In Vino Varietas Erasmus Project

Project Title

In Vino Varietas

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The original idea for this project developed because Besigheim was awarded the title of “Schönster Weinort Deutschlands” (Most beautiful wine town in Germany) by the TV channel MDR in 2010. Every other year the “Besigheimer Winzerfest” (Besigheim’s wine festival) attracts thousands of people from all over Germany and even Europe.
The project “In Vino Varietas” is a project that deals with one of the most important cultural assets of Europe’s cultural heritage. It offers an incredibly high number of facettes to study for European students as well as their teachers. Furthermore, it does not only offer an interdisciplinary and innovative perspective, there are also many options for an internal differentiation of learner groups according to age, competences and strengthes.
The major aim of this project is to combine the skills and competences of all partners in their common European project results, namely teaching material, a website, the e-magazine “In Vino Varietas” and the most important product a Cuvée, combining the grapes of the participating wine regions.
The different facettes of winemaking will be explored on the basis of a strong connection between practice, research and policy. Interdisciplinarity and innovation will thus be provided by including MINT subjects (manufactoring process), (Foreign) Languages (role of wine in literature, poetry, e. g. Friedrich Schiller), History and Religious Education and Social Sciences (climate, soil conditions, water supply/wastewater and politics of the EU).The acquired knowledge will be the basis for the following practical activities during the work in vineyards and wineries in the participating regions.
The project will give students and teachers the chance to develop strong skills in initiative and entrepreneurship in producing and merchandising the Cuvée wine in cooperation with local wineries and marketing experts. All necessary steps from cultivating the grapes until the botteling and merchandising of the Cuvée will be experienced in theory and practice. The multilingual e-magazine “In Vino Varietas” and a common website for which multilingual articles and presentations on the topic will be written by the participating students will be prepared.
The participating schools in Besigheim/Germany (Württemberg), Baja/Hungary (Hajós-Baja), Triggiano/Italy (Puglia) and La Motte-Servolex/France (Savoie-Bugey) are all situated in European wine regions. Some of them are already famous all over the world for their wine whereas others will get the chance to promote their excellence as wine regions during this project. All partners will provide diverse experiences and competences concerning viniculture and winemaking due to their region’s distinctiveness and characteristics. The partners offer a broad variety of school profiles from schools with general education profiles (Foreign Languages and Science) in Germany and Italy, to France’s Lycée Général et technologique Agricoleare with an agricultural profile and the Hungarian school specializing in tourism. All students between grades 9 and 12 will profit from the project during their lessons, about eight students and two teachers per mobility will visit their partners during a round about one-week stay.
During these visits, the leading organizations will focus on one concrete activity. In France the focus will be on viticulture techniques, especially innovations concerning agroecology. In Germany, this will be the production and quality assurance of the Cuvée together with the external partners Felsengartenkellerei and Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg (LVWO). In Italy an organization simulation developing marketing strategies for the cuvée will be the main activity. In Hungary, the core topic will be wine tourism about a small Swabian wine cellar village in the Hajós-Baja wine region.
Of course sustainability will be guaranteed also after the end of the EU funding. The teaching material which has been prepared and used during the project will be accessible for the following classes, students and teachers and interested schools all over Europe on the common website and school websites. The skills in Entrepreneurship which have been evolved during the project will help students to choose an appropriate future in the working world. The cooperation between schools, wineries and communities/tourism offices will remain also after the EU funding, so that students might gain work experience during internships within the project’s external partners. The Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg (LVWO) e.g. provides a variety of approved vocational trainings, the same is true for Felsengartenkellerei. Furthermore, communities and tourist information offices offer different possibilities for interns in all participating countries. German students might do their BOGY here as well.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117884 Eur

Project Coordinator

Christoph-Schrempf-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Licei Classico Scientifico Linguistico Cartesio
• Ungarndeutsches Bildungszentrum
• Lycée Général et technologique Agricole