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Work Programme

To ensure compliance with the outline design in 6 phases of the Work Programme, the project has a work team of 28 people. In this team we have included all the professors currently responsible for Jean Monnet activities at the Universidade de Vigo, as well as those who have been active in the past and our EU expert in the management of EU projects. The strong multidisciplinary trend is completed with the inclusion of two members of the CFRs of Ourense and Vigo so as to consolidate the presence of experts in pedagogy and didactics. However, the European Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the university of Vigo, directed by the responsible for this project, prof. Luis Domínguez ensures coordination among all members and for the activities.

Relations between the participants and the target groups are guaranteed by means of the participatory research methodology and in different ways. First, the physical presence of these participants at schools (in the four working visits planned). These visits will fertilize through a continuous exchange of emails and sharing of information with the school management teams and the teaching staff. Second, the four seminars (45 hours each) will allow close collaboration with teachers at primary and secondary schools who show a greater level of interest and commitment with the project. These teachers will come from the schools involved in the project and also from other schools who show interest in the calls from both CFRs in Vigo and Ourense. Third, the good relations between the project coordinator and the Asociación de Aulas Abiertas ensures the active participation of this group in the tasks assigned in the Work Programme. Finally, the EUCLIO network of historians (which is currently being formed in Spain to integrate researchers in history of European integration), to which the historians of the project belong, will guarantee the discussion of the results of the Madariaga research Fund in Academia.

Work Plan

Assessing prior knowledge, skills, needs and real interests of students and teachers. Assessing the importance of documentation about the European culture in the Madariaga Fund. Assessing prior knowledge, skills and real interests of seniors about European culture.

Preparation of 2 questionnaires (for teachers and students) about European Culture

First visits to primary and secondary schools and application of the questionnaire to students and teachers.

Mailing (trough CFRs of Vigo and Ourense) of the questionnaire to other Galician teachers.

Data analysis with co-researches (a sample of students and teachers). Obtaining results: gaps in learning, needs and interests for students and teachers.

First visits to Salvador de Madariaga Fund in the José Cornide Institute of A Coruña (Spain).

Preparation of the questionnaire for seniors about European Culture in order to use it as a resource in the lesson plans.

First Conference about European Culture.

1st draft of the lesson plans or learning materials based on the results. Designed with co-researchers. Assessing prior knowledge, skills and real interests of seniors about European values.

Search for high quality materials and resources of different types.

First Testing of resources. Second visits to primary and secondary schools. Interviews and focus groups with students and teachers (March-Apr-May).

Data analysis with co-researches.

Collecting documentation of the Madariaga Fund.

Preparation of the questionnaire for seniors about European values in order to use it as resource in the lesson plans.

Second Conference about European values.

2nd draft of the lesson plans or learning materials based on the results. Designed with the co-researchers. Selecting Madariaga Fund resources to be used in the lesson plans.

The most enthusiastic teachers collaborating with the project will be selected to join the stable group that will prepare the learning materials systematically.

Theoretical and practical blended seminars with those teachers (45 h.). Translating the conceptual content developed in previous phases into procedural and attitudinal competences.

Selecting Madariaga Fund resources to use in the lesson plans.

Third Conference about EU History.

Second Testing of resources. Third visits to schools. Preparation papers for Journals and Congress.

Students and teachers at primary and secondary schools will test the updated version of the materials, especially the audio-visual resources, the apps and the procedural and attitudinal contents. Interviews and focus groups with students and teachers.

Data analysis with co-researches.

Developing an updated version.

Preparation papers for Journals and Congress.

Final Testing of resources with students and teachers.

Fourth visits to primary and secondary schools.

Fourth Conference about EU Institutions.

Workshop about Madariaga and European culture.

Final version of all learning materials in the three different languages and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Dissemination of all resources trough the project website, the Galician Government website, and the Compostela Group of Universities website and newsletter.