Filming together for being closer Erasmus Project

Project Title

Filming together for being closer

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The project has been implemented in order to internationalize five schools from Turkey, the Republic of Lithuania, Romania, Finland and Spain (coordinator) and learn how to work together and benefit from this teamwork synergism to obtain a series of common objectives. We aim at developing the conception of a more open Europe among all the partners, sharing values and cultural heritage to achieve better understanding. A more open Europe without language or cultural borders for students or workers.

The topic of the project deals with different aspects such as European values, cultural heritage, inclusive learning and early school leaving. All these issues have been analysed and reflected in audiovisual creations. Therefore, the students worked on one cultural heritage aspect of the partner countries at every meeting and also learned about one of the stages of audiovisual production. Unfortunately, the last two mobilities were not carried out due to the pandemic and consequently, the project was unfinished. The script could not be filmed or presented at the MICE (International Educational Film Festival) in Valencia, since it was cancelled.

The objectives previously planned are:
Objective 1. To improve the internationalization of partner centres through the sharing of knowledge and teamwork projects with schools from other countries.
Objective 2. To improve skills and knowledge for better quality in teaching (audiovisual support, languages, etc.)
Objective 3. To promote a committed, empathetic and respectful European citizenship.
Objective 4. To increase the European awareness of the students and the knowledge and reflection of European values and cultural heritage.
Objective 5. To favour inclusive learning and the decrease of early school leaving in the organizations involved (through the analysis and contributions of the students themselves).
Objective 6. To develop the audiovisual competence of students in order that they will read and produce images in a critical and reflective manner.

The project had to be implemented by five schools with different characteristics within the school sector, but sharing the interest in European values and audiovisual media as a powerful communication tool for the young. The project depended on four organizations with different kinds of experience in Europe (exchanges, KA219, KA101) and one more school with no previous experience but supported by all the partners to achieve sucessful performance. Both the preparation and execution of the project were consensed and implemented by all the participants in a balanced way and led by the different project coordination teams.

The meetings finally held have been:
1. Teachers mobility aimed at improving audiovisual skills, project planning and getting to know one another. (Three days, November 2018, Spain).
2. Mobility of 4 students per school to talk about values and heritage to be included in the script (5 days, Turkey). Cultural value: Music and dance.
3. Mobility of 6 students per school to work on creativity and script writing (5 days, Lithuania). Cultural value: Sport.
4. Mobility of 5 students per school for technical aspects and shooting script (5 days, Romania). Cultural value: Literature.

Mobilities number 5 and 6 were planned, postponed and finally cancelled due to the global health crisis:
5. Mobility of 8 students per school for filming (10 days, Finland). Cultural value: Arts.
6. Mobility of 5 students per school to present the film at MICE (5 days, May 2020, Spain). Cultural value: Cinema.

Students dealt with a cultural European value at every mobility. In addition to this, some long-term mobilities were carried out in Spain and Finland, hosting 2 Finnish students and and two Spanish ones, respectively.

The most important achievements have been the language skills improvement of students and teachers, greater knowledge of values and European heritage and audiovisual production learning. They caused a positive impact among all the partners and increased their interest to take part in future European projects. Other results such as the decrease of early school leaving are expected to be achieved in the future.

Consequently, the long-term benefits will be firstly more open-minded and aware students, secondly the establishment of bonds between partners that may generate future projects and finally, the improvement of coexistence (inclusive learning) and educational results (early school leaving).

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/eduvantaa.fi/filmingtogether/front-page

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 104097,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut d’Educació Secundària el Quint & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Colegiul National “Mihai Viteazul”
• Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla
• Vaskivuoren lukio
• Zubeyde Hanim Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi