Art@Heart Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art@Heart

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Partners have analysed schools’ teachers’ and pupils’ needs and established a network of 7 schools from different EU countries: Austria as coordinating school, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, France and Spain, and another school from Austria have composed a plan for a 2-year international project. The Czech partner withdrew and the tasks were redistributed. Approximately 2800 people participated in the project. Mostly students and their teachers actively took part in it. Parents and teachers of other schools formed part of a wider community.
The project “Art@Heart” was a stimulus for exploring and developing new teacher-learner strategies through a three fold focus on:
ART – activities involving painting, craftwork, music and drama.
@ – ICT skills, connecting with each other and using different tools and mobile applications,
HEART – everything concerning well being, health while developing language learning and cultural identity as a European Citizen.

The project ART@HEART has been promoting the development of active citizens who cherish the importance of creativity, healthy lifestyle and value cultural diversity. The project focused on the health of the heart as the health of a person. Art in its widest form contributed to health and well being and helped participants and wider audience to acknowledge the importance of welfare.
As a starting point for the artistic development a logo competition was held among the partner schools and a winner was chosen to symbolise our project.
Each country produced an exchange of culture boxes that promoted the cultural values of our countries through child inspired artefacts.
A variety of ephemeral land art exhibits have taken place throughout the different seasons of the projects.
Collaborative activities included the production of a project anthem and two musicals.
Each school implemented the use of ICT as learning resources according to their own ICT infrastructure. Twinspace was used by all partners as our project website.

The student mobilities offered an unparalleled experience to deepen children’s insight and understanding of the life of their peers in other countries. The experience of visiting and hosting visits allowed them to compare, contrast and learn both in educational as well as social aspects, under the umbrella of the European framework and organization.

The final products are available on Twinspace and on Croatian Carnet platform for our partner schools and will be an OER (open educational resource) as learning-teaching materials and examples of good practice. There is also an embedded Youtube list on Twinspace which highlights the practical implementation of these resources.

Long term benefits include sustainable network of teachers for future cooperation, exchange of artwork, exchanging ideas, international art exhibitions, participating art competitions and a project anthem reflecting universal values of similar projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91615 Eur

Project Coordinator

Volksschule Straß in Steiermark & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Fundacio Jesuites Educacio- Sant Ignasi
• Osnovna skola Ivana Gundulica
• Ecole de La soie
• Osnovna sola Antona Tomaza Linharta Radovljica
• Volksschule St. Nikolai ob Draßling
• Zakladni skola a materska skola, s.r.o.