ART TЯA: From ART TЯAilers towards new skills and Competences, more responsive to the labour market and the knowledge-based society needs Erasmus Project

Project Title

ART TЯA: From ART TЯAilers towards new skills and Competences, more responsive to the labour market and the knowledge-based society needs

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

“ART TЯA” project idea came up from a strong partnership of the previous Erasmus+ KA201 “Booktrailer”, financed in 2016 and completed in summer 2018 (final evaluation: 100/100; recognized as Erasmus+ Best Practice Example). The new project wanted to capitalise on the expertise and experience gained over the years and to continue using the Booktrailer’s methods and results, applied this time in the artistic/cultural field.

“ART TЯA – From ART TЯAilers towards new skills and competences, more responsive to the labour market and the knowledge-based society needs” aimed at exchanging good practices in the project’s areas among the involved high schools, with the LTTA as culminating learning moments for groups of students and their teachers.
Five were the countries involved: Bulgaria, France, Italy, Poland and Austria (new partner).

The project aims:
1. RAISING AWARENESS about the importance of EU CULTURAL HERITAGE and PROMOTING ACCESS to it (also in the context of “2018: the European Year of Cultural Heritage”) through the students’ involvement in activities aimed at creation of art-trailers and their broadcasting as “promotional products” of EU cultural heritage
2. ENCOURAGING ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT of TRANSVERSAL SKILLS and COMPETENCES, during ART TЯA local activities and in mobility abroad, mainly in the following fields: artistic and cultural (EU heritage); ICT and technological (filmmaking); communicative (storytelling); recognising those competences
3. EXCHANGE of GOOD PRACTICES and STRENGHTENING COOPERATION AMONG PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS to foster their didactics and traineeships programs, reinforce their cooperation and European dimension.

The main ART TЯA’s target groups were:
– 152 PUPILS IN MOBILITY (physical and virtual), aged 16-17
– about 660 PUPILS LOCALLY INVOLVED in project activities
– 55 TEACHERS involved as coordinators and facilitators of ART TЯA activities and as accompanying teachers in mobility
– about 630 PARENTS, participating to public events and hosting pupils in mobility
– about 6000 STUDENTS of the involved schools, as indirect beneficiaries and participants to local project initiatives.
The ART TЯA activities (in mobility and local activities) included: training/workshops aiming at providing students with competences and skills necessary to create final art trailers; visits to artistic sites and their promoting with the use of ICT; meetings with field experts.
ART TЯA implemented 6 learning activities with groups of students in mobility (traineeships). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic emergency, the project has been extended for one year and the last two LTTA were implemented in virtual mobility.

The activities were carried out also:
– at partner’s schools: training and laboratory work, workshops, post-mobility peer-to peer activities
– in virtual collaboration with partners: implementing ART TЯA eTwinning project, virtual cooperation, exchange of materials/results, technical consultancy
– at a local community level: workshops with local experts, meetings with artists and technicians, field work, visits to relevant artistic and cultural sites, dissemination events.

Thanks to the participation in the project, the participants acquired “sectorial” and basic skills, corresponding with the main steps of art-trailers’ creation:
– ICT and technology, related to video-making
– communication, storytelling and narration
– awareness of EU artistic and cultural heritage and its social and educational value; competences in art objects’ promotion
– team working, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, communication in foreign languages and building effective relationships among peers; time management and ability to achieve results, public speaking/interviewing and emotional management skills.

The methodologies used were based on learning-by-doing strategies, international peer-to-peer learning and role-play. The students worked in small, mixed international groups. They experienced a real opportunity of working in an “international team”: with students coming from different social backgrounds; experiencing cultural differences and using foreign language for communication.

As final results, students created 44 art-trailers that were transmitted each year during the final events: the BFF Film Festival in Brescia (organised by the applicant school) and other national/international events.

The involved schools have acquired new approaches and methodologies, such as:
– more innovative, student-centred didactics and traineeships programs for better students’ guidance, their more conscious educational/professional choices and thus future employability
– implementing extra-school creative initiatives for cultural heritage promotion and intercultural activities among students and teachers (also on international level)
– participation to and organization of “big” artistic events, such as cinema/film festivals
– fostered European dimension for future partnerships on EU level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126469,03 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceo Scientifico Statale Annibale Calini & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 2
• LPo Albert Camus
• 105 SOU Atanas Dalchev
• BHAK/BHAS Liezen