Cultural Heritage: Learning from the Past, Designing our future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Heritage: Learning from the Past, Designing our future

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

In the world of the “European School” a complex social phenomenon has been developed, identifiable through observable “symptoms”, that could be defined as indicators of scholastic failure. Repetition Rates, absences, irregular attendences, poor quality of the outcomes, up to the abandonment of the actual educational paths (according to Eurostat 2018 Data, more than 11.5% of young Europeans within an age range between 16-24 left school).
This phenomenon, indicated with the term ‘scholastic dispersion’, has intensified for those who come from contexts deprived from a cultural and economic point of view (see European Commission / EACEA / Eurydice / Cedefop, 2014. Fight against early leaving: strategies, policies and measures).
Based on these considerations, the project “Cultural Heritage: Learning from the Past, Designing our future”, intends, through the establishment of a strategic partnership between educational institutions of Italy, Spain, France and Portugal, to carry out virtuous exchange processes to support the understanding and transmission of the European cultural heritage, as a useful tool to combat early school leaving.
In fact, the goal is to project students into a European dimension, where it is fully recognized that the cultural heritage plays a central role in all societies, creating a sense of active participation within and beyond national borders.
Specifically, the objectives of the project are:
– To make the students of Italy, Spain, France and Portugal aware of the existence of a common cultural heritage that is based on the idea of European citizenship;
– to Understand the past of European communities involved in the project to build a more inclusive, intelligent and sustainable Europe;
– to Develop innovative educational paths, which promote the integrated approach between different methodologies, in order to favor the active participation of the student in school and social life;
– to Encourage digital and physical exchanges that allow students to communicate in foreign languages with foreign colleagues and to feel an active part of a wider community, precisely the European one;
– to Give the students the opportunity to understand the different representations of cultural heritage: tangible (buildings, monuments, works of art, historical cities), intangible (traditions and traditional crafts), natural landscapes and digital heritage.
In this regard, the project will be based on the implementation of 5 virtual mobility activities, planned through eTwinning, intended for 32 students within an age range between 16 and 17 years enrolled in 3rd and 4th classes of partner Higher Education Institutes, and 4 transnational mobilities in France, Portugal, Spain and Italy, lasting for 1 week, including travel days, which will be destined, based on a rota system, to groups of 8 students from each partner school, accompanied by 2 professors.
Finally, the exchange activities will conclude with the realization of the following project results:
• an Eupedia: a detailed interactive and informative guide to European countries that are part of the current proposal, with particular attention to history, culture and life in them;
• e-Twinning KIT related to innovative methodologies and tools used to promote the social and educational value of European cultural heritage, in particular to ensure the active participation of students and reduce the percentages related to early school leaving.
From the realization of the project, the following impacts are expected:
a) adoption of an approach to non-formal learning capacity of innovating the educational system of the participating schools, through the integration in their own training plans of the teaching methods used during the project (project-based through eTwinning, cooperative learning and more generally technical of learning by doing).
In particular, this will change and it will produce , after 9 months from the end of the project:
– the reduction of the percentage of school drop-out by at least up to 0.5% points;
– the improvement of student assessments related to the acquisition of cultural, intercultural, linguistic and digital will ; (detection tools: results of the final ballots and RAV 2021-2022);
b) structuring of each participating School in terms of active community, open to the local and international community, detectable by the increase in:
– number of national collaborations (at local level, within 9 months from the conclusion of the project, each School will promote a local project, in cooperation with local institutions and associations, based on the present project experience);
– number of international collaborations (it is expected that, after 9 months from the conclusion of the project, each partner school will have at least participated in two other Erasmus + experiences, possibly within the KA1 framework).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121484 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “PIZZINI-PISANI” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• lycée Jean Bart
• Agrupamento de Escolas Vieira de Araújo
• Institut Can Jofresa