Digital Approach to the European Cultural Heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Approach to the European Cultural Heritage

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In today’s world, individuals who form the society are willing to learn the characteristics of groups.People living in a particular place want to find their identity with elements such as language, religion,tradition, and belief that the culture involves. It is evident that learning cultural past also bridges between past and present. Even though people in the different country have different cultures, they have some similarities like the tendency of preserving culture, everyone is aware of the significance of preserving culture. Learning and preserving a country’s cultural past is undoubtedly a basic requirement because of two crucial reasons: one is a sense of national identity, the other is creating and understanding cultural symbols.

Knowing our history, roots, language and culture helps us construct our identity and a sense of belonging and awareness that leads us to realize who we really are and understand more deeply the importance and the richness of the other cultures.

As teachers we must take responsibility for the next generation not just to educate ourselves but to organize ourselves in making our own history and future.

The project will concentrate on these target areas. 1-To search, investigate, discover and visit the monuments connect to the town of every European country participating in the project:
The students will learn to identify the value and the meaning of those unique monuments – many of them are recognized by UNESCO as monuments of global heritage – and realize the responsibility for their preservation.

2-Digital age of open education and innovation: To encourage the acquisition of skills and competence through the use of effective and innovative teaching methods; taking into account the aspects of curricular IT skills adapted for age groups; to promote critical thinking in particular by teaching exact scientific knowledge; the improvement of under-average performances in science, history, geophonics ( The study or science of agriculture ), and ICT skills. Through local and regional visits our students conduct scientific research, seek out bibliographical sources, learn new information and communications skills and digital techniques.

3- The social and educational value of the cultural heritage of Europe: Discovering the cultural Heritage of each country includes many different things from the past that we
value and want to pass on to future generations. It could be people’s memories and experiences, community history, cultural traditions, or the history of languages and dialects.

4- Encouraging knowledge and abilities development for young people: The project encourages students to exercises their reasoning and logical thought by contact with sites with a unique cultural heritage and to establish attitudes and behaviours, so as to foster beauty, society and community.

The project partners are six schools and the project is addressed to students 13 to 17 years old. Approximately more than 120 Students will be involved to the project activities during 2 years. Student exchanges and other activities will also help our students to gain a better grasp of the European Cultural Diversity and a stronger sense of the European cultures and their diverse perspectives.

Many activities before LTT will be done in etwinning that will give the chance to a wider number of students to take part in every step of the project, especially students that cannot take part in activities that have kinetic problems or facing social and other difficulties, refuges etc. this thing will give the chance to them to take part actively by the use of ICT tools and to have a main role in the implementation of the project. INCLUSION is important and our priority in this project and we are going to include more students with Etwinning and Local activities.

The research on this project is intended to explore cultural heritage at the local level, their impact on the identification of the person and their capacity for interacting and collaborating as well as to encourage the growth of their social and economic position in these regions. Activities will be carried out in the classroom with the use of web2.0 tools and outdoors by the use of mobile technology and applications.

The working scheme consists of studying and researching the local heritage resources and sharing this information in transnational meetings; learning about the entrepreneurial project linked to those heritage resources and increasing awareness and recognition with the production of promotional material at local and transnational level.

All project activities are focused on a project-based learning framework with multidisciplinary approach, structured in a cooperative transnational environment around outdoor activities and peer-learning.

With this project, we would like to raise the consciousness of our students and the educational community about local heritage and its significance, and to provide feedback and examples for other schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Arcenciel19 & Country: BE

Project Partners

• 1 EPAL TRIKALON
• Thomas Becket Catholic School
• Ozel Yukselen Fen Lisesi
• Gymnasium Skövde Västerhöjd
• ÖZEL MERAM YÖNTEM ORTAOKULU