V4 Educational Chess Summit 2023

We will organize a V4 Chess Education Summit hosted by the Global Chess Festival on the second Saturday of October 2023. The Summit would consist of a panel discussion (directed by a moderator) where invited experts from all V4 countries would discuss important issues concerning the implementation of chess in school programs in the region. Proposed topics include: • Lessons learned from the last 10 years of implementing chess education programs (since the EU declaration) • Teaching methods used in each country (ideas, pedagogical tools, methods, teaching materials, etc) • How can successful models be replicated in other countries? • Shared challenges of chess education programs (e.g. chess and pedagogical training issues, funding, promotion, etc) • Technological and digital opportunities • Future collaboration opportunities (how could joint trainings and standards work) The event would be an opportunity for regional experts to meet and discuss both regional challenges and opportunities for cooperation. It would help us introduce the benefits of chess education programs and successful V4 teaching methods to a wider audience – from the Global Chess Festival attendants to online viewers of the event. https://www.thejpcf.com/index.php/en/cooperation

VENI ACADEMY: 4×4 – final concert

Final concert is a final culmination point of the whole project. Chosen pieces will be presented by ensemble. http://veniacademy.sk/4x4/

International teacher exchanges (Product)

The project will involve exchanges of 4 teachers from each school who will visit the partner educational institutions on three dates. Each visit will last two days, during which experiences, best practices and teaching methods will be exchanged and shared. The aim of each teacher is to get acquainted with the school environment, the equipment of the specialist classrooms, the teaching methods as well as its content. Each trip abroad then produces a three-page structured document mapping the teaching they witnessed, which forms the basis for the compilation of the project outputs presented at the final seminar. All of this contributes to the main objective of the project, namely to strengthen the professional network of educational institutions in the fields of mechanical, electrical, IT technology and robotics and to promote the mobility of teachers in order to share best practices and increase the quality of teaching, expand its forms and therefore increase the attention of students, leading to a higher quality of graduates in these fields and their employability on the labor market. This cooperation will also fulfil the other objectives of the project such as expanding the skills and language skills of the teachers, gaining new experiences and learning about other cultures and ways of teaching each other. New insights into robotics can also be gained, which will help to enrich the content of teaching (e.g. gaining information on new technologies, procedures, etc.). Last but not least, the objectives of the project include establishing new and deepening existing collaborations between teachers, mutual inspiration in new forms and methods of teaching and motivating students. https://pslib.cz/o-skole/projekty/visegrad-fund