UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country Erasmus Project

Project Title

UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country

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; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The project is a cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices between 6 European schools from Poland (the coordinator), Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal. The total project duration is 24 months starting from 1 September 2018. The participants of the project are students aged 12-16 attending comprehensive or vocational schools. The project title is: UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country.
The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be for students a training course that will make them improve culturally and humanly.
The project to be undertaken is a synergistic action among the partner schools to develop, in teachers, students and other stakeholders, operational skills and responsible actions aimed at the application of the values and principles of UNESCO. The collaboration activity will have as its objective the knowledge of UNESCO sites, the diversity of expressions of cultural heritage, sustainable development and above all the stories, the experience of people related to that UNESCO site.
The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be training courses for students that will make them improve culturally and humanly, making them informed, responsible and active citizens, respecting differences and cultural diversities.
Therefore, the partnership will aim to share teaching practices, help teachers to work in cooperation with other subjects and create a European network on the eTwinning platform in order to exchange teaching methods.
It also aims to create a team of Erasmus students that can work to develop cross curricular practices such as diversity, seen as a common heritage of humanity that must be handed down to new generations to nurture creativity, the origin of cultural traditions that feeds on new contacts cultures.
We are sure all project results will be successfully achieved including the eBook, the board game, concert, workshops and conferences, the international camp-contest for students in order to show the collaborative skills. There will be a database with materials for students and teachers created. By means of organizing an international lessons based on the project method, the motivation of learning and teaching and students’ assessments will have raised, teachers and students will use the materials and gain knowledge for everyday use.
Therefore, this project will be important to involve pupils failing at school, pupils with learning difficulties and those who have never been abroad before and have never experienced multiculturalism. The project’s aim is also to train the pupils to become open-minded when confronted to diversity and to other cultures of Europe. Additionally, there is the importance of experience sharing among both teachers and students. We all need international cooperation to exchange the best teaching and learning methods. Apart from a bunch of common knowledge we all share, every country uses their own unique teaching methods we would like to discover and make use of on domestic ground.

Project Website

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 33470 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych w Jozefowie nad Wisla & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Liceul Tehnologic “Toma Socolescu”
• IISS Calleri
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Paço de Arcos
• Instututo de Educación Secundaria Pablo Ruiz Picasso
• Profesionalna gimnazia “Ivan Hadzhienov”