Campus Stellae for Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Campus Stellae for Europe

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Since the beginning of the 9th century, Santiago de Compostela has become one of the most important pilgrimage points of Europe. Saint James’ Way has welcomed thousands of pilgrims that have walked through different European routes since then. The gathering of people coming from all over the continent has enabled the confluence of diverse cultures, languages and ways of thinking. The motivation for this project is to build up a common European identity by discovering which bonds can be found nowadays between countries from East and West Europe thanks to Saint James’ Way. We intend to experience these bonds by giving students the opportunity of becoming young Erasmus pilgrims in situ.

The priorities that we would like to tackle are: “supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences” (Pr1), “open education and innovative practices in a digital era” (Pr2) and “promoting engaging, connecting and empowering young people” (Pr3). They are pinpointed in six main objectives:
– Ob1: To build up a common European identity by discovering historical and cultural bonds and by experiencing them together as young Erasmus pilgrims.
– Ob2: To promote the acquisition of healthy life habits by researching on nutrition and gastronomy as well as by assessing the benefits of hiking.
– Ob3: To communicate ideas, beliefs, research results and other knowledge in English using digital media, such as social networks or project platforms.
– Ob4: To foster self-learning and personal autonomy.
– Ob5: To work in teams in order for the students to exchange points of views and learn from what other students think and support.
– Ob6: To create and strengthen a network with European students by finding mutual interests and concerns.
We will work on three topics: Cultural heritage (Tp1), Health and wellbeing (Tp2) and Digital competences (Tp3).

Around 80 people from Romania, Slovenia, Portugal and Spain will be directly involved in this project. Each school will select a group of 15 students and 4 teachers. Campus Stellae for Europe (CS4E) is aimed at scholars born in 2004 who are eager to be more open-minded, resolute and resilient people by going beyond their limits through self-learning, shared effort and personal autonomy.

In order to deeply dive into cultural and wellness aspects that can move European countries closer, we will use a methodology based on LABs. There will be 5 LABs, each one focused on a specific topic/skill and will contain activities connecting that topic to Saint James’ Way pilgrimage. In addition, we will arrange 4 international meetings, where students and teachers will exchange good practices and share their experiences.
Time-wise, our project will be carried out in 4 phases:
1) PROJECT LAUNCH. We will promote teachers’ and students’ engagement and will conclude with the 1st international meeting.
2) PAVING THE WAY. It will include the HEALTHY LIFE LAB and the CULTURE & ARTS LAB. Each of them will develop their activities in 4 stages: planning, research, action and dissemination. This phase will conclude with the 2nd international meeting.
3) WALKING THE PATH. It will start with the 3rd international meeting, walking through Saint James’ Way, and will continue with the COMMUNICATION LAB, VIDEO EDITION LAB and WEB DESIGN LAB. Actions will be performed in 4 stages: training, planning, edition and multilingual versioning. This phase will conclude with the final international meeting.
4) BROADENING OUT: We will release our final product and disseminate our results.
The expected result of the project is to build a guide of cultural and practical tips for young European pilgrims called “CS4E: Young Pilgrims Guide to Find Out Europe on the Way.” It will include both written and audiovisual materiales publicly available in the project webpage and Erasmus+ platforms.

Aware of its potential in educational use, we will pay special attention to ICT tools as a vehicle of connecting students and teachers. Moreover, English will be the official and working language of this project, given its condition of lingua franca.

We intend for this project to have a long-term impact in students, teachers and management staff. We expect to improve not only our academic and professional competences but also our soft skills such as teamwork and proactiveness.

Campus Stellae for Europe will bring us the opportunity to become active members of a European network. That way we will make the most of the expertise of international schools for further exchanges of good practices. Our project will help us to become citizens with a wider European consciousness, and our example and testimony will encourage others to take active part in this kind of initiatives.

Summing up, this project will entail an enriching challenge for our educational communities. Thanks to CS4E, our schools will be reinforced, more united and experienced in international initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109421 Eur

Project Coordinator

Salesianos Inspectoría de San Juan Bosco Comunidad de San Miguel Arcángel & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Srednja sola tehniskih strok Siska
• Colegiul National Gheorghe Vranceanu
• Agrupamento de escolas Francisco Fernandes Lopes