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Gimnazjum im. Marii Konopnickiej w Szydlowie

Country: Poland

Gimnazjum im. Marii Konopnickiej w Szydlowie

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2015-1-CZ01-KA219-013929
    Funder Contribution: 123,460 EUR

    The name of the project is Environment surrounding us as a challenge and responsibility. It is made as a project for the European ERASMUS+ project, Key Action 2, Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only.The main objectives of the project were to raise interest in the natural environment and the necessity of its protection; encourage pupils not only to learn foreign languages, but to use them actively in their everyday life; find out about cultural, social, historical and geographical differences between nations living in the Europe and to respect these differences; discover more about the European Union policy; help pupils with learning using modern teaching approaches (CLIL, modern technologies); develop transferable skills (communication, creativity, decision making, organization, planning, problem solving, team work) and build up better cooperation between schools, public and participating educational institutions.The coordinator of the project is the Czech Republic. Partners’ countries are Croatia, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Spain and Turkey. All the institutions are state schools providing general education for the pupils 6-15 years old.During the project we carried out three main types of activities: project activities at our schools, realized international mobility to partners’ countries and organized project meetings for the coordinators to discuss issues of the project (management, implementation, evaluation and dissemination).The aim of all activities was to fulfil the main objectives of the project. We dealt with flora and fauna (learnt about endangered plants and animals and the reasons / ways of their protection); we discovered the characteristics of the natural environment through its elements: water, air and soil; we talked about recycling (how to recycle and why to recycle); we learnt about geography and history of our partners’ countries through CLIL lessons; we discussed cultural and social differences by doing projects about customs, typical food and holidays.The international mobility helped us to enforce the experience and knowledge gained in the online activities. Furthermore, we met our partners, did activities together by developing transferable skills such as problem solving, planning teamwork, practised English in real, everyday situations, and got know about the way of life in different countries. To produce activities outputs we used various digital tools to create a project website, reports, online brochures, dictionary, gallery of photos, etc. The project had an overall impact on pupils, teachers, participating schools, parents and general public. However, we expect that knowledge and experienced gained in the project will endure even after the project ends.For pupils it was a unique possibility to learn about the environment and its protection, to increase and apply their gained knowledge about historical and geographical facts of partners’ countries, raise their awareness, understanding, tolerance and respect of cultural and social differences between nations, enlarge their foreign language competences and motivation in language learning, build up higher level skills (such as, problem-solving, decision-making, cooperation, interpretation, organizational, presentational, literacy skills).For teachers it was a great chance to cooperate with the teachers from the other countries, to improve their pedagogical skills by exchanging and sharing teaching methods, good practices and ideas that will enrich their pedagogical job, and to make contacts for further cooperation.For participating schools it was an important experience to develop links with other European schools, to get known about different educational systems and approaches.For parents and general public it was a great opportunity to find out more about European Union, European projects, to gain new experience by hosting international pupils and to find out more about various cultures in Europe.

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