ERASMUS + PROJECT - I.D.E.A.L.

Innovating by Doing Experiments by Leonardo is the Erasmus + project which involves five countries. Our coordinator is Istituto Comprensivo Castel Frentano from Italy, partners are Kurtna Kool from Estonia, Scoala Gimnaziala Numarul 5 from Romania, Escola Frederic Godas from Spain, and Agrupamento de Escolas Miguel Torga from Portugal.


The aim of this project is sharing our schools` innovative ideas with our partners` schools. The target group in this project are mainly students from the age 9-12 but no one who is interested in the project is excluded.


As the name of the project says, our great role model is an Italian polymath of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. He was the man whose interests involved invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.


With this project we are hoping to help children rediscover their natural curiosity towards the world and support their eagerness in different project activities in our own and partners ` schools.


Our project is in compliance with changed learning approach; teacher in it is a creator of connectors and a shaper of values and our task is to expand students` critical and creative thinking, analytical skills, entrepreneurship, teamwork, written and verbal self-expression.


The mobilities take place in each partner`s school. The first mobility was in December 2018 in Italy. The next mobility takes place in January 2019 in Spain, following Romania in March 2019, Portugal in October 2019, and the last in April 2020 in Estonia.


FIRST SHORT-TERM MEETING IN VINCI

During the "Short-term joint staff training events" the teachers of the 5 schools had the possibility to meet for the first time in person their partners.
They studied and got information about Leonardo da Vinci and had the chance to get to know the figure of the inventor more in depth, contextualizing his eclectic personality and his work.
Taking part to the several and diversified workshops has been an opportunity to experience in person the activities planned for the pupils, to understand its didactic and methodological value and to plan the appropriate workshop procedures.