Final Report 2004
I: Report on the partnership (joint section)
Please answer the following questions according to the Austrian school grading system (1= to a high extent, 5=not at all) using the space provided or a separate sheet.
The questions at the beginning refer to the application form and how successfully the intentions as described in the application have been realised until now.
Description of the project's progress
1.) Have the aims (as described in the application form) been accomplished?
1 2 3 4 5 Which aims have been accomplished? Did you have to modify or rephrase the aims?
We have followed the defined aims. Each partner school has put stress on topics of tolerance in order to reduce violence, especially in the subjects history, the mother tongue, art, ethnics, religion and music. The teachers have concentrated on methods to make students sensitive to meet accusation, aggressive behaviour and violent statements with non-violent actions. All partner schools prepared a brochure with examples for different units (including games, discussion, sport activities ...) along with the topic. Further all partners had to find words to the anthem in their own language and to work on the common dictionary in the different languages spoken in partner countries. Websites with information about all partner schools, their countries, their specialities and festivals were installed and will be continued.
Further a "Comenius-week" took place in November, different exchanges with e-mails and letters between the students of some schools.
2. Have the project activities (including mobility activities) been carried out as intended?
1 2 3 4 5 Please indicate the project and mobility activities which have been carried out in chronological order (August 1, 2003 to July 31, 2004).
| Date | Activity | Location |
| 20.-23.10.03 | Project meeting of all the coordinators | All to Vienna |
| 20.-23.10.03 | Study visit of all headteachers | All to Vienna |
| 20.-23.10.03 | 2 teachers to the project meeting | from Vepriai to Vienna |
| 20.-27.10.03 | Teacher Exchange | from Kolobrzeg to Vienna |
| 26.-29.4.04 | Project meeting of all coordinators | All to Vepriai |
| 26.-29.4.04 | Study visit of all headteachers | All to Vepriai |
| 8.-15.5.04 | Teacher Exchange | from Vienna to Vepriai |
| 13.5.-19.5.04 | Teacher Exchange | from Vienna to Vicenza |
| October | Logo and anthem of the project were chosen (competition), finishing the brochure about the school and the country | Every partner country in its school |
| November | Comenius-week (-day) took place (diff. actitivities, information about the partner countries, exhibition on the project) | Every partner country in its school |
| 8.-14.11.03 | Comenius Week (Ivancice, CZ): putting letters into balloons, writing postcards, online-quiz, painting, exhibition | Ivancice (CZ) |
| November-January | Working on the dictionary - translation from English into mother tongue | Every partner country in its school |
| February-April | Developing methods, preparing units, trying out games, discussions and various activities in order to make students sensitive for the contents of ARIV, collecting examples for units, exchange of experience | Every partner country in its school |
| February-April | Finding a text (mother-tongue) for the ARIV-anthem, recording | Every partner country in its school |
| December-April | Installing a website (continued), preparing a musical, articles and videos about the project | Ivancice (CZ) |
| All year | Exchanging letters / e-mails between students from different countries (Ivancice-Vicenza, Vienna-Girona...) | |
| April-June | Finishing the anthem and recording at Ivancice | All partners, Ivancice |
3. Did you develop one or more (end) products (as planned)?
1 2 3 4 5 Which ones?
- Logo of the project
- Anthem of the project (music and words in different languages, refrain in English)
- Website about the project, the partner schools, their countries, their specialities and customs
- Collection of "examples for units" - different examples from each school
- Exhibitions about the project and the topic ARIV
- Dictionary - translated from English in the mother tongue of each partner school
4. Has the project's progress been evaluated (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5 How has the project been evaluated?
Role plays
Questionnaires
Text writing
Performances
5. Have the results, experiences and products been disseminated (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5 How have you spread information on the project's results at a local, regional and national level? Please enclose pictures, press clippings etc. if possible.
