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Our Lives In 20 Years
Our Lives In 20 Years
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The focus of the project "Our lives In 20 years" is to discuss and carry out a versatile set of transnational activities about the future developments and changes in the fields of energy, education, communication, employment, housing and family life.
We will shed light to the current situation in the participating countries and try to foresee the changes that may take place within the next years. These changes will affect the generation of our students in various aspects of their lives. Regardless of their home country, young people in Europe are all facing similar questions as to what their future life will look like. In this project, we want the students to understand change as a challenge to take an active part in shaping their future in a Europe which is becoming ever more global. We also want to promote European awareness and make the students realize that their future prospects depend on being flexible, understanding different cultures, mastering foreign languages and being prepared for lifelong learning.
We are going to work together with five partners (Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, Scotland) we found via eTwinning; one of which has never participated in a transnational project. We specifically chose two partners from Eastern Europe because firstly, we have not been involved with them before, and secondly because of close historic and current ties between Germany, France, Poland and the Czech Republic.
In the project we plan to organize a number of mobilities including two transnational project meetings for organisational matters and six learning/teaching/training meetings in the different countries planned around a specific aspect of life such as "energy", "education", "communication", "employment", "housing" and "family life", so all in all there will be eight mobilities minimum.
Project activities will take place as collaborative work in transnational groups mainly and may include surveys, workshops, theatre or film sequences, recordings, letters, posters, PowerPoint presentations or slide shows, newspaper articles, etc. These activities will be carried out and prepared in all partner schools before the meetings.
For a smooth realization of the project all participants undertake to pay attention to the cost limit, time management and timely preparation of the single meetings. Information to be shared, decisions to be made, activities to be modified, etc. will be based on common agreements and supported by all partners. All this will be accompanied by several evaluations before, during and after the project.
The students will be more aware of the challenges of their future in a European context, reflect through collaborative work on what skills will be needed to cope with their lives in 20 years and will realize chances and problems on an international level. For teachers this will lead to more national and international contacts that will help to find a common understanding of European school curricular, extra-curricular activities and a general knowledge of each other's education system. The parents will be offered direct and indirect participation in the project which includes international contacts. They will see results and products made by the students during the mobility times. They will also become more aware of the situation in Europe which might affect their children's future. For companies which will be visited and/or invited during the meetings in the different countries it is an opportunity to present themselves to an international audience.
The whole school community, students, teachers and parents, but also the general public will be able to see the results of our project, because they will be presented and made available to everyone. As the project will be integrated in the school curricula, it will be a visible part of ordinary, everyday school work. All Erasmus+ activities will be transparent, i.e. all members of the school community will be encouraged to take part in the project activities with equal opportunities.
Everybody taking part in the project "Our Lives In 20 Years", male or female, young or old, will learn a lot of new things. In this context the students will work out their lives in 20 years. The results of the project finally will achieve that the students take care for and build up their own responsibly future.