Folklore is joining us Erasmus Project

Project Title

Folklore is joining us

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our Erasmus+ project “Folklore is joining us” focused on the field which makes a part of every nation – FOLKLORE. Folklore exists in every European country and it constitutes the important part of history and culture. Even if partners come from different states, folklore traditions have something in common and we wanted to find the common points.
The main goal of our project was to create opportunities for pupils of European schools to meet other cultures. In view of the fact that Europe is really multicultural, the pupils have to understand this situation and they have to be knowledgeable in it.

The main goals we achieved were internationalizing the organizations, improving English skills for better communication of all participants. We created and developed a long-lasting partnership not only of organizations but also individual participants. We learned how to react in unexpected situations, the teacher´s participants enriched teaching methods and exchanged methods of good practice, got inspired in teaching for instance through cooperative learning. The project improved participants´ planning and managing skills and due to Covid-19 we developed ICT skills enormously and could try online meeting of the project teams to discuss CLIL methodology which is a great way to learn students in 21st century schools.

Via 2 short-term exchanges of group of pupils and 1 short- term joint staff training we got to know about knowledge of traditions, habits of Easter, Christmas and other important traditional events of each partner´s country. We got acquainted with typical regional meals, music, musicians, artists, dances and writers.

Organizations worked on the general outputs of our project such as a project website, photo and video gallery, film Sounds of our country, cookery book, artist book, short sketch, notice-boards of the project, dissemination in the regional media, leaflets, presentation of each school and the education system of the country, the leaflet of experiences with regional traditions.

We set up a project website and facebook page accessible to everyone (public, teachers, academic workers and experts) to share our project results. The project website is available to anyone and offers longer benefits of the project for teachers interested in this topic. Everyone can see and use our results and work as inspiration, such as videos, photos, presentations and lesson plans in their own classes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42631,64 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnazium Ladislava Jarose Holesov & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• 1 EPAL KAVALAS
• LICEO TORRICELLI