ART LINKS BORDERS – EL ARTE UNE FRONTERAS Erasmus Project

Project Title

ART LINKS BORDERS – EL ARTE UNE FRONTERAS

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project Art Links Borders was carried out between the 1st of September 2016 and the 31st of August 2018, starting from a detailed planning and studied design, taking as a starting point some of the priorities of “Europe 2020”, of the participating institutions and of the rest of organizations of our scope with which we have collaborated.

The internationalization of the participating institutions has also been one of the main objectives pursued, establishing efficient and productive contacts, sheltered by the creation of new institutional networks, from whom we expect to keep benefiting equally over the next few years.

Likewise, we also think that they are going to help us to obtain high learning rates in relation to didactics of teaching foreign languages and CLIL methodologies, in order to help students in their language immersion in an ever-changing society, trying to be a strategic reference nowadays.

Based on the analysis we made, we consider that the project “Art Links Borders – El Arte Une Fronteras” has managed to develop the 1st and 3rd priorities established by “Europe 2020”, as we planned during the first drafting of the project: the promotion of educational innovation and a greater inclusive growth which facilitates the creation of social inclusion scenes.

In the same way, we consider that the project has achieved the planned objectives:

1- To promote social inclusion, the union of the peoples and cultures under the European framework, as well as the English language, through the exchange of experiences and the study of cultures and social realities of each partner’s institution.
2- To implement innovative and new methodologies during our teaching work, which we think to have increased the motivation and involvement of the students through a teaching proposal of new pedagogic scenes based on the mentioned innovation.
3- To achieve a greater grade of educational impact and influence in all the community through the promotion, among others, of teaching actions, the creation of a network of people and institutions, and attaining the pillars of an institutional cooperation environment, at the local, national and international level we wished.
4- To implement the results of this project in the development of future plans and programs. In fact, this Erasmus+ project has set the base of the new KA201 project for 2018-2020 that the coordinating institution has created and which has already been approved and funded.

In the 2016-2018 project of this Final Report, the partners were from 5 different European countries: Spain (coordinator), Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Lithuania. All the participants had a great and an enriching professional profile and experience in LLP or Erasmus+ projects.

In relation to the target groups of this project, we were able to reach our immediate reference population, comprised of Primary and Secondary Education students, families, teachers and the near and medium distance environment, involving other families, other teachers, other institutions (such as Education Departments, Teacher Training Centers, Universities, etc.), by the development of impact a dissemination strategies which tried to multiply the achievements and activities designed within the framework of the project.

Thereby, we think that we have attained to increase the consciousness of the students and the educational community about the need of promoting social inclusion, as well as the need of developing innovative strategies that allow us to influence positively in the attitude and motivation of the students. Also, the autonomy of our students has increased and they have move forward in the development of the “learning to learn” ability.

The main activities we carried out during the project were:
– Training and innovation teaching workshops for teachers from our institutions, which have also been replicated for other teachers from local institutions close to the members.
– Innovative activities for the students, not just for the students participating in the mobilities, but also for their mates, through the figure of the Ambassador Student.
– Creation of an open virtual campus, available through the website of the project: www.artlinksborders.eu
– Creation of social network profiles and a website to promote an interconnected and innovative education with resources created by the students.
– Creative intervention in each town of the members through murals, tourist information signs integrated in educational activities and available to all the people, etc.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97410 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRO RURAL DE INNOVACION EDUCATIVA DE CUENCA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CELODNEVNA DETSKA GRADINA N 2 YUNSKO VASTANIE
• LICEUL DE ARTE VIZUALE ROMULUS LADEA
• Istituto Comprensivo Ferrandina
• Radviliskio Vinco Kudirkos pagrindine mokykla