N.H.M.A. – Noesis. History. Memory. Action. “You and me in time…” Erasmus Project

Project Title

N.H.M.A. – Noesis. History. Memory. Action. “You and me in time…”

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; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The 100-year anniversary since the end of the 1st World War and the Program “Europe 2020” for education, motivated us to think about the contemporary dimensions of the historical facts and phenomena.
The processing and reflection (νόηση – Noesis) of social and historical developments can form and affect both our personal and collective attitude. As a result, the acquisition of interpretive tools to analyze the social reality is an important educational goal for the formation of attitudes, perceptions, actions and beliefs of the school community.
History (Ιστορία), either as a motive or as a fact, plays a special role not only in the analysis of events and the formation of ideas, but also in one’s personal action in society.
Memory (Μνήμη), either collective or personal, thoroughly penetrates the lives of people and communities, as the depiction of a place or a personality cannot be perceived without it.
Finally, Action (Δράση) exists as a dominant practice that forms and is formed by society, facts, people and different notions. At the same time, action depicts the way specific communities or people react to social phenomena.
All of the above form a net of concepts that affects people and societies and at the same time is also affected by them.
We believe it is important to examine the course of European History with a contemporary view because practices and perceptions that Europe and its inhabitants have either lived in the past (immigration, racism, xenophobia, social exclusion) or get to know for the first time (European integration, terrorism), emerge on a daily basis.
The acrostic of the English words Noesis – History – Memory – Action form the Greek word “νήμα – ΝΗΜΑ”, which means thread.
The thread, the historic time, that connects the inhabitants of an area with today.
The life of people and of communities is not formed in the void but rather by the personal and collective story of each and every one of us.
Thus, it is necessary for the modern needs of the European countries to correspond to the diversity and multiculturalism that has already been formed.
Besides, new technologies and the migration of populations, either voluntary or not, have widen the borders among people and taking into consideration the multiculturalism of the European countries, the necessity to manage and understand what happens on a national, European and international level, is obvious.
The school community, as a cell of our society, cannot be absent.
In that respect: the respect of knowledge – of interpretation – of action, we want to co-modify those tools and practices that will help the members of the school community to understand their fellow men and form desirable practices.
Through empathy, cooperative learning, interdisciplinary approach of knowledge and the theory of multiple intelligence, we will try to:
• cultivate respect towards Human Rights and towards the values of the European civilization,
• sensitize our students towards world peace and the safeguarding of human dignity
• reinforce their critical skills and ability to process information, values and assumptions
• strengthen groups of children at risk
• expand learning and educational interests and goals
• encourage initiative
• develop our students’ collaboration skills with other students of different social groups, ethnicity, religious beliefs, learning abilities and ultimately promote teamwork
• develop their problem-solving capacity through the cultivation of the necessary skills and strategies of planning, control, feedback and corrective intervention,
• strengthen their cultural and linguistic identity within a multicultural society
The above-mentioned program aspires to highlight the potential and reinforce the learning profile of all the participants through the production and co-modulation of educational, learning and social actions/ practices.
The students who will actively participate in the Project will be around 2000 (from 3 to 12 years old), coming from all 6 participating schools and they have been selected because they can benefit from the Project on different levels. Since the groups of pupils are heterogeneous each school will contribute to the Project in its own unique way, sharing the results of the proposed activities along with their personal experience and creativity. All the teachers involved in the project are highly educated and motivated.
The activities the participants will be involved in and the methodology used in carrying out the project will be the following:
The students will communicate with each other by writing emails, letters, cards and via Skype sessions, so they will practice their linguistic skills in a foreign language (writing, listening, speaking, reading). They will also learn about their history as well as the history of the other five countries and how they are interrelated and they will improve their ICT skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 177960 Eur

Project Coordinator

8th Primary school of Evosmos & Country: EL

Project Partners

• II C.D. “GIOVANNI XXIII” PATERNO’ (CT)
• DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO POLIS CHRYSOCHOUS
• Escola Santa Marina
• Upesleju internatpamatskola-rehabilitacijas centrs
• Ecole Bouchesèche