European identity around flavors and aromas Erasmus Project

Project Title

European identity around flavors and aromas

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Education for All, Unesco’s 1st World Objective, requires consideration of diversity and complexity as essential factors in learning. Diversity must create a balance between knowledge, creativity and critical sense, to form autonomous people, responsible and active citizens. The project was born of the need to develop in the students the skills, attitudes and values that allow them to integrate into a wider and multicultural community, such as Europe. As the partner regions are geographically outside the major centers, with the exception of the French, with few opportunities, students find it difficult to integrate differences and consolidate values such as tolerance, respect for others and the construction of a true European and democratic identity So, around the common theme – European flavors and aromas – we will make students more open to differences through the contact with other realities and work in multicultural teams; with more linguistic proficiency and more competent in the areas of sciences through the knowledge of local products and uses, processes of transformation and creation of products, contributing to the connection to the program contents and to the school and personal success, through Science, Technology, Society and Environment. The objectives are the preservation of the cultural identity in a global perspective, the knowledge of different realities, with different geographic and cultural spaces; acquisition of the concept of citizenship as an element of European cohesion; encouraging the learning of foreign languages and stimulating the scientific curiosity, articulating the curricular learning with the promotion of the local and global heritage.
The partners are Sciacca Sicily, which presents migratory flows to which students should be prepared. The proposed activities are related to technologies and procedures in the transformation of natural regional products (gastronomy and cosmetics). Vratsa Bulgaria located in a region of great production of rose damascena presents a great opportunity to know the whole process of distillation and production of the essence of roses. Gorj Romania very rich in natural heritage, presents an opportunity to know the gastronomic tradition and natural heritage. Paris France, a multicultural school with students from diverse background (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), presents a great opportunity to develop the concept of European citizenship as an instrument of cohesion. Bragança Portugal a peripheral region, with a low population density and few opportunities, presents a rich heritage of vegetal nature and traditions related to traditional medicine, cosmetics and gastronomy that will be presented through the transformation procedures in the context of experimental classroom.
The participants are students of French as a foreign language (11 to 14 years old). Around 80 students and 40 teachers will be involved in transnational learning activities. They are students with different characteristics: school success, gender, skills and socio-economic background, giving opportunity to all. The teachers, directly involved, are related to the subjects linked to Science, History and Languages, with experience in national and international projects.
The transdisciplinary and complementary activities are defined in the programs of each partner (creative workshops, research and collection of materials / products, visits to companies, factories, associations, professional schools, meetings with students, local entities and producers, laboratory activities of transformation and creation digital tools) and are linked to the objectives of the project, because they allow the construction of the desired European values, development of skills and knowledge in the areas of science and language proficiency as well as the linking of real situations with school programs. Students will also be involved in local activities, creation of materials, preparation, organization of activities and dissemination of results. A combined work will be done, using similar methodologies to produce concrete results (digital herbarium, padlet, product elaboration, garden) involving students and teachers, creating a dynamics of collaborative and multicultural work. The coordinators will be in permanent contact in the construction of the project.
We expect a significant impact on students, on increasing communicative, scientific and attitudinal skills. In the long term, we hope to multiply methodologies, using principles of multiculturalism, to promote practices that allow students to evaluate knowledge in various aspects, while recognizing the importance of science and technology in school and everyday life and the social, cultural importance of their countries and others.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140110 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas Miguel Torga & Country: PT

Project Partners

• COLLEGE ROLAND DORGELES
• Ecole Primaire St Sofronii Vrachanski
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE D. ALIGHIERI
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ANTONIE MOGOS