Project details

Title: Code4EU

Short description: We will learn more about Europe, Erasmus+, eTwinning, and Code Week by celebrating ErasmusDays, organizing coding/robotics events, and promoting European values. We will also mentor teachers who are beginners in eTwinning, Code Week, and ErasmusDays to manage and implement the activities and to report them.

Languages: English

Number of pupils: More than 100

Age from up to 3 to 11

Interested subjects

Mandatory if you did not complete “Interested vocational subjects”

Art Citizenship Cross Curricular Drama European Studies Foreign Languages Geography Informatics / ICT Music Pre-School Subjects Primary School Subjects Social Studies / Sociology 

Interested vocational subjects

Art IT 

Mandatory if you did not complete “Interested subjects”

Key competences

Citizenship Cultural awareness and expression Digital Literacy Multilingual Social and learning 

Aims

- Promoting knowledge of Europe, Erasmus+, eTwinning, Code Week by working together; 

- Learning about the EU’s rich cultural diversity and developing a stronger sense of European community;

- Exploring and discussing diverse applications of European fundamental values and citizenship through direct collaboration with other teachers from different countries;

- Reinforcing citizenship education in eTwinning projects for teachers and pupils;

- Drawing attention to the importance of coding & robotics by making programming more visible; 

- Developing creativity, problem-solving, and cognitive, algorithmic, systematic, computational, and critical thinking skills; 

- Learning how to analyze information from different sources and how to produce multiple solutions to a problem;

- Encouraging children's involvement in digital literacy, digital games, puzzles, videos, drawing/paintings, posters, literary creations, physical activities, singing songs and anthems, reciting poems, playing in drama, etc.;

- Encouraging collaboration, cooperation, teamwork, and project-based thinking between teachers and pupils;

- Developing language and ICT skills for pupils and teachers;

- Promoting the use of ICT as a successful tool for finding useful web resources.

Work process

Work will begin in October we will carry out the project activities and wrap up work in November:

- presentations of our countries, towns, kindergartens/schools, and groups

- celebrate ErasmusDays and Code Week by organizing different activities with the pupils: coding / robotics events, digital games, puzzles, videos, drawing / paintings, posters, literary creations, photographs, drama, etc.

- promote the rich cultural diversity of Europe

- prepare collaborative products

Expected results

The project's final products will be a rich collection of coding/robotics activities with the use of technology and unplugged, digital games, coding events, art and language activities prepared by the pupils for the ErasmusDays and Code Week and collaborative final products.

Welcome!

This Twinspace is part of the eTwinning project "Code4EU"

and is dedicated to the activities we will implement.

We will share the activities online with other teachers, pupils, and the community on this Twinspace and our Facebook group