Cultural Heritage Beyond Borders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Heritage Beyond Borders

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: Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

“Cultural Heritage Beyond Borders” will be implemented by a partnership consisting of six secondary schools from different European countries: Holland, Turkey, Iceland, Slovakia, Portugal and Hungary. All of them are general education schools. Some of them are UNESCO associated schools, some are experts in implementing art and culture in general education.

Cultural heritage (CH) became an EU priority with the European Agenda for Culture in 2007. By means of this priority, we would like to carry out this project to increase the importance of art and culture education at schools, to draw attention to cultural heritage that brings communities together.

It will be a two-year project. We’ll carry out 6 LTT activities. In these 6 LTT activities 4 students (at the age of 14-18) and 2 teachers will join every project meeting. We’ll deal with various forms of art and culture such as dance, legends, music, culture, art, traditional kids games, using them to trigger and develop artistic-cultural perspective of students, help them enriching and bringing out their hidden 21st Century skills. Its context is art-culture, cultural heritage, the implementation of 21st century students’ skills into general, art and culture education at schools.

It will be community-centered. By collaboration with various local institutions and informal groups of people, we hope to enhance the local social capital in our cities and make it a better place to live. It will offer a stimulating and developing experience for students that will change their attitudes and perception of past and future, influence their life choices, give them the drive to pursue their aims, bring out their hidden skills, help them to become active and conscious members of their local communities, nations and truly European citizens.

By using non-academic activities of artistic creation we want to attract high intelligence students who don’t have time to bring out their skills or the students who don’t want to participate in social activities, see art and culture unnecessary because of technological development, are marginalised at school, have domestic- economic problems and give them a chance to feel important, build their personality and selfconfidence. Moreover, working together with representatives of other nations’ art and culture institutions we’ll raise awareness of linguistic, artistic and cultural diversity of Europe. We’ll create joint end products:logo, project anthem, film of traditional folk dances, photo album presenting cultural heritage music instruments and DVD accompanied with their music, photo album showing different culture feature, DVD of traditional kids games, DVD of legends, art album and set of lesson plans for lessons conducted in museums, art galleries, theatres, other cultural institutions.

To achieve objectives of project, we will do various kinds of activities, such as workshops, competitions, exhibitions, evaluations, that other institutions like other schools in our localities, art-culture centres, music schools, theatres, dance groups, music bands, children, old people homes will be taken part in. The activities are aimed not only to create end products, but also to form resources for UNESCO cooperate with people of different backgrounds, develop 21st century students skills, form a sense of national identity by attending lessons in museums, art galleries and other cultural institutions.

Visibility and dissemination actions will be done like this:-newsletters, articles, final products, collage of images from activities and results will be presented in Erasmus+ corner in each school and published in schools` magazines and shared with all other (external) partners,-articles published in local media, interviews for local radio and TV, evaluation papers of surveys

Project-based learning, learning through experience model, Evaluation methods, Question-answer, Discussion, Brainstorming, Hands-on method, Place-based education to ensure active involvement of the students in the activities are methodologies while we are implementing the project. The project is student-centered. Students will be involved in all stages, from preparation to evaluation, dissemination of its results. Teachers will support and guide the students.

With this project, we (co.and partners) will enable young people to explore the possibility of influencing local, national and European policies and decision making processes concerning Cultural Heritage. Empowering young people while at the same time teaching them skills of dialogue, compromise and diplomacy when working with external stakeholders. Through activities, schools will promote its image in local community as an institution that prepares students for the future and aligns to the 21st century needs. Cooperation with local community will improve through partnerships with local experts and businesses in Cultural Heritage field. The schools will acquire and develop a European dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118380 Eur

Project Coordinator

SG De Meergronden & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Sesim Sarpkaya Fen Lisesi
• Cirkevne gymnazium sv Mikulasa
• Fekete István – Vörösmarty Mihály Általános Iskola és Gimnázium
• Escola Básica e Secundária Professor Dr. Francisco de Freitas Branco