Art is everywhere Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art is everywhere

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; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Contemporary schools involve pupils, teachers and other staff, that come from socially, economically, politically, religiously and even culturally different regions and families. School collectives are very heterogeneous.
We want to show that these differences are not disadvantageous. We believe that Art is very convenient to be used to show that European diversity was and is beneficial. Art has been changing and developing for ages and its tangible and intangible products influence humans being positively for generations.
We want to enable success for all student and teachers‘ community, to change weak activeness in the lessons. There are many children with worse grades in our school who experience school failure in some subjects. They have usually problems with memorizing facts in school, but they are usually good at making things by hands. On the other hand everybody, even successful pupils could get motivated for new activities during working on the project. We will do our best to united children with a different approach to school duties and with different success in the school process. We want to motivate less and more gifted pupils for cooperation, children from economically weaker and economically richer families, immigrants and native citizens, children, and teachers of different interests and talents.
The project Art is everywhere aims to increase our pupils’ activity and motivation, effectivity and impact on our school work. We want to deepen and develop pupils good qualities and to create a constant and useful approach to work for their future professional and personal life in the European field, that can influence the future economic prosperity of our pupils, region, Union. It will be our contribution to job creation, economic growth and it should help to avoid the early school leaving. The activities will be done especially in Art lessons and the written outcomes and communication will be done in English lessons, which will lead to improving pupils´ language knowledge.
We see the cooperation and interconnection of pupils and staff in schools and between the partner schools, involving other family members, local authorities, specialists as a contribution to social cohesion and developing the social value of European cultural heritage, the whole project process will influence the social cohesion and it should avoid the early school leaving too.
According to our previous experience, Art and its activities are liked by children, we believe it will promote engaging, connecting and empowering our pupils and will be effective in preventing the threat of addictive substances and bullying. Art seems to be ideal for the integration of pupils with educational, behavior or other disadvantages.
Improving the aesthetics of our school buildings is important too, we will decorate them with the project outcomes.
Important is the mediation of the right model of behaving when visiting some cultural events (appropriate behavior, formal clothes) – gaining the right models of behavior.
We will download and display our project outcomes and information about its process on school and project websites, school boards, we will write to the newspapers. We will use e-mail correspondence, Facebook and video conferences for communication. E-twinning and its safe twinspace will be used especially for communication between children and for sharing more private materials.
There are Art lessons in all grades of partners school. This and also the flexibility of the topic enables us to involve pupils of all grades, from 3-19 years. In our project team will be Art teachers, English teachers, IT teachers, but even teachers of History, native languages. The project will be open to the participation of all teachers who find the topic applicable in own lessons.
Mobilities will be for children 11-19 years old and well linguistically prepared. In each hosting country, we will be concentrated on its own topic – Pottery, Carnival + Art of Papier-Mache, How music influences our feelings, projecting them in drawings, Sport in art, Beauties of Madeira in art and Pop art.
Each country will present its typical old and modern art, it will lead to understanding and feeling national pride, it will mediate knowledge of it. Presenting own products in schools, decorating school walls with own art, exhibiting own work in local municipal buildings helps interconnect school life with town life and local authorities and it promotes our project, schools, countries too. We want to change the approach of young people to history, museums, art – preparing presentations, using mobile or computer games or applications, preparing lessons for younger pupils. Choice of activities will be done sensitively to let every child succeed in it. (Making and writing Christmas and Easter cards, making spring and autumn decorations with an invited florist, photographing, visiting galleries and museums, reporting in native and English language).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197758 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZS a MS Tabor, Husova 1570 & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Escola Dr. Horácio Bento de Gouveia
• Mimar Sinan Ortaokulu
• Fundacion San Juan y San Pablo
• 2° Istituto Comprensivo “G. Bianca” – Avola(SR)
• Sredno uchilishte Emilyan Stanev