Welcome to follow Erasmus+ -project which combines seven countries!

What are our aims?

We are seven schools from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. All seven schools aim at innovating teaching and learning practices in order to prepare students adequately for their future life in a globalized world and modern Europe.

To do so successfully, the participating schools first specify the skills and competences students will need to actively participate as successful employees and responsible citizens of a common Europe. The main focus of the project will therefore be on educational areas such as sustainability, international dimension, entrepreneurship, team building and creativity.

Having established what innovative teaching needs to focus on, we need to rethink our role as teachers and reflect on how we can move from being instructors to facilitators of learning. The question of how the necessary skills and competences can be developed through teaching and learning is central to our project. We will use methods such as "Flipped classroom”, Student teams, Cooperative learning,“ Peer education” in our practices among others.

Together we will develop and innovate teaching practices and will publish activities, lesson plans and tool kits created by us on a website and as a booklet.  A film showing all the activities and the progress will be made and uploaded on the website. Furthermore, participating teachers and students will write a blog commenting on the progress of the project.

The meetings

There will be two transnational project meetings for teachers in the first two years and three in the final year.  The purpose of these meetings is to address different aspects of innovative teaching ideas and methods , which will permit us to develop new practices, and share our experiences and results in workshops and discussions. At the meetings we will develop teaching activities and lesson plans that will be put into practice at our schools, and at the short-term exchange of students. The project meetings will also be used to develop methodological input on the topic of the meetings that later will be shared with colleagues at our home schools.

There will be two short term exchanges of students per year, in which students will get the opportunity to improve their competences and skills through learning workshops prepared to practice the topics related to innovation. Four students from each school will participate in these workshops run by teachers and students of the hosting school during the meetings. By taking part in these workshops, students will get a deeper understanding of the topic of the meeting. They will work in groups on issues relevant to the topic and will continue the group work after the meeting by using email, Facebook, eTwinning, Google docs and Skype.

Welcome to follow our adventure in innovative teaching methods´ world!