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Designation/Project-Title:
Communication as a Life-long Learning
Homepage:
http://mindcom.fi/comenius/
Project-Number:
00-ESP01-SO2C3-00060-1
Actual date:
(of the information)
02/09/2003
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The project is:
an EU project
The EU project belongs to the program:
Socrates
under the action:
Comenius 1
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Co-ordinating person:
Valentín Gandásegui
Address:
IES Saltés. José Caballero 8. Punta Umbría, 21100. Huelva. Spain
E-Mail:
gandax@telefonica.net
Tel/Fax:
34 959 312266
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Contact person:
Valentín Gandásegui
Address:
IES Saltés. José Caballero 8. Punta Umbría, 21100. Huelva. Spain
E-Mail:
gandax@telefonica.net
Tel/Fax:
34 959 312266
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Participating countries (In which countries the project takes/took place?)
Austria, Finland, Italy, Spain.
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Statistics:
number of participating persons / institutions:
7 schools, around 1000 pupils, 30 teachers.
project-costs:
25000 €.
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Short description:
      a) target groups
      Primary and lower secondary students.
      Teachers.
      b) methods/tools/instruments/didactics (new technologies, e-learning, seminars, etc
      Students and teachers' team works. Visits to the school environment, description of family life, friends, everyday life, school, town, institutions, enterprises, etc.
      Printed and electronically reports. Class work on communication, information processing and exchange with partner schools.
      Analysis of parents jobs and jobs in the area of every school. Exchange and comparison of results.
      Description of activities on vocational orientation in every school, exchange of reports, comparison, and implementation of good practices (activities and working models) among partner schools.

      c)Main objectives
      First year:
      To develop the communicative skills of pupils and teachers
      To connect primary and secondary education
      To compare and contrast the cultures, the languages and the learning processes.
      To apply techniques of teamwork.
      To integrate students with disabilities in the project work.

      Second year
      To explore the world of work: main jobs, salaries, qualification, professional profiles, economical activities, etc. in every partner area.
      To analyse the information collected and produce reports.
      To describe the activities on vocational orientation in every partner school.
      To present all the information in hypertext format.

      Third year
      To compare the reports produced and the situation in every country.
      To select successful activities on vocational orientation for their implementation in partner schools.
      To edit all the content produced in the web page.

      d) Main activities events and c) outcomes
      Teachers' international meetings, study visits and placements.
      Chat events, exchange of parcels, videos, audio recordings, wall chart displays and reports.
      Exhibitions, school open doors days.
      Students international visits..
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Transformable results:.
Can the results be transformed into other countries?yes
If yes, Have they been transformed into other countries?no
If no, pleace write down your suggestions on how to transform the results into other countries
    The working model is easily transferable to any country.
    The basic idea is to analyse and describe the own reality, exchange the reports, compare them and select what is good. Then it is a matter of trying to transfer what really works. Having a web page where everyone can edit content helps a lot..
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Documentation of the project:
Which materials/documentations/publications/instruments/etc. of this project do exist?
      Videos on the description of every school environment and vocational orientation activities
      CD on vocational orientation activities..
Where can these documentations be demanded (For example: Address/Telephone of the institution/contact-person/list of publications/link for downloads/ etc.)
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