Education and Arts Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education and Arts

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Creativity and culture; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Educarte is a 24-month project, with 9 partners from 5 countries. The project explores how to promote European identity and intercultural dialogue in 8 European public schools through Art in order to strengthen the creativity of minors (the vast majority of them of immigrant origin and at risk of exclusion) and develop digital competence and their empowerment.

The 8 schools are characterized by being located in areas with a high% of population of immigrant origin in Madrid, Turin, Terni, Évora, Budapest and Brussels. We include an integrated gender approach, analyzing the role of women, invisible in the past, within the framework of the European Defense of Human Rights and Memory.

Beneficiaries
1,500 minors, adolescents and young people who lack a European cultural identity, plus 300 family members (80% of them of immigrant origin and at risk of exclusion)
700 educational and artistic professionals trained in national training spaces and international meetings
100 volunteers
1,200 people participate indirectly in dissemination events through Art, reaching 3,800 direct and indirect beneficiaries

Activities
6 meetings in Madrid, Terni, Ghent, Turin, Évora and Budapest, that include coordination and follow-up meetings (economic, logistical, pedagogical, organizational, evaluation, IT and methodological), and meetings for the exchange of good practices.
1,280 theoretical-practical laboratories (160 per school) implemented in schools during school hours by experts in European identity and intercultural dialogue (theoretical part – 15%) and by artists (practical part of internalization through Arts – 85%) in the 8 centers in 5 countries.
+30 micro-videos created by minors to develop their digital competence and be protagonists of the project.
5 training actions with educational and artistic professionals on creativity and art for the development of skills with minors

Methodology
A participatory methodology will be implemented, based on art and creativity, incorporating specific tools from the artistic world and non-formal educational pedagogy – conducting laboratories and practical workshops with an integrated gender approach – into the formal education in European identity.

Goals
Promote equal opportunities for minors and families at risk of exclusion through the creation of a NETWORK of schools.
Train in new pedagogies and learning models favoring the development and digital skills, based on creativity and art and European identity, active citizenship and intercultural dialogue.
Train teachers and educational professionals by an international team of artists and experts in European identity through Arts.
Develop digital skills with minors following a practical model
Weave networks between institutions and administrations with competences in the educational framework of public schools
Prepare support materials and videos to allow the implementation and replication of resources and tools in other schools and entities.
Disseminate good practices and work carried out through websites and social networks.
Involve families, minors and teachers in order to take action.
Conduct an evaluation.
Get the involvement of volunteers.

Results
An innovative project is carried out promoting equal opportunities.
An intervention NETWORK is created, with the participation of 8 schools and 5 universities and +50 administrations and entities.
The participants are provided with tools to find creative solutions that will allow them to face new challenges.
Digital skills are favored trough creativity, enhancing a creative development.
The European identity as a common space is worked through arts, an active citizenship approach, and through tangible and intangible heritage and intercultural dialogue.
An international team is created specifically made up of artists and multidisciplinary experts from 5 countries.
6 international meetings are held to exchange good practices.
Professionals from the educational and artistic world are trained in the project methodology.
Exchange is encouraged and experiences are shared between 8 schools.
At least 40 collaboration agreements are signed on the matter of European Identity & Arts between NGOs, foundations, universities, schools and other entities.
Didactic materials are elaborated with methodological and didactic recommendations
Communication and dissemination work is carried out. There is a specific EDUCARTE website, available to the general public, allowing dissemination and exchange. It works as a virtual resource center.
Two dissemination events are held about European Identity and Arts in Brussels (European Parliament or Embassy of Spain) and Madrid (European Parliament Headquarters).
Evaluation is done.
At least 100 volunteers have participated.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100990 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION YEHUDI MENUHIN ESPAÑA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITEIT GENT
• MUS-E Belgium
• Észak-Budapesti Tankerületi Központ
• A.I.S.TE.L. APS Associazione Italiana Servizi e Tempo libero di promozione sociale
• AE Manuel Ferreira Patrício
• UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS
• FUNDACION VIOLETA FRIEDMAN