- Regular exchange of the teachers in the project throughout the year
- Constant exhibition on all partner countries and partner schools in the schools
- Article at a regional newspaper in Vienna about the meeting in Vienna
- Website with information about the project, the partner schools and their countries (www.gibi.cz/comenius)
- Ivancice: Video about the project at regional TV-programme and articles in some regional newspapers
- Vepriai(Lithuania):
- Constant articles at the regional newspapers about the project meetings and other project events
- Through parents meetings; the meeting of all head-masters of Ukmerge district, through the seminar to Lithuanian language teachers of the district.
- Project presentation during the Comenius week in Vilnius organised by the National Agency of Lithuania
6. Have specific measures for accomplishing the following European aims been taken? (Please tick the appropriate boxes and describe the activities below.)
A to facilitate the participation of pupils with special educational needs
B to ensure equal opportunities for the participation of female and male pupils and staff
C to promote intercultural education, and/or to help combat racism/xenophobia
D to facilitate the participation of pupils/schools who/which are disadvantaged for socio-economic or other reasons
E to facilitate the participation of disabled pupils and staff
F to enhance the participation of pupils from ethnic and other minority groups, in particular children of migrant workers, gypsies, travellers and occupational travellers.
Please describe the specific measures that have been taken to achieve the European aims.
To get to know other countries make students aware of the importance of the knowledge of foreign languages.
Information about life, culture and the personal contact to students and teachers from other countries facilitate respect, tolerance; intercultural understanding and may support measures against prejudices.
Measures undertaken at schools in specific (designed units) additionally helped to achieve these aims.
7. Could an effective distribution of tasks among the participating institutions be ensured?
1 2 3 4 5How?
According to the different age of the students the partners decide on the meetings which school can do which task.
8. Were new technologies used (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5Which ones?
Internet, e-mail, video, CD
In which way (communication, research...)
For communication, research and presentation of products
By whom (pupils, staff)
By students and teachers
Questions 9 and 10 are to be answered mainly for School and Language Projects
9. To which extend could the active participation of pupils be ensured?
1 2 3 4 5The students were participated
- by discussing problems concerning the topic of ARIV,
- by exercises and various games (against violence), paintings, creating the words for the anthem, singing the anthem, translating the english dictionary in the mother tongue
- by writing e-mails and letters to students of other partner schools
- by collecting information about the different countries
- by preparing exhibitions
- by creating videos and articles (Ivancice)
10. To which extent could the project be integrated into the curriculum?
1 2 3 4 5Which impacts did the project have on the curriculum?
- to exhibit the importance of teamwork
- to support presentation of activities and the
- to establish the ability of communicating in English
- to create situations for social learning
Questions 11 and 12 are to be answered for Language Projects only
11. How well did you succeed in preparing the pupils participating in the project in the target language?
1 2 3 4 5Please describe the preparation for the pupils in the target language.
12. How well did the pupils collaborate in practical terms during the visit?
1 2 3 4 5Please describe the pupils' collaboration during the visit.
13. To which extent did unexpected events, problems and changes to the original intentions and side-effects occur?
1 2 3 4 5Please describe the problems briefly.
Problems with matching each countries technical facilities (e.g.: recording the anthem), no more.
Part I: Report on the partnership (joint section)
Please answer the following questions according to the Austrian school grading system (1= to a high extent, 5=not at all) using the space provided or a separate sheet. The questions at the beginning refer to the application form and how successfully the intentions as described in the application have been realised until now.
Description of the project's progress
1.) Have the aims (as described in the application form) been accomplished?
1 2 3 4 5 Which aims have been accomplished? Did you have to modify or rephrase the aims? We have followed our defined aims - especially the students have been involved (working on brochures about one's own country, as well as getting to know more about our partner countries through project work in different lessons). Concerning the reduction of violence the meaning of violence has been discussed with different age groups. Students expressed there idea of violence, racism through text writing and painting pictures. Teachers have gone through the literature of how to meet the reduction of violence in classroom situation. Here and there teachers have taken part in regional seminars that dealt with violence in our society.
