The culture of colour plants Erasmus Project

Project Title

The culture of colour plants

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Students often learn from examples and contexts that are especially created and contructed to match general school settings. These constructions are necessary in teaching but often not enough to give students a realistic insight into the numerous topics they learn about. Unfortunately these learning arragements often get stuck on a theoretical level. This project is meant to react against these common ways of teaching and learning in oder to promote interaktive processes in school that combine subjects such as Natural Sciences, Geography, the Arts as well as English as a foreign language in interkultural learning arrangements at home and abroad. The project will start in the individual schools to form a core basis for further communication and project development. Then the activities spread to museums, laboratories as well as nature itself as places for intercultural learning in contexts that are not specially constructed for learning in school but demonstarte a broader, more future-oriented learning invironment. In fact this project focusses on the concept of urban gardening that the students will explore with its potentials and limits for their individual cities and regions to then pass the information on to the exchange group abroad via eTwinning. Taking their findings into account the students will ultimately design a colour garden for the two regions around Padova and Dortmund and put their plan into action when visiting the indivdual schools. The students will thereby find out more about their own regions’ developments as well as the development of other European regions with regard to their geopgraphical as well as geological conditions starting in the past and giving an outlook to the future. In the last part of the project students will combine all their findings by pointing out cultural processes in which colour plants have been used and by using the letter themselves for their own creative production.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32465 Eur

Project Coordinator

Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Liceo Scientifico Eugenio Curiel