Food for Thought – A Cultural Recipe of European Traditions and Customs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Food for Thought – A Cultural Recipe of European Traditions and Customs

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Our project is called “Food for Thought – A Cultural Recipe of European Traditions and Customs”. It is designed for two years’ implementation. It has six European partner schools and its objectives are to help students become better learners and know more about European traditions and culinary customs.

The idea appeared in the context of globalization, from the desire to show the beauty, importance and richness of every peculiar people, in terms of keeping the heritage safe and sound for the generations to come. Accordingly, we want to show our products to the communities so that everybody should learn this valuable lesson of respect and pride for the cultural assets that we are still in possession of.

We intend to involve around 1000 people in the development of our project. They will be mainly teachers and students, but not only. All the students will have the chance to get involved in this project, regardless of social level or intellectual capacity, or anything else. The participation depends on their own will entirely. At local levels, we are going to involve different other institutions able to help us reach our objectives. Also,we intend to make our results public, so that other schools benefit from the new knowledge.

As far as the activities are concerned, we tried to make them be diverse, pleasant and instructive, and in line with our learning goals. By their specific, they will solicit students in a lot of areas, such as communication in English, online, using different programs, doing workshops, research, dancing and singing or applying Chemistry knowledge to food choosing. Group activities, school performances and laboratory work will be expressions of our PBL process. The new information will be used either in regular lessons or as optional material.

The results will be the project mirror, focussed on food and traditions throughout Europe. Therefore, there will be two e-books, a project calendar and a magazine. Also, there will be a lot of workshops, performances and school contests. They will be important in ensuring a proper impact of the project, the cultural luggage of our participants getting bigger and more diversified. On a longer term, we hope to be effective in promoting these values further on, by ourselves within different occasions and through our students and their friends. The final scope is that we build future reliable, educate citizens of the multicultural society of tomorrow.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102282,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 1 im. K.I. Galczynskiego w Grajewie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Convitto Nazionale Rinaldo Corso
• Scoala Gimnaziala Magura
• Gymnasio Feron
• Osnovna skola “Matija Gubec” Cernik
• VDU “Atzalynas” progymnasium