WHERE IS BEAUTY Erasmus Project

Project Title

WHERE IS BEAUTY

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

Project Summary

CONTEXT- At the basis of the project there is the need to increase pupils’ awareness & their ability to become active European citizens.
The project WHERE IS BEAUTY is focused on AESTHETICS & ETHICS. “Beauty will save the world. Let’s find it out and preserve it” this is our motto! We aim at helping children discovering the beauty inside & around them, providing opportunities experiences & tools to preserve this beauty,by making ethical decisions.

BACKGROUND OF PROJECT-The partnership comes from the collaboration in an eTwinning project of 6 schools: Italy-Portugal-Norway-Bulgaria-Turkey-Spain. 3 schools with a strong Europeanization experience(coming also from a previous successful Erasmus KA2 & with 1 eTwinning ambassador & 2 ETwinning Schools and 3 totally newcomer schools in the European paths. This combination will be perfect to support & mentor them in their Europeanization path. The 6 schools have very different backgrounds, lands & perspectives and this will grant the partnership richness.

OBJECTIVES- By funding this project, our students, teachers and communities will:
-develop a deeper awareness of Europe and how important being active & responsible European citizens is
-get in touch with roots & wings, past, present & future
-discover European beauties & find the way to preserve them, day by day, by making personal ethical decisions that will improve European society, by serving & taking care of our societies
-understand that single decisions can affect society, that each one can contribute to building a better world
-realize that the future is theirs & they have the right, the duty & the possibility to build their future today by becoming aware citizens
-develop 21st century competencies such as: fundamental literacy, cultural & social awareness, foreign languages, digital skills, cooperation & communication, resilience, initiative, leadership…

PARTICIPANTS-The partnership involves students from 8 to 14 & it will work hard to have the maximum participation of teachers, students & communities from the 6 partner schools.
-140 people are involved in mobilities
-about 1000 students & teachers will be involved in the project activities
-3000 at least the members of the community that will be involved thanks to dissemination
-Several municipalities, associations, entrepreneurs & sponsors will be involved in the Service Learning Activities (volunteering)
ACTIVITIES will be carried out DURING MEETINGS & in the INTERMEETING PERIODS. Everytime in each session both AESTHETIC & ETHICAL part will be faced

MEETINGS & INTERMEETINGS.
During meetings, aesthetics & ethics will be the focus of all activities carried out to become aware & preserve the beauty of the 6 topics chosen: MYSELF & THE OTHERS-NATURE-SPORT-FOOD-MUSIC-ART&ARCHITECTURE.
This goal will be also reached during the intermeetings, mostly working in PBL with SERVICE LEARNING APPROACH that will guarantee to get the students accustomed in serving their societies.
Ethical & aesthetic activities will be furthermore spread through creation & dissemination of the planned products/eTwinning virtual exchanges & TwinSpace activities
Determinants will be also dissemination,monitoring & evaluation activities that will lead to a systematization of Europeanization also in the school documents & plans

METHODS -Active methods will be at the basis of the whole project. In particular activities will be carried on using Project Based Learning method in Service Learning Approach. Metacognitive revision will be largely spread during all the activities. Digital content & foreign language acquisition will be highly integrated

RESULTS & IMPACT
-Enhanced civic engagement & participation
-Augmented awareness of the European Cultural Heritage
-Increased awareness of the beauty inside & around us
-Awareness of the relation between decisions & consequences
-Ability to set goals & the steps needed to reach them
-Awareness of the impact that ethical choices can have in the world
-Ability to transform a project in reality
-Communication & cooperation skills
-Active citizenship
-Increased social & civic competences
-Increased foreign languages skills
-Spreading of volunteering practice
All this will highly impact our Schools & Communities in the following ways:
-Europeanization process at the basis of our school curricula
-Application of innovative teaching methods & digital practices
-Enhanced awareness of cultural heritage & inclination towards European culture, citizenship & democracy
-Positive & inclusive school climate
-Appreciation of diversity
-Improvement of local communities

LONGER TERM BENEFITS -The Europeanization path will be improved or begun in all partner schools & it will be at the basis of the school curricola.
Enabling students & teachers understand their power to change the world, making them aware that to become active citizens is not only their right but it is also their duty,will be our long term benefit having a downstream impact.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197763 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo di Bobbio Capoluogo & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CEIP Guliena
• Sviland skule
• EBI Francisco Ferreira Drummond
• Aliaga Ortaokulu
• The Fourth Primary School”Ivan Vazov