“Artisans of Tales” – Young people for the recovery of local identities Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Artisans of Tales” – Young people for the recovery of local identities

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Social dialogue; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Artisans of Tales” was born from the will of several friend schools (IT, M, ES, PL) to collaborate with each other at an international level to offer their institutions more and more opportunities for sharing, innovation, partnership, etc. The project was proposed following informal debates among the partners, who agreed to underline how the schools have on one hand the need to be increasingly captivating and innovative for young people, abandoning traditional teaching techniques and innovating their training paths, and on the other hand they have to face a growing disorientation of children, lost between a world potentially reachable via the internet and on the other with communities that are increasingly experiencing disruptive phenomena. The ARTA project has therefore combined the two aspects, creating a captivating and innovative experimental training course on the subject of the recovery of local identities, understood as immaterial heritage, applying the format of “Community Narrators” to traditional anthropological research.
The project action lasted 24 months, from 02/10/2017 to 10/01/2019, and directly involved 60 students from two age groups 12-13 and 15-16 and 15 staff members.
 The project has achieved the following objectives:
 – creation of an innovative and transversal training course, able to provide extra-curricular skills to students;
 – strengthening the connection between young people and their communities, stimulating their commitment to preserve and transmit local identities;
 – promotion of intercultural dialogue and stimulation of the use of the English language, through comparison and mutual narration between schools;
 – creation of new opportunities for the involvement of children in civil society and promotion of European citizenship;
 – formation of “Artisans of Tales” for the transmission of the traditional and historical heritage of the communities and creation of Narrative Paths.
 The activities of the project were divided into two parts: the first involved training in the techniques of recovery and re-elaboration of the intangible heritage and experimentation of the new training course; the second part concerned student mobility for intercultural exchange and the presentation of research work in the form of a narrative path.
The methodology used was inspired by the most complete democratic spirit, all the staff played an equal role in the project. In creating the training course, basic criteria of innovation, openness, transversality, attractiveness and inclusiveness were followed, in order to create a captivating training path even for groups that are difficult to reach and avoid passive learning.
The following long-term results were achieved by ARTA:
 – creation of a group of young “Artisans of Tales” in each of the schools involved;
 – ideation of Narrative Paths for the preservation and transmission of oral tales and folk traditions of the territories involved;
 – creation of a training course in human sciences, replicable and reusable both in the same schools and in other European institutions;
 – creation of opportunities for meeting, exchanging and sharing among young students of the European Community, aimed at intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and stimulation towards an active European Citizenship;
 – stimulating the use of the English language and digital libraries.
It is believed that these results have contributed to a positive impact of the project on the perception of the Scholastic Institution by children and families, as well as by civil society, and that they have succeeded in sensitizing the authorities and stakeholders in the school world on the importance to create incentives for educational experimentation and collaboration with civil society.
In the long run the positive effects of the project will be measured in having made available a new training course in the field of human sciences and in having left to the communities Narrative Paths that recover and transmit the traditional intangible heritage.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122040 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo Falcone e Borsellino & Country: IT

Project Partners

• MALTA COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• ISTITUTO MAGISTRALE SANTA ROSA DA VITERBO
• IES BENAZAIRE
• Zespol Szkol w Wieliszewie Gminne Gimnazjum im. Jana Pawla II w Wieliszewie