Mobility in   Lamego - Portugal

Quality education provides resources and directs policies that actively engage the student, the school and the wider community in accessing learning and provides the outcomes needed for individuals, communities and societies to thrive. It allows schools to fully align and integrate with their communities and access a variety of services across all sectors designed to support their students' educational development.

 

A quality education is, according to the UN, “supported by three fundamental pillars: guaranteeing access to quality teachers; provide the use of quality learning tools and professional development and the establishment of safe and supportive quality learning environments”. Sustainable Development Goal 4, “Quality Education”, calls for an education that is not simply a content delivery system; rather, it is a system designed to help all children reach their full potential and enter society as full and productive citizens. Education must fully assume its central role in helping people to build more just, peaceful and tolerant societies. According to UNICEF, “quality education specifically involves issues such as the development of appropriate skills, gender equality, provision of relevant school infrastructure, equipment, educational materials and resources, and scholarships”.

 

This theme, quality education, was the center of all the Erasmus+ mobility that took place in Lamego, at the Latino Coelho School Group. Over the course of a week, students and teachers from Sweden, Spain, Italy, Romania, France and, of course, Portugal, articulated their pedagogical, literary and scientific contributions, with one of the works by José Saramago “The Tale of the Unknown Island”, in which the dream, self-discovery, social criticism and the ability to criticize and reflect were the fulcrum of all activities developed both at school and in the community. 

In addition to the workshops, presentations and 

interactive work of the students, other activities 

and learning situations were also provided to our European partners, making our region, traditions and cultural and heritage diversity that our city and region offer and provide to young people, in an active European citizen participation. 

The tale of the unknown island - Portugal

The tale of the unknown island - France

The tale of the unknown island - Spain

The tale of the unknown island - Roménia

The “Tell me a Story, please!” project has been a fundamental instrument for the construction of a European Education Area, supporting the implementation of European strategic cooperation in the field of education and training. In addition, it has been fundamental to promote cooperation, knowledge and the sharing of experiences in the literary context of each country involved and in the reflection of what a quality education really provides in a technological, digital and knowledge world.

Portugal presentation

France presentation

Romenia presentation

Spain presentation

Sweden presentation

 Mobility in  Bucarest - Romenia

The Romanian mobility was held from 9^th May to 14^th May at the Scoala I.G. NR.146

 

 

Stories help us understand others and ourselves. We empathize with the characters we encounter in the stories. In addition to academic goals, stories enrich and guide our lives. Good stories do more than create a sense of belonging. They build familiarity and trust and allow the listener to enter the story where they are, making them more open to learning.

Through literature we can have a broader understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of the community universe to which we belong. The impact of literature on modern society is undeniable. Literature acts as a form of expression of one's personality. Some books mirror society and allow us to better understand the world we live in. By listening to another person's voice, we can begin to discover how that person thinks.

We believe that literature is important because of its purpose in a society that is increasingly disconnected from human interaction. Reading literature provides the perfect opportunity to develop critical thinking skills. The Erasmus+ project “Tell me a story, please!”, developed by students and teachers from the Agrupamento de Escolas Latino Coelho, Lamego, has worked on several literary works, from each country involved, works by reference authors from Sweden, Spain, France, Romania and Italy. Reading these works in English is another challenge to linguistic and cultural proficiency, also allowing us to recognize themes, characters and times that our young people have enjoyed so much. 

 

Allied to the reading of these works, the Sustainable Development Goals appear appropriate to each of the narratives, which problematizes and drives research and intervention in the world around them. Between the 9th and 14th of May, in Bucharest – Romania, students from the various countries involved in this project interacted and analyzed the recently published work of a Romanian writer, “The book of Perilous Dishes”, by Doina Rusti. Something real, something mythical, something irreverent, but magical and with ethnic and cultural relations between peoples that challenged the capacity for analysis and reflection of students and teachers. Several workshops, debates and sharing of ideas and themes present in this work, as well as the sub-themes of objective 5 of the SDGs, Gender Equality, led to an effective knowledge of a people, of people individuals and knowledge of different ways of living and thinking, but not very different.

Visits to emblematic places in Bucharest and its history, such as the Palace of the Parliament,

emblematic space of the life and history of Romania in the Ceauşescu era, the visit to the 

Peles Palace in Sinaia and all the bucolic, wild and mysterious landscape of the Dracula's

Castle, among others, were not only moments of observation, but of knowledge in which

literature, art and geography intersected.

