Artistic Heights Erasmus Project

Project Title

Artistic Heights

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Artistic Heights was designed to complement one project we were already running and has been concluded, European Heights and Bilingual Heights. The complement aspect comes from the fact that the first two projects were focused on teachers where as this application has enable us to have mobility initiatives for our students.
The students we worked with were Year 11, Year 10 and Year 9 groups which was not planned on our application -our school, City Heights, is a school with a high percentage of students with a portuguese and spanish background, and students were taking Art GCSE as well as Spanish and Portuguese GCSE. These particular circumstance plus the contacts we already have with Tate Modern in London and with Spanish and Portuguese schools both in their capital city and local museums means that we had the opportunity to offer our children the unique and unprecedented chance of them being able to compare future job possibilities in museums and creative industry sector at a very high and international level. One of our core aims was to show our students what is available to them, employment wise, in terms of a future career in the arts sector and how their language skills can help them in a sector that is highly competitive and very international.
This project showed our students the opportunities available for them worldwide when using their language skills in the creative and art world as well as gaining a better understanding of other cultures, languages and educational systems.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56815 Eur

Project Coordinator

City Heights E-ACT Academy & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Vicente
• IES Vega del Jarama