Erasmus+ | De La Salle College

De La Salle College is proud to be involved in a number Erasmus+ projects. Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe, providing opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, and gain experience abroad.

A number of our teaching staff are currently working and collaborating on an Erasmus+ Projects.

We look forward to continuing our work and collaboration with schools and organisations throughout Europe on future projects. Through these collaborations our staff and our students will develop and grow.

Current Projects

Young Lead

For the past two years, De La Salle College has been a partner on the YoungLEAD project with Erasmus Plus. YoungLEAD project aims to aide teachers of children aged 11-16, especially children from disadvantaged and migrant backgrounds, in developing leadership skills and understanding of European values among children.

The project kicked off in September 2023 in Prague, where Principal Siobhan Foster represented De La Salle to meet partners from three countries and six organisations including:

- The Institute of European Professional Studies from Czech Republic

- ZS Stross School from Czech Republic

- I & F Education from Ireland

- GROWTHCOOP from Spain

- Carlos V School from Spain.

In Prague the partners decided on the goals and objectives of the projects, which include developing the following skills - Communication, Team Work, Decision Making, Resilience, Self Esteem, Conflict Resolution and Empathy. To help teachers promote these skills in the classroom, partners decided to create 21 games aimed at students aged 11-16 to grow leadership skills and interpersonal competencies, including understanding EU values. Tasked with devising seven of these games, English teacher Ms Madden got to work in February 2025. With the help of her first year Speech and Drama students, the games were ready to go.

In April 2024, De La Salle College hosted the second coordination meeting of the Erasmus+ YoungLead project in the city of Dublin, where we had the opportunity to give a presentation about the Irish education system and discuss upcoming activities to be carried out in the project. The consortium from all three countries had a fruitful two days deciding on next steps, including the creation of a digital platform full of resources and educational materials for the use of teachers and students.

Come September 2025 and it was Spain’s turn to host. The partners headed to Granada to collaborate on creating “learning nuggets.” Unlike larger courses or modules, learning nuggets are bite-sized, interactive lessons designed to make education fun and engaging. Using a variety of formats such as flashcards, quizzes, animations and posters, students can quickly grasp the concepts and skills the YoungLEAD project aims to foster.

Finally in September 2025, Ms Foster and Ms Madden went back to Prague to finalise the creation of the YoungLEAD digital platform. The digital platform is an online space where teachers and students can learn about the project and access easy-to-use resources like interactive learning nuggets, leadership games, and teaching guides, all tailored to help students grow in confidence, teamwork, and communication.

Participating in the project has been an incredible opportunity to collaborate with other educators to ensure future generations feel connected, promote social cohesion, improve their employment prospects, and enrich their cultural understanding.

For more information please visit the website here.

Completed Projects

'4 Creatives'

This project was completed with organisations and schools in Spain, Romania and Bulgaria. Details of this project can be found on the project website

PRAISE - Preventing Radicalization Within European School Education

This project was completed with organisations and schools in Spain, Romania, Sweeden and Greece. Details of this project can be found on the

project website

8 STORIES FOR CREATIVITY: SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH THEATRE Project

In the 21st century some competencies are becoming more important than others. Nowadays employee should have competencies which could be used in various contexts and would allow flexibility to adapt to changing conditions. Such trend is visible not only in Lithuania, but in all European Union. In 2019 the research conducted in Lithuania revealed that in employers’ opinion graduates need stronger skills in ability to make decisions (84%), analytical thinking (77%) and creativity (59%). According to employers confederation, one of the most needed/wanted skills – employees’ creativity. The general objectives of our project is to establish and develop by the partners “the 8 basic stories”, which will be adapted to their country or region by primary and secondary school pupils with the aim of promoting inclusion and preventing early
school leaving, through creativity and theatre. The scope of the project will be primary and secondary schools, including cultural centres and youth clubs, regardless of whether they are rural or urban. The differences and inequalities that cause early school leaving are found in both rural and urban areas, and are unfortunately a general phenomenon in all EU countries. The supranational significance of social inclusion is a major need in all EU countries.

Combating social and cultural disadvantages in the school environment becomes a fundamental need for all our countries and the fight for social inclusion must be a priority for all European institutions. We will achieve the objectives by taking into account the diversity of students within the same school and classrooms, having the appropriate support to respond to heterogeneity and focusing on the dramatization skills of each student and the sense of belonging to the theatre group. We will encourage the development of the students’ creativity through the theatre to stage daily problems in our European societies. Based on the values that we have to develop and promote among the students, the teacher/director will work on the staging of those daily situations of our young people in their cities or countries. Their dramatization and staging will help these young people to become aware of the problems and their solution, via social inclusion.

The target group is school children and youth in the broadest sense of the word, so that by acquiring an awareness of the serious problems of our society present in their immediate environment, and dramatizing them through the theatrical technique of dramatized improvisation, the core of our project, they will become aware of these shortcomings (perhaps of their own schoolmates who are very close to them), and acquire this awareness will address the solution of unjust situations. Through the starting point of latent values in universal stories, everyday situations and problems will be focused on analysing and solving situations such as social inclusion, bullying, cyberbullying and aggressive behaviour in the school environment, injustices, etc.

Objectives

The instrument of our general objective in our project is to use the technique of drama improvisation as a tool to encourage divergent thinking, imagination, fantasy and above all, creativity. The teachers will apply this technique so that the students become familiar with the story and its interpretation, and through the dramatization and rehearsals, we will hopefully achieve the integration of the students in the work group and develop the scheme of teamwork and the assumption of new roles that will arise from staging the stories. It will conclude with the final staging of the story in front of the rest of the class (or the rest of the school), getting the group to act and “play the theatre game”, which places the actors in an intermediate position between reality and fantasy, and it is because of this peculiarity that, through theatrical improvisations, a rupture of the fixed links between classmates is produced, which generates in the group a need to restructure new socio-affective alliances that are momentary, but can also be lasting.

Our partners

We have 7 partners from 4 different countries:

-ASOCIACIJA KURYBINES ATEITIES IDEJOS – Lithuania
-Istituto Religioso di Formazione e Istruzione Professionale – Italy
-SAN GIUSEPPE ONLUS – Italy
-I AND F EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT – Ireland
-CENTROS FAMILIARES DE ENSEÑANZA, S.A. – Spain

-FORUM PARA LA EDUCACIÓN Y EL DESARROLLO – Spain

For further information, please visit: https://8stories.eu/