ART AND DRAMA Erasmus Project

Project Title

ART AND DRAMA

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The art is essential in our education system, but we don’t give it the time it needs. Transversal activities use to be the way for educators to introduce it in the schools. We want to create some of these cross-curricular activities, but also to increase the weight of art in our daily lessons. This situation is even more emphasized with drama.

In the previous years we have been developing EU funded project on Sciences (Research in the High School), Social Sciences (Youngs on the move) and ICT (Augmented Reality for you). It’s time to start a project focused on Human Sciences and Arts. We search a combination of arts and that is the reason for this project that include painting, drama and writting

A brief description: Four schools will take part in the partnership. Each school will select an important painting for its country. Each school will write a script for a play that includes the scene of the painting. The guiding line of this project is the performances of those four plays. For that, we will have four meetings/learning activities with all the schools (two travels each year) and the main performance of each painting will take place at those events. Each performance will have actors from the four schools, who previously have been working online on the rehearsals.

In order to enhance the impact, several activities will be displayed:
• Researches on the historical and social context of the painting and their characters
• Special focus at the classrooms to the artists and their path
• Lectures in the classrooms
• Record of small biographies (characters and authors) using augmented reality techniques (worked in the previous Erasmus project) for creating “live paintings”
• Dissemination of the products

The main objectives for this project are:
1. To create four scripts inspired by 4 masterpieces (4 paintings, one per country).
2. To perform the four scripts
3. To share the different national heritage of the partners
4. To promote English as the language of the partnership
5. To create a EU partnership

On the other hand, the project also has some secondary aims:
6. To increase the feeling of the European citizenship who shares spaces, cultures and challenges.
7. To use learning processes and tools with a global dimension;
8. To establish a permanent net between the schools local to promote the European awareness.
9. To strengthen teachers’ and students’ intercultural competences;
10. To learn different teaching methods.
11. To exchange good practices;
12. To overcome stereotypes and prejudices about different people and cultures.
13. To promote cooperative learning.
14. To improve the students oral skills

Participants
• Students. The schools will call to take part to students 14-17 years old. A minimum of 30 students in each school is needed to fulfill the plan. So we expect at least 120 students taking part.
The roles of the students are:
o Taking part in the performances.
o Preparing the meetings, working in the activities of the project when they travel and when they are the hosts.

• Teachers: There are at least five teachers in each school engaged to the project, altough we expect at least 30 teachers involved in the whole partenrship

The roles of the teachers are to be in charge of coordination, communication, dissemination and the organisation of the activities and the meetings

• Other school members: families, non-teaching staff, local authorities. All of them, and specially the families, are called and admitted to take part and help us. It’s voluntary and we expectat each school a group with 50 people (at least) involved in some concrete moments.

The project includes long term mobilities. Before each meeting, one student of each country participate in this activity with a key role in the develope of the project. They will be leading the groups of students (actors) who will take part in the performances.

We expect several results:
The main products are the four performances and all the written and multimedia material created around them: Scripts, recording of the performances, live paintings, historical contexts, biographies, etc. Some of them even can be used as classes materials
Other products are websites, wall decoration, photograph, etc.
And finally there are other intangibles results such us the improvement of the feeling of european citizenship, the creation of an European net of people (students and teacher), improvement of the basic skills of the students and the teaching methods of the teachers, etc.

We expect a impact on the following target groups (ordered from HIGH to LOW):
• Students participating in the project.
• Teachers involved
• The rest of the students of our schools.
• The rest of teachers of our schools
• Families of our students
• Other teachers (at regional, national and international level)
• Local authorities and bodies
• Populations of our towns

Finally, we expect future collaborations between the schools: exchanges, other EU funded programs, etc.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131043 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Juan Gris & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Omnicomprensivo “Nicola da Guardiagrele”
• Gl. Hasseris Skole
• Lycée Jean de la Fontaine