Forgotten soul of the city Erasmus Project

Project Title

Forgotten soul of the city

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Europe is not an empty space. Many people live and lived here and changed the natural and social environment of this continent. To build a deep relationship to the space, where we live, means to be conscious of its´ past, the needs of it and to have the will to improve it. In both cities (Ostrava, Helsinki) there are places, which were at some time important or interesting, but nowadays they disappeared from the memory and sometimes they are devastated. The aim of our project is to bring these places to life again in an artistic way. The phenomenon of forgotten city places is similar in Europe and by international cooperation we can make students aware, that we can respond to the challenges of reality together and this way develop not only the relationship to our own place but to Europe as our common life space. By working on this project participants will develop their sense of responsibility towards their life space local and European and sensitivity for the local differences. Out of that can come the initiative and engagement in public sphere.
The main objectives are:
– To support the development of key competencies.
Both schools focus on the development of the students´ competences through the project work. The main objective is to encourage the active citizenship in the participants through multidisciplinary artistic approach. Each of the participants will have the possibility to deeply connect him-/herself with the project in a way suited to him/her, to use, show, document and assess his/her competences and consequently be more interested and involved in activities of the project. To achieve this, the participants will take up their own part in the process – from the planning through to the evaluation. The project therefore supports active development of various abilities and competencies and their evaluation, so the participants can recognise and record their potential and be better prepared for their entry into the world.
The main development is expected in the field of cultural awareness and expression. The multilingualism will be supported by using English as a communication language. The participants will learn basics of the Finnish and Czech too. The active citizenship will develop through the work on site-specific places enlivenment, what will support the personal and social competencies as well. Digital competencies will be for the communication and presentation (photographs and movies).
– To develop European cultural awareness and civic engagement and participation leading to responsible citizenship
The participating students and teachers will develop this throughout the work, but the results will be shared. Their aim is to raise cultural and civic engagement in participants, schools and local communities.
Participants of the project:
All the participants will work generally in joined transnational groups, which will partially overlap, but where each group will have a specific task: research of the site-specific places, visual artistic setting, performing arts presentation (actors – dancers, musicians) and media work.
Description of activities:
The project will start by the research of places with a significance, which are now out of general interest. The research group will be in contact with the others, who will develop the artistic expressions. During the mobilities the places will be arranged by the visual arts group and the performing arts group will enliven them by their performance, which they will jointly prepare. The media group will prepare the movie out of that. All the participants will describe their progress on the blog and evaluate their work by two evaluation tools – Europass and the European Portfolio Certificate – hereinafter EPC – (http://www.epc-group.org/index_cz.html) which allow participants to show the results of their formal, non-formal and informal learning and development of their soft and hard competences in a holistic way through recorded self-reflection combined with expert assessment and describe them in a manner comprehensible to the world of study and work.
Results and impact:
As a main result is expected innovative development of the competencies of participants and their evaluation through the Europass and EPC. Especially valuable will be the competencies coming out of necessity to coordinate tasks and cooperate both among many expert groups and between two international groups.
The innovative impact for the schools is expected in wider implementation of project teaching methods, competence evaluation and international cooperation. This is potential for longer term benefits.
The result of the project itself (performance, movie) aims to highlight some places in the cities and expects to draw more public attention and care to them from local community and the city.
Expected minimum of the outcomes:
– 2 presentations of the places
– 2 movies of the performances
– 1 bulletin in English
– blog, Europass and a EPC folder for each participant

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60420 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stredni odborna skola waldorfska, Ostrava, prispevkova organizace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Helsingin Rudolf Steiner -koulun kannatusyhdistys – Understödsföreningen för Rudolf Steiner skolan i Helsingfors r.y.