The project's title is "Sociable robots". It is intended to acquire the digital and linguistic competence, both theoretical knowledge and practical competence for future life while participating actively in formal and non-formal educational activities organised in cooperation with partner organisations from Poland, Portugal, Latvia, Romania and Spain. The project includes students aged 12-15, teachers, parents and local community and students with special needs (115 students and 50 teachers as direct beneficiares and 1500 students with their parents, 120 teachers and other people from the local community as indirect beneficiaries). The main project objectives are: creation of practical contexts that develop digital and linguistic competences, awareness of threats when using the Internet, the participants' personal and professional development through preparing multimedia presentations, films, programming games and robots, virtual communication through E-Twinning transmissions, promotion of inter-cultural exchange and dialogue and the development of interpersonal skills through presenting the work done in front of the wide public in mother tongue and in English language, taking part in the workshops and in non –formal activities, exploring and comparing the schools and curriculum highlighting similarities and differences, discovering different extracurricular activities and transfering the most interesting and practical into their schools, increasing cooperation between institutions on a local and European level through the exchange of good practices, facing young people with social inclusion and well being through exploring and practising cultural similarities and differences in the way of behaviour in certain situations: at the airport, living at host families, taking part in workshops and debate, organising events etc. Through workshops and communication with other teachers, revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching process share practices and teaching strategies to learn from one another and in discovering similarities teachers` personality will be strengthened. These will be achieved through transcurricular activities that are suitable for making different fields of education meet. Participants will develope linguistic skills when preparing materials, performing the work done, taking part in workshops, working in teams, communicating with other participants and host families. These will be done within short term exchanges of groups of students, travelling with staff and accompanying adults, lasting for seven days as well as activities and tasks to do in each partner school. The main objective of the project is to transfer knowledge from theoretical to practical level and European level to local and community level through linking each mobility with the inter-mobility period in which students will apply the knowledge in a practical manner. This will be accomplished with meetings, cultural events, presentations. In order to assure proper project implementation, budget control monitoring and evaluation will be done. Questionnaires will verify the impact of the activities on the attitude and knowledge of students, parents and teachers throughout the project. The outputs of the project will result from activities implementation. The tangible results will be: project website, project logo, Erasmus+corner, multimedia cultural presentations, multimedia reports and exhibitions of mobilities, articles to media, games, robots' performance, the event "Day of the safety in the Internet" the useful vocabulary for programming and issues related to cyber violence and protection. Intangible results will be: the increased participants' competence of non-formal education, improvement of cultural and cyber threats awareness and interpersonal skills, better language and digital skills, professional and private cooperation between institutions and people. When showing presentations in front of the wide audience, providing workshops, taking part in debate, students and teachers will develop their confidence and self - value. The experience gained by students and teachers (direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project) will boost their academic and personal development and their success in the future in the field of ICT and languages. This project will have consequences after the end of the EU funding. Students and teachers, based on project resources, will disseminate their knowledge and experience. All resources will be free to access and their dissemination will ensure project sustainability. The results can be used by languages, geography, history, ICT and young education teachers to make teaching process more interesting and easier. Activities undertaken within the two -year project will show that all students, parents and teachers are together regardless of nationality, language, appearance, gender or religion. It will make students' aware about their successful future.
"Sociable robots" is a project financed and following the guidelines provided by the Erasmus+ program in which five different countries participate. The overall project is coordinated by a single country, Poland and the participating center is Szkoła Podstawowa im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Lubiczu Górnym. The other participating centers are: Romania - Scoala Gimnaziala Sfanta Treime, Portugal - Agrupamento de Escolas Sá de Miranda, Latvia- Ventspils 1.pamatskola and Spain - IES Sierra de Guadarrama de Soto del Real (Madrid). All the schools had worked together before. We planned 5 visits and all of them despite the Covid19 outbreak and Russian invasion in Ukraine were held. During each visit pupils discovered hosting country and region, the school, its character and historical, cultural and scientific value. They also learnt basic language phrases of the hosting country. We visited places connected to the character of the project. Pupils took part in workshops, attended their peers’ lessons, joined them for lunch and ( only during 3 visits because of the pandemic) stayed with host families. Teachers and students worked on their key competences and objectives such as : improving digital and linguistic competencies through the preparation of results: multimedia presentations, films, photos, programming educational games and robots in practical contexts, creating a project logo, preparing and uploading materials on project and school websites in mother and English language. Promoting inter-cultural exchange and the development of interpersonal skills by preparing and presenting the results: multimedia presentations of the mobilities and cultural presentations of the partner countries to the wide public in mother tongue and English, taking part in workshops, presenting games, and building robots, sharing gained knowledge with younger students, preparing the robot performance and in informal activities discovering different extracurricular activities and transferring the most interesting and practical aspects into schools. The results of these actions were various. We held the event “A Day of the safe Internet” and a debate in all partner schools. We increased cooperation between institutions on a local and European level through the exchange of good practices with the result of sharing project ideas and products during the meetings with the representatives of local and regional schools, and through the Erasmus+ platform. We faced young people with social inclusion and well-being through exploring and practicing cultural similarities and differences in the way of behaviour in certain situations: at the airport, on trips, at host school and families - taking part in mobilities and presenting multimedia presentations, strengthening the professional profile of the teaching process by sharing practice and teaching strategies to learn from one another and by discovering similarities. We learnt how to prevent threats resulting from using the Internet through taking part in lessons and informal activities, the products are scenarios of lessons, films, multimedia presentations, interviews with students and teachers, debate, common poster as a report of the event “A Day of the safe Internet”. All these objectives are closely linked to the school curriculum and selected priorities. Students and teachers working in this project improved digital and linguistic competencies through the innovative way of teaching and learning - workshops, teamwork, informal activities, they are proud of their countries, presenting cultural heritage during the mobilities and showing a cultural presentation. Teachers shared experience, discussed similarities and differences in educational systems and curricula, but also kept track of project implementation, planned the visits and other actions, discussed budget and travel management and assisted and helped one another.It was intended to acquire the digital and linguistic competence, both theoretical knowledge and practical competence for future life while participating actively in formal and non-formal educational activities organised in cooperation with partner organisations from Poland, Portugal, Latvia, Romania and Spain. The project included students aged 12-15, teachers, parents and local community and students with special needs (115 students and 50 teachers as direct beneficiaries and 1500 students with their parents, 120 teachers and other people from the local community as indirect beneficiaries. The objectives were achieved through trans curricular activities that were suitable for making different fields of education meet. Participants developed linguistic skills when preparing materials, performing the work done, taking part in workshops, working in teams, communicating with other participants and host families.