KITE2 – Keep in Touch Europe 2: Together for a Common European Cultural Sustainability Erasmus Project

Project Title

KITE2 – Keep in Touch Europe 2: Together for a Common European Cultural Sustainability

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Summary
The new project of BHAK Eisenerz and our partners from Austria, Greece, Italy and Portugal is about cultural heritage in a European context. Besides NMS Trofaiach, the Peiramatiko Gymnasio Rethymnon Panepistimiou Kritis in Rethymnon and the LICEO STATALE “G. MARCONI” in Pescara we have invited two new schools to join us in this project, namely the Senior Highschool 4o GEL RETHYMNOU in Rethymnon and the school Escola Secundária Domingos Rebelo at the Azores, Portugal.
Our aim in this project is – in addition to the European Year Of Cultural Heritage – to focus on specific European heritage in the partner countries. Concerning our cultural heritage we would like to concentrate on questions like: “What are the origins of it?” “What is its significance for the present society?” “For what reasons is it worth preserving?” “What is its future role?” We do not want to stir national pride that separates, on the contrary, we want to indicate that Europe and our national heritage consists of many different mosaic pieces which unite to one big picture.
In this joint project we will focus on the following topics:
Austria: mining traditions along the Styrian iron road
Greece: fortresses and their significance for Crete and Homer’s epics in Crete: a mythical journey to reality
Italy: fishing and sheep breeding in and around Pescara
Portugal: traditional tea and pineapple cultivation in the Azores
Through many different activities the students will be motivated to finally put all these regional traditions and cultural heritage into a larger European context. They will find out their significance for the affected societies in the past, present and even future.
This will happen through different tasks in each participating country before, during and after the mobilities.
1. Virtual guide by means of QR-codes
The students will do research about special spots in the host countries. They will collect information about these spots, for example historical facts and their significance for the present. This information will be uploaded on a server in English and all the languages of our project (German, Italian, Greek and Portuguese). On the historical site itself we will put up a sign containing a QR-code, the name of the site, the Erasmus+ logo and the name of the sponsor who financed the sign. The sign will say: “For information please scan the QR-code.” Therefore anybody who passes by can quickly scan the code and thus find out more about important historical sites. Our intention is that these signs will remain on the spots even after the project is finished so that the different communities can take advantage of them. We will thus create guided QR-code tours.
2. Geo-caching
Each host school will provide a geo-caching tour. The caches will contain information about the cultural heritage of the place as well. During the mobility the guest students will go on the geo-caching tour and therefore find out more about the cultural heritage of their hosts. These geo-caches are something that will remain beyond the project as well. They can be found by anybody who is interested in this kind of activity. The information in the caches will be provided in the host´s mother tongue and in English.
3. Cooking and dinner together
During the mobilities all the participants will cook together traditional food.
4. Folk evening
During the mobilities the participants will be taught traditional songs and dances.
5. Excursions to places of interest
Important places that show the cultural heritage of the host country will be visited. Therefore, the students will not only work on the topic of cultural heritage on a theoretical basis but will also get practical insights.
6. Kahoot quiz: cultural heritage
The last joint activity of each mobility will be a kahoot quiz in mixed groups. Topic will be the cultural heritage of the host countries the students have explored during the exchange visit.
7. Preparation lessons
To prepare the single mobilities the host countries will draft preparation lessons in English. These lessons will be available in all joint schools.
8. Video conferences
Before each mobility we will have a videoconference among the participating students and teachers, so that they can introduce themselves.
9. Social media
In addition to the video conferences we will have facebook groups Instagram and WhatsApp where the students and teachers can communicate
10. Website: Keepintoucheurope.eu and blog and newsletter
We will have a website containing all relevant information and a blog informing about the exchange visits.
11. Questionnaire
At the beginning and end of each mobility we will have a questionnaire asking about participant´s (both groups, students as well as teachers) expectations and experiences.
In Austria and Greece there will only be one meeting, as both Austrian schools are situated in the same district, only 20 km away from each other and the Greek schools are both in the same town, in Rethymnon.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170096 Eur

Project Coordinator

BHAK Eisenerz & Country: AT

Project Partners

• 4o GEL RETHYMNOU
• NMS PR Trofaiach
• LICEO STATALE “G. MARCONI”
• Escola Secundária Domingos Rebelo
• Peiramatiko Gymnasio Rethymnon Panepistimiou Kritis