The "Discovering Europe with English" project is aimed at students aged 13-15 from four partner schools in Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project's essence is based on the identified needs in each institution: developing transversal key competences of students, mainly strengthening language and cultural skills, building motivation for learning and student autonomy for learning through the use of modern methods and approaches innovative, activating and attractive digital technology tools. Project participants through the implementation of local and mobility tasks will build an environment conducive to learning English, communication and deepening their interests and knowledge in the field of learning culture, history, as well as ecology and environmental protection.They will carry out their tasks through local activities; work and meetings in the Twin Space on the e-twinning platform or participation in international mobility. The project is a response to the diagnosed needs of all participating institutions "such as improving communication in English, increasing cultural, digital and personal competence. Through implementation project tasks, young people will be open to the world, build the cultural awareness of diverse Europe, focus on raising awareness and reflection on global problems related to environmental activities and raising motivation to learn through meetings and communication from partner schools. The project "Discovering Europe with English will last two years,"The basis of the undertaking will be the implementation of the e-Twinning project under the same title "Discovering Europe with English" and work on the Twin-Space platform, which is why the start of the project includes training based on learning, developing the skills of using the e-Twiining platform, using tools, applications, and the use of a variety of digital methods and techniques to increase the attractiveness of teaching and communication between participants. the training will aim to significantly improve professional skills.The e-Twinning project will connect participants on a daily basis, fulfill and develop project tasks both in the areas of communication between partners and improving language competences, as well as in the area of deepening cultural and ecological knowledge. The use of attractive digital tools, forms of exhibitions of your works and achievements, opportunities for "live" meetings at Twin Space and being in your group during the implementation of local tasks will certainly be a great complement and development of mobility activities that are foreseen in the country of each partner. The project provides for 4 short mobility trips to individual partner countries - each country will prepare a 5-day cultural and educational program of stay in various, attractive and active forms: quizzes, field games, artistic workshops, trips - exploring the region and field activities, experiences and observations , using IT technology - creating films, presentations, tourist brochures. Four student mobility to schools are planned, in which 40 students and 8 teachers will participate each time. Mobility meetings will also focus on cultural, ecological and language development issues, group cooperation, tolerance. Cultural diversity of participants will permeate the entire project, all activities and will be an extraordinary added value to the implementation of project tasks. Cooperation, observation and reflection will also promote the exchange of experiences between students and teachers from different parts of Europe, which in turn will promote the consolidation of good practices and build awareness of the diversity of cultures, history and traditions, and shape attitudes of tolerance and openness.Communication between project participants will take place in English, as one of the aims of the project is to increase the language competence of participants. By creating an interesting learning environment - learning about the cultures and history of countries, customs and traditions, visiting interesting places during mobility stays as well as presentations and meetings on-line in the e-twinning project - participants will create a climate conducive to achieving the goals and achieving project results. They will not only raise their key competences, but also build the attitudes of people with high cultural awareness, openness to diversity, sensitivity to ecology and environmental protection - as one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Thanks to the project, we will promote the idea of mobility and international cooperation, achieving the European dimension of schools, a huge transfer of knowledge about the world and learning about great European culture, broadening horizons, motivation to learn and student autonomy and futeure development.
The "Discovering Europe with English" project is aimed at students aged 13-15 from four partner schools in Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The axis of the project was the following, resulting from the identified needs in each institution: developing cross-sectional key competences of students, mainly strengthening linguistic and cultural skills, building motivation to learn and students' autonomy to learn through the use of modern methods and approaches, innovative, activating and attractive digital technology tools. Through the implementation of local and mobility tasks, project participants built an environment conducive to learning English, communicating and deepening their interests and knowledge in the field of learning about culture, history, as well as ecology, environmental protection, shaping attitudes of tolerance and activities supporting the idea of peace and democracy in the world. We carried out our tasks through local activities - meetings on the e-twinning platform or participation in international mobilities. The project responded to the diagnosed needs of all participating institutions, such as improving communication in English, increasing cultural and digital competences and personal development. Through the implementation project tasks, young people opened up to the world, built cultural awareness of diverse Europe, raised awareness and reflection on global problems regarding ecological activities and increased motivation to learn. The project "Discovering Europe with English" lasted three years, we applied for its extension due to the pandemic. The basis of the project was the implementation of the e-Twinning project under the same title "Discovering Europe with English" and work on the Twin-Space platform, so at the beginning The project planned training based on learning, developing skills in using the e-Twiining platform, using tools, applications, and using various digital methods and techniques in order to increase the attractiveness of teaching and communication between participants The e-Twinning project excellently connected participants on a daily basis, completed and developed project tasks both in the areas of communication between partners and improving language skills, as well as in the area of deepening cultural and ecological knowledge. The use of attractive digital tools, forms of displaying one's work and achievements, the opportunity to meet "live" in Twin Space and stay with one another while carrying out local tasks was a good complement and development of these mobility activities. We made 4 short mobility trips to individual partner countries - each country prepared a 5-day cultural and educational program of stay in various, attractive and active forms: quizzes, field games, artistic workshops, trips - getting to know the historical and cultural places of the region and field activities, experiences and observations, use of IT technologies - creating films, presentations, tourist brochures. Mobility meetings focused on cultural and ecological issues, building tolerant, democratic and peaceful attitudes and developing language competences and group cooperation. The cultural diversity of the participants permeated all project activities and was an extraordinary added value to the implementation of project tasks. Cooperation in international groups, observation of activities and reflection promoted the exchange of experiences between students and teachers from different parts of Europe, consolidation of good practices and building awareness of the diversity of cultures, history and traditions and shaping the attitude of tolerance and openness. Communication between project participants will take place in English, because one of the goals of the project was to improve the language competences of the participants. By creating an interesting learning environment - learning about the cultures and histories of countries, customs and traditions, visiting interesting places during mobility stays, as well as presentations and meetings online in the e-twinning project - participants created an atmosphere conducive to achieving the goals and achieving the project results. They not only improved their key competencies but also built the attitudes of people with high cultural awareness, openness to diversity, sensitivity to ecology and environmental protection, as well as democratic and peaceful values - as one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Thanks to the project, the students visited and got to know 3 European countries, we popularized the idea of mobility and international cooperation, achieving the European dimension of schools. Our schools became modern, open to Europe and gained recognition in the local community, we gained great partners in Europe and strengthened the development directions for the future based on on cooperation and partnership