Once upon a time Erasmus Project

Project Title

Once upon a time

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

From the very beginning of the process of internationalization of the schools involved, we have been aware that this type of actions result in an enrichment of the educational processes. Furthermore, develop activities with schools settled in other countries and with children of different educational levels, are motivating which leads to strengthen in children, a feeling of belonging to a common European space.
ONCE UPON A TIME was born after the appointment of 2018 as the “European Year of Cultural Heritage”, an ideal time to highlight the value of the heritage of European people with students of Primary Education. The plurality of our classrooms, marked by the diversity of nations and cultures among students, made this project an ideal way to start it and allow students to be aware of these differences by taking them as a source of personal growth and enrichment.
The study of tangible and intangible heritage of the countries involved (Spain, Slovenia and Portugal), has invited to take an active role in all project activities by students, leading to the development of attitudes of respect and tolerance towards what originally was considered as different. The families have also participated in a very dynamic way through lectures, workshops, support for theater groups … which has contributed to broaden the scope of the proposed objectives originally.
Following the general lines of the objectives set in educational matters within the EU strategic framework 2020, our project has become the mean to develop attitudes of respect and conservation of heritage at local, regional, national and international levels and their social and cultural expressions; It has contributed to create a personal and collective identity of feeling of belonging to a common European territory, has aroused their curiosity towards the knowledge of new countries, cultures and traditions; It has allowed to explore, collect and share aspects of local, regional and national ethnography. New technologies and the eTwinning platform have been the central focus throughout the life of the project, making as a reality, the collaborative work between the different schools.
The content of ONCE UPON A TIME has been divided into four blocks for a greater operability and ease of understanding during the school year 2018/2019. Each of them has given as final products resources that has been published and made available for the educational community. Thus, we started the project with compilations of stories / legends that were adapted to a theatrical script, translated into different languages and put on stage during the mobility of the teachers. The second block highlighted the plastic arts as protagonists with visits to museums to discover masterpieces of the culture of each country that let us to recreate them with different techniques, we received talks by experts in this field and could implement digital museums in the schools with the families’ collaboration. The publication of a calendar with images of student works will allow these contents to be sustainable and last over time. In the third block we work music and dance bringing the most popular aspects to students: fados, jotas … The adaptation of some of these pieces and their recording in a studio, have been the final product of this block. The project has been closed with a final work block focused on gastronomy with the collaborative realization of a recipe book collected in the three countries.
From the beginning we have sought for ONCE UPON A TIME to reach beyond the surroundings near the center and reach other contexts further away from the municipalities of the schools through a broad plan of dissemination activities: meetings with teachers, events in the schools for families, Open Days, publication of articles in local newspapers, regional radio interviews, participation in Innovation Days, teaching presentations for teachers nationwide … which has allowed participating organizations to consolidate as referent on Europeans Projects in their different regions or countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 22265 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ceip Carlos Ruiz Navalcarnero & Country: ES

Project Partners

• osnovna sola Simona Gregorcica Kobarid
• Colégio do Minho