A Comenius project involves at least three schools or colleges from three European countries working together on a cross-curricular project over two years. Students and staff gain insight into other cultures and teaching practices through collaboration. They also report increased motivation and raised standards across subjects. The benefits to participating schools include opportunities for staff and students to problem solve together and develop educational programs, while students can visit partner institutions funded through the program.

1. WHAT IS A COMENIUS PROJECT?
Multilateral Comenius school
partnerships are cross-curricular
projects that involve at least three
schools or colleges from at least
three European countries. They
enable staff and students to work
together with partners in other
Comenius eligible countries for the
duration of the two year partnership.
In addition to learning more about other
cultures and gaining an insight into
other teaching practices, participating
staff report increased enthusiasm and
motivation from colleagues and children
alike, often resulting in raised standards
across the curriculum.
The benefits to the school include
The theme that students from valuable opportunities for staff and
Barcelona, Berlin, Cagliari and students to work together, develop
Rome are explored, contains focused approaches to problem-
aspects of history, urban solving, and build pedagogical
development, architecture, social programmes. Pupils and students also
change in the districts and the have the possibility of visiting their
city centre as well as mobility and partner institutions through the funding
sustainability. available.
Hence the project promotes a
conscious experience of urban
space and the intercultural dialogue
while carrying out on-site research.
Through a European exchange
different city structures are explored
and compared so that the students
not only get to know different city
structures but they also analyze
their own urban background and
build up a critical view on it.
Developing a common idea of a
“European city of the future” allows
the students to relate their own
opinions and ideas to ideas and
values of others.