2.) Have the project activities (including mobility activities) been carried out as intended?
1 2 3 4 5 Please indicate the project and mobility activities which have been carried out in chronological order (August 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003).
3.) Did you develop one or more (end) products (as planned)?
1 2 3 4 5 Which ones?
Each school produced a brochure of their own country Presentation of the country profiles in the school house so that all the students and teachers get to know the partner countries
Exhibition: Violence and racism in art
Competition about a Logo for the topic of our project
4.) Has the project's progress been evaluated (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5 How has the project been evaluated?
Role plays, text writing
Questionnaires
5.) Have the results, experiences and products been disseminated (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5 How have you spread information on the project's results at a local, regional and national level? Please enclose pictures, press clippings etc. if possible.
Regular exchange of the teachers involved in the project throughout the year Getting parents involved in this project Beginning of common web site Constant exhibition about the partner countries to make visitors of the school aware of our activities Ivancice wrote an article about A.R.I.V. in their yearbook and the local newspaper and produced a video programme for the local TV The media group in Vienna produced a short spot about their school
6.) Have specific measures for accomplishing the following European aims been taken? (Please tick the appropriate boxes and describe the activities below.)
A to facilitate the participation of pupils with special educational needsB to ensure equal opportunities for the participation of female and male pupils and staff
C to promote intercultural education, and/or to help combat racism/xenophobia
D to facilitate the participation of pupils/schools who/which are disadvantaged for socio-economic or other reasons
E to facilitate the participation of disabled pupils and staff
F to enhance the participation of pupils from ethnic and other minority groups, in particular children of migrant workers, gypsies, travellers and occupational travellers.
Please describe the specific measures that have been taken to achieve the European aims.
By getting to know our partner countries to make students aware of the importance of a competence in foreign languages. Not being able to communicate is one of the biggest obstacle in getting into contact with people from other nations.
By putting a stress on the life, the culture of our partner countries students got curious, in some cases a step towards overcoming a prejudice here and there
7.) Could an effective distribution of tasks among the participating institutions be ensured?
1 2 3 4 5 How?
As there are different age groups and different types of school we could make a decision on the project meeting which school can do what. The Czech school took over the responsibility of creating a homepage.
8.) Were new technologies used (as intended)?
1 2 3 4 5 Which ones?
Internet, e-mail, video and the PC
Questions 9 and 10 are to be answered mainly for School and Language Projects.
9.) To which extend could the active participation of pupils be ensured?
1 2 3 4 5 Please describe the active participation of pupils by giving examples.
Students were asked to find facts about the partner countries by looking up information in books, the Internet.
Through the work on one's own country (the school house, sights of the region, festivals and traditions in one's country) students -also students from migrant workers - got to know the place they live in better and to be proud of one's origin on the one hand. On the other hand did students get to know the diversities of cultures.
Especially in arts and music students were involved.
10.) To which extent could the project be integrated into the curriculum?
1 2 3 4 5 Which impacts did the project have on the curriculum?
Teamwork and presentation of one's activities are techniques students have to be trained in.
Questions 11 and 12 are to be answered for Language Projects only.
11.) How well did you succeed in preparing the pupils participating in the project in the target language?
1 2 3 4 5 Please describe the preparation for the pupils in the target language.
12.) How well did the pupils collaborate in practical terms during the visit?
1 2 3 4 5 Please describe the pupils' collaboration during the visit.
13.) To which extent did unexpected events, problems and changes to the original intentions and side-effects occur?
1 2 3 4 5 Please describe the problems briefly.
As the study visit and the project meeting took place at the same time and the headteachers were involved in the organisation a lot of probably happened problems could be avoided from the beginning because the headteachers did tell us immediately what can't be done but how something could be done. In this way we saved time and could work more effectively.
The only problem we have is that the e-mail connection doesn't always work as we expect it to.