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Die Jugend prägt Europa - Fertigung einer Münzpresse zum Prägen einer Europamünze
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Summary: From the topic of the project "The youth stamps /influences Europe -the stamping of a European coin with the help of a hand-made coin press“ the main focuses of this project can be recognised. The groups of the participating partners from Belgium, Germany, Poland, Turkey and Hungary understand themselves as European partners who want to build a European educational – working – and adventure community. With this project they should experience that it is possible to plan and work successfully and with lasting effect with different representatives from different nations in spite of their cultural and social difference. The participants come from the vocational school system and can all finish school with higher education entrance qualification. The different groups (of each nation) consist of 8 pupils and approx. three teachers respectively. To ensure that as many as possible schoolboys and schoolgirls are confronted with the project the groups are always composed differently and therefore not always the same participants join the teaching and learning units in the different countries. To enable the pupils to communicate with each other, they will have the chance to use the internet platform e-twinning. One aim of the partners is to apply and to make use of the synergies of their education like e.g. production engineering with the accompanying machines , programming, CAD, CAM, CNF, applied mathematics, technical drawing, materials, standardisation and the international technical language. In addition, they try to realise a modular, interdisciplinary, transnational educational concept which combines the two faculties namely technology and economy, thereby the fields social studies, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology, technical drawing and economy form the theoretical foundation. The manufacturing of the coin press, as a part of the specialised practical education of the technology faculty, is accompanied with a cost calculation and marketing by those pupils from the economy faculty. The schoolboys and schoolgirls are introduced in an enterprise activity. After the presentation of the proposals on the internet platform and the election of the two best proposals via e-twinning, the construction of the coin press will be brought up for discussion and be started and finally completed. The single modules of the project are equally and comparably divided on the participants. On this occasion, the pupils should find out that parts of a project, which were organized and completed in the prescribed time limit, can be joined internationally successfully together to one whole project. To ensure success and to provide transparency for all participants the intensive communication during the working process via an Internet platform and at the 5 meetings (teaching activities and learning activities) in the 5 partners’ countries is highly relevant. At the teaching and learning activities reasoned Workshops which adapt themselves to the educational process are central. These Workshops are presented and realized independently by the schoolboys and schoolgirls. The responsible persons only function as advisers in the background. As there are always different participants at the meetings, it is one important element at the national schools to multiplicate and to convey the results which were reached at those meetings to the others. Besides, all inter-evaluations are published on e-twinning and therefore accessible for all participants. Another important component is the introduction of the participants to the structure and tasks of the EU. Therefore a working visit of the European institutions (Brussels) with an accompanied introduction is part of the project. Beside the general linguistic preparation, the linguistic component is stressed by the production of a specialist dictionary of the national languages of the partners and the production of a self-provided compendium in each language. The preparatory introduction to the history, culture, economy, applied geography, society and a supporting programme with sport and leisure activities should facilitate the formation of a European experience community. A European party as a final event in Poland with all partners as well as perhaps an additional party at the national schools is used to promote and introduce the project to the public because at this party the coin press is mounted and starts to function. Moreover the stamped coins are marketed there publicly. The participants receive their certificates and Europass. Finally, the whole project is published on the homepage of the respective partners and the press and the regional television companies report about the project work.
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