: Cultural heritage and building cultural competence Erasmus Project

Project Title

: Cultural heritage and building cultural competence

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The project helped learners to understand core concepts related to culture and cultural competence. This included learning how to define culture creatively and to understand the process of intercultural competence development.
The tasks carried out built awareness of how cultures form, the importance of perspective-switching and the nature of culture change.
The project focused on activities that helped people understand how cultural differences influence us.
Students explored differences such as attitudes towards power and hierarchy in a variety of situations with a set of activities, from daily interactions to business ones, from current events to websites.
A set of activities focussed on helping our students understand their own and other students´ values, as a means of building self- and awareness of others.
To navigate identity, we defined ourselves and focussed on this project.
A set of activities includesd introductions and exercises that took people on a learning journey to understand, articulate and negotiate their cultural identities.
To manage cultural transitions, we set up frameworks and exercises to help individuals moving across cultures to plan for and manage their transitions effectively.

Knowledge of cultural differences was translated into action, and this set of innovative exercises helped people learn and practice how to communicate successfully in various projects to facilitate team cohesiveness and trust in intercultural situations.
The activities in this project led to build European teams. The exercises included introductions and simulations of which aims were to facilitate team-cohesiveness and trust.
Beyond understanding differences, a key component of cultural competence was able to resolve differences.
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Project Website

http://www.culturalheritage.online

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108696,79 Eur

Project Coordinator

BG/BRG/BORG Schärding & Country: AT

Project Partners

• III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Jana Pawla II w Elblagu
• Gymnasieskolan Knut Hahn
• IES Botikazar/ Botikazar BHI
• RSG Broklede