Comenius

Project Location

Country: 
Italy
City: 
Gorgonzola (MI)

Organization

Organization Name: 
ITIS Marconi di Gorgonzola
Organization Type: 
School

Website

http://www.cycling-in-europe.eu/

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Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The partnership aim is to give students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and
understanding of different subjects such as sustainable development, history, art and culture of the
region they live in, multimedia documents production and editing, planning and management of an
open source website, international team cooperation.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

We want to develop understanding among students and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its value. All this goals will be accomplished building a website to document some cycling routes. This website will be useful to anyone interested in cycling and in the future it would be possible for other schools to join the web community and update the site with new cycling routes documentation. We would like to cooperate with people from other countries on the theme of sustainable development, that for its importance and complexity can’t be limited and faced at national level. Through the participation in the European cooperation we hope to promote cycling among young people, and, through the dissemination of the documentation produced, to raise the interest of
local communities on the importance of planning and designing cycle paths.
We want to involve students, teachers and scholastic communities in the development of products that are not limited to educational fields, but that cross the boundaries of scholastic and national areas to be available to everyone in the European Union. We think that working together on common and real problems is the best way to know and meet different cultures and scholastic systems.
Students will have a central role in all activities. They will have to plan the cycling route, gathering information on flora, fauna, climate, historical and artistic points of interest in the region, try it and describe it with special attention to critical passages, and get all the photographic documentation.
They will be responsible for the translation of all provided documentation into English and for the updating of the website.
They will evaluate documentation provided by students of partner schools by trying the described routes, during the scheduled exchanges. They present and discuss their results in international groups during the meetings and online conferences.

How long has your project been running?

2009-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

Concrete objectives of the partnership and subjects or problems we intend to address:
- Environmental education through promoting the use of clean and healthy transportation and sustainable development both for daily purposes and for tourism;
- Promoting cultural exchange, language learning and linguistic diversity through the website pages in English and the different partner languages, and through the students’ and teachers’ exchanges when trying the different routes;
- Promoting cooperation through gathering and organizing in proper documentation morphological,
geological, botanical, climatic, historical and artistic information;
- Supporting the development of innovative ICT-based content, working with the freedom to cooperate with each other, which is the aim of open source projects’ philosophy;
- Promoting creativity, personal fulfilment and the growth of an entrepreneurial spirit through developing a website as a platform to document the cycling paths in Europe, to be used not only by students but by all citizens within the European community.

Approach we take to achieve our objectives:
Each member school forms a group of 30 students aged 16-19, from different classes, and at least two teachers, with good knowledge of English, acting as supervisors. Different class origin of the students is helpful in spreading through pupils the results of the partnership, as peer education is often more efficient in disseminating experiences and information.
Each website page can be updated easily, and for each one is expected a manager who will be responsible for the document loaded. At the end of the project we hope to have achieved an increased awareness not only of our individual responsibility for our own health and environment, but also of the importance of European cooperation.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
Tasks and competences: - Gathering information about the meaning of cycling and bikes in each country, developing a questionnaire about tourism/everyday life with bikes; - Testing and documenting cycling routes in each country, uploading all material to the website. The website will be in English and the partaking country languages; - Having given the communication infrastructure, the portal ensures a constant sharing of information and ideas between all partners; - Developing a common agenda with all steps, tasks and responsibilities; - Testing the routes during student exchanges on such different aspects as ecological diversity and cultural specialities on the basis of information provided on the website; - Getting in touch with foreign cultures through mobilities, as the students stay in families. Student exchange should last one week; - Developing a kind of logo, icon or statue as a symbol of a bike and ecology orientated school; Evaluation will be achieved through ongoing monitoring of project evolution and team work through the scheduled meetings by the participating members: . monitoring of the respect of deadlines . analysis of produced documentation . questionnaires . involved students prepare a survey for other students in school . student diaries after each meeting . analysis of trend and number of visits to the website . new results will be integrated into the ongoing project Evaluation will also be made on the final expected product. - an evaluation questionnaire for visitors will be put on the website to make a survey on quality and usefulness of the information provided; - the long-term impact of the project will be evaluated by the interest from new partners to update and expand information provided on the website.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

The coordinator will create a positive team mood, thanks to face to face meetings and
online conferences (once a month). The common language will be English. During the meetings and online conferences we will exchange the individual results of the schools and evaluate them to be able to put them on the webpages. Collaboration and involvement of all partners will be achieved using web 2.0 tools and also be with frequent access to the website itself, which will become the
place where students and teachers virtually meet and work together.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 75.001 to 500.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Istituto Tecnico Industriale
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2009-08-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

To promote language learning and communication exchanges with foreign students and colleagues, through the production of written documents to be published and made available to all Internet users in English and foreign languages.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

environmental sustainability cycling European citizenship foreign languages ICT Comenius

