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Together Everyone Achieves More
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

We want to deal with the new challenges both students and teachers experience nowadays. By having them work together in mixed groups on joint subjects, and by incorporating the help of universities, high schools and commercial companies, by developing digital, language and social skills we want to orient the students towards an enhanced entrepreneurship in order to prepare them for their future studies and jobs. We will research the current situation of the well-being, living and working conditions in schools in the different countries involved. We will research the potential opportunities for young people of studying and working abroad with a view to promoting mobility within a united Europe. By enhancing the responsibility of the students for their own learning we want to promote leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity and life orientation in a process of mutual collaboration. The project will give the students the experience that working as an international team facilitates better results than working alone. We will promote problem-based learning: groups of students are given well defined tasks to solve; by establishing this project we will have students from different backgrounds and experiences (rural vs. city, countries with different teaching methods, school systems, history and background, different ways of coping with learning and behavioral disorders) meet and work together in an international context. Working across borders in mixed groups will be quintessential to this project, as its very aim is to step away from the classic teaching method to a more project-oriented open space . Amongst other things we will provide practical and realistic learning environments by including the students into the planning of a new school building for the Belgian partner school and by inventing a new type of wind turbine for the German partner school. The students will have to research the different topics involved in the project in all partner countries and then work together in transnational groups to set up a working plan for their field of focus. They will have to set up business groups and each group will focus on one aspect that directly corresponds to the building projects at hand. They will get support from professionals in the fields they are working on in order to complete their part of the project. Their ideas will be incorporated in the final stage of the school building and the wind turbine. The focus on MINT-skills and the incorporation of ICT in the approach to the project will further heighten the students’ focus on working in mixed groups towards a joint outcome, a system they will need a lot in their future studies and career. This new focus alters the role of teachers and the need for non-formal education furthermore corresponds to changed curricula and different approaches in focus in the different countries involved. As we are going to cover a variety of topics with different approaches from building models to setting up a business plan all students willing to take part can be included into the project regardless of their grades. We aim to increase their motivation for their daily work by exposing them to new ways of learning and working together. The students will experience the European dimension by working together with different people from different countries towards a common goal. Another positive impact is that they will learn about the culture of the host country - not as tourists do by watching from the outside- but as an integrated member of this society while living in the host family. The students will learn to cope with individual challenges and will gain a better understanding and responsiveness to social and cultural diversity. So their social skills will be developed in addition to the improvement of their language and digital skills. The teachers involved will get advanced training in corporate planning, terminology, marketing and digital competences, all of which they can disseminate amongst their colleagues and furthermore train others in their regular classes. The surroundings of the new school building in Belgium, built especially with a view to these altered teaching conditions, will focus on these new capabilities. Every country involved was handpicked because of their relevance in the project, so students will have to travel to Estonia for a deeper look into the sociological aspect, to Germany for their knowledge on the ecological side, to Scotland for their expertise with wind energy and the inclusion of the Queensberry Initiative in their curriculum, to Belgium for their many links with business life and to Hungary for their expertise in the field of languages and entrepreneurial skills. The number of the indirectly benefiting persons is quite high (2000) as the participants in the project will produce outcomes that will be used by the whole school communities e.g. the new school building (Belgium) and the wind turbine(Germany).

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