School Media Walks Erasmus Project

Project Title

School Media Walks

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: Inclusion – equity; Social dialogue; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Storytelling is a method that give people the opportunity to tell and discover their own stories, to tell someone’s else story and through this they experience and develop a different perspective and they communicate with the environment through the time and the space. In this project, we want to encourage communication through the use of different media, and inspire pupils to break cultural boundaries by sharing their stories.

Media Walk is a cross media technique that brings together different media forms, combined to reproduce cultural aspects in a creative way. In media walks, the experience of walking is of primary importance: the user walks, not in order to complete certain tasks or to arrive at a specific location, but to explore the productive relation between the walking body, the real environment, and the iconic space.

With the ultimate goal to produce ‘media walks’, pupils and teachers will be introduced to different narration methods and modern digital tools, in order to explore the possibilities of mobile storytelling and apply its practices in the classroom.

Through teacher training, we will present methods of binding digital environments with digital tools, by practical-school activities, which will be applied in the classroom. The goal is to discover flexible and interactive methods for involving pupils in active learning, and inspire cultural exchange. Furthermore, we want to encourage pupils from different countries, communities and environments to work together and build a Storytelling Community, which will contribute to the effort towards a more inclusive and democratic society.
Storytelling will be used as a creative method to critically examine notions of race and racism, integration, inclusion and democratization. By exploring different narrative forms such as Theater, film and visual arts, storytelling becomes a tool to inspire critical thinking and creative expression.

In this project will participate 5 teachers of each school, who will be responsible to communicate the pedagogical models as well as the new digital techniques to the school community. In addition, they will be responsible to work parallel to the training courses, and share the experience and knowledge they gain, with the whole school community.

Moreover, a small group of pupils, around 10-15, from each school, 7th-9th grade will participate to the pupils exchange plan, in order to produce “Media Walks” as well as to present their own achievements/media projects and work on new ideas. All the meetings will be accompanied by our local partners, and will support pupils and teachers in the processes that will be followed.
Pupils from different cultural and social groups, with or without migration background, who for various reasons, attend secondary school without success, who every day face the social inequality and experience the lack of equal social inclusion either through their own experiences or through the eyes of their communities.

We want to create a community that every voice and every story will be heard. The trainings will include definitions of the terms, orienting activities, extending activities, and culminating activities that develop analytic skill-building. The activities move from low risk to higher risk activities. The low risk activities enable participants to get to know each other and gradually take up more challenging tasks. The activities are designed to create three critical connections: individual to institutional, historical to contemporary, and personal awareness to social action. Culminating activities will engage pupils to local actions in order to reinforce the idea that all have something to gain and offer.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53624 Eur

Project Coordinator

Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 2nd Junior High School of Evosmos