Aus der Geschichte lernen … gemeinsam die Zukunft gestalten Erasmus Project

Project Title

Aus der Geschichte lernen … gemeinsam die Zukunft gestalten

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Social dialogue; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

LEARNING FROM HISTORY … PLANNING THE FUTURE TOGETHER

In this project communes, schools and organisations of adult education from the region St.Georgen/Gusen, Mauthausen, Langenstein in Österreich, Katalonia und Empoli, Vinci from Italy work together.

The center of the project is the social inclusion with the support of development of social, civil and intercultural competences. The pupils learn a critical thinking what work against discrimination, exclusion and rassism. The teachers get the necessary competences and methods on the Best Practise exampels from each country. They learn reflexion.

The regions in Austria, Italy and Spain have a common european history. All three regions had to suffer under the european dimension of Holocaust. In the region Mauthausen – Gusen – St.Georgen there were the brutal concentration camps, where thousands of people were murdered. In Italy there were thousands of persons deportated to Austria and other countries. In Spain thousands of people sufferd under faschistip terror system and got into excil, were deportated und murdered.

In the time of national socialism people from Empoli were deported and killed to the Concentration camp Gusen. Every year people from Empoli and the schools think about history intensivly. In the year 1997 a partnership between Empoli and St. Georgen was established. At the beginning of 2016 Mauthausen-Gusen-St. Georgen founded the “Region of consciousness Mauthausen-Gusen-St.Georgen”. These are all steps which show that the Commune of Empoli and the Commune of St.Georgen with their schools, organisations of adult education active think about history, new forms of remembrance work, best practise of projects and competences for history work. Contacts to Catalonia were set up through the region of awareness.

At this project take part on the Austrian side: Region of Awareness “Mauthausen – Gusen – St.Georgen”, Neue Mittelschule St. Georgen, the adult organisation “Kommunale Bildung und Integration” and on the Italian side: Commune Empoli und Commune di Vinci, “Scuola Media Empoli” and “Instituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore “Il Pontpormo” and the adult education organisation ASEV, the Institution of Assessore, Museum of Excil and an regional authority work together.

From September 2017 till November 2019 the project works with examples of best practise projects about competences in history and remembrance work like “Denk.STATT Johann Gruber – Vermittlungsbox” from Austria or “Preparation for celebrations of deliberation” in Italy, Investigate to Democracy, Exile Routes, the work of Group de Exile and the transfer to the other country; exampels of education of democrazy of Spain are shown; materials are translated into the other language; there are learning activities for youth C2: “In remembrance: Youth visits celebration ceremonies” in Austria and there is a learning activity C3 for pupils in Italy: “Diversity: yesterday-today-tomorrow”. 4 transnational meetings were organized.

At a common trainings activity C1: “National Socialism St.Georgen-Empoli: Competences and best practise for history and remembrance work”: Teachers and trainers of adult education organisation work about history, methods of best practise can be tested. In a common process of discussion guidelines about using materials, methods and a description of necessary competences are created.
A plan of measures is made. A discussion about further development of partnership and cooperation of communes with its organisations is lead.

All together 155 mobility’s are realized.

The competences and learning experiences were described with Europass.

The results are collected in the Handbook of Best Practise and they are published Online on the project Websitewww.bewusstseinsregion/erasmus+/results , links are set to the homepages of participating organisations. At the trainings activity C 1 in Austria one module is open to persons from other organisations.

With the project website, http://bewusstseinsregion.at/eu-projekte/erasmus/, reports in meetings in the organisations, roof organisations, networks, articles in newspapers, articles on the homepages of participating organisations, articles for press and press meetings the results are divided and disseminated.

In future further Erasmus+ projects are planned like youth meetings, trainings and learning activities and Jobshadowings, strategical partnerships. It is a sustainable work when regions who had to deal with Holocaust work together. This Projects showed this to all organisations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 104720 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gemeindeverband “Bewusstseinsregion Mauthausen – Gusen – St.Georgen” & Country: AT

Project Partners

• NMS St.Georgen/Gusen
• Institut Cendrassos
• Kommunale Bildung und Integration
• Comune di Vinci
• COMUNE DI EMPOLI
• Istituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore “Il Pontormo”
• Consorci del Museu Memorial de l’Exili