5.6 Impact and European Added Value

5.6 IMPACT AND EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE
What impact and benefits of European cooperation do you expect Partnership activities to have on persons (pupils and staff) and on the participating institutions?

1. The pupils will be provided with opportunities to compare and contrast their lives with other European children. They will become more familiar with local and traditional customs and daily habits in various countries of Europe and to become more conscious European citizens.
2. As citizens of the European Union, pupils and teachers will find out through project work what being a part of a large European family means, and their multicultural empathy will be intensified. The school will gain prestige; it will be considered to be an educational institution which introduces its pupils to the European forum. The final results will enable to promote the school on a local stage and a European/world one. The teaching staff will have an opportunity to gain knowledge of European teachers’ work, to improve their own abilities and to use foreign language in practice.
3. The project will make pupils aware of other languages (Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and Turkish). The linguistic aim of the project will enable the inclusion a certain number of words and expressions of previously mentioned languages into WebQuest and the lessons of Science and Mathematics prepared by members of the Group.
4. In addition due to regular communication between partner schools, pupils will become more familiar with their attitude to solving important global problems like recycling, protection of environment and endangered animals.
5. Pupils, especially socially-disadvantaged students whose access to the computers is limited only to schools, will use English and ICT to communicate with their peers in European countries. The ability to communicate with others using L2 and ICT will become their vital feature.