COVID AVANT-GARDE Erasmus Project

Project Title

COVID AVANT-GARDE

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation

Project Summary

The social and cultural post-pandemic crisis has affected the social interaction &expression of feelings of our young people. Considering that not all teenagers have the skills to communicate what they fear, desire or feel and providing that students have to cope more and more with the new forms of expression that have appeared through digital channels, this project aims to give them the necessary resources through ART to overcome this situation. Our program will be based on the analysis and reflection on the traumatic situations that Europe has undergone throughout the 20th century (wars) as well as on the resurgence of a new wave of critical thinking with the vanguards.
So, one of the basic objectives of the project will be to use art as a resource to overcome adverse situations and share feelings and findings among the different participants to obtain ethical and aesthetical assets and creative skills, being social inclusion one of our priorities.
All the participants will experience, know, experiment, create, enjoy and disseminate art in all its varied forms and manifestations. However, these objectives won’t be achieved if we don’t establish a symbiotic relationship with the ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ENTITIES of our environment that have also been so affected by this pandemic. That’s why artists will be invited to our classrooms leading to an improvement and enhancement in the relationship that students have with art, for they’ll truly live it. Likewise, students will also visit museums and attend shows &artistic events. WE’LL CREATE A SYMBIOSIS THAT WILL HELP US AND THEM TO BOUNCE BACK / RESURFACE FROM THE CRISIS. We want our students to become both actors and spectators of artistic practices in the future.
Thus, the involvement of creative entities in the project will be essential. With this initiative, we’ll also be able to enlarge the skills that reinforce creativity in our young people and contribute to the resilience and reactivation of the cultural and creative sectors affected by the pandemic. The fact that the educational centers establish these relationships will allow the dissemination and subsequent publicity of these values among students, families & local press. We believe that it’ll raise our communities’ awareness and interest in the cultural offer and contribute to the reactivation of the local creative sector and the cultural life. The local society will become aware of the project through our dissemination plan where social networks will play an important role.
3 schools in southern Europe(Italy, Portugal &Spain) very affected by the lockdown participate in the project. Since the 3 countries taking part in the project speak Romance languages, we’ll have the possibility to work in an environment of intercomprehension. In each school there’ll be a promoter and diffuser group of students and teachers, but it’s intended that the impact of the project reaches the whole educational community. In total there’ll be a hundred students (aged 14-17, artictic profile) involved in leadership of the project (48 in LTTA) and about 20 teachers. But it’ll impact directly to more than 600 students.
Quarterly activities are planned at each school and they’ll be complemented by 3 student meetings (LTTA). We could summarize our methodology as it follows:
Firstly, an artistic language and feeling are proposed to the students and an investigation about its relationship with the VANGUARDS is required. Pupils must take into account our common European references as well as the crisis period that the society lived during the vanguard period and the one we are living now. Finally, the result of this research is expressed in the creation of a webinar, video or presentation that will be shared with all the students of the project. After that, our pupils will work with the artistic techniques connected to the quarter, to express that feeling related to pandemic. At the end, the result of the artistic processes will be exhibited physically in each center and will be shared online with all partners. The schools will count on the advice and work of external contemporary artists to help, stimulate and guide artistic practices. Innovation through digitalization will be one of our goals. To enrich the creativity process we will attend cultural events related to the concepts of the quarter.
This is the correlation that we’ve planned to work:FEAR-VISUAL ARTS, LONELINESS-LITERATURE, HOPE-DANCE, TEMPORARY CONFUSION-THEATER, VULNERABILITY-FASHION, ENTHUSIAM-VOLUME
Once the project’s finished, it’s expected that new methodologies of artistic practices can be introduced in schools, scheduled and systematized course by course. Also, our materials could be used for future generations.
Teachers’ll have been working for 2years in a new methodological environment hand in hand with experts so it’ll shape the daily routine of schools &will surely help PROMOTE THE students’ ACQUISITION OF CREATIVE & ARTISTIC SKILLS.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77996 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT CELESTÍ BELLERA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ISISS O.Conti.Aversa (CE)
• Escola Secundária Manuel Cargaleiro