D6.Impact

Impact

The participants, pupils and teachers involved in the projecty will get the opportunity of comparing their own cultures to the other ones in the participating nations .They will find out the basic needs of a community: the resources of a society, the environmental issues, the importance of culture and recreation, etc. The intercultural communication will lead them to tolerance and respect towards other cultures. The participants will learn to gather information about the other nations independently through e.g. questionnaires, communicating via internet or during the meetings so that they can improve their ICT and language skills The participants will develop active citizenship taking part in an international event. The pupils will put more effort into the job and and become more self confident than usual. During the meetings the pupils will get practice in the role of being hosts. They will experience the joy of working in national as well as international teams.so their motivation for language learning will increase.

Students will be able to express their opinions and feelings through newspapers, magazines and ICT tools.

Our proposal**:** This project is expected to have the following impact on ** //students:// ** -students will be motivated to work together with their colleagues from other European schools,they will acquire new skills and abilities; -students willl learn about new regions and countries from Europe,accordingly, about their culture and traditions; -students will acknowledge their own problems and,also, those that affect their colleagues from abroad,such as: learning difficulties,social issues,discrimination,leaving school; -students will change their attitude towards these problems and the learning process itself; -students will enrich their knowledge by participating in online forums,video conferences or e-mails; -students will develop their skills in new technologies and in other foreign languages,especially English language; -they will learn and experience how to be much more self-confident and responsible for their tasks;

This project is expected to have the following impact on ** //teaching staff:// ** -teachers will become aware of other European educational systems; -teachers will acknowledge new teaching methods and approaches by exchanging ideas on their professional experience; -teachers will develop their English language speaking and writing skills; -teachers will use new technologies in classroom; -teachers will have the possibility to implement the project outcomes in the school curriculum;

This project is expected to have the following impact on **//schools://** -education process in schools will improve itself due to the cooperation among project partners; -teachers and students will acquire various teaching and learning methods,their interest in education being highly raised; -new ways of managing schools will be discovered and followed to a certain extent;

This project is expected to have the following impact on **//local communities://** -there will be a better cooperation between schools and other institutions in the local community; -there will be a continuous dissemination of the project activities in the local community; -schools will be differently perceived in the community;