Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

Freedom to Learn on the Road - Learning Ourselves while Exploring the World

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-2-HU01-KA205-079001
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 139,228 EUR

Freedom to Learn on the Road - Learning Ourselves while Exploring the World

Description

"We are in constant movement. So is the world, and indeed, so is our knowledge about ourselves and the world. This is why we think it is crucial to prepare the new generation for a life where travelling is not only a means of transportation, but a way of being, a way of learning. To prepare them for a life where it is acknowledged that being on the road (taken this expression from Jack Kerouac) does not only lead to new places in the world, but it also leads to new places in ourselves. Where being open to otherness comes naturally, regardless if we find the otherness in cultures, worldviews, habits, rituals, genders, religions, or in ourselves. Where the belief in humanistic, Rogerian values is fundamental, and where we can feel at home wherever we find human relationships. Where we can allow ourselves to change while keeping our integrity. We put travelling in the focus. Already the moment when we leave our home for some other places contains EQ elements.The main objective of our project is to develop innovative educational materials that supports the vision above. These will prepare youth educators for putting personal development in focus in their work, and teenagers for mobility, to experience their European identity and to feel free yet safe far away from home and from their parents. By focusing on developing competences such as resilience, authenticity, acceptance, problem solving skills, open and nonviolent communication, we hope teenagers would begin to see problems as challenges, difficulties as opportunities to learn, and conflicts as possibilities to gain understanding about themselves and the other. We would like to contribute to this shift in attitude.The partnership consists of 3 organisations: Rogers Foundation from Hungary, TANDEM n.o. from Slovakia and Active Citizens Partnership from Greece. By working together we are going to enrich each others alread existing practices, while each partners bring in their own experiences. We plan to operate on a participatory basis, utilizing each organisation's unique take on our common topic. We plan to organize 5 transnational meetings evenly distributed throughout the project lifetime to ensure smooth management during the 26 months-long project.We plan to develop four intellectual outputs in the project, whih are the following:- a Complex Curriculum that serves as the intellectual source for the rest of the IOs that are the implementations of the curriculum in various ways. It will be built up as a traditional school curricula, but with different learning goals, and therefore not restricted for use in schools - it will be transfarable to all sorts of settings where young people act as participants.- a Methodology Handbook for educators that provides the theoretical background of our approach and collects practices, exercises and games. It would help to shape the attitude of educators who are more used to traditional frontal teaching methods. Thematically it will consist of activities that regards to travelling and mobility, and their focus will be on self-development and self-reflection (such as: When you travel, what do you leave behind?""). Therefore it is not necessary that the young person, who is the final recipient of this should have an actual travel experience, but it is a bonus if the exercises can be used referring to actual experiences.- IO3 is a Training Plan for educators. It involves a) the development of a modular trainer curriculum, b) pilot trainings amongst the partner organisations and c) follow up online support of the trainees. It will build on the exercises collected in the Methodology Handbook, and will have a detailed description of a 30 hours long training course.- IO4 is an online learning environment for teenagers for developing social and communication competences in gamified ways via videos, tests and online games. It would also offer a range of methodologies how a trip of any kind can be turned into a learning process where the environment provides the subjects to learn about.Apart from developing these materials, we will organize two sets of local Multiplier Events: stakeholder meetings to present the Handbook, and local workshops presenting mainly the Training Plan, but all other 3 IOs as well in all three partner countries. We are also going to organise an international training event, where we pilot the Training plan, collecting feedback from participants to ensure maximum quality. We expect to reach at least 150 educators and 60 teenagers directly through our activities, and an additional 2000 people indirectly through small scale dissemination activities and the multiplying effect of our participants. By including mobility in the discussion of education, we hope to contribute to building an approach of working with young people that fits better with the requirements of the 21st century, and support young people in becoming more open, resilient and brave - which consequently leads to a more harmonic Europe."

Data Management Plans
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

Do the share buttons not appear? Please make sure, any blocking addon is disabled, and then reload the page.

All Research products
arrow_drop_down
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=erasmusplus_::1327432575ba3f90a2fca4361644676c&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>
For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu

No option selected
arrow_drop_down