European myths and legends Erasmus Project

Project Title

European myths and legends

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

We noticed that fewer and fewer of our pupils know about our regional history, traditions and myths. That is the reason for our decision to deal with the topic of our project. We want to counteract this process by collecting local myths and legends, publishing a European myth book with attractive illustrations and background information. During each meeting, the pupils present their partners one of their myths in its regional context, e.g. by a scenic interpretation. Moreover, they illustrate and fix the myths in a written form in German and English. During the different project meetings, the knowledge about and understanding of the myths will be checked by different kinds of small riddles and retellings. By doing so the students internalize their own tradition but also those of the partner countries. Another aim is to inform all participating students about our own culture by different myths and to achieve mutual understanding and tolerance. Most of the 20 participating students of each school belong to grades 9-12 and are interested in history and language. They want to improve or extend their foreign language skills and are open to new cultures and experiences. We expect the participants to get a deeper knowledge of the cultures and traditions of the participating countries. For this purpose, we collect the myths in a myths book, which will be published, so that this material can be used in class and in other parts of public life, for example tourism, local and regional history and culture clubs, museums and libraries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160684 Eur

Project Coordinator

Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Patrona Hungariae Ovoda, Altalanos Iskola Gimnazium, Kollegium es Alapfoku Muveszeti Iskola
• LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE ” MANFREDO FANTI “
• 2nd General Lyceum of CHania
• Klaipedos “Aitvaro” gimnazija