This document discusses the benefits that a Greek school has received from its participation in the European Union's Erasmus+ program for the past 40 years since Greece joined the EU. The school has received over €188,000 in funding from 2017-2022 to support student and teacher exchanges with other European schools. These exchanges help students develop improved communication skills, cultural awareness, and a stronger sense of European identity, while also helping teachers exchange best practices and develop intercultural skills. The Erasmus+ program has had an overall positive impact on students, teachers, and the prestige of the school.

1. 40 years of Greece’s membership to the EU
“Greece-EU: stronger together for 40 years”

2. Benefits of our EU membership in our school.
It has been forty years since Greece joined the European Union (EU) in 1981, named at
the time European Economic Community.
Our school receives funding for European Erasmus + programs from 2017. In this way,
our school can carry out innovative actions for the organization. Especially the
programs that include mobility with students give the opportunity to the children to
experience more intensely, to work together for life and to show their potential.
“Greece-EU: stronger
together for 40 years”

3. By participating in the Erasmus + program, students and teachers reaped the
benefits of collaboration, group action and interdisciplinary approach to a
variety of school subjects while at the same time being given the opportunity to
exchange views with their classmates and colleagues respectively in Europe.
Visits to schools abroad help students learn about other countries 'education
systems, appreciate the value of diversity, make new friends and spend a week
with their European classmates' families trying a different way of life.

4. Positive impact on students:
 Positive change in the way they deal with everyday school life,
improving the relationship between student and teacher
 Cultivation of self-assessment skills
 Strengthening team spirit and teamwork
 Improving the ability to solve problems
 Strengthen communication skills and presentation skills

5. Positive impact on students:
 Increased sense of autonomy and initiative, development of their creative
and critical thinking
 Expanding knowledge about the European Union, common European
roots and European identity, gaining a global understanding of European
culture
 Gaining multicultural experience, awareness of the political, social and
economic problems of other countries

6. Positive impact on teachers:
 Acquisition of knowledge concerning the educational practices and educational
systems of other countries
 Exchange of best practices
 Creating a cooperation network for participation in future programs
 Improving their organizational skills
 Development of intercultural awareness
 Strengthening team spirit and teamwork.
 Strengthen communication / relationships between students and teachers

7. Positive impact on the school unit:
 Developing intercultural awareness and promoting intercultural dialogue
 School climate change
 Opening of the school to the outside world
 Improving the prestige of the school
 Strengthening the European dimension of the school

9. Total Granted 28.982,00 €

10. Total Granted 32.340,00 €

11. Total Granted 27.670,00 €

12. Total Granted 26.270,00 €

13. Total Granted 30.300,00 €

14. Total Granted 14.168,00 €

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17. School Total
Erasmus+ Granted
188.020,00 €
"The world is like a book, and those who don’t travel are like reading
only the first page" (St. Augustine)