Cultural Patrimonial Map / Social Inclusion. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Patrimonial Map / Social Inclusion.

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project “Cultural Heritage Map / Social Inclusion” has motivated an innovation and cooperation that has served to enhance the social and educational value of European Cultural Heritage.

We have worked on Cultural Heritage as a fundamental component of diversity and intercultural dialogue, bringing it closer to our students and promoting its accessibility as a common heritage of humanity.

It has served us to raise awareness towards “inclusive European citizenship” in our schools, with a joint action, focusing on Social Inclusion and artistic manifestations in a diverse and multicultural Europe.

As a result, the project has served us as a tool to motivate towards heritage. Being the children protagonists (locating, cataloging, preserving …).

It has also served us to prevent conflicts, often caused by “difficulties in multicultural understanding”, a consequence of migration and mixing of cultures, caused by fear of the unknown, assuming negative stereotypes of rejection of the different: language, culture … with xenophobic attitudes of exclusion. And at the same time fighting against school failure and early school leaving.

We have prioritized in the needs detected:
– Lack of interest in the new generations for the artistic manifestations.
– To generate a “European conscience”, to revalue the wide cultural heritage.
– Including cultural contents in the formal and transversal curriculum.
– Acquiring habits of citizenship (respect, perpetuate and care for the historical heritage).

We have provided the added value of transnational cooperation between European organizations, strengthening the “internationalization” and the quality of “educational practice”:
– Design and elaboration of cultural heritage maps of towns and cities.
– Promoting direct knowledge of cultural and heritage wealth.
– Awareness actions that have promoted social inclusion in a diverse Europe.

We have been advised by Cultural Heritage entities, which has allowed us to work directly with cultural associations, libraries, museums… local and regional authorities.

We highlight the tangible actions carried out:
– Research in the classrooms to discover how we can contribute to the conservation, protection and improvement of the cultural heritage of the environment.
– Elaboration of curricular tools “Didactic Units on Cultural Heritage”, starting from the current school curricula and the competences required in each educational level. Relating the activities carried out with other artistic and cultural transversal disciplines.
– Valuing the Cultural Heritage legacy through History, with the creation of “Dynamic Cultural Guides” disseminating the European Heritage, with an innovative methodology in collaboration with local artists and museum professionals, making the contents accessible to students through visits to unique buildings, exhibitions, contemporary plastic art collections, concert auditions…
– We have set up Artistic Creation spaces in the schools, with the students being the main protagonists, producing creative collaborative works in which they have captured their imagination in relation to European heritage culture, guided by creative people, with the support of discovery and participation dynamics.

The results obtained have been integrated into the life of the centers, appropriate to the development of the project, establishing ways of doing that have alleviated the needs detected.
They have been measurable, since we have been able to measure the results throughout the project, which has allowed us to establish a Quality Plan in the centers, which we have included:
– Organizational meetings, which have guided the execution of the project, economic and documentary management.
– Teacher training and learning activities with the exchange of experiences and good practices.
– Direct collaboration with cultural and heritage institutions and town councils… museums, libraries…
– Exhibition of all the work done in unique places of the localities, providing dissemination of the work done on cultural heritage.
– Disseminating the synergies resulting from the “artistic creations”, with the advice of creative people.
– Creating “ways of doing” as the students are the protagonists in exhibitions, conferences, seminars, publications …

– We have counted on the support of the Media TV, radio, educational magazines… to make known all that has been done.
– Serving as an example in Social Networks, Web, Blog, eTwinning, TwinSpace… Valor Platform.

As a conclusion we can say that we have fulfilled the objective of UNESCO, celebrating the “International Day of the World Heritage” throughout the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52165,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Manuel Pacheco & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto comprensivo “Zannotti-Fraccacreta”
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Cerco do Porto, Porto
• Ecole primaire publique Aice Errota