Arts in School – Connecting students from Europe with music and art Erasmus Project

Project Title

Arts in School – Connecting students from Europe with music and art

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The school partnership “Fine Arts in School – Music and Art Connect Pupils in Europe” – SKIS is a project in which, through mutual cultural exchange while making music and performing arts, the development of intellectual, emotional and social skills, as well as the cognitive intelligence of the pupils are promoted and the teachers can train themselves profitably for the development of their subject-specific concerns.
Key competencies are acquired through four mobilities in the artistic field, by overcoming language barriers, immersing oneself in foreign thought patterns while practicing together, concerting, creating art, exhibiting and experiencing joint ventures.
In two further training courses for three Spanish and three German teachers and in two exchange weeks for 20 Spanish and 20 German students of the 11th grade and in the preparation and follow-up of these four mobilities, the teachers learn materials (grades, painting utensils, tools and Materials), as well as the subjects of music and art, the curriculum and teaching methods of the respective partner and in mutual exchange know the possibilities of teaching and the students put the resulting musical and artistic project ideas into practice and present them in exhibitions and concerts. As a result, we plan to realize an artistic work in which the cultural values ​​of both places are emphasized. The whole thing is done in partner work: a Spanish and a German student come into contact before the mutual visits to discuss the work to be designed. They agree to work together, e.g. Painting, sculpture, video etc. that they implement during the mutual visits. Excursions to the craft centers of the two places, which show the respective cultural tradition, if possible also include workshops and demonstrations.
The production of a joint video that accompanies the activities of the project weeks. There could also be two videos with each visit, from a different perspective: visitors and hosts. The creation of an audiovisual work in mixed groups of music and visual art, in which both create the script and the assembly and sound design are in the foreground. The result could be submitted to a short film competition. Working out a work of classical modernism, such as for example, the orchestra suite “The Moon” by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982) or the instrumental concert “Pequeñza Czarda” by the Spanish composer Pedro Iturralde (* 1929) with the musicians of both partners in advance in the weekly practical and theoretical lessons of both partners, in the work weeks and in the presentation in concerts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63520 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ringeisen-Gymnasium der St. Josefskongregation & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Escuela de Arte Manolo Blahnik