TO RESEARCH, PRESENT AND DEBATE IN ORDER TO LEARN CRITICAL THINKING

In the project “Investigar, exponer y debatir para aprender a ser críticos” participated 2 schools:Gymnázium Luďka Pika, Plzeň, Czech RepublicIES Isabel de Villena, Valencia, SpainThe main coordinator was Iva Sloupová from GLP.In total aprox. 600 students from the age of 13 to 19 from both associated schools took part in this project.Our project pursued two main goals: 1. Getting our students to develop a critical capacity by analyzing, researching and discussing close problems.2. To investigate, implement and introduce innovative teaching strategies into the classroom.In addition, we wanted to enrich both objectives by incorporating European perspective in order for the teachers to exchange strategies and results, beside that the development of awareness of European citizenship in our students, based on respect for diversity and democracy.Therefore, our project includes four thematic axes (Environment and Ecology; Human Rights; Equality; Food Sovereignty) that summarize, from our point of view, some of the most serious problems that we currently face as European citizens, and with which the new generations will have to continue to deal in the future.Project’s results and activities are published:- on the blog erasmusinvestigar.wordpress.com (the page that contains the main results: https://erasmusinvestigar.wordpress.com/resultados-finales/)- on the Twinspace of the project: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/51760/home/.We realized all of the activities during those 2 years in schools and during the student exchanges (short and long term):5. - 9. 11. 2017 Pilsen - transnacional project meeting M110. - 17. 2. 2018 - Valencia - short-term exchange of pupils C35. - 12. 5. 2018 - Plzen - short-term exchange of pupils C43. - 7. 6. 2018 Valencia - transnacional project meeting M21.9. - 29. 11. 2018 - long-term exchange of pupils C517. - 24. 11. 2018 Valencia - short-term exchange of pupils C124. - 31. 3. 2019 - Pilsen - short-term exchange of pupils C224. 3. - 26. 6. 2019 - long-term exchange of pupils C622. - 26. 6. 2019 Pilsen - transnacional project meeting M3 Our previous experience and professional profiles allow us to assert that we succeeded in our task. From our point of view we achieved all of the project’s aims. Students and teachers went through new experience with international cooperation, they got to know culture and everyday life of different nations and they also improved their foreign language level. We enriched learning with new activities.Thanks to the project, now the activities can be used by many other students and not just from our schools. It is only necessary to adapt them to student’s level.