Getting to know each other better at the table. Traditions and Identity. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Getting to know each other better at the table. Traditions and Identity.

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: Creativity and culture; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Europe lives in a context of increasing migration and is experiencing the presence of different cultures and beliefs from the most varied backgrounds. In the current social framework meeting other people which are “different” is no longer limited to occasional episodes but falls within the situations of everyday life. The “N. Tommaseo” Institute in collaboration together with its partners – Zakladna škola Domaniza SK and the Italian school “E. De Amicis” in Buie HR – intends to play a fundamental role as a mediator of social inclusion aimed at avoiding separation on ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural grounds. For many years the Institute has been twinned with a Hungarian school to promote mutual knowledge between students and teachers. The aim is also to exchange good educational practices.
Through the project “GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER AT THE TABLE.” we intend to create a permanent sharing process to promote cultural exchanges among European schools. The project has the essential objective of educating about cultural diversity through the values ​​of respect and knowledge, promoting legality and solidarity.
2 classes of each partner school with students aged 11-12 and their teachers will participate in the project activities. Small groups of 5 students and 3 teachers for each school will travel, with a support teacher for a disabled pupil of the Italian school.
The project focuses on the search for one’s identity through food. Food with all its nutritional, cultural, symbolic and ritual meanings offers the possibility to understand the food-nutrition combination in a conscious way. It will also allow the students to get more deeply familiar with their own cultural identity. This awareness should convey, on the one hand, security of one’s roots and on the other, to lead to greater openness and understanding of peers of other realities through their habits, traditions and customs. The fundamental topics of the project are: food and identity (identity foods, common sense, distant roots, combinations) and food and celebration (an ancient bond). The activities include readings, creation of argumentative or informative texts using English and the languages ​​of the countries involved, interviews with parents, grandparents, restaurateurs, film-making, cooking workshops, creation of an interactive electronic document with texts, photos and videos. The methodology used is mainly based on the development of real life tasks. At the end of the project the following results are expected:
a. overcoming the local and national perspective to include the European and global ones;
b. raising awareness of interculturality and of the value ​​of respect for diversity;
c. fostering an effective exchange of educational, cultural and good practice experiences;
d. developing knowledge, skills and competences with different experiences compared to the normal school practices, enhancing individual skills and performing real life task materials of the project to facilitate information transfer and effective exchange of experiences;
e. cultivating the conscious and responsible use of new technologies and social media;
f. sharing on eTwinning the experiences and what learnt during the project through the exchange of materials in order to promote new projects in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51332 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.C. “N. Tommaseo” Conselve (I) & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Talijanska osnovna skola, Scuola elementare italiana “Edmondo De Amicis” Buje Buie
• Zakladna skola Domaniza 103