Folklorica Erasmus Project

Project Title

Folklorica

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

As the technology develops and the world gets smaller, young people suffer from loneliness, spending their time on the computer, ignoring the life around them. This is a project aimed to remove diversities within cultures across Europe. The traditional songs, dances and games are an excellent way to preserve and promote the European culture, traditions and wisdom.This project is for about 300 students between 12-17 years old who are eager to take part in an adventure of culture and folklore. Its goal is to find similarities and differences between eating habits, national and religious ceremonies. Our activities will accomplish self-confidence, our trust, sympathy and tolerance. We encourage pupils to use English in an enjoyable way. Before joining the project the education needs by SWOT analysis were identified and the standard of living is not satisfactory enough. Pupils’ families have little incomes and they have not material conditions to travel abroad. They are not encouraged to develop their knowledge on a real cultural and artistic side at a European level.The interest of cultural activities is generally low. As for the teachers, most of them are very well qualified in their domains, but they have not developed language skills and ICT competences at European level. The needs and objectives were identified during meetings with parents and teachers in all partner schools. Our objectives are: to explain the role of folklore by seminars, slide shows, exhibitions, to provide pupils’ opportunity to work with partners, to form willingness to learn English language. Our international meetings being exhanges of pupils as well as teachers will lead to a better acquaintance of partners’ educational systems in seminars or workshops, the discovery of partners’ countries culture, language, traditions by traveling, visiting, direct presentations and contact with school staff, a wider students’ and teachers’ integration in European education community, a larger teachers’ competences development, applying strategies, methods learnt from partners. We will organize yearly conferences in each school to promote the project and its program. First each partner school will realize in PPT or video presentations of their school, town and country. During the meetings, each school coordinator will share a few words about their national educational systems with the others. In each school a logo contest will be organized, voting on each school’s proposals during the 1st mobility and an Erasmus+ project corners will be arranged. After each of mobility, the participant pupils will write their impressions and send them to their partners. These impressions and the project articles from mass-media will be put in project’s portfolio as a monitoring instrument. The videos and photos of our workshops and seminars will be results and examples of good practices. The reports of each activity as well as the Progress Report and the Final Report, sent to the National Agency will be good results. For a better communication between partners we created a Google Group. The handcraft or art works exhibitions and bulletin boards are results with a multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary character, promoting the impact of our activities and the Erasmus+ program. The tests prepared to select our school teams will enrich each coordinator’s portfolio. Many final products (booklets, albums, encyclopedia) will be included in our schools’ curriculum. By an active, collaborative learning and teaching of cultural themes we can apply the best methodologies. We share experiences, ideas and involve participants in decisions, promote pupils’ innovation and creativity like activity diaries, observation sheets, workshops reports etc. Through diagrams, we will prove the involvement in the project activities of our local education authorities. By games, folk dances and songs, the pupils have the chance to show how proud they are of their folk costumes, of their Little March amulets for spring coming. They will learn more about the significance of colors or geometric figures on their folk costumes, the characteristic folk dolls or toys in the partner countries by the workshops or seminars in which they involve. They will also get familiar with legends, cuisines of partner schools and get knowledge of natural medicine of our grandparents.The pupils who are not able to host will not be excluded from the group going for mobility. This final products of this project will be: an album of superstitions and folk wisdom, a multimedia presentation of drawings exhibitions related to the ”Legends and Fairy Tales Evening”, a project magazine and a diary with pupils impressions of each mobility, a DVD of traditional dances during each mobility, a DVD of teaching-learning dances during each mobility, an encyclopedia of health, a set of our grandmothers’ recipes, and a set of legends (DVD and as a book) in English from all partner countries, a recipes book and this project website.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa Nr 2 z Oddzialami Integracyjnymi im. Michala Kajki w Nidzicy & Country: PL

Project Partners

• LICEUL TEORETIC “CONSTANTIN NOICA”
• Prezidento V. Adamkaus gimnazija
• GYMNASIO APOSTOLOU PAVLOU
• Sahinbey Vali Mehmet Lutfullah Bilgin Orta Okulu
• IES PÉREZ GALDÓS