Project Location

Country: 
Italy
City: 
Gorgonzola

Organization

Organization Name: 
ITIS Marconi
Organization Type: 
School

Website

www.6cultures1tech.eu

Privacy Law

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I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The project brings several cultures together through similar students and teachers interest which is robotics. Thanks to our project we want to demonstrate that technology becomes a common language spoken worldwide.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

The immediate need for starting the international cooperation and writing the project was one of the objectives of the Comenius Programme, such as development of young people of our schools in different areas of education, the desire to understand other cultures and establish new friendships based on common interests. The project should discover in young people the need to absorb knowledge from different domains. It means that technicians should create a community not limited to technical-oriented subjects but have good general knowledge on European countries, their traditions, history, politics.
We are convinced that thanks to technology it is possible to make students of different ages, education and backgrounds work together. It means that thanks to the project students will broaden their educational horizons, focus not only on technology and science (robotics, physics, mathematics, mechanics, programming, multimedia production, website creation, etc.) but also acquire additional knowledge which are the humanities (foreign languages, history, culture, arts, civics, geography and even theology and sociology). It also means they will have a chance to become broadly educated and to create a society of technical intelligence.
All those goals will be accomplished through common action, e.g. building a website, preparing documentation and works (on robotics, European culture, traditions, etc. ), communication between partners, mobilities, visiting interesting places. Teachers of different subjects (technical and general) are engaged. Students of technical schools teach their colleagues the principles of robotics. There are six partners involved in the project (Poland, Italy, Portugal, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain), the language of communication is English.
The project assumes evaluation on students and teachers level and also dissemination of the results.

How long has your project been running?

2012-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

Objectives of partnership and subjects to address:
-promoting the spirit of widely-educated society (technicians with good knowledge of the humanities, general-educated graduates with bases of tech. knowledge)-workshops, visits;
-tech. and scientific education through innovative approaches taken from robotics at any level of educational system (build robots, program, make measurements, use ICT in everyday life)
-workshops, projects;
-cultural exchange (by learning history, traditions, habits, civics, geography of partner countries, tech. development)
-visits, discussions, workshops, projects;
-language learning and linguistic diversity (project held in English, CLIL, on-line tech. dictionary-apx. 100 terms) and breaking the language barriers (work in internat. groups), achieving level B2, teachers improve their language holding lessons in English;
-promoting cooperation, creativity, personal fulfillment and growth of an entrepreneurial spirit through common creation of work and documentation;
-supporting the development and using of ICT-based contents through Open Source tools (creating website, videoconferences, text, image and video edition, cloud computing)-workshops, projects;
-paying attention to timeless matters (role of religion, God, cloning, euthanasia, advanced medicine, biology, physics, artificial intelligence and its danger, replacing humans by robots, human endurance and organism efficiency in sport, doping, life without computers and new tech.)-discussions, projects, creating articles as a documentation;
-achieving an increased awareness of students (learning abroad, new perspectives for future careers, quality of life) and teachers (comparing teaching methods and curriculum) about the importance of European cooperation, sharing information.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
• Teachers and students met each other in Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Portugal. • Teachers and students knew each others cultures and traditions. • Students wrote articles about the meetings and uploaded them on the school website. • Creation of a website for the project – http://www.6cultures1tech.eu/. • Making of a video about Christmas, describing habits and traditions. Upload of the video on the project website. • Upload a describing school video on the project website. • Students developed a logo for the project. • Students attended lessons of English. • Students attended lessons of Robotics. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only touch sensor. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only light sensor. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only sound sensor. • Teachers and students discussed about science and ethics; the role of religion; cloning and advanced medicine. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using all the sensors that have analysed. • Teachers and students discussed about IT development and its future. • Teachers and students discussed a World of Robots. • Frequent contact between all the participants on the facebook group during the project. • Compiling and sharing photos of all activities on the website. Evaluation during the project: 1. Monitoring of deadlines-Evaluation of degree of tasks implementation resulting from the schedule-led by the coordinator. 2. Online questionnaires and diaries-Each meeting; 3. Internet teachers forum (see F.2.-Communication); 4. Students involvement; 5. Monitoring of carried out tasks or results; 6. Students improved their general knowledge in robotics and the humanities
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

There were groups of students (any school 50 students and 5 teachers in two years) in the project that had specific tasks to do. Their work was supervised by the coordinators. Communication was ensured through modern means of transmission, video conferencing, email, instant messaging and website. Cooperation was also accomplished by frequent access to the website itself, where students and teachers virtually met and worked together.
During the meetings dominated Interactive communication techniques, teamwork, brainstorming and debates.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 75.001 to 500.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Istituto Tecnico Industriale
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2012-08-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