Knowledge, group spirit and interpersonal relationships prevailed in this meeting of students and teachers, the pillars of the true spirit of the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam.

                                                

                                                    Online mobility in Italy

The Italian mobility was held online from 29^th March to 4^th April at the state high school Leonardo da Vinci located in Cassano delle Murge - BARI

Students worked on the comprehension of the main themes in “Marcovaldo and the seasons in the city”: the different life styles in nature and in the city and, above all, about the advantages and disadvantages the comfortable and emancipated life style is bringing to our lives.

Then they worked on the Sustainable Development Goal n.8 “Decent work and Economic Growth” focusing on important issues such as employment creation, working time, right at work, social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration, equality of opportunity and European job employment agencies. Dealing with these topics students were able to get to know and compare the different countries’ economies and societies that should be more resilient in the different global challenges we face every day.”

Of course, we had loved to meet students and teachers in person and show the richness of our country, but thanks to the technology all the participants could exchange ideas, experiences and socialize in mixed groups as well!

 

                                              Online mobility in Spain

Between 17th and 24th January 2022 the Project teachers and students have done the mobility in Spain through the screen. The pandemic situation has called for this and we have done many activities around the two set goals:

The reading of a classical 16th century Spanish literature book, "Lazaro of Tormes", that describes the lives of poor humble people, specifically of Lazaro. a young rascal who has to survive at the hands of greedy masters. At the same time, Spain and Portugal are exploring the seas of the whole world, America is first stepped by Europeans and the trade all over the southeast seas is flourishing.

The United Nations Sustainable Goal no 3, "Good health and well being" has been dealt with through the study of good healthy habits in our countries. Students have been able to identify the "metabolic syndrome", a disorder connected to bad eating habits and lack of physical exercise.

Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, French and Spanish students aged 12 to 17 have been able to learn about the above through Kahoots, questionnaires, shared documents and viewing of videos.

 

Online mobility to Sweden, Åva gymnasium in Täby

The project partners in TSMP met online during some weeks in October 2021. Before the mobility the participating students had introduced themselves in Twinspace. Then the mobility was launched by the Swedish team, Swedish students presented their school and country.

The project partners were given a challenge to either bake a Swedish cake or to perform a Swedish song and dance. 

                                

Then all the participants met online to listen to a lecture held by Arkan Asaad, the author of the book “Starless Nights”, which was the book the Swedish team had chosen for everyone to read. 

The lecture was very interesting and inspiring and many students asked a lot of questions. Ath the third activity the students met in groups mixed by nationality to discuss how they thought the ideal European person looked and what personality traits such a person should have. 

                         

They used digital tools to draw and they took on what they came up with. One of the main goals in this project is to motivate students to read more, so for the next activity the purpose was to discuss themes from the book “Starless Nights” which the students did in mixed (by nationality) groups. 

The final task was to work with the global goal nr 16, the students discussed how we can contribute to make the world more peaceful. Who won the challenge? That was a hard thing to solve so there were three winners: Portugal, Romania and Spain! 

 

ONLINE MEETING – “Tell me a Story, please!”

Online meeting Thursday the 10th of June 

The 10th of June 2021 all the coordinators from "Tell Me a Story, Please!" met online in a Google Meet. We discussed the first online mobility of our project which will take place in Sweden, we mean, organized and coordinated by Sweden, October 2021.

The details of the program were discussed and we decided the dates for the activities. We discussed the future of our project and which mobilities we have to do online and which ones we hopefully can do as planned. We talked, apppreciated and evaluated the activities all the students have done and put in twinspace of the project, during this school year 2021. 

 It was nice to see everyone again!

Erasmus Project Working on UN Goals

The Reading of Marcovaldo and the UN Goal Nº 8. 

Decent Work and Economic Growth.

Marcovaldo Setas en la ciudad

How young people perceive their working future?

What sectors of population are less prepared for having decent jobs?

What are they planning to become in 5 years time?

Our Future Jobs

Degree in Law

My Future Plans

I want to be a Robotic Engineer

Young People's Future

UN Goal Nº 5 - Gender Equality

            

   Inspiring Women who have Changed the World