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Väätsa Rural Municipality

Country: Estonia

Väätsa Rural Municipality

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2015-1-EE01-KA201-013448
    Funder Contribution: 107,430 EUR

    In our digital era people must develop their knowledge and skills on using ICT and digitools in order to get better and innovative education and manage well on labour market. Therefore priorities as following were chosen: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work; Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills; Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods .These priorities at various levels were handled through 2 years at 3 project meetings in each country and through the activities carried out between the partner meetings. Priorities were connected with themselves and helped to get better education from playschool to adult level. Therefore people were more skilled and motivated to study and develop their knowledge. During the project seminars, conferences, trainings were carried out, presentations and pedagogical materials were created about using different ICT and web tools and enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching and training. It helped to develop basic and transversal skills. Administrative staff, teachers, trainers, students, youth leaders and local people including people at social risk were involved to these activities. The kit of pedagogical materials as one of the results was presented at the final meeting in Turkey.As there was a group of students in Väätsa Municipality who had founded Väätsa television, Väätsa radio and helped to publish Väätsa local newspaper, they were also involved to the project to get and give their knowledge and experiences to partners and students in partner country to talk about possibilities how, through which activities young people can spend their free time developing themselves. Students, teachers and administrative staff exchanging events took place. Those students were involved to activities to film and write articles about meetings, workshops and seminars and as lecturers to present their works carrying out workshops. The aim of the project was to strengthen collaboration of participating municipalities with schools, playschools, youth centres, local people, strengthen the profile of teaching, to handle better different situations in the classrooms using new methods with web and digitools, make studies more innovative for young people, lessen school failure. The quality of pre-school education in order to give better start for attending school was improved. Adults were involved to Lifelong Learning Programme in order to get job more easily, improve skills on ICT and technology as well as language skills, broaden mind in cultural diversities, to be more tolerant towards other religions and cultures. Topic was directly connected to Development Plan in Väätsa Rural Municipality that had taken a priority to specialize studies on using digi- and webtools in Järva County since childhood. For that since June 2014 over-Estonian seminars were organized in Väätsa for heads of schools, teachers and local authorities to introduce involvement of web tools into schoolwork, afterschool activities and training local people. Teachers in schools, playschools and youth centres started using more and more web tools in their teaching process, improved their digital skills and equipment. The project has longlasting impact for all participants: better results in studies, less school failure, more active young people in social life, therefore more possibilities to get job, more motivated, satisfied and self-confident people, better language skills and intercultural knowledge. For teachers more skills in using ICT in teaching process, more aware adults of other cultures and religions.

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