Short films-huge effects Erasmus Project

Project Title

Short films-huge effects

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

In our project, students from six European schools will research and experiment with different traditions and crafts typical of their respective countries.
The entire process of acquiring cultural knowledge, mastering and refining it will be documented by videos. These clips focus on both content itself and the processes. The aim of the created clips is to pass on the chosen aspects of cultural heritage to other groups of students, to make them easily available to students who were not involved. By becoming producers rather than consumers, students not only improve their skills as to the medium of films, but they also focus responsibly on the use of their products for their target groups, their fellow students back home.
We are convinced that social cohesion needs to be fostered across borders and that experiencing that cohesion is tantamount. We have to remember our national and common values in order to teach students open-mindedness and an understanding of common European values. Many of the selected cultural traditions have been threatened with extinction and require special effort to be remembered and valued. Our project is our contribution to these efforts.
The adolescent participants will discover and experiment with their own European heritage and document their experience for other students by creating short films. These documentaries and narrative films might provide an overview to inspire others to start similar projects. Our aim is to create materials – available through our websites and e-Twinning – for classes in our schools, but also for others who might be interested. Within our project some students will be given the opportunity to spend a few weeks at our partner schools. During their stays, the students will enhance and help the project work in each school as well as have the chance to reflect upon their own culture, habits, values and educational systems.
As a final highlight of our project, all the films and clips created throughout the project will be shown at a “film festival” during the last mobility. The best clips will be chosen by a jury and be given a film award. We are also planning to participate in a festival of documentaries hosted by Goetheinstitut.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 258664 Eur

Project Coordinator

Karinthy Frigyes Gimnázium & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Scharnhorstgymnasium Hildesheim
• Kurt-Tucholsky-Oberschule
• Liceo Statale Giuseppe Mazzini
• BG Rein
• Institut Quatre Cantons