EuroDigiCultHer Erasmus Project

Project Title

EuroDigiCultHer

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

EuroDigiCultHer is a school exchange partnership between six schools from Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The digitisation and preservation of Europe’s cultural heritage is one of the key areas tackled by the Digital Agenda for Europe. European Commission launched Europeana, a platform for digital cultural heritage in 2008 in order to preserve cultural heritage, promote a sense of a European identity and give support to teachers in integrating digital cultural heritage into their teaching. With this project we want to launch the initiative of implementing digital cultural heritage into teaching of different subjects among partner schools and other European schools and popularise Europeana among teachers and students. The integration of digital cultural heritage in the classroom is increasingly important as the 21st century technology brings further opportunities for digital teaching and learning and developing students’ creativity through ICT tools. The importance of digital learning grows and with this project we want to enrich the curricula of schools involved and provide teachers and students with new methods and materials. Participants that will be involved in most project activities are around 25 students and around 25 teachers from each partner school, other than that a big number of students and teachers(around 1000) from all partner school will be involved in some project activities since they will take part in creation and implementation of teaching scenarios in different classes. There will be one short-term joint staff training event in which 3 teachers from each partner school will take part in order to learn about Europeana, ways of integrating digital cultural heritage across curriculum and different ICT tools for digitising. There will be five LTTAs attended by four students and two accompanying teachers from each country. Each LTTA will have a different topic( Video/Audio production, Digital storytelling, Graphic design, Gamification, VR/AR). During mobilities students will among other activities create digital items using the cultural heritage of the visited country, exchange experiences, visit cultural institutions to see how they are digitising cultural artefacts. After each mobility a 24-hour EuroDigiCultHer Hackathon will be organised on eTwinning during which participants but also other European students and teachers will create a digital collaborative product using their cultural heritage. The methodology used will include both theoretical presentations and practical workshops(for teachers and students), creation of teaching scenarios by teachers, implementation of these scenarios across curriculum of all partner schools, creation of digital items by students, study visits to cultural institutions, combining physical with online learning. The project results include one structured training for the staff on implementing digital cultural heritage across curricula, twelve innovative teaching scenarios created by teachers who attended training,five trainings for students about ICT tools organised in each partner school, students’ creative works such as digital stories, videos, audio files, posters, brochures, digital games, VR/AR items , five EuroDigiCultHer hackathons organised on eTwinning, one digital booklet containing teaching scenarios, students’ creative digital works and practical tips on integrating digital cultural heritage across curricula and eTwinning project website. The impact we want to achieve is launching the initiative of using digital cultural heritage in teaching and thus mainstreaming the use of digital cultural heritage in European classrooms across curricula. We want the partner schools to become hubs of digital innovation in terms of digital cultural heritage. Through project activities we want to enrich teachers’ pedagogy and methodology knowledge and skills and thus influence students’ ICT skills that are indispensable for their future employment. Overall, we aim at raising both teachers’ and students’ cultural awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage in digital form. In the long run we want partner schools to serve as best practice examples to other European schools and for them to share their valuable experiences, knowledge and skills regarding digital cultural heritage. These long-term benefits will be achieved through continuous and systematic dissemination during and after the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164895 Eur

Project Coordinator

I Gimnazija Osijek & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Institut Guillem Catà
• Budapesti Müszaki Szakkepzesi Centrum Petrik Lajos Ket Tanítasi Nyelvü Vegyipari, Környezetvedelmi és Informatikai Szakgimnáziuma
• 4th Geniko Lykeio Zografou
• Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Mario Sacramento
• Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico G. Malafarina