BEAUTIFUL AS DIFFERENT: different points of view to let cultural diversity emerge as a source of beauty Erasmus Project

Project Title

BEAUTIFUL AS DIFFERENT: different points of view to let cultural diversity emerge as a source of beauty

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: Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The High School “G. da Procida”, located in Salerno, has always addressed his commitment to the training of young people through the planning of innovative educational activities, which ensure both freedom of teaching and research support to update and experimentation. The vision of the Institute is based on the desire to promote the importance of values such as civil coexistence, dialogue between cultures, for the purposes of participation in democratic life within the organization of both school and society. In this perspective, the School, assisted by foreign partners, IES Pedreguer (Spain), Ventspils State Gymnasium (Latvia) e Primary and Secondary Language School 32 “St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgary), through “BEAUTIFUL AS DIFFERENT: different points of view to let cultural diversity emerge as a source of beauty”, it aims at promoting exchanges between schools in different European countries, increasing the synergy of young people compared to the protection of cultural diversity as a world heritage site. Diversity should not be safeguarded in order to preserve the status quo but, on the contrary, it is necessary to protect its innovative character, its essence that is not anchored to the legacy of the past. Preserving this untouchable heritage means to give life to an intercultural dialogue that could deconstruct the dichotomy nature of society now, based on “us” and “them”, on the “white” and “black”, on “native” and on the “Alien”. To do this, it is necessary to transmit to the students the ability to listen and communicate with different people.
The project “BEAUTIFUL AS DIFFERENT” aims at promoting the dialogue between 120 students of 3rd and 4th classes (30 per School) of different schools through the production of short films based focused on 4 topics: immigration, linguistic difference, cultural stereotypes and political context. The short films will be shared and debated by 72 students (18 per school) during the mobility exchanges that will take place in Italy, Spain, Latvia and Bulgaria, for a duration of 5 days (+ 2 travel days).
The Short-films will be the evident output of the project and they will represent the ‘national’point of view in relation to each topic that will be developed through interviews, surveys and detailed studies. Another output will be represented by a publication that will contain essays for each topic produced by the students that will be divided in 10 international groups, product of their collaboration on ETwinning , after each mobility.
Through their cooperation, enriched by their differences but, at the same time, by common aspirations of young teenagers, there will be the products of 16 short documentaries (4 for each partner School and mobility) that will tell the ‘national’ point of view about the abovementioned 4 topics.
Each documentary will be elaborated and edited according to the following process:
-within one month before the international mobility, through eTwinning and Twinspace, 4 international groups (made of 30 representative students from each Partner School,they will cooperate all together because of producing the documentaries;
-projection of these documentaries during the mobility. Debates and confrontations will follow up, based on the didactic methodologies of the cooperative learning, peer tutoring and jigsaw;
-within one month after the mobility, 10 international working groups (made of 4 students for each partner school) will collaborate through eTwinning for producing a theme paper focused on the addressed topics. These papers will be part of a general and conclusive publication.
The objectives of the project correspond with those provided by the Unesco Agenda 2030 that aims at sustainable development. The aim is the so-called “sustainable skills”, i.e. cross-cutting skills able to guide the students throughout their path of life (listening skills, effective communication, team working, problem solving, etc.). The project will have an inclusive footprint, allocating 60 opportunities (15 for each school) to students with cultural and economic difficulties both for accessing and participating to it.
The project will enhance language skills of the pupils and the production of the short films will be a way to improve artistic , creative and technical skills too.
Long-term impacts are hoped , such as:
-implementation of new activities aimed at the inclusion;
-increase of language skills for at least the 30% of participants;
-expansion of local and international schools networks and participations to film festivals to disseminate theproduced short films.
The staff of project will disseminate the results through a well-structured dissemination that will happen through web (internet sites and Facebook page), through press, through the European platforms eTwinning and School Education Gateway and thanks to the final event that will involve all the partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceo Scientifico Statale G. Da Procida & Country: IT

Project Partners

• IES PEDREGUER
• Ventspils Valsts 1 gimnazija
• 32 SU s izuchavane na chuzhdi ezici “Sv.Kliment Ohridski”