Last, but not least, the project will widen their horizons and they will experience the feeling of being a member of a wider European professional community. The concept of fostering general and particularly urban citizenship, of boosting project work and of promoting the development of digital skills will give our schools impulses for future developments. Being part of a wider international school community will enrich our schools' profiles significantly.
The following secondary schools from five different countries were part of our project partnership: IES Comarcal (Valencia, Spain), Istituto Statale di Instruzione Superiore F. Enriques (Castelfiorentino, Italy), Otto-Hahn Gymnasium Ostfildern (Germany), Ühisgümmnasium Lähte (Lähte, Estonia), Vammalan Lukio (Sastamala, Finland). In compliance with the UN's Global Goal "Sustainable cities and communities" the project "Young people and urban citizenship - Students managing photo and video projects on urban chances and challenges" focused on building young people's urban citizenship by offering them opportunities to explore various fields of urban chances and challenges. Participants carried out projects revolving around cultural, environmental, technological, economic and social aspects of the topic "Urban chances and challenges" as well as aspects of sustainability. Various types of output were created, e.g. photo documentaries and video clips, urban design concepts and models, which were displayed in real and virtual presentations and on Twinspace. The project not only aimed to provide knowledge on urban chances and challenges and to develop the participants' sense of urban citizenship, but by making students manage their projects autonomously we also intended to improve their project management skills and competences. Photo documentaries and video clips being part of the final output, the participants' digital skills have improved. Online communication and collaboration contributed to achieving this aim. Last, but not least we wanted to improve the participants' intercultural competence and language skills by making them carry out the projects in teams composed of all participating nationalities. By boosting all the above-mentioned skills and competences, we hope to have enhanced the students' chances of EU-wide employment in the future. The project particularly targeted students of upper grades, aged ~15-18, these students entering the world of work in the near future, and therefore benefiting most from the project activities envisaged in this project. In the course of the project, students had the possibility of carrying out various projects during five transnational meetings, one at every school. Each meeting was attended by a minimum of 4-6 students and 2 teachers from each country, except for the project meeting in Spain, which the German and the Finnish school weren't able to attend because of corona restrictions. Before each meeting participants were required to do research on the set topic of the upcoming transnational meeting and to present it in form of a photo documentary or short video clip at the beginning of each meeting. During the meeting, participants dealt with a specific aspect of the topic "Urban chances and challenges", preparing presentations, creating concepts and models, producing photo documentaries and short video clips and as well websites. The project work in Germany was mainly centred on cultural aspects of the topic, in Finland on technological and environmental aspects, in Estonia on economic aspects, in Italy the project work concentrated on social aspects, more precisely on the question of how tourism in towns and regions has changed in the wake of Covid-19, and in Spain the project work revolved around aspects of sustainability e.g. in relation to food. A "press group" was responsible for the documentation of the project work in form of photo documentaries and short videos. Furthermore, video conferences were carried out revolving around "Urban stories" and "Virtual city tours", and a 3-day virtual project meeting was held, which focused on the topic "How Covid-19 is changing our towns". Final project work products and the documentation of our project work were uploaded to Twinspace (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/92934/home) and are available to a wider public. Surveys at the beginning and at the end of our project as well as of each transnational project meeting and personal interviews helped to evaluate whether the project's objectives were met. If necessary, adjustments were made. All participants enormously benefitted from our project. They enlarged their knowledge of urban chances and challenges and have hopefully become more engaged as urban citizens. The project has significantly developed their project management skills and has boosted their digital skills and increased their intercultural and linguistic skills. Last, but not least, the project has widened their horizons and they experienced the feeling of being a member of a wider European community. The concept of fostering particularly urban citizenship, of boosting project work and of promoting the development of digital skills will give our schools impulses for future developments. Being part of a wider international school community will enrich our schools' profiles significantly.