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Istituto Comprensivo Francesco Minà Palumbo

Country: Italy

Istituto Comprensivo Francesco Minà Palumbo

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2020-1-IT02-KA229-078969
    Funder Contribution: 164,110 EUR

    A more different multicultural environment and changes in societies, are the factors which effect today's education system. Schools have to adapt with these changes and develop a social environment that promotes citizenship and European values, respect for ethnic and cultural diversity and promote each child's initiative and ensure his/her prosperity. Today's teacher must not only develop their professional skills and knowledge, but also foster values such as care and commitment, creativity, open-mindedness and positive thinking.Our project 'MESI' deals with some of the most important social issues of our time. Although they are well-known topics for the teachers, future generations will constantly need to develop their own awareness on social issues. Through the framework of an international project, the students and teachers involved can discover how social issues are global challenges of our time, and how solutions both can and must be found jointly with other countries. brings together six European countries with different experiences in order to consolidate their knowledge, teaching methods, possibilities and desire to find the best means to educate young people in a multicultural society to have civic responsible, to be creative and active. During the two year project, pupils will perform different project tasks and participate in interactive activities. They will improve English language skills and get acquainted with the native languages of partner schools, as each school introduces their mother tongue. The project group is composed of different types of schools from six countries ( Italy, Spain, Portugal,Slovakia,Croatia and Turkey). Some of the schools work in integration, which will reflected in the composition of the group involved in the project, are more academically orientated. The age group targeted are students between 13-15 years old; the project group will be put together with students of these ages. The student body will be socially mixed, and the project will also involve students from both urban and rural schools. Of course social inclusion is incorporated in composing the project group.The six schools have very different levels of experience with international projects. Some schools already have experience of both Comenius and Erasmus projects, whereas others are getting their first experience through this project. Viewed as an overall group, the different experiences of the different schools complement each other well In the course of the two-year project, the pupils will take part in numerous age-appropriate activities. Central to the project is the formation of aTeam in each school, and working on differing themes developed in the project. Further important parts of the project are creative work around the project theme. To achieve this, photo albums and videos will be created, slogans and songs will be composed, and much more.In two years we have planned to create a DVD to collect all the songs,video-clips and presentations produced during the project; an e-book which will be illustrated with photos and tell about the most significant and interesting moments in the LTTA of each country; a calendar where readers will find the highylights of the social issues carried out at schools; a series of video clips and presentations which will tell about the most important activities of LTTA's. All the project outcomes will be available on the project website and twin space.In this way, the pupils will learn about the use of ICT and social media in real-life situations. Furthermore, the international nature of the project will make it possible for students to enhance their language skills, while at the same time acquiring respect and responsibility for cultural heritage in the different countries, experiencing differences in culture, acquiring respect for different habits and mannerism, and learning to accept all differences.Above all, the project aims to institute numerous changes to the participating schools through working together. The Teams should become an integral part of the schools' lives, as should the annual celebration of International Days about the topics of the project.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2015-1-LT01-KA219-013406
    Funder Contribution: 107,555 EUR

