Pääskytie school has introduced a new elective course for ninth graders to be involved in this project. The course is called Global Education course and it has nine participants this year.
FOREIGN CULTURES
- getting to know Lithuania and Denmark, the environment and geography (maybe a bit of history as well) in the Baltic Sea area
- promoting tolerance
- promoting social skills
- making new friends
ENVIRONMENT and GLOBAL AWARENESS
- increasing environmental and global awareness
- learning to follow the news
- learning to be an active citizen (learning to take a stand in the society)
- coming to terms with sustainable development
- learning to take responsibility for one’s actions
LANGUAGE
- promoting language skills
ART
- art, esthetics and feelings incorporated with studies
- promoting the use of images in expressing oneself
INTERNET
- promoting media skills and media literacy
FEELINGS
- having fun learning and traveling
The objectives of Nordplus Framework Programme:
To promote Nordic languages and culture and mutual Nordic-Baltic linguistic and cultural understanding;
To contribute to the development of quality and innovation in the educational systems for life-long learning in the participating countries by means of educational cooperation, development projects, exchanges and networking;
To support, develop, draw benefit from and spread innovative products and processes in education through systematic exchange of experiences and best practice;
To strengthen and develop Nordic educational cooperation and contribute to the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic educational area.
The Nordplus Framework Programme offers financial support to a variety of educational cooperation between partners in the area of lifelong learning from the eight participating countries in the Baltic and Nordic regions.
Only participants from the participating countries (Denmark – including Greenland and Faeroe Islands -, Estonia, Finland – including Åland -, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) are eligible for financial support from Nordplus.
