Crossing Borders by Arts and Technology Erasmus Project

Project Title

Crossing Borders by Arts and Technology

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; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CONTEXT This Erasmus project, which links to the Europe 2020 Strategy, the ET2020 Strategy and the Bruges Communiqué, has as its fundamental objective to form an active, responsible and socially integrated citizenship, which aspires to overcome all forms of discrimination through art and technology. , both in their countries and in Europe. Throughout the project we have considered the various artistic expressions and technology as a link and universal symbol to express the longing for peace and coexistence of humanity through all time and as an engine of development to create and connect the advances of science with the needs of society in daily life, in a process of improvement of living conditions at personal, social and political levels.
OBJECTIVES The fundamental objectives of this project have revolved around the development of basic and transversal competences in students, through the different artistic expressions such as theater, music, painting, photography, design, cinema … as aerial especially suitable for not only innovation and creativity, but also for education in values ​​and emotional education; Our students have handled not only theoretical content and knowledge data but we have also worked on practical, evaluative, critical approaches to everyday decision-making, to form opinions and express feelings so that they learn to be an active citizenship that is committed to the resolution of problems in a peaceful way, in multicultural, technified and highly complex democratic societies.
 ÁREAS It has been a multidisciplinary project that has involved very diverse curricular areas such as Theater, Music, Drawing, Audiovisuals, Ethics and Education for Citizenship, Literature and Spanish Language, Technology, Information Technology, English and Physical Education. All of this has been oriented towards development. of art and technology in education as means for social cohesion and integration, education in values ​​and the fight against inequalities and discrimination, fight against xenophobia and commitment to coexistence and peace, all together.
ACTIVITIES The vehicular language of this project has been Spanish, which has represented a unique opportunity for the promotion of Spanish as an international language and of communication in Europe, since activities such as reading famous works, collaborative writing workshops, representation of plays, famous song lyrics in Spanish, video recording and poster collection and exhibition of photographs with selected phrases by famous authors.
 As GENERAL ACTIVITIES we have made the presentation, development activities and dissemination of the project in the centers with posters, posters of the project, the mobilities carried out, and in the press and social networks; – We have opened a WEB of the project https://afes2003.wixsite.com/crobart-erasmus with the information about objectives, themes, mobilities, participating centers and countries, as well as the calendar and forms of communication such as the etwinning project, the blog collaborative project and facebook page for participating students and teachers; Also a section with the different mobilities and the corresponding activities of Training, Teaching and Learning carried out during each one of them (products / workshops / visits / presentations, videos, reports of the mobilities, works of the students, galleries of images) . – We have completed a ETWINNING PROJECT https://twinspace.etwinning.net/45134/home for the planned collaborative activities, documents, videos and presentations; – We have kept a PAGE IN FACEBOOK to facilitate communication and international diffusion, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1661571650528153/?ref=bookmarks – Also a BLOG-Daily collaborative between all countries, to track day to the day of the project in each of the countries: https://artecning.blogspot.com/ We have carried out the 3 planned TRANSNATIONAL coordination meetings, the 1st in Götenborg (Sweden), the 2nd in Cascais (Portugal) and the 3rd in Manises (Spain). We have carried out the 5 planned TRAINING, TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES. Each of them has participated, 1 teacher and 4 students from each country, at least. SUSTAINABILITY- All the participating Spanish departments have the texts and records of European authors as well as the printed stories; In addition to strategic levels, the linguistic, digital, artistic, and cultural competences of both students and teachers have been improved; the educational centers have improved with regard to Internet security measures as well as the knowledge and use of digital tools in education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114920 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES José Rodrigo Botet & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Ibn Mucana
• Landvetterskolan
• Het Amsterdams Lyceum
• Liceul Teoretic Bilingv Miguel de Cervantes