Overcome

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF PROJECTIn the project Overcome, we will cover our needs working the immediate priorities: promoting social inclusion, fighting school abandonment and promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning. Five schools will participate; Germany Mittelschule (GER), Novaschool Añoreta (SPA), Gymnasio Zakakiou (CYP), Osnovna Sola Fram (SLO) and Harjurinteen Koulu (FIN).This association is heterogeneous, with the participation of private and public schools, from north and south Europe, small and big communities, disparity of economic prosperity. It reflects the diversity of the European Union. In addition, this environmental variety offer us the opportunity of doing different types of outdoor activities.About 400 students, ages 12, 13, 14, are going to be directly involved in he planned activities. Although this is the target group of this project, the results can be exploited by other educational stages.OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECTThe six objectives of this project respond to needs and priorities:O1 -Providing direct personal contact with nature favouring citizen participation and supporting personal health.O2-Promoting collaborative and holistic approaches to teaching and learning.O3-Reducing disparities in access to outdoor activities.O4-Developing essential personal and social capabilities.05-Improving of communicative skills and the use of ITC.O6-Building an intercultural awareness in participants. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIESWe have designed a collection of activities in connection with the priorities and objectives. The most important are the outdoor activities that we plan to organize in the five short-time exchanges with the pupils.We will write up a glossary with all the activities in an outdoor library which will consist of multidisciplinary teaching units which will be available in a Moodle we are going to create for the occasion. All project´s results will be available on the Moodle.Another important part of the project is the participation of local Role Models who has to do with the outdoor activities. This is an E+ initiative that will create a network of people to inspire young people living with social difficulties.As part of these activities we have a group of projects and workshops such as; workshop about how eTwinning works, deciding a logo and slogan for the project, writing up a dictionary with the most useful words that pupils can use during the short-time exchange, doing a calendar with the most important dates, welcoming ceremonies, researches about health food and cultural visits that offer the possibility of a holistic learning.METHODOLOGY TO BE USEDThe methodology which best fits with the planned activities is learning with action (learning by doing).RESULTS ENVISAGEDWith activities we expect to win tangible and intangible results:Tangible results include:Outdoor Library with teaching units. Open Educational Resources (OERs)A guide with local role models.Results about health food research.Calendar with the most important dates of each country.Dictionary with the most useful words for the short-time exchange.Erasmus+ corner in each school.Logo and slogan competition.A website with testimonies of teachers and pupils.A developed TwinSpace.Evaluation reports.Intangible results:Knowledge and experience gained by learners and staff.Increased skills or achievements.Improved cultural awareness.Improved language skills.IMPACT ENVISAGEDWe think that one of the strong points of the project is its potential impact, if the project is successful it has the potential of changing our institutions.For us it is also important to capture the impact of the project in local communities. We will measure the number of appearances in local press and asking educational community using questionnaires.We specially consider the impact of international group of students on domestic students, educational institutions and hosting communities.POTENTIAL LONGER-TERM BENEFITSThere is scientific evidence in the benefit of outdoor activities for young people, improving young people’s educational course and social inclusion. We expect to sustain these consequences in the long term.For the sustainability of the project, it is very important the crosscurricular outdoor library that can be used in in our day-to-day and the know-how that teachers are going to learn. Teachers can go on using that knowledge in the long term or in other school because the project has the potential of be exploited in other organizations.