Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 106

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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approach to boost their lifelong learning
competences and skills.
Looking back, now, almost at the end of the
project, and analysing all the project outcomes we
can proudly say that the achievements exceeded
the initial expectations:
We constantly made sure the children are safe in
the virtual space, by obtaining their parents’
consent to use photos or by blurring images of
children, according to each country’s regulations.
The project is running in parallel on the eTwinning
platform which provides participants with a secure
virtual environment for uploading all the activities.
During all project life cycle each partner team
journalized all project materials in TwinSpace
project on eTwinning platform
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/35541/home to
perform own experience and share with other
partners.
All partner kindergartens had accepted
responsibility for the eTwinning aspect of the
project, 75 teachers were registered to work there.
Participating children could share their work with
children of other European countries using various
web tools and learnt about the culture of the
partner countries accepting their co - existences
and getting the sense that they are part of a larger
world called Europe.
The dedicated project website
https://www.ssaeeu.com/ has been designed on
time as scheduled and acted as a vivid and
regularly updated resource of information in
English, but the activities and results of the project
are also disseminated through the Facebook group
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/169859310688
1524/), Twitter
(https://twitter.com/SmallScientists) or the
YouTube channel
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb3VDsPM7
vpNeFSMLaCRkw).
Our project also included Transnational meetings
and Learning, teaching, training activities for
teachers that were successfully implemented, took
place in a fruitful and productive atmosphere, and
acted as an excellent opportunity to exchange good
practice in teaching Science. Communication among
education staff allowed further networking and
receiving feedback about ideas to work within the
project. Thanks to the opportunity of networking at
European level through this Erasmus+ project, all
the teachers could develop their pedagogical
a) children horizons and scientific knowledge have
broadened;
b) intercultural awareness was tested personally by
children (traditional handmade gifts, sweets and
souvenirs were distributed in each visited
kindergarten);
c) amount of involved and interested public (during
two project years, approximately 7000 children,
belonging to the different schools, 4000 parents,
2000 teachers got in touch with the project; at
least 50 experts, 26 mayors, local administrators
and authoritative representatives, 20 pedagogical
and science officers and professors of each country
were involved).
Through scientific context embedded in daily child’
environment in combination with selected activities
of preschool curriculum, skills of our children in
research, critical and creative thinking have been
developed. They experimented with different
materials, learnt through play, cooperated with
other children, respecting the rules and
responsibilities, had a chance to explore, observe,
analyse and solve problems, felt the joy of
creativity.
For the pre-school children, the involvement in this
project means building of 21 st century skills such as
collaboration, communication, critical thinking and
use of technology, important skills in the workplace
and life. For the teachers, participating in this
project was a benefit to their pedagogical practice
and it provided an opportunity to exchange
experiences.
The impact of this project in all partner institutions
offered a new experience and a new vision of
learning, sharing, and international cooperation.
This project allowed us international experience and
to connect with peers and others to exchange and
share experience working with preschool children.
With this project, all institutions raised the quality
criteria in the field of educational innovation and
creativity, use of technology, knowledge of
property, and therefore, we improved the
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