European Heritage Project : (re)motivating pupils through its knowledge, its preservation and its value (2019-2021) Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Heritage Project : (re)motivating pupils through its knowledge, its preservation and its value (2019-2021)

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; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
The EHP1921 project brings together four schools from Spain, Croatia, Belgium and France around two priorities of the Erasmus + program : “Social and educational value of European cultural heritage, its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion” ; “Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to (re) motivate students through the perspective study of European heritage in four European countries and four European schools with their specificities. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to a better understanding of ESL. We intend to study European heritage in order to build a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship. The EHP1921 project should be funded to finance both its management and implementation and secondly four Learning, Teaching,Training Activities respectively organised in each school.

OBJECTIVES
Pupils and teachers involved will follow three main goals : learning from our diversity, building an intercultural approach to European Heritage and enabling success for all learners. It expects individual and collective results : a global result combining reducing ESL and strengthening European citizenship. This global result should be achieved by working on during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making four main collective and final products : representing European landscapes evolution through History (creation of a Touristic Guide for Teenagers) ; promoting citizenship activities with European Forum for the Climate ; collecting trans-cultural pop culture testimonies in an e-book ; preserving European Heritage with documentaries.

ETWINNING
The already created twinspace will be the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It will include tools devoted to online teaching,learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It will also be used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 twinspace will allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information.

NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS
The EHP1921 project provides that participants will be teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from eleven to fifteen year old from our four respective schools. Schools gather nearly 2,000 pupils and 300 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 300 students and nearly 50 teachers/non-teaching staff members will be involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them 18 students and 6 teachers/non-teaching staff members will travel and discover a new European country during each of the four Learning/Teaching/Training activities. Travelling participants will be chosen in each school through a committee including teachers and administrative staffs. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities by particularly enabling pupils with academic difficulties to be part as far as possible of each delegation participating in a mobility : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and to have a positive attitude in discovering different cultures.

ACTIVITIES
Each school will organize a five-day exchange of groups of pupils with partners’ delegations of six pupils and two adults : C1 France (January 2020), C2 Spain (May 2020), C3 Belgium (October 2020), C4 Croatia (May 2021).

METHODOLOGY
The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of at least one representative from each of the four partner schools. The partners are divided into four Technical international groups (Landscape/Forum for Climate/Pop Culture/Heritage Conservation). The school partners will be organized in school teams. Two partners (France and Spain) will both organize a three-day Transnational meeting with partners’ delegations of three adults (with Project Management and Implementation funds).

FOLLOW-UP
Assessments, questionnaires and evaluation of educational activities will allow to report on students long-lasting effects with lifelong learning skills. Not-so motivated students and students with learning disabilities will benefit from reflections, experiments and educational innovations.
Our dissemination plan is built in two dimensions (horizontal with all activities to strengthen communication and dissemination between participants ; vertical with all activities designed to actually reach the target groups, stakeholders and final users) and will use two types of media (traditional media and media created specifically for the project like Erasmus corners in each school, an Etwinning twinspace, a website and a Facebook page).

Project Website

https://ehp1921remotivate.weebly.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88480 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Albert Camus & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES Serra d’Irta
• GO! athena campus Pottelberg 2de & 3de graad
• Osnovna skola Titusa Brezovackog