Guide the Guide! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Guide the Guide!

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Guide the guide!” (G2G) is a school exchange partnership developed by five schools from Europe, financially supported by the European Commission through Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2. It emerged from the need to improve the quality and efficiency of education by using as educational tools the guided tours of museums and cities, which involve students in a creative and innovative way. Therefore, the project aims to increase the use of guided tours of museums and cities as an integrative/complementary educational tool by designing 15 innovative and interactive model guided tours, to increase the correlation between students’ theoretical knowledge and the contents presented during guided tours and to create opportunities for learning-by-doing through patrimonial education.

The participants in the project are 150 students, aged 14-18, from schools situated in Romania, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Spain. All the partner schools are vocational, training students in: tourism and food services (Romanian and Italian schools), health, building trades and agriculture (Croatian school), in Computer science (Spanish school) and in sports, commerce and technology (Portuguese school).

The project activities are mostly practical ones – taking guided tours of museums and cities in order to identify the existing resources, realizing SWOT analyses, sharing interactive methods and instruments in order to re-design the guided tours, establishing the appropriate content of guided tours and actually implementing the tours with groups of students. In order to carry out the activities in an efficient way, a wide range of methods will be employed, among which we mention: fieldwork, non-formal methods, interactive games, ICT tools, drama techniques, mission-based learning, treasure hunt.

The result we will develop is a pedagogical kit, entitled “Guided tours – Good practice examples”, comprising information about the methodology of the 15 interactive guided tours created by the students, with clear examples. The kit will be accompanied by an online virtual multidisciplinary museum with visual materials (photos, presentations, videos) collected during local and international visits.

By getting involved in this project, students will improve their general knowledge in various fields, they will enhance their interest in museology, they will get to know the cultural heritage of Europe, they will develop their key-competences (communication in a foreign language, digital skills, social skills, critical thinking) and, most of all, they will improve their learning skills through peer-to-peer and learning-by-doing methods which, on the long-term, will reflect in students’ improved school performance.

The long-term benefits for the participating schools refer to gains generated by planning and developing hands-on activities, implemented within and beyond the project duration, the collaboration with the local authorities and local/regional museums will be enhanced through the project activities because the national cultural heritage will be at the core of all our actions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 161556 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIUL ECONOMIC “PINTEA VITEAZUL” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• I.I.S. “Di Poppa-Rozzi”
• Srednja skola Bedekovcina
• IES LA SENIA
• Escola Secundária com 3º Ciclo D. Dinis