A Multicultural Europe with Drama, Art, Music, Dance. Erasmus Project

Project Title

A Multicultural Europe with Drama, Art, Music, Dance.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our project aims to focus on students’ self-esteem and cultural understanding in order to enable them to successfully complete their school careers in diverse and heterogeneous environments. Students with multicultural backgrounds have insights into several cultures and speak various languages. However, often they feel alienated in the country they live in because they do not know its culture and traditions well. Students whose abilities in main subjects are below average often unlock unknown potential in creative tasks. Expressive arts are a great leveller and students from all walks of life can access arts of some kind. The main objective of the project is to strengthen students’ self-esteem and intercultural awareness by undertaking (inter)cultural activities in order to be able to engage and actively participate in our multicultural societies. In particular, the following objectives will be included: 1: Social inclusion 2: social and educational value of European cultural heritage 3: supporting schools to tackle early school leavings and disadvantage.

By presenting their own cultural background in arts, architecture, dance, drama and music students reflect on their own cultural and historical heritage. By learning about these aspects in other European countries they find how European countries and their histories are related. In creating products such as common art, fusion music and dance collaborately, the students get to know the high value of these arts themselves and of the great opportunities of working transnationally. By producing enriching art the students see how they can contribute successfully which will have a positive influence on their building of academic skills and on their performance at and interest in school in general. Thus, they experience school not only as a place of academic performance but as place to express themselves and build positive relationships with others.

In the project we will use different NATIONAL and EUROPEAN TOOLS. One of the necessary European Tool in the project will be MOBILITY TOOL+. It will be used in the earliest phase of the project. Mobility Tool will provide us support in the management of activities related to mobility within Erasmus +. In the project, we intend to use the eTwinning website as it promotes cooperation and networking of schools in Europe through information and communication technologies (ICT), offering advice, ideas and tools that allow schools to easily develop partnerships and start cooperation projects in different areas. eTwinning is going to be fundamental in this project.
We refer to 5 target groups: 1. Pupils in the project team aged 14-17 / 2. Teachers in the project team / 3. Teachers in the school and from other schools, who will be able to use project outcomes and resources / 4. Pupils in the school and from other schools, who will take part in local and follow-up activities during the time of the project and afterwards / 5. Local institutions at each meeting

At the first meeting which is the joint staff event each partner will select a member for a “quality control group”, which will be responsible for monitoring quality throughout the project and, at all meetings, will summarize the results and suggest possible improvements / amendments whenever needed. The internal quality management will be based on a report that each partner will submit twice a year. Delivery and achievement will be checked against the work plan milestones as part of all project meetings / workshops. The content quality will be assessed by the end users in a sequence of peer-review assessment resulting in the final products at the end of the project funded period. The different stages of the development will be assessed during the meetings and training activities.

The guideline for enriching classes through multiculturalism compiled at the very first meeting and reviewed at the last meeting will be used for development of all partner schools. The guideline will
raise awareness of the need to positively enhance multiculturalism long-term at all schools. After the meeting the guideline will be presented to all staff at each school by a teacher involved in the project. It will be encouraged to make use of these guidelines to develop the respective school. The film produced can be used at schools in the future. It can be an inspiration for work in different arts classes. A multicultural activity conducted by the multicultural ambassadors trained at the last meeting will be implemented at all schools. Thus, all the communities at the partner schools will benefit from the project after its completion. We’ll plan dissemination at all stages: the starting phase, during the flow of the project and at the end. Mostly we plan to focus on the products, methods, tools, good practices and experiences leading to messages on findings, recommendations and warnings.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106593 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Baldones vidusskola
• Istituto Tecnico Statale Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
• Ozel Adalya Anadolu Lisesi