Arppen school is a comprehensive school (grades 1-9). The total number of students is over 500. There are totally about 70 full time teacher and other members of school staff in the school. There are groups for special needs students having learning problems in the school. There is also instruction preparing (immigrants) for basic education. There is a large percentage of students, who have bilingual or immigrant backgrounds. Arppen school has been recently an active player in developing learning environments. We have put effort to e.g. use of ICT, multidisciplinary approach, development of learning environments and new teaching methods.

In this project, we are going to organize creative activities in terms of digital education to adopt new teaching methods and to promote the teaching of European cultural heritage.  Digital tool and apps are developed fast ans  the schools has to be able to adapt fast to the fast  technological development.  Our idea is to developie digital education in a way that students will be inspired to discover representations of cultural heritage and traditions.  It is attempting to develop new innovative ways to make European cultures visible and to promote the sense of belonging to Europe.  

For teachers this is a project that helps to develop professional skills.  For example, teachers will also evaluate their strengths, weaknesses and developmental needs for distance learning. This aim was raised mainly because of the current coronavirus situation - almost all schools are currently closed in Europe. Different countries have provided different approaches and solutions for distance education. Also, resources for distance education differ a lot among countries. Thus, we will gather all the experiences of distance learning under the state of this exceptional pandemic in European countries and we will share good practices and make suggestions to improve digital education and distance learning in European schools.