Necessities and weaknesses of European secondary schools during the pandemic: D3 partners have worked on a researchon the analysis of school curricula, qualifications, digital instruments and open data in secondary school education in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, Spain
The distance imposed by the Covid-19 emergency did not stop the activities of the project IN2STE (A) M – Inspiring Next Generation of Girls through Inclusive STE (A) M Learning in Primary Education.
The re-evaluation of local cultural heritage may turn into an innovative method to discover new opportunities in the present. Brain drain has been a serious issue for many areas, such as Sicily, for many years now.
TEACHmi addresses teachers working to provide effective instruments, teaching material and guidelines to promote the integration of students with migrant background, recently arrived in the educational system of the host country.
The Kick-off Meeting of the CHOICE – Increasing young people’s motivation to choose STEM careers through an Innovative Cross-disciplinary STE(A)M approach to education project was held on February 20th and 21st in Palermo, Italy.
All these topics were dealt with during the workshop “Train the Trainers” (Palermo, 10-13 February 2020), within the project THRIVE – Training Hope, wellbeing and Resilience in Vulnerable Early School Leavers, which was launched in October 2019 together with 5 other European partners.
From 10 to 14 February 2020, the Escola Secundária José Estêvāo hosted the International Training of the project REFORM in Aveiro (Portugal). The aim of the project is to improve the quality of school and/ or professional guidance in schools.
Thanks to the Peer to Peer Players project, a game app has been created, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Play Store and Apple Store.
On the basis of these premises, on the 7th and 8th of November 2019, the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” organized a workshop targeted to the teachers and the workers of the following schools: the “Istituto Comprensivo Statale Amari Roncalli Ferrara” (Palermo), the “Istituto Comprensivo Statale Archimede – La Fata” (Partinico) and the “Liceo Scientifico Statale Santi Savarino” (Partinico).
From 13 to 17 January 2020, the project partners from Hungary, Austria, Greece and Italy met in the city of Budapest in order to test the methodologies which will be included in the toolkit, through a series of simulations in imaginary situations and/or real ones.
The next 21th and 29th January 2020 two events will be held to promote the new game app Peer to Peer Players, created thanks to the homonymous project.
The project started in December 2019, with a meeting in Barcelona, where “La Xixa Teatre” hosted a meeting between the school “IC Cassarà-Guida”, the Spanish school “Fundació per a Escoles Parroquials -L’Esperança ”, the Portuguese school“ Agrupamento de Escolas do Barreiro ”and CESIE. Together, in a two-year course, the objective is set to prevent early school leaving by analyzing reality in the best way possible to better use the Theatre of the Oppressed to respond to identified needs.
