"The Primary school students become citizens of the globe" project gives students from four European countries: Poland, Hungary, Italy and Greece the chance to become world citizens consciously. Only people with 8 key competences meet the expectations of today's labour market. As an international group that speaks four languages, we focused on developing communication skills in English. We want to create a space where students start thinking in English and formulate their statements spontaneously and showing self-confidence. An important means of implementing an effective communication process will be the use of digital tools that, when used efficiently, guarantee fun and learning. Students will meet in a virtual space following the security rules. In addition, we want to promote environmental activities that will develop among young people responsibility for the future of our planet. By exchanging good practices, joint training and developing lesson plans, teachers will acquire knowledge and new skills that will strengthen their professional position. The goals of our project are: 1. learning how to work effectively in international groups and teams, 2. acquiring skills to operate new digital applications, 3. involvement of students in pro-ecological activities organized by schools, 4. improving the efficiency of communication in English by students and teachers, 5. learning and implementation of new teaching methods and techniques by the teachers from partner schools. The primary school students aged 12-15 will be the project participants. The group of 100 young people will be directly involved in the project activities. The project will affect the entire school community of four partner schools, which is about 2,100 students. They are young people living in small cities (Fano, Kilkis), towns (Fót) or in the countryside (Tylmanowa). Teens are interested in information technology and they are active in social media. There is a variety of intellectual abilities among the students. Some of them are talented and the other are people diagnosed with difficulties in acquiring knowledge or emotional and health problems. There are also students from diversified cultural backgrounds. Young people use their native language efficiently, but they have a psychological barrier in communicating in English. 30 teachers will be the other group involved in the project. They show extensive experience in working with young people, but many of them have a passive knowledge of English and insufficient experience in information technology. The project will last 21 months. As part of the project, 4 short-term trips for students and 2 short training programs for employees are planned. Each partner is responsible for developing and implementing the program for 4 or 5 months of the project duration. Activities between individual trips will be related to the topic of subsequent mobility: 1. first mobility: developing personal and social competence – Greece, 2. second mobility: developing cultural awareness and expression competence – Hungary, 3. third mobility: developing mathematical competence and competence in science – Poland, 4. fourth mobility: developing learning to learn competence – Italy. The current project will be registered on the eTwinning platform. At the TwinSpace, pupils and teachers of partner schools will improve their communication skills in English, disseminate project products and share good practices. Teamwork and using digital tools for the project activities will be particularly promoted. The results of the project will be: smoother communication in English, the implementation of known digital applications in the learning process, obtaining an ecological school certificate and strengthening the teacher's professional position by using modern teaching methods. Through our project activities, we want to encourage other non-governmental organizations working in the field of education to apply for Erasmus+ funding. We hope that the fruits of our work will be the sufficient proof of the sense of reaching for funds that will be used to equalize educational opportunities for children and young people from rural areas. In addition, our project products, including lesson plans placed on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, will be used by teachers across Europe to improve the quality of their work. Project results will be used in long-term practice by all the participating schools.They will become an example of good practice and innovative action for current and future beneficiaries of the Erasmus+ program. Strengthening students' key competences will be systematically implemented thanks to the new methods and forms.
The project " The primary school students become citizens of the globe" gave students from four European countries: Poland, Hungary, Italy and Greece a chance to become the citizens of the world. As an international group that speaks four languages, we focused on developing the ability to communicate in English. We wanted to create a space where students would start to think in English and formulate their statements spontaneously and easily. An important means of implementing an effective communication process was the use of digital tools, which, when used efficiently, guaranteed fun and learning. Students met in virtual space. The interest in chats was huge. In addition, we promoted pro-environmental activities that developed responsibility for the future of our planet among young people. Through the exchange of good practices, 2 workshops and the creating a set of lesson plans, teachers gained knowledge and new skills that strengthened their professional position. The goals of our project were: 1, learning to work effectively in groups and international teams, 2. developing the ability to use new digital applications 3. involvement of students in pro-ecological activities conducted by schools 4. improving the effectiveness of communication in English by students and teachers 5. learning and implementing new teaching methods and techniques by teachers from partner schools. The project participants were primary school students aged 10-15. The group directly involved in the project activities consisted of 240 young people. However, the project affected the entire school community of four partner schools, i.e. about 1,300 students. They were young people living in small towns (Fano, Kilkis, Fót) or in the countryside (Tylmanowa). We invited people with various intellectual potential to participate in the project. Some of them were gifted students, the other part included people diagnosed with learning difficulties, emotional and health problems. The young people spoke their native language fluently, but they had a mental barrier in communicating in English. Another group involved in the activities of the project was a group of 40 teachers. They were involved in the tasks of the project deeply and made significant progress in changing their passive knowledge of English to active languag. They also increased their experience in information technology. The project lasted 32 months, instead of 21 months. This was influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the project, 4 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and 2 short-term joint staff training events were carried out. Each partner was responsible for organizing at least one mobility. Activities between the exchanges were related to the subject of the next mobility. The project has been registered on the Etwinning platform. At TwinSpace, students and teachers of partner schools improved their communication skills in English, disseminated project products and shared good practices. Teamwork methods and activities with the use of new digital tools were present. The results of the project turned out to be smoother communication in English, the implementation of the learned applications in the learning process, obtaining a certificate of an ecological school and strengthening the teacher's professional position through the use of modern teaching methods. Through our activities, we tried to encourage other non-governmental organizations and local governments to become interested in the Erasmus+ program. We hope that the products of our project, including lesson plans placed on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, will be used by teachers all over Europe to improve the quality of their work.