Art and Space in the City Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art and Space in the City

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Art and Space in the City” is a dynamic project launched by five European countries (Finland, France, Germany, Greece and Italy) around three main subjects : Arts, Maths and English. It is an interdisciplinary project which consisted in working on art and space in our European cities. As art invigorates public space and as cities reflect and reveal our societies, we aimed at developing the skills and encouraging the sensitivity and imagination of our pupils to transform “ordinary” spaces into something “extraordinary”. We brought them to see and interact with urban space in new ways, add value to our European cities or rural areas and enhance the vitality of our communities.Our final task consisted in getting our pupils to organise an exhibition which displayed how the works of art created by each country were installed in another partner country. In order to do so, our pupils questioned several topics, took into account and respected the specificities of each chosen space, met professionals from various grounds and contribute to the vibrancy of their cities. On the whole, around 20 teachers and 80 pupils worked in collaboration, regularly communicating and meeting in order to exchange knowledge and good practises, improving, among others, communication, language and digital skills. Throughout the project, the pupils were also able to create, gain self-confidence, develop their sense of entrepreneurship and feeling of belonging by becoming aware of their heritage. Thus they became active citizens of their own community but also opened up to other cultures and grasped the importance of being part of a greater common space: Europe. The « making of » and the results of our project can be found on our website : https://sites.google.com/view/artandspaceinthecityfr
Hence, we hope that our experience will contribute to encouraging and fostering future projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139685 Eur

Project Coordinator

LPO JEAN MONNET & Country: FR

Project Partners

• 3o Geniko Lykeio Chaidariou
• Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore ” Morelli-Colao “
• Novida- ammattiopisto ja lukio