The project aimed to address the areas of improvement that had been overshadowing our school for many years, making it difficult for students to succeed in school and for teachers to carry out their daily work in the classroom. It is important to note that the institution is very 'bipolar', with the threat of talented children from good socio-cultural backgrounds leaving after sixth grade, and the drain on the school system of church-run urban schools, and the subsequent drop-out of children with lower abilities, learning difficulties, poor or minority backgrounds. Our aim was to develop a toolbox of solutions for teachers to address the learning-retention-motivation problems of these children. This also implies a deeper understanding of digital methodology and international good practices. Since this level of pedagogical work cannot be achieved without enthusiastic, motivated teachers, and since we have a large number of tired, burnt-out teachers in our teaching staff, we felt it was important to look for solutions that would also help with this problem. It was a logical conclusion to focus our attention on the famous Finnish school model, because we hoped to get the most 'good practice' from there, and to inspire confidence in our institution among parents by publishing the results of the project.
We wanted to gain international experience that would contribute new ideas and raise the quality of the educational work in our school and enrich the methodological tools of our daily pedagogical work. Covering the learning needs of the children attending our schools, and developing equal treatment at school level, are prerequisites for achieving the objectives set out in our European Development Plan, but teacher renewal and a paradigm shift in methodological approach are only attractive to teachers who are not overworked and burnt out. This is why we chose this complex project, which is based on three mobility triple legs, to bring home to our colleagues knowledge that is relevant to the needs of the sending institution and that they can use.As we are all three language teachers, we all saw the project as an opportunity to develop our foreign language and IT competences. In addition to supporting learning, helping those with learning difficulties, preventing teacher burnout and our professional development, the project would also provide us with an opportunity to develop our international networking capital.