    "The project Creative European School : C.L.I.C.K. was initiated by six schools from Lithuania, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain in response to the most common problems identified in all partner schools : the decrease of students motivation in studying and a lack of attractive innovative and already tested methods/strategies in teaching, the increase of violence and aggressiveness in school and society, reluctance of students to participate in school and community life, loss of creativity and issues associated with major changes at schools due to the society becoming more and more multicultural. These issues have had an international dimension so the project partners consolidated their knowledge, experience, abilities and desire to find the best means to educate young people in a multicultural society by provoking their curiosity, fostering their initiative, creativity, respect and tolerance. The project addressed the most vulnerable group of children - teenagers, aged 12-16, teachers of different subjects, parents, school managements and other school staffs such as social pedagogues, psychologists as well as university lecturers and colleagues from other educational institutions. The project title Creative European School shows that the participants were involved in creative ways of teaching/learning ; the word CLICK is an acronym of the English words: Computer science, Languages, Inter-culture, Citizenship and Knowledge therefore the project activities indicates the ways used to achieve the main project aims: to promote cooperation among 6 partner schools to increase students' motivation to learn and get knowledge by learning in one of the partner countries and from one another; to encourage awareness of the importance of European dimension through cultural, linguistic and social events for better understanding of own and others identity in European context through history, culture, traditions as well as to promote citizenship and civic responsibility in all six partner schools in order to educate the students as European citizens, actively involved in future society. The project participants developed digital competence, communication in mother tongue and foreign languages, learning to learn, increased cultural awareness. Going abroad and observing the work of the colleagues in their own environment, the teachers developed not only professionally but also as personalities. During the two project years a set of cards Lotto Game named “Who Are We?”, a book about most famous festivals in six countries, illustrated by pupils' drawings ""The Clicks Family in Town"", a magazine “Help with the Clicks”(reflecting pupils' active commitment to communities during charity campaigns), a series of short films about the most successful school events A Glimpse of Click' s Schools, a project website C.L.I.C.K. and The Click tree ( a project visit card and a source of information about the project activities) were created. We used e Twinning website, Facebook, Skype for our collaborative work , exchanging ideas, learning from one another and gaming.All the results were created by international teams, they contain pupils' and teachers observations,their points of view, samples of creativity and are suitable for usage in basic schools,for both teachers and pupils.The creative international team of teachers together with school psychologists, social pedagogues, parents, university lecturers, pupils and school management worked together and selected their experience gained for a toolkit Basic European Curriculum for a successful school. This e- book reflects efficient and prolific project work, contains useful information and examples of innovative teaching methods, samples of creativity and collaborative work, the glimpses of the school European students would like to study at, samples of cooperation between schools and parents, educational institutions, local authorities in educating an open-minded, creative, responsible and inquiring generation. The material proposed is worth to be shared among educational institutions in Europe and enriched by new ideas in the future project work.Some of the project outcomes and outputs are available on the project website C.L.I.C.K., projects result page,at schools and on school websites."

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2018-1-NL01-KA229-038949
    Funder Contribution: 151,279 EUR

    The project 'CLEAN' has dealt with one of the central topics of our time: environmental issues. Although it's a well-known topic for the teachers, future generations will constantly need to develop their own environmental awareness. Through the framework of an international project, the students and teachers involved discovered how the environment is (next to the Sars-cov-2 / Covid 19 pandemic) the biggest global challenge of our time, and how solutions both can and must be found jointly with other countries. Furthermore, they became aware of the fact that whilst sustainable living is a global effort, efforts must also be made locally. Environmental education, concrete sustainable action, and environmental awareness were therefore the primary concerns of the project. The project group was composed of different types of schools from six countries (the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Germany). Some of the schools work in integration, which reflected in the composition of the group involved in the project, with some having a vocational focus while others were more academically orientated. The age group targeted were students between 14-15 years old; the project group was put together with students of these ages. The student body was socially mixed, and the project also involved students from both urban and rural schools. Of course social inclusion was incorporated in composing the project group. The six schools had very different levels of experience with international projects. Some schools were already experienced in both Comenius and Erasmus projects, whereas others were getting their first experience through this project. Viewed as an overall group, the different experiences of the different schools complemented each other well. In the course of the two-year (because of the pandemic three-year) project, the pupils participated in numerous age-appropriate activities. Central to the project was the formation of an 'Eco Green Team' in each school and working on differing themes such as recycling, upcycling, and the use of natural resources. Further important parts of the project were making nature in need of conservation accessible, and creative work around the project theme. To achieve this, photo albums and videos were created, objects were made using recyclable materials, a song was composed and much more. In this way, the pupils learned how to properly use ICT and social media in real-life situations. Furthermore, the international nature of the project made it possible for students to enhance their language skills. At the same time they acquired respect and responsibility for cultural heritage in the different countries, experienced differences in culture, acquired respect for different habits and mannerism and learned to accept all differences. Above all, the project aimed to institute numerous changes to the participating schools through working together. The 'Eco Green Teams' During the project the student’s workgroups met among others with city or town councils. They had the opportunity to share thoughts about e.g. creating a more sustainable environment and dealing with waste with people whose profession it was to seek for solutions in this matter. Next to that the ECO teams worked in the schools to realize and start changing things. In one school they became a structural participant in the taskforce group that was working on a more environmental friendly school building. For instance, because of this participation normal light sources will be replaced by LED sources. Because of the participation in this project being aware of dealing with waste was aroused and became an integral part of the schools' lives. These results proof that each school individually is working on taking their environmental education further.

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