Every country hides its own story Erasmus Project

Project Title

Every country hides its own story

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; Migrants’ issues; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

“Even the smallest country is worthy of the greatest love.” /Hans Müller/
The need and the effort to go with, understand, and adapt to the new conditions that have occurred in Europe since the coming of the 21st century is the biggest motivating idea for developing our project “Every Country Hides Its Own Story”.
Today we live at a fast pace of life. We often move, change jobs, create new friendships. We are similar to trees those are often transgressed, their conditions are changed, and therefore they do not produce fruit, because they have not had the time to get rid of the roots, they have settled. In order not to be like these trees. It is important to recognize our identity, history, culture, our traditions. We need to find who we are and where we are going to, what our aspirations, gifts and needs are, what is our mission and how we can enrich this world. These are the basic questions those lead to a quality life like when plants get the right soil that gives them enough energy and nutrients for their healthy growth. Therefore like a year is divided into four seasons, we have divided our project into four parts: The Story of the School, The Story of the Town, The Story of the Region and The Story of Common Europe.
Our goal is to develop the right land by means of the knowledge of the cultural heritage, by which will lead the pupils to tolerance and respect for the differences among individuals, nationalities and nations. At the same time, it will lead pupils to understand the necessity of coexistence in the current multicultural society. In order to achieve the stated goal, it is necessary to try to overcome the persistent barriers in communication in a foreign language.
The beginning of the path we want to achieve is the family, as for the tree of the soil in which we are rooted. If we do not know our roots, then the imaginary wings that will grow us will be weak. Whether we are aware of it or not, our roots are associated with our ancestors. The journey will continue through the recognition of the schools, the cities, regions until today – Europe. Because we grow up in a certain environment that is affected by how our ancestors lived before, in our city, region, country.
Whether we want to build on this legacy or not … we should know it. Only then will we be able to decide how and to what extent we will continue to develop and enhance it …
Just like the tree is known by its fruit, our project will be known by its results. If a tree has proper conditions and care, it brings good fruit. We believe this project will be enriching for all of us. We also choose methods and activities to explore and learn to use the information. Whether the results are good and successful depends on us. The fruit of our project will be the creation of a family tree, a school tree, a historical calendar, craft products, a traveling exhibition, bookmarks, a Comenius dictionary, an international escutcheon of respect, a theatrical performance “Ever Country hides Its Story”. In the questionnaire of tolerance, we will point to our shared story in Europe and the intermingling of cultures of different nations.
Teamwork will strengthen the social competencies of pupils. We will solve the problems and make compromises. Through the games we develop communication and interpretative skills. By working on PC we will improve our digital skills, especially in the area of ​​information acquisition and its use in the development process of our own personality.
It is a further step to enriching the content of the school curriculum with new elements in language learning, multicultural and creative learning. This step will provide pupils with better professional orientation, attractive learning, and motivation to learn. Pupils will make new friendships and improve in cooperation by using foreign languages what is very important for their future jobs.
We believe that these activities will give us as much energy as hugging all the trees in the forest. Behind these activitiesthe wealth will be hidden , from which we will be able to pump for a long time. It will be a solid bridge of leading to mutual tolerance and respect. It is essential point to know our own pedigree, our own roots, to be inspired by our own ancestors and by all their stories. At the same time, it is a new challenge to understand people more and to promote mutual dialogue among us
“Let each of us be better today than he was yesterday, and our homeland will be great and glorious.” /Milan Rastislav Štefánik/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 15340,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola Podzamska 35, 920 01 Hlohovec & Country: SK

Project Partners

• SANTISIMA TRINIDAD
• Szendroi Apáczai Csere János Általános Iskola
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE ARCHIMEDE LA FATA
• SCHOOL OF PALEKASTRO
• OU Vasil Levski Vratsa