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Europe's Unique Regions - Our Personal Experience
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Present-day aspirations for European integration are often confused with the positive and negative aspects of globalization. The phenomenon of cultural pervading tends to be a non-reflective process, which, as understood by the originators of the current project, is not a good tendency, therefore the project aims to educate Europe’s citizens to know both the native sources of tradition as well as customs of life which have been acquired from the outside traditions. This overall aim of the project will be achieved by fulfilling a number of specific objectives, which are as follow: to broaden and systematize pupils’ knowledge of various roots of tradition/culture and the roots of changes in it in order to have them perform different activities in a more meaningful way, to improve the skill in meaningful reflection upon everyday life, to enrich pupils’ knowledge of European integration and its influence on their life, to accustom pupils to analytic and synthetic thinking, to develop pupils’ skills in cooperative working and to improve skills in sharing and exchanging knowledge and research findings. The project will also contribute to the improvement of teaching linguistic and non linguistic subjects by introducing innovative methods into the educational process in all partner schools. The partnership consists of 6 schools from countries which have joined the EU at various times: 3 of them are post-communist countries and 3 so called western democratic ones. This is believed to be of great value to the concept of the project because it will ensure that the young people will understand that the EU is not a state of affairs but still an ongoing process and it will lead to additional result of determining the level to which the EU has changed life in these two groups of countries. The partner schools are public body, non-profit institutions. The total number of students participating directly in project activities is 720 (Poland: 120, Estonia: 120, Italy: 200, Greece: 120, Spain: 160, Romania: 100). The total number of teachers involved directly into the project is 99 (Poland: 20, Estonia: 20, Italy: 20, Greece: 12, Spain: 12, Romania: 15). The project is divided into four stages of searching for conscious looking for the roots of everyday lifestyle, namely my background, my region, my country and our Europe. Thus, the activities are also divided into four theme groups and they are of various kinds: research on the Internet, interpersonal research, reporting findings on the project website, designing and making pieces of art work (e.g. scrapbooks, posters) or by the use of modern technology (e.g. PowerPoint presentations, films). Each of the subsequently analyzed areas will constituent a coherent phase of the project aiming at picturing life of a young citizen of unifying Europe. The project intends to distribute the equal number of tasks to each partner school, even though they may differ to some extent because of the school specificities. The pupils at each school will have opportunity to work individually, in pairs and in teams. They will be stimulated and supported by their teachers, who will assign tasks to pupils according to their skills, interests and abilities so that each of the pupils to whom the project is addressed will contribute (in some ways) to the implementation of the project. The project is supposed to bring up two kinds of results, namely, a number of physical results and development of the participants’ various skills and knowledge. The former is not understood as an end in itself: the process of producing the results will serve the achievement of the latter. The project is directly addressed to the pupils and the teachers of all partner schools and indirectly to the pupils’ families and, generally, local communities, thus its impact should include all these target groups by increasing their knowledge on the project topic and by developing their skills in the areas described as the project aims. Finally, it is believed by all the partners that the knowledge about various roots of one’s own culture, gained at early age, will help young people become adults who are tolerant and open to innovations. The participation in designing and implementing the project will also be of benefit to the teachers who will use the experience in their future work with next generations of children.
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