Exploring Cultural Heritage for Entrepreneurial Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exploring Cultural Heritage for Entrepreneurial Development

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

-Project Exploring Cultural Heritage for Entrepreneurial Development was a School Exchange Partnership which started on 1st October 2018 and lasted 24 months. The partnership was formed via eTwinning and consisted of five secondary schools: coordinator from Poland and partners from Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

-Project priorities were promoting entrepreneurship education and raising awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage through education. There were four main project objectives defined:
I. Development of schools as organizations and increase in their abilities to work in international projects
We want our institutions to create and develop European networks, work in cross-border projects, share and confront ideas and practices.
II. Undertaking a mobility project
We want our institutions to promote the values of inclusion, tolerance, language learning, linguistic diversity and multiculturalism.
III. Promoting initiative and entrepreneurship education
Project activities are based on Business Studies methodology to foster transnational initiative, entrepreneurial mind-sets and skills.
IV. Raising awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage
We want to raise awareness of social and educational value of European cultural heritage, its contribution to job creation, economic growth and promote intercultural approach to heritage.

-Project participants varied in cultural and geopolitical background, approach towards heritage, motivation and learning capacities. In project there were included underprivileged participants with educational difficulties, economic obstacles, cultural differences and geographical obstacles. Participants with fewer opportunities were offered psychological, linguistic, cultural, economic and organizational support.
All project participants included pupils, teachers and other school staff, pupils’ parents, local schools and authorities, business people operating in tourism.

Project activities
To raise awareness of cultural heritage pupils completed introductory tasks (a video pool research on cultural heritage, seminar classes on the changes in the attitude to heritage protection in the past, animated video presenting factors that influenced cultural heritage in the country in the past, data mining on tourism).
Before each mobility, pupils brainstormed ideas for presentation and case study and host pupils were involved in field trip arrangements.
Pupils took part in five short-term exchanges in partner schools where mobility activities were held under one main theme (debate on cultural heritage issues, designing enterprise, workshops, field trips).
The entrepreneurship techniques applied in the field trip activities included: brain-storming ideas, SWOT analyses, elements of feasibility study including technical, strategic and market analyses, elements of business plan etc.

Project outcomes:
-a more dynamic, committed and professional environment inside involved schools, ready to integrate good practices into school activities,
-successful cooperation of institutions and staff required by the assigned project tasks.
-inclusion of participants with different difficulties,
-enhanced awareness and intercultural understanding,
-increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship,
-better understanding of interconnection between formal and non-formal learning.
-enhanced intercultural and entrepreneurial approach to heritage.

Long-term benefits
-All partner schools develop as organizations and improve their professional environment, European dimension and readiness to integrate good practices in school activities.
-There are also plans to continue using the results of the project in school activities.
1.The Business Studies curriculum will include a selection of techniques, ideas and content used during project activities.
2.Field trips organized by partner schools will include additional objective of assessing cultural heritage for business activity and job creation.
3.Pupils’ participation at least once a year in events such as tourist fair or entrepreneurship week, if the conditions permit this.
4.Pupils’ participation at least once a year in a visit to local enterprise and meeting with businessmen.
5. Partner schools will hold annual competition in which secondary school pupils will create enterprise projects based on national and international cultural heritage.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138814,46 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol i Placowek Oswiatowych w Skale & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Colégio Rainha Dona Leonor
• Soğanlı Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristianas Colegio La Salle Benicarló
• IISS Elsa Morante