Cultural heritage in the context of students’ careers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural heritage in the context of students’ careers

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The topic of this project was cultural heritage, as 2018 was European Year of Cultural Heritage. The aim of the project was to encourage students of partner schools from Latvia, Iceland, Greece, Italy and Estonia to discover and engage with both their own and the partner nations’ cultural heritage and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space.
The idea was to link local cultural heritage and tourism in a more actively engaging way whilst taking into consideration cultural sights, nature trails, local legends etc. There were planned five short-term students´ exchanges during two years to Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Greece and Italy totaling 80 student mobilities and 40 teacher mobilities.
The main aim was not to explore well konwn tourist sights, but more remote areas and local real life experience. For example students lived in families and were part in family life. There was something new and exciting for everyone.
With the support of teachers and specialists, but taught by peer to peer learning, students form a tourism route and experienced this. This way they gained new knowledge that could be used as working experience. For example they learned how to make pizza, one of the very popular dishes throughout the world.
Five tourism routes in the locality of the schools were created by students. Students made some local souvenirs and introduced some games and dances. These sovenieres were sold during national festivals that took place at the end of each visit. Income was donated to local charities.
Unfortunately, due to the global Covid 19 pandemic, the project was postponed by a year. As the situation did not improve, it was not possible to actually carry out the last stage of the student exchange and we had to make changes and the Latvian events took place online.
Although the situation had changed, students and teachers still took part in exciting and educational online events. This change in the situation also provided excellent experience for teachers and students in the use of ICT tools, as well as online collaboration skills.
Students were between 15 and 20 years of age. Two of the schools were vocational schools and three were secondary schools. All the schools’ curriculum were tightly related to
1) local culture,
2) giving work experience to students,
3) doing international cooperation.
Products that were completed during the project:
1) 5 tourism routes in the form of digital map /video etc
2) souvenirs/games according to the cultural heritage
3) a national festival at the end of each students meeting

The webpage of the project: https://herstu.fas.is/?fbclid=IwAR1DVBmgAhlA6p_MQYwl2IhmHMIbNsa6-KMW1vznNGaukhsJCdTMfLNgqxE

As our cooperation with these partners began already 2 years ago, we think that this project gave further consolidate our good and fruitful cooperation, our students had friends from different parts of Europe and their sense of a common Europe was strengthened.

Project Website

https://herstu.fas.is/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103634,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tabasalu Ühisgümnaasium & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Jelgavas Spidolas Valsts gimnazija
• Framhaldsskólinn í Austur-Skaftafellssýslu
• I.I.S.S. “Luigi Vanvitelli”
• 2 EPAL TRIKALON