Cultural Heritage Activities and Nutrition in Global Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Heritage Activities and Nutrition in Global Environment

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

As opposed to other living beings, man creates his culture through his action, and man’s culture provides personal development. It is nurtured and passed on to the following generations as the most precious treasure, and therefore it should be kept and nurtured from oblivion. This is especially important for the immaterial cultural heritage that has never been recorded. This project hangs on the previously completed three year project of I.M.A.G.I.N.E. aim of which was to get familiarized with the material cultural heritage of the partner countries in which four of the five present partners participated. Project C.H.A.N.G.E. aims at paying attention to the importance of changing the point of view in preserving the intangible cultural heritage, motivating students to acquire knowledge of another culture, the formation of identity on their own heritage, and the adoption of new innovative methods of teaching the students about the cultural heritage in a way that the student become an active participant in the teaching process. The project involves four countries of the Mediterranean cultural circle (Croatia, Greece, Spain and Portugal) who, together with Finland as the predecessor of northern Europe, aim to introduce the cultural heritage of a country through five transnational meetings through three common themes: Treasure box, Leisure time and Eat and meet festival. Each country will prepare a game in which a national cultural treasurer will be placed in the box and using modern technology and various applications will learn about the particularities of each country through music, dance, art, language and natural and cultural beauty. At a time when communication is reduced to dialogue through social networks and screens, we consider it important to return students to the time when they spent their free time in mutual socializing and playing with peers on the streets, and for that reason each partner country will present three traditional games of their own which will finally be merged into a joint brochure. At the end of each mobility the Meet and eat festival will be organized where the traditional national dishes of the host country will be made. In Greece, a chef’s duel will be organized, where students will prepare national dish of each country using the designed online cookbook. In addition to common themes, the emphasis in each country is to teach students about the cultural heritage listed on UNESCO’s list of non-material world heritage. In Croatia, this will be the collaboration with Ekomuzej Batana entered in the register of best practices for the preservation of non-material cultural that will conduct workshops related to traditional games. In Spain the emphasize will be on dance and festival Fallas in Valencia. Portugal will host a singing workshop based on the protected Cante Alentejo, Greece will host a meeting dedicated to the Mediterranean diet while Finland as a cradle of oral teaching will teach students the storytelling method as an effective way of preserving the intangible heritage. At each mobility level, there will be two teachers and five of the most motivated and active students of each school between the ages of 13-16 when the formation of their own national and personal identity is in full swing. The results of the activities after the two-year project implementation will be the creation of an online cookbook of traditional recipes and traditional games, cooking tutorials will be placed on the TwinSpace and the project’s website. The official project anthem will also be designed on the national language schools based on Cante Alentejo as well as the performance of the Finnish Kalevala. All created materials and adopted teaching methods will change the school curriculums and enrich existing ones based on the finnish system model. All mobility participants will improve their key competences, primarily in the field of ICT and communication in English. Sustainability of the project will be ensured through active use of designed materials in the everyday work of partner schools through field teaching and introducing the city through ICT technology, using online cookbooks and brochures about traditional games in home economics classes which will be upgraded continuously after completion of the project. All materials will be continually updated on the web site and the TwinSpace project page. Dissemination of project activities will be carried out regularly at all stages of the project with the aim of informing the public and motivating the teaching staff at the local and national level to adopt new way of teaching of cultural heritage in schools. The aim of the modernization of teaching methods is to increase students’ motivation to learn and to improve the learning impacts of students of partner schools based on the Finnish partner school which, due to their teaching methods, is selected for participation in PISA research for the school year 2017-2018.

Project Website

http://2epal-trikal.tri.sch.gr/change/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 36385 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna skola Jurja Dobrile & Country: HR

Project Partners

• 2 EPAL TRIKALON
• Alajärven yläkoulu / Alajärven kaupunki
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Ponte de Sor
• SECCIÓN IES CLOT DEL MORO