Impact and European added value
Impact on students:
Student will be able to:
- Develop their cooperative ability through group work;
- Improve their ability to communicate in a foreign language;
- Cultivate visual literacy;
- Modify their personal perspective in art through creative activities;
- Become sensitive regarding the preservation of their artistic local heritage;
- Familiarize with people bearing a different cultural background;
- Be exposed to other cultures and get into the process of perceiving the notion of “otherness”;
- Have the opportunity to obtain artistic skills, even if they come from low income families, something which will decrease social exclusion;
- Identify and develop ways to support and motivate students with migrant or Roma backgrounds in order to fulfil their educational potential;
- Improve their motivation to study, especially the ones with learning difficulties;
- Develop advanced ICT skills in order to create the Digital TV channel.
Impact on teachers:
Teachers will enable themselves to:
- Develop innovating procedures in art teaching;
- Familiarize with a European school project;
- Cooperate with local authorities and educational organizations;
- Improve their vocabulary concerning visual art terminology;
- Become more receptive to different cultural environments;
- Assimilate different aesthetic standards;
- Increase teachers’ motivation;
- Upgrade teachers’ role;
- Create open-minded teachers discovering new perspectives and talents in their pupils;
- Obtain network skills such as: using updated programs, communicating with partner school teachers and students, and organizing video conferences;
- Benefit from the production of artistic material and apply it in the teaching procedure;
- Obtain friendships with European countries;
- Improve their knowledge of foreign language and their communication skills through activities using ICT tools;
- Improve their teamwork skills;
- Develop the pedagogical education processes in a European dimension context.
Impact on the Directorate of Primary Education(Greek) and Dobele County Education Department (Latvia):
- Cooperate with other local authorities;
- Experience a different educational reality;
- Underline the need to support networking between regions and have a better visibility for this kind of cooperation;
- Improve group work skills;
- Compare good practices regarding the administration in an educational level;
- Bridge the gap between theory and practice;
- Become more effective in adapting the objectives of national education to local society;
- Raise the profile of local visual arts at schools;
- Develop a new basis for knowledge in order to encourage experimentation within a supportive environment;
- Improve the quality of educational work done in the region;
- Establish partnership and networking models between schools worldwide;
- Develop advanced ICT skills;
- Educate teachers, school leaders and other school staff in promoting inclusion;
- Improve school management skills;
- Develope cooperation among the schools and organizations in European regions;
- Identify and develop the integration of the European dimension in teaching and learning.
Other partners
- Deal with a European project;
- Are motivated for future European partnerships;
- Cooperate with educational and local authorities to achieve a common goal;
- Create educational material accessible to every teacher and student of the region;
- Contribute to the improvement of artistic education;
- Improve teamwork skills;
- Benefit from high quality partnership;
- Experience the creation of a suitable environment for developing and promoting the project’s outcomes;
- Improve the quality of education in the region;
- Develop advanced ICT skills to enrich the website with digital educational material;
- Access of outcomes will be available locally;
- Reinforce crossborder, transnational and interregional cooperation;
- Underline the added value of these innovative partnerships;
- Strengthen the European way of thinking.
The monitoring and the evaluation of the activities will be held by:
- Making sure that all partners will participate in common meetings;
- Being in often communication via phone, emails and Skype;
- Defining an individual to organise and remind the dates of every meeting and activity in each region;
- Adopting the specific axes of the initial and final evaluation, concerning the procedure and the achievement of the project aims;
- Analyzing the evaluation reports of every interregional meeting;
- Gathering all the material published by the media (e.g. newspapers, videos, blog pages etc.);
- A final questionnaire for evaluating the results and the outcomes of the project; The questionnaire will be uploaded into the Lime survey so that the results of the evaluation will be accessible by every individual;
- All information and outcomes which will be uploaded into the website and will be displayed in the two days final event (conference).