The project "The Identity of the Region – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" involves two-year cooperation between six partner schools in an English language (Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Italy) coordinated by the Polish school. The idea motivating all the schools is their development in European dimension, where a special pressure is put to the equality of educational opportunities, promotion of high level education, personal development and the values of identity and tolerance towards other cultures. Thus the main goal of the undertaking is to support the youth in acquiring and mastering basic skills and key competences, particularly the ability to freely communicate in English and digital competences by exchanging good practice. Moreover, deepening the knowledge of traditions, history, culture of all partner schools on the basis of regional heritage as a source of inspiration for creating various materials will stimulate intergenerational dialogue, will support the social, educational and personal development of beneficiaries of the project. All the school societies will be involved in project activities, including students aged 15-19. Teachers are the active side, who will enrich the project with their experience in international cooperation, pedagogical and personal competences. There have been planned plenty of activities based on the interaction between partners. The schools will cooperate in accomplishing the tasks planned and exchange experience required at every stage of the project. Each school will be responsible for the set task. They have been planned so as to make use of the potential of each institution. During two years there will be six five-day mobilities for students and teachers in each partner country, in which about fifty people from each school will take part. Additionally, two three-day training meetings for teachers will take place, in Poland and Italy. During the student and teacher mobilities, and between them, students and teachers will be deriving from partner experience and expertise, exchanging opinions about the tasks being accomplished and making use of their potential with the aim of developing abilities and expanding their knowledge. The coordinator of the project will be responsible for the relevant performance of the project, being in touch with all project teams appointed in the schools. Means of regular communication have been planned, ways of preventing risk have been defined, appropriate support and preparation before departures, the methods of accomplishing respective tasks have been planned, with the wide use of eTwinning platform. The constant evaluation is to enable to assess to what extent planned goals will have been achieved. Promotion and dissemination measures will be aimed at a wide group of recipients: in the school and local environments, through media, social networking sites, the Internet, conferences, assemblies and on Erasmus+ Project Results platform. There are certain results expected: increase in student language competences, more extensive use of ICT tools in the process of teaching and learning, including eTwinning platform, expanding the teacher expertise with new teaching methods and techniques by participating in workshops and exchanging good practice, developing cooperation with cultural institutions, building up the openness and tolerance towards other cultures. The cooperation with the European schools will influence the school staff, students and residents in a positive way, will make them more open to alterity, will enhance understanding and tolerance. Implemented materials will enrich the resources of school libraries and will compose appealing documents for using in classes or other extracurricular activities. Products as brochures, city adverts will be forwarded to local tourist information centres for the benefit of local communities and promoting the regions in the future. The teachers will be good role models motivating students to act and achieve determined goals in their own development. Moreover, developing teachers' competences in a didactic area will expand educational opportunities of subsequent generations of students. The achieved results will be extensively used during eTwinning project, which is planned just after completing the project actions. The main outcome of the project will be an online magazine accompanied by paper and digital materials, which enrich popular science and didactic resources for teaching and learning foreign languages in all the schools. There will be information about the countries, cities and schools, from which the participants come, guidebooks about local monuments and gardens of remembrance, information about customs, rites, folk costumes, handicraft, dying occupations in the regions, profiles of famous celebrities, attractions of the regions, portfolios of future occupations.
The project "The Identity of the Region – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" involved 2-year cooperation between 6 countries in English (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Italy and Poland) coordinated by the Polish school. The idea motivating all the schools was their development in European dimension, where a special pressure was put to the equality of educational opportunities, promotion of high level education, personal development and the value of identity and tolerance towards other cultures. Thus the main goal of the undertaking was to support the youth in acquiring and mastering basic skills and key competences, particularly the ability to freely communicate in English and digital competences by exchanging good practices. Moreover, deepening the knowledge about traditions, history, culture of all partner countries on the basis of their regional heritage as a source of inspiration to create various materials would stimulate intergenerational dialogue and the social,educational and personal development of beneficiaries of the project. All the school groups were involved in the project activities, including students aged 15-19.There had been planned plenty of activities based on the interaction between partners. The schools cooperated in accomplishing the tasks and exchanged their experiences required at every stage of the project. Each school was responsible for a given task. They were planned so as to make the best use of each school's potential. In 2 years 5 five-day mobilities took place for students and teachers. Additionally 2 three-day workshops for teachers took place, in Poland and in Slovenia. During these mobilities and between them teachers and students derived from each other's experience, exchanged their opinions and impressions about the tasks being accomplished and made the best use of their potential so as to develop and expand their knowledge. The coordinator of the project was responsible for the relevant performance of the project, being in touch with all project teams appointed in schools. Means of regular communication were arranged, the ways of preventing risk were defined, appriopriate support and preparation before departures, the methods of accomplishing respective tasks were planned with the use of eTwinning platform. The constant evaluation enabled to assess to what extent planned goals had been achieved. Promotion and dessemination measures were aimed at a wide group of recipients: in the school and local environments, through the media, social networking sites, the Internet, conferences, assemblies and on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. The main goals achieved are: increase in students' linguistic competences, more extensive use of ICT tools in the process of teaching and learning including eTwinning platform, expanding the teachers' expertise with new teaching methods and techniques by participating in workshops and the exchange of good practices (open lessons, ebook with teaching methods), developing cooperation with cultural institutions (museums), building up the openness and tolerance towards other cultures. The cooperation with the European schools influenced the school staff, students and locals in a positive way, enhanced understanding and tolerance. Implemented materials enriched the resources of school libraries comprising appealing documents for using in the classes and other extracurricular activities. Products such as brochures, city adverts were forwarded to local tourist information centres for the benefit of local communities and promoting the regions in the future. The teachers show good role models motivating their students to act and achieve determined goals in their own development. Moreover, developing teachers' competences in a didactic area will expand educational opportunities of the next generations of students. The achieved results will be widely used when doing eTwinning project planned after finishing project activities. The main product of the project is the online magazine and accompanying by paper and digital materials, which expand the popular science and didactic resources for teaching foreign languages in achools. There is information about the countries, cities and schools, which the partners come from, guidebooks about local monuments and gardens of remembrance, information about customs, rites, folk costumes, handicraft, dying occupations in the regions, profiles of famous people, attractions of the regions, portfolios of future occupations.