Who has access to the project site will realize how rewarding it was working on a project that involved six cultures, quite distinct from each other, and used robotics as a common language. It will also be obvious to realize that it is worth associating with other people that develops common interest and works on European scale.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Some of the products that were created to promote the project, such as the projects of different robots or documentation created to this purpose are available on the project site (www.6cultures1tech.eu). These products can also serve as an example and perhaps inspiration for others.
Robotics ICT Comenius

Project Location

Country: 
Greece
City: 
Thiva/Sterea Ellada

Organization

Organization Name: 
Kindergarten of Kaparelli
Organization Type: 
School

Website

http://europemix.wikispaces.com/

Privacy Law

Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
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I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

No mutter of cultural, religious, social and ethnic backgrounds we come from, we will break stereotypes in thinking and overcoming prejudices.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

The new era students and teachers experience today and they are going to live in later, demand tolerance, solidarity, mutual undertanding and this is possible only when we get closer and knowing to each other. Under this concept 10 European schools plan and develop this project in synergy, creating common goals and positive human values that coincide as European citizens. The overall objective of our project is to enhance the quality of the learning - teaching procedures and to improve the European dimension. In particular, by encouraging cooperation and contributing to develop professional skills of staff directly involved in the school education sector.Furthermore: Promote the values of European citizenship and social cohesion through the development of intercultural competence.Integrate special needs groups, immigrants and minorities to promote equality of opportunity.Using ICT to enhance learning opportunities.Integrate project activities in the daily activities of class.Promote interest in language learning to appreciate linguistic diversity.Gain self-confidence and autonomy through the project activities and foster a positive sense of identity. Learn how to study on a common theme; reflect on issues of common interest. Motivate students and teachers through innovative ICT tools (Wiki, Glogster, Animoto, Youtube, Blogs, Slideshare, Flipbook). Teach how to use Internet in a safe way.Establish stronger links among schools, local community and other local organizations to reinforce awareness of social structure.Promote health education, peace education, environmental care and sustainable development.Motivate teachers to personal development by exchanging teaching techniques.Present this project in the city we live through the TV, newspapers and internet. To share with as many people and to motivate teachers and students and others

How long has your project been running?

2012-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

Today's societies place great importance on the young people education. This project is expected to allow students to get the maximum development of intellectual, cultural and emotional needs on an individual and social level.
Europe is an example of tolerance, coexistence, and multi-ethnic richness. So the partnership activities will enable students to learn about each others cultures and customs. Both students and teachers involved in this project will be more motivated to learn other languages if they establish contact with native citizens.
Proposed activities will also promote communication, education in human values, development of imagination and creativity. Participants in this project will recognize and appreciate diverse social and ethnic groups and cultural characteristics, evaluating the differences and similarities with other groups and the need to respect human rights. Another result of this European collaboration is the ability to compare different methods of teaching of our educational systems and get a broader perspective breaking stereotypes in thinking and overcoming prejudices

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
We achieved a great cooperation and teamwork among all the participants. A high degree of dissemination activities through our wikispace as well via other media: newspapers, Local TV, Local Radio, e-magazines and web portals. So we succeed to promote an awareness of the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity within Europe, as well as of the need to combat racism, prejudice and xenophobia, to understand cultural and linguistic diversity, and to fight against racism and xenophobia. Most of our actions supported learners with special needs, and in particular by helping to promote their integration into mainstream education and training and we are happy with this, as well the promotion of equality between men and women and contributing to combating all forms of discrimination based on sex,racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief and disability. All our evaluation results are shown in our wiki space, measured with questionnaires to participants every 3 months: http://europemix.wikispaces.com/Evaluation
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

Approximately 3.780 students, teachers, assistants, parents collaborated interacted for the best development of this project, using platforms like Wikispace, Glogster, Animoto,Youtube,Flipbook, Issuu, Skype, Google docs, Dropbox, Twinspace, Blogspot and e-mail communication.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2011-08-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
Yes
Where? By whom?: 
In a conference in Bulgaria by the University, pedagogy department of Sofia. In a workshop in Portugal by Madeira public authorities. In a seminar and a study visit in Croatia by the Zagreb municipality
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

The success-key of this project we believe is the wonderful communication and the creative collaboration among the teachers of the 10!! Schools, which lead the initial planned aims and targets of this project much more higher.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Two participants of this project keep going co-planning another plan. The rest of us we try to figure it out to join them focusing more on a e-safety common action plan co-working from a distance and keeping inspiring our students, local society and not only!
wikispace videos Tolerance Synergy Skype Museums LibDub Kindergarten ICT games Equality e-safety Diversity Dance Comenius
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