Our Best for Heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Best for 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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The year 2018 has been proclaimed as European Year of the Cultural Heritage.The cultural heritage signifies four objectives: engagement, sustainability, protection and innovation.We based our project on these initiatives/pillars.
Our project aimed:
– to show that it is very important to raise our students´awareness of their history and cultural background and to be proud of their roots
– to get our students to bring new life to heritage and to engage them in exploring and discovering their own as well as other European cultural treasures
– to enhance the sense of belonging to a European family. By cooperating with schools from different parts of Europe, our students are going to see and accept the cultural diversity which is important for promoting democracy and peace.
– to show all participants how significant role the heritage plays in our lives and that there cannot be bright future without history
– to encourage all participants to identify their cultural heritage and accept the feeling of responsibility for it.
– to innovate education,do research and use technology.
– to promote language education and meet new people-to use their English as a tool for communication and cooperation,improve ICT skills and crosscurricular skills that are important at school but mainly for students´ future development.Using
English and different methods of ICT to fulfill project activities that include exploring culture, History, Art, Geography and Tourism, Civics, etc. improved the students´ overall knowledge and skills.The project aimed to use the crosscurricular
approach to help our students to see the links between the subjects in the real life.We wanted to show our students that communication in other language is a natural part of every life and motivate them to futher studying,travelling,exploring.
– to strenghen students´ selfconfidence and independence.We aimed to give our students opportunity to raise their selfconfidence by cooperating with peers from different countries.
– to support responsible approach to information and to develop critical thinking by searching and separating particular information.Students worked on certain tasks focusing on searching and compiling information and we wanted to teach students
how to share and defend own opinion.
– to help new inexperienced teachers with methodology, especially with the method CLIL which combines the English language with the content of the lesson being taught.CLIL leads to greater exposure of English and therefore it improves the students´ as well as the teachers´linguistic skills.The teachers became more self-confident to use English during their lessons.
The project focused on exchanging good practice in order to find the most effective ways for improvements in all aspects of education.Project activities were chosen to be linked up with the main priority and topics adressed by the project.
All results are further dissaminated in our schools, local communities and – by doing so in each school- the project have an international impact.
Results:multilingual tourist guide was used during the short-term exchanges,map of each partner country with UNESCO sites,historical timeline of a UNESCO site,,videoreports of local UNESCO site with aim to bring the history alive, research to find the”New UNESCO sites for New generation”,craft workshops with UNESCO topic,UNESCO essay, poster competition, worksheets. Results important for organisation and disemination:a project planning calendar,project logo, bulletins,questionnaire,project calendar,photobook.
Results were produced during short-term exchanges-European UNESCO map on canvas,videoreports from UNESCO sites during short-term exchanges,Pilgrim diary tracked all important activities and events during short-term exchanges, We used precise planning and regular evaluating.The project requirements were set at the beginning of the project,the main coordinator distributed the tasks and the Erasmus teams worked to fulfill the tasks in the best way and finished them in time.The project planning calendar also served as a reminder.

The project brought together 5 partners selected according to similar interests.The number of participants was about 3800.
-the Czech Republic,elementary school, the main coordinator
-Italy – Sicily, elementary school,partner
-Lithuania ,progymnasium, partner
-Poland,elementary school,partner
-Ireland,elementary school, partner
Stakeholders involved people of different nations,different generations,different social,cultural and educational backgrounds,different opinions and views,different needs and abilities,different habits and traditions.
To ensure long term sustainability, all results of activities and mobilities are stored on the project website and they are prepared for further use.

Project Website

http://ourbestforheritage.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89697,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladni skola Holice, Komenskeho 100, okres Pardubice & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 66 im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie
• Kedainiu “Ryto” progimnazija
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale San Giovanni Bosco
• Bunscoil Buachaillí Réalt na Mara