Main objective of the project Cooperation partnerships in school education Erasmus+ KA220

Project title: Fun & Engaging STEM Activities For Tomorrow's World

Project Start Date: 01/11/2021

Project total Duration: 36 months

Project End Date: 01/11/2024

National Agency of the Applicant Organisation: SK01 - Slovenská akademická asociácia pre medzinárodnú spoluprácu

Project Summary

In the age of technology, our project idea has been formed on the need to increase the digital literacy of our students with the highest equipment and to benefit from the experiences of partner institutions and to include students with learning, social, gender, economic, etc. disabilities in education and to benefit from equal opportunities. The necessity of presenting science and mathematics with a fun method to our students who moved away from the physical environment of the school during the pandemic and developed negative feelings towards academic lessons also contributed to the formation of our project idea. The core of the project is that Maths and science should be taught in a more enjoyable way. We would like to motivate pupils to learn "Science" through the introduction of the world around them. It is focused on increasing and making more pleasant and enjoyable the learning of Maths and Sciences. Science and Maths contribute to develop in the students a logical-deductive mind and planning skills (competences) which is one of the main competences in active citizenship. Moreover, sciences and Maths help abstraction processes from "doing" to "thinking" so enabling students, especially foreign students or students with special needs, to be integrated in the activities.

Objectives

The project idea is student-centered and focused, and the position of the project aims to strengthen the academic success of the institutions. With fun mathematics teaching and science experiments, students will be motivated to learn more, and teachers will be able to teach skills and competencies with different teaching environments. They will do so through the exchange of experiences and international cooperation. Many of our disadvantaged students will take part in project activities and these students will reach equal and fair learning environments and contribute to their being active European citizens. Our small eco-friendly works contributing a sustainable Green lifestyle to provide for a safe, just global community. In addition it will develop and enrich pupils’ understanding of the concept of "small changes in their daily lives" in an environmentally-threatened world. The teaching and learning environments of our partner schools will improve, the cooperation between institutions will be strengthened, student academic skills will increase, and the students will develop thinking and action skills for the prevention and resolution of environmental problems. Moreover the workshops and trainings will address problems of development of key competences; entrepreneurship; social, civil and intercultural competences; counteracting aggression and violence among students .It will strengthen the feeling of belonging to the school culture, fight against dropping out of school. The partners will include as a goal of international cooperation of kids - social and cultural awareness and problem solving between them, their roles in the group work (leader, follower, thinker, doer...) Kids cooperation as a bully prevention, social skills on international level. To extend students´ communicative, social, problem solving skills on international level and this way help them become “European citizens” realizing and pursuing their own culture. For students to be able to cooperate beyond their comfort zone of known environment.

Results

The most valuable output of our project will be the education platform to be prepared by the Academy for International Science and Research, and this platform will make an impact on a large audience. The exchange of ideas, applications of science and mathematics, STEM methods and techniques will be made at the international level. Teaching and pediatric support competencies of the fewer opportunities students will be strengthened. It will support the improvement of future employment prospects and socio-educational development of students who thrive with basic, cross-functional, soft, entrepreneurial, foreign language and digital Web tools. Besides schools project leaders Maths and Science teachers of partner schools will support their professional lives have training upon the coordinators school’s method; with the Heyne Method, which is the basic teaching approach of the country, and Greek schools working on the basis of experiments and arts.The school from Turkey share its school methodology in the fields of Maths and Science through Inquiry Based Teaching and invention Method. Croatian and Polish schoosl will apply integrated theme teaching -using life experiences in classes. Swedish school Maths and Science skills as foundation of STEM. Students will be exposed to learning a foreign language and their foreign languages and ITC skills will be improved, young students will be encouraged to develop innovative, entrepreneurial ideas and actions through successful mentorship. In addition, the following specific results will be obtained;

1. Strengthening the competence of teachers' academic careers through participation in international mobility and practical cooperation in the field of education.

2. Establishing long-term friendship and international cooperation for students from partner schools.

3. Improving the quality of partner schools by developing or applying innovative elements in learning and teaching environments.

4. Establishing a long-term partnership and sharing knowledge among teachers.

5. Increase our skills through other experiences from different schools and countries.

6. Create a school connected to the world, to other centers: open, dynamic, flexible, innovative and international.

7. Enhancing pupils' competences to act responsibly towards the environment as Green European Citizens, leading pupils to recycle and discover sustainable methods of reducing waste, saving energy and water at school.

8. At a European and international scale, the project will affect the development of innovative and tested methods and tools that cross borders. There will be sharing of knowledge and practices in the field of Mathematics and Science. The project is an example of a unique approach to improving teachers' teaching qualifications.

9. It is a project that will provide high quality educational services and make it easier for students to adapt to the increasingly modern world and prepare them more qualitatively for the future.

Partner Organizations