Active citizens promoting cultural heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Active citizens promoting cultural heritage

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

“Active citizens promoting cultural heritage” Partnership is based on an inclusive approach and involves 5 EU schools from Romania, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Greece. İn the framework of the Romanian Centenary and the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the project is designed to raise awareness about cultural heritage as a key factor that facilitates the dialogue between cultures.
The EU cultural heritage is non-renewable common good and it is a shared responsibility of each of us to preserve, protect, restorate and promote it. Partners compared their institutional development plans and all identified the common characteristics: interest in developing the students’ civic spirit, active engagement in promoting the national values, intention to develop activities aiming to promote cultural heritage, and intention to internationalize the school curricula.
Our project aims to be a foundation in equipping the adults of the tomorrow’s world with the necessary knowledge to promote the EU cultural heritage and empowering them to act as active citizens creating a more inclusive Europe.
The main aim of our project is to activate civic engagement among 200 students from 5 EU schools in promoting the European cultural heritage during a two years project.
The project’s objectives are:
-to raise awareness about the cultural heritage of the 5 EU partner countries
-to encourage cultural dialogue among students and teachers coming from 5 EU schools
-to develop students’ knowledge and skills needed to build fairer communities
-to enhance cultural sensitivity fostering students’ integration in a multicultural society
The aim and objectives of the project are a response to the common needs partners identified at their school level: students became less patriotic, they are less motivated to learn and their interest in socio-cultural life in reduced.
The project will boost students’ self-esteem as they will act as cultural ambassadors representing their country and nation, interculturality as students will directly cooperate with students of 5 different EU nationalities, cultural openess as students will closely observe other EU lifestyles, and expand their cultural mindset as they will strenghten the feeling of beloning to a group and to a united European Union.
The project is addressed to students of 12-14 years old, a range of age when pupils develop a sense of right and wrong, when they are developing their indepent spirit and create their own personalities. The activities are designed to determine students realise how important is to appreciate what we have inherited from our ancestors and that it is their moral responsibility to promote the national values and customs, as well as, to contribute in transmitting the cultural heritage to the generations to come.
The concrete results we would like to produce are:
-questionnaires
-logo of the project
-slogan of the project
-Erasmus+ corners
-schools presentations
-1 heritage exhibition – souvenirs
– 5 presentations – Active citizens promoting EU heritage
-1 cultural festival
-5 videos “My culture: Facts, Customs and Traditions”
-1 e-cookbook
-1 Kaleidoscopic Journey Guide –
-1 EU museum corner
-1 common T-shirt
-1 silent play
-3 webpages of the project (common website, Twinspace, Facebook page)
-promotional materials: flyers, leaflets
-toolkit of the project
-DVD of the project
The project is addressed to students (12-14 years old) and teachers from 5 EU schools. A total number of 80 students and 40 teachers from all partner schools will directly attend the LTTAs. Families and the local community will be indirect beneficiaries.
The project activities are based on an interdisciplinary approach. Each activity contributes to the richness and diversity of the EU cultural heritage. The activities tackle cultural, artistic, spiritual and scientific features which formed to our EU identity.
Students will become more aware regarding the EU cultural heritage through research, learning by doing and peer work. There are planned 5 meetings with students and before each meeting students will be asked to prepare some materials. Also, during the meeting students will create common products together. The diversity of the activities will enhance cultural sensitivity and students will be better prepared for adapting to living in a globalized society.
All involved schools will benefit from this project in the long-term. The international exchange will contribute to the improvement of the institutional development plans, to internationalizing the school curricula, to giving an international dimension to the teaching and learning process, as well as to the integration of ICT tools and modern teaching materials. The schools’ visibility will be increased at a local level.
The project will increase the quality of the educational process as a results that participants were exposed to other EU educational systems and saw different contemporary teaching approaches.

Project Website

http://acpchteam.wixsite.com/erasmus

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 27882 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Romanu Braila & Country: RO

Project Partners

• 4th Gymnasium Volos
• Escola Básica e Secundária de Canelas
• 3 Istituto Comprensivo “E. De Cillis”
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 41