ACTION! Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACTION!

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

PROJECT led with our four secondary schools in Spain, Poland, Romania and Turkey

I. Topic: Intercultural dialogue through cinema and filmmaking.
The whole project is based on European cultural and cinematic heritage. It encourages young Europeans to discover what they can share and learn from the others through concrete tasks in connection with cinema.

II. Key Products
1. The main product is the creation of a gallery of short films made by participants, centered around Europe seen through teenagers’ eyes (first year) and Europe and the Big Issues of the 21st Century: (environment, globalisation, ICTs, discrimination, etc.)
(second year) showed in Fene and in Braila, selected by a jury of students and teachers and awarded during ceremonies.
2. The second main production consists in the creation and publication of two yearly web magazines with articles about the project and cinema in general written by students.

III. Training Activities
A. Locally
1. Partners have taken part in local film festivals and workshops to discover cinematic heritages and acquire cinematic techniques.
2. They were asked to create ecards and short videos to be sent to their partners to introduce themselves as a sort of breaking ice activity.
3. Participants organized a special week event to replace the meeting in Turkey in order to reach the goals already planned : film festival, writing reviews, cinematic workshop, dissemination activities.
4. Organization of different workshops about cinema and filmmaking during the two years of the project to improve our students’ skills to create their own short films. Some of these workshops have been monitored by professionals from the film industry and others have been carried out at school by the teachers themselves.
5. Creation of short films, from the script to the final edition, and selection of those films to represent each country in the annual contest. The selection of short films on and off contest was preceded by the projection of the short films and a voting process locally at schools.
6. Creation of a portfolio of each movie containing the basic information of the movie, a summary of the plot, and the mentioning of the problems they may have encountered on the way.
7. Writing of different articles about cinema, the different cultures of the countries involved in the project and the experiences lived within the project for the two annual web magazines. Participants shared information about different topics, worked on questionnaires about people and cinema, created their own cartoons, shared photos and drawings, etc.
8. Organization of castings at school for the different short films.
9. Organization of film sessions at local cinemas and attending exhibitions about the film industry.

B. Transnationally:
1. Different workshops about cinema during each of the mobilities:Using a montage table ( Aubenas); Study on K-Effect ( Aubenas); Creation of a short film involving an interview ( Aubenas); Attending a conference about the selected movies in the Nîmes Festival; Workshop on the bonds between image and art in general and human history in the Cavern du Pont D’Arc ( Aubenas) ; Workshop on make up for a horror movie and creation of a horror short film ( Fene); Visit of a film studio in A Coruña with all the professionals at work (Fene); Visit to the Galician Centre of Image Arts ( Fene); attending a round table about European cinema ( Fene); Workshop on how to make a movie in ten shots ( TOPIC: Borders); Workshop on Gothic cinema (Aubenas); Workshop on the use of drons in the film industry ( Fene); Workshop on film imagery in short films ( Braila); Workshop on Image Composition and the creation of a documentary under the title “Polluting the Environment”, with authentic nature images taken in the Danube delta ( Braila); Workshop on Hollographic History- “Multiethnic Braila” ( Braila).
2. Organization and celebration of two Award ceremonies in Fene ( 2016) and Braila (2017)
3. Participation in 2 festivals of our own short films followed by debates in transnational teams and voting cessions to select the films to be awarded on the cermemonies.
4. Attending different exhibitions
5. Organization and participation in film festivals at schools or on other locations ( such as the Council Auditorium or a local theatre)
5. Creation of short movies on different topics during the mobilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148827,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

LGT Marcel Gimond & Country: FR

Project Partners

• I.E.S. Fene
• LICEUL TEORETIC “NICOLAE IORGA”
• Zuhtu Ozkardaslar Anadolu Lisesi
• VI Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Joachima Lelewela w Lodzi