ERASMUS+ PROJECT

KEY ACTION 2: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECT EVENTS

FEBRUARY 14-16TH 2017
Project Meeting (4): (Lecce, Italy)

International Skills Project partners will meet for their

fourth meeting to prepare for the
forthcoming Learning and Teaching
Inventory and Training Event. This meeting will also be an
opportunity for the team to discuss

Programme for Global the plans for the launch of the set of
project eBooks.

MARCH 13-17TH 2017

Citizens (ISITPGC) Learning and Teaching Event (Lecce,
Italy)
http://www.elvischool.eu/erasmus-ka2/ The team will welcome up to forty
delegates to this five day event.
Dear Reader, Participants will have an opportunity
to trial the four project eBooks prior
The ISITPGC team would like to welcome you to the first edition of its to their formal launch.
project newsletter. You will find updates on the projects plans on page
two and what the next stages will be.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all participants, students and LOCAL EVENTS
supportive teachers for all their help. We hope you find the Nicole Lang presented
information helpful and informative. a project seminar at
Hermann-Tempel Gesamtschule in
Dr Sarah Jones September 2016. View a copy of her
(Project Coordinator) presentation summary HERE. In
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/ifl/staff/sarah-jones.aspx) addition, Nicole was interviewed by
Radio Nordseewelle in October 2015
and was able to publicise the project
MEET THE PROJECT TEAM to the local community.

Elisabeth Abrahamsen presented

the project to Norwegian teachers
and leaders at an International
Skills event in Lillestrm, Norway
on 26th April 2016. The SIU (HQ
for international education work in
Norway) was very interested in the
project plans and its cooperation
across the various countries. View
the PowerPoint presentation HERE

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PROJECT NEWS AND UPDATE Congratulations
to Chiara DElia
The project has four main objectives it aims to achieve during its duration.
from Cosimo
SKILLS INVENTORY This whole project hangs around the development of an de Giorgi, on
her prize
International Skills Inventory which is made up of a test which is informed by a
winning logo.
series of domains which have been produced as a result of extensive research
carried out during the first year of the project. During this first year (2015/16),
the team reviewed a number of models and frameworks, interviewed a wide
range of people (including employers, employees and students living and WHAT NEXT IN 2017/18?
working abroad) across the EU and beyond and carried out some evaluation of PRODUCT TRIALS
online academic journals. As a result of this, they identified four key domains The eBooks and teacher toolkits will
relevant to international skills and transversal competencies that can help to be available for wider trialing
develop globally aware citizens in secondary schools. The team would following the LTTE event in March
particularly like to thank all the participants and interviewees who helped during 2017. The project team would like to
this initial phase of the study. The information collected has now been refined invite teachers interested in testing
and has been implemented into the inventory design which is in the final stages these project resources to contact
of being tested. Access to this will be available in the next newsletter. them at c.m.mckinlay@hull.ac.uk

E-BOOKS Currently we are developing four individual but complimentary The project team would like to thank
eBooks for use by secondary students across Europe from September 2017. They Dr Richard Proctor for his technical
are being designed by Cosimo de Giorgi in Italy. Partner schools have been then help in producing the Skills Inventory.
been out into four teams and students are currently working on the collection of Teachers will be invited to participate
artefacts (videos, captions, animations, news articles and tests using tools like in final trials in the Summer of 2018.
book widgits) to insert into the four eBooks. These will be assembled during CONFERENCES
March 2016, ready for an initial phase of testing and review. The four books Further opportunities will be available
follow the same themes in the Skills Inventory and test: to hear from the project team when
Digital, Media and Information Literacy (Cosimo de Giorgi, Italy and they present their project findings at a
Institute Du Sacre Coeur, Belgium) number of conferences in 2019. Dates
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Understanding and venues will be released on the
(Kopernikusschule, Germany and As Vidergaende, Norway) project website nearer the time.
Social Awareness, Personal Attribute and Communications Skills
(Sophianum, Netherlands and Widukind, Germany)
PUBLICATIONS
The project team will publishing two
Professional and Learning Competencies (Hermann-Tempel,
journal articles in 2018/19 reviewing
Germany)
current global citizenships
The project teams are meeting every so often via Skype to discuss issues and support
each other during this critical stage of the project. The teams will then bring their
frameworks and initial project
artefacts to Cosimo de Giorgi in February 2017, for inclusion agreement and to begin the findings. Watch out for further news.
assembling process.
FUTUE PROJECTS
The group will be discussing future
TEACHER TOOLKIT The project aims include the design of a toolkit resource plans at its February 2017 meeting.
that will support the teacher in the classroom to make maximum use of the Any suggestions or ideas useful to
eBooks in their curriculum. Work on this will begin in September 2017 and is stakeholders or users should be sent
expected to be published towards the end of the project in mid 2018 to c.m.mckinlay@hull.ac.uk
ACADEMIC OUTPUTS One of the main aims of the project is to disseminate
its findings and the methodologies used during the collection of project resources and the use of these during the
production of a mobile technology resource for the classroom. Publication of the first journal article is due in early 2017
and is well underway. To view, please visit the project website at http://www.elvischool.eu/erasmus-ka2/