Encounter, understand and appreciate Erasmus Project

Project Title

Encounter, understand and appreciate

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The project „Encounter, understand and appreciate” is designed for teachers and students aged 15-17 from 6 partner schools form Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Greece and Estonia. The aim of the project is to raise the level of key competences and skills, especially the ability to speak mother tongue and German language, which are permanent elements of our cultural heritage and thanks to those to we want to awake an interest among young people from Europe and their local communities, in issues of national and ethnic minorities and promoting tolerance, openness and empathy towards representatives of other cultures. In this project, the students will discover cultural heritage of national and ethnic minorities not only in form of tangible materials such as buildings, monuments, clothing, artefacts, historical and archaeological sites in the area; but also intangible ones those very well known and those already forgotten or entirely unknown such as customs, expressions, knowledge, abilities and oral traditions and through the proces of digitalization (videos, records, images) together with the acquisition of journalistic skills to revive them and save from oblivion. The active involvement of the young people in interactive workshops, simulation games, preparation of city presentations and exhibitions, creation of photobooks and interactive guides, project will make local communities aware that national and ethnic minorities living in our neighborhood in various historical periods have significantly contributed to shaping the cultural heritage of our regions. All activities have been planned so that the direct and indirect participants of the project, during each local and international activity, acquire and deepen basic and key skills, in particular the ability to communicate in a foreign language, use of TIC, the ability to consciously use the media and acquire knowledge about regional heritage. Participants will gradually learn the secrets of journalism. They will learn what the journalist’s work is all about, how information is built, what distinguishes the gossip from the news, what journalistic ethics is and how to critically receive the media message. They explore the ability to ask difficult questions and conduct interviews, take part in photo workshops and improve their ability to write articles. At the final stage of the project, they will create an inter-school editorial and set up an online newspaper in which they will publish their articles, photos and interviews, also after the end of the project. Discovering the significance of European cultural heritage will contribute not only to raising awareness of common history and values, and to strengthening the sense of belonging to the European community and social integration, but also helps to develop the initiative and entrepreneurship of young people, which will lead to the development of skills necessary for later professional activity. The application of a holistic approach to learning languages based on diversity, learning and applying innovative teaching methods by teachers and including teaching digital skills in curricula will be the key to counteract the poor performance of writing skills in both a foreign language and native language. The project will have a positive long-lasting effect on all participating schools; the teachers and students will benefit from the project by improvement of ICT skills, flexibility of the pedagogical framework and internalisation of the schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180840 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Nr 2 w Krasniku & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Sredno uchilishte Hristo Botev
• ISIS “Edith Stein” Gavirate
• Liceul Teoretic “Johannes Honterus”
• Narva Vanalinna Riigikool
• 3o GENIKO LYKEIO KERKYRAS