ALL THE ROADS Erasmus Project

Project Title

ALL THE ROADS

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our idea was to found our project in the nexus that united so many European cities in Antiquity: the roads. We have remains in the entire territory of the Empire, some very deteriorated and others in good condition. From our Center, the idea of sponsoring stretches of the Vía de la Plata started to help understand and protect it; from this germ an old European project resurfaced, “The school adopts a monument”, thanks to which hundreds of schoolchildren, and their families, gave themselves over to the study and care of the heritage. Our plan was to combine both ideas: work together in the knowledge of the roads and proceed to their adoption (so that they become theirs and consider them a family asset), as a symbol of the protection of a heritage that forged what today is the European Union broaden the world of our students who will be able to live by themselves the reach of the Roman road network visiting “in situ” the places as far as they arrived and knowing the remains that Europe has preserved. We coincide two mobilities with the April 18 (World Heritage Day) of 2019 and 2020, the date on which the students of Augusta Emerita leave their Centers to explain the monuments they have adopted, after having collaborated in their cleaning. We seek to involve the families of the students inviting them to accompany us along the routes. Expanding this plan and showing it to the rest of the schools can be a great example of how to promote the teaching of what we were and how to take care of the cultural assets that have been handed down to us in family and school. And because it is essential that, thanks to this knowledge, students from economically depressed environments develop an awareness of citizenship and become familiar with the European reality for its integral development. Fortune has allowed us to share all this by finding partners who seek the same goals in Portugal (Agrupamento de Escolas de Soure), Greece (Dimosthenio Lyceum of Peania), Romania (Cantemir-Vodă National College), Bulgaria (44Secondary School Neofit Bozveli).
Objectives: to confirm that we are united by a common past of which the European Union is the heir; create synergies with the associated Centers to strengthen the ties that united us in the past; work collaboratively on the relevant issues; travel the streets with students and families; sponsorship of the roads; develop capacity for teamwork and at European level; train our students in the habit of learning throughout life in an academic and informal context; establish a communication framework in which alliances and complicities between family and center are possible; integrate the linguistic, social and cultural diversity of the different communities to which we belong. The 5 participating centers are of secondary education (some extend their educational offer to children or even adult education) and all agree to offer studies that include Social Sciences that vary by country but the common idea is commitment and respect for heritage. Each Center mobilizes a European project manager and an accompanying teacher, in total 10 teachers, and 5 students per institution, in total 25 students, that is 35 people.
The activities include the common work in eTwinning; the preparation of the commitment documents of the families, of the didactic material and the adoption letters; mobilities of students and teachers with pathways and adoption ceremonies; final report and dissemination of the results.
The methodology to use in the execution of the project is the exchange as a foundation of joint work (also in basic competences), creating shared didactic material through eTwinning, and the collective impulse to respect for heritage through inter-center collaboration.
Results: didactic material created among the associated centers; adoption letters of the tracks; exchange of students between centers with family stays; development of planned actions and follow-up; exchange of materials and experiences through eTwinning; final quality memory; dissemination and application of the actions developed in this project.
Repercussion: Knowing the roads and adopting them, treating them as a family inheritance, as something personal, will help to know about them, to protect them, which can be extended to other monuments. Involving families, making World Heritage Day known, expanding the world of our students, contact with the other centers will project us to the European dimension of heritage and will
unite us as heirs of peoples belonging to a community.
We understand as possible long-term benefits to sow in our students and their families the respect for the inheritance received from our ancestors, which is ultimately what “heritage” means.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129816 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES AlBARREGAS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 44Secondary School Neofit Bozveli
• Colegiul National CANTEMIR-VODA
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Soure
• GENERAL LYCEUM OF PAIANIA