INTERSTUDENTS FOR THE WORLD

"<< Background >>Through the Etwinning Platform four friend countries ,Turkey, Bulgaria, Romanía and Spain, being aware all of them of giving the best education to their students, and creating a great atmosphere of good practices, we worked together to apply for the project KA210-SCH Small_Scale partnershipin School Education in the first round 2022. The main issue of the project was increasing awarereness among the centres of the necessity of improving global consciousness to preserve the Planet and create a sustainable future for the next generations.We also wanted to give our community school the chance to their students of knowing other methods of teaching, other cultures and people , as well as offering the m the possibility of practising the vehicular language of the topic, which is English.On the other hand, the new generations need to be updated in ITCs and we designed STEAM activities where students would use an interdeisciplinary approach relating Science, MathsTechnology, Literacy and Art.We wanted to give a European dimmension to our centres, which were either bilingual or an example of excellence in the different countries.Inclusiveness has been present all the time and we have tried to give this oportunity to weaker ones<< Objectives >>By executing the project we wanted mainly to create an ecological conscience among our educational communities, by showing our students that our Planet Earth is in danger and we had to act as soon as possible if we wanted to change this. We designed interdisciplinary activities together to show our students about this issue and the importance of preserving the resources we still have. on Earth. Being able to use Etwinning as a contact tool as well as the different ITCs ( emails, powerpoints , zoom conferences, were also the targets to implement our project. Practising the vehicular language of the project, (English), was last but not least something very important for the teachers who wrote the project-Being able to give the chance to teachers and diverse students to know different places, cultures, peoples and different ways of teaching was also on our minds.As excellence or bilingual centres that we were it was also very important for us to give a more European dimension to our centres, which greatly want to be referent centres in their different areas or countries.Having the chance to show new centres, like the Turkish one, the opportunity Erasmus offered, also encouraged us to start a new Erasmus adventure in 2022<< Implementation >>Luckily all the activities have been implemented and the results were great.The activities were not only implemented according to the established agenda, but we also had the opportunity to work on them in our schools and later show some of them in the different schools we were visiting.Teachers and students were involved all the time and we encouraged each other to go on working.We learnt about STEAM in Turkey and Bulgaria and some of us had the great chance of knowing about Scratch in Bulgaria and Arduino in Turkey. Also in Bulgaria we learnt very much about recycling and how this should be done well. We visited a recycling plant in Sofia where we were shown how this recycling plant worked.Romanian partner providedf lexible learning environment activities and the track of our footprint according to the different ways of lives peole lead.In Spain we invited an architect to give seminar to pupils about sustainable cities and they were able to see the ones the Spanish students had already done.In Spain (April 2024) students recycled some clothing and learned about 3D computers and how to make some interesting pieces. Also weaker students had this great chance apart from practising the vehicular language of the project.<< Results >>Los resultados concretos del proyecto han sido distintos dependiendo de cada país:Así por ejemplo en Bulgaria se crearon papeleras para reciclar o se vio la huella ecológica que dejamos en Rumanía, así como en España se ha creado un huerto a base de materiales reciclables o se ha aprendido a elaborar jabón a partir de aceite reciclado o camisetas.Todos los países hemos trabajado las TICs de distintos modos y en todos ellos no sólo han trabajado los alumnos que participaban activamente en el mismo o han viajado, sino que el trabajo se ha extendido por los cuatro países participantes intentando implicar al mayor número de alumnos, profesores y familias.Muchos de los resultados, no han sido tan ""concretos"", sino que han servido principalmente para afianzar lazos con los países socios, ver la forma de trabajar de cada uno, poder conocer otras culturas y personas, dar la oportunidad a alumnos diversos de poder viajar, así como poner en práctica en todo momento el idioma vehicular del proyecto, que es el inglés.La plataforma Etwinning , en la que se ha reflejado el proyecto, ha sido otro de los resultados, así como dar amplia difusión a través de Instagram de todas y cada una de las actividades llevadas a cabo en los distintos sitio"