DialogUE: Youth in action! Erasmus Project

Project Title

DialogUE: Youth in action!

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Social dialogue; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

“A true tradition is not a testimony of an outdated past, it is a living force that animates and informs the present.” Far from implying the repetition of what was, tradition assumes the reality of what endures … A heritage that is received on condition of make it fruitful before transmitting it to the descendants. ” Igor Stravinsky, Musical poetics. Paris, 1952

The spirit and the full text of the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (Unesco 2005), are aimed at safeguarding cultural diversity against the homogenization that guides globalization. 2018 was been the European Year of Cultural Heritage, a year of events and activities all around Europe to get people interested and involved in cultural heritage.

The basics of this project fit with the general framework and principles of European Union‘s Lisbon Convention and UNESCO’s Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (20.10.2005); objectives concerning recognition and promotion of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and sustainable development.

This project is a research into the past of each of the participant countries, through their history, culturel heritage , language and traditions. The ultimate goal of the project is to find out the links between the different cultures that make up the European Union, compare them and draw conclusions about the differences and similarities that enrich and unite us. As a result, the crosscultural differences actually will come together to find common links and this will be the first step for a better understanding between cultures.

Our partners represent contrasting social and economic backgrounds, and a diverse collection of communities from across Europe. It must be agreed that heritage, as a result of a social construction, refers to a set of cultural goods that receive a positive assessment by society, whose identity they express, in the sense that it is an element through which the difference with the other social and cultural groups; but it also represents a factor of resistance against the attacks of standardization. Heritage, a kind of social symbolism for the maintenance and transmission of collective memory, is constituted by the representative goods of each society.

The basic purpose of the project to contribute to promoting the role of Europe’s cultural heritage as a pivotal component of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue (conservation, safeguarding, accessibility of cultural heritage, education, promotion of social inclusion and integration). A medium that offers us the possibility of creation and creativity with the active participation of students. If tradition is the inheritance of social time in collective memory, the legacy of the past, it is also due to its renewal in the present; because the tradition, the transmission of the culture between the generations, is built from the contemporaneity. The tradition acquires full meaning when contemporaries revive it and in this way appropriate it. Tradition, in fact, updates and renews the past from the present.

Spreading their expert knowledge by performing dramas, fashion shows,folk dancing,rituals,hand crafts,cooking competition maintaining a website, or simply talking about their work, their rehearsals and their visits will arouse curiosity in more students. This will have a positive effect on the learning process in the school, as more students will do their best to become involved in the program. The protection of common cultural heritage aims to ensure the continuity and originality of cultural diversity between different communities and groups inside and outside the country, basing the maintenance of their conditions of existence and encouraging communities to continue practicing and recreating one time all those expressions, representations and uses that constitute their living cultural heritage. Explore personal perspectives about unfamiliar cultures and how different perspectives often lead to creating stereotypes and prejudice about people from different cultures.

Highlight participants’ answers to the project and connect them to the larger idea of how cultures have differences and similarities between them. It is especially important to recognize that there are threads of cultural similarities that connect all human beings. In the end, it is intended that all students from different countries, act together, each country being part of the puzzle that would make up a single common work: a varied mosaic but, in the end, unique.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 190290 Eur

Project Coordinator

Thyholm Skole & Country: DK

Project Partners

• ASBL Collège Saint-Julien
• 1 GENIKO LYKEIO VASILIKON
• BAYRAMPASA TUNA ANADOLU LISESI
• IISS “Caramia – Gigante”, Locorotondo
• IES Cañada Real