VEriTage: Integrated European Cutural Heritage for VET Erasmus Project

Project Title

VEriTage: Integrated European Cutural Heritage for VET

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 : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The project’s context was formed from the European Commission’s contribution to the Leader´s meeting in Gothenburg, 17 November 2017 “Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture “-is that one of a Europe with deep cultural diversities at the basis of its strength and, at the same time, a common ground that makes up the distinct feature of the European way of life.

Within this framework, we started from the valorisation of CLIL “Content and Language Integrated Learning” methodology experiences now capillary in Europe, as testified by the Eurydice Key data Report on Languages at school in Europe, in line with the updated European Reference Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning and in line with the Communication of the European Commission “Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe”, our goal is to approach and explore one specific topic, the European cultural heritage, and one methodology -the integrated teaching and learning one -mixing them together we aimed to foster a new and crucial topic for VET and offered a new approach, breaking down the traditional barriers between disciplines and integrating the topic in some existing training paths within the VET provider offer in Europe.

In other words, the project wanted to create a connectedness between disciplines that otherwise might have seemed unrelated to many learners. We wanted to introduce and fully implement the integrated teaching and learning methodology, through the European cultural heritage topic, in the VET system.

The main target group was represented by VET trainers and the project designed, implemented, tested and disseminated a kit of didactic-educational tools tailored made on VET trainers because:
-it exploited the cultural heritage topic within, and in connection with, different conventional subjects (such as economy, history, sciences);
-it resorted to alternative and multimedia sources, exploiting the strengths of the ludic methodology and ICT tools learning strategy: an online team quiz game and an app for mobile use were part of the kit.
-it offered an attractive material to be directly used within the classroom: the kit is available for free for all the VET teachers and trainers that want to use the kit within their lessons.

In a consequent cascade flow, the second main target group was represented by VET learners, as the final beneficiaries. The benefits for them were an enhancement of their learning motivation, real opportunities to study the same content from different perspectives and development of crucial key competences, such as social and civic competence, cultural awareness and expression.

The kit was released as an OER and this action was considered to be crucial in order to get long term benefits and let the project results be heavily promoted among VET providers and their stakeholders.

The project activities took place over 34 months, in four countries, from north to south Europe: from Sweden to Lithuania, passing through Italy and Spain. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, our project was extended to allow us the time and opportunity to complete all necessary activities and outputs. Even though Covid impacted the duration of our project, we didn’t allow it to affect the results of the project and still realised our final transnational meeting online.

The partnership was built on a heterogeneous team made by complementary competences and expertise, background and missions that valorised a widespread network and the importance of a high quality and attractive VET system.

The participants in the project, during its whole cycle, Lithuania reached 242 persons, 110 reached by Spain, 500 were reached by Engim, 150 were reached by Bluebook and 200 were reached by MEXPERT. Totally across the whole project cycle and the project partnership we have reached 1444 persons. This number was reached by focus groups in each country, testing exercises by teachers, testing final activities by students, participants in multiplier events and some of these in direct dissemination activities. These also included people with fewer opportunities and special needs. The participants actively took part in the preparation and testing phase of the intellectual output. All multiplier events were realised but smaller number of participants were involved. Lithuania did the event totally online. Across the partnership 88 were reached face to face and 75 were reached online.

In facing the European cultural heritage topic and the mainstreaming of an integrated approach, the partnership pursued a transnational approach to look at the main framework within plural dimension, valorising the inputs, feedbacks and suggestions coming from different contexts and exploiting a dense network of stakeholders.

Project Website

http://veritage.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157219,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Panevezio darbo rinkos mokymo centras
• ENGIM PIEMONTE
• ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA DEL JUGUETE CONEXAS Y AFINES
• Bluebook s.r.l.