HALO – Handwriting Analysis as methodology to defend Learners creativity and reinforce Orientation Erasmus Project

Project Title

HALO – Handwriting Analysis as methodology to defend Learners creativity and reinforce Orientation

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

HALO project intends to focus attention on Handwriting Analysis as methodology to defend Learners creativity and reinforce Orientation.
Graphology is a science that has been around the world for many centuries, but its cradle is Europe. In fact, one of the first talked about it was Aristotele arguing: “as speech reveals the propensities of human soul, so handwriting reveals modalities of such propensities”.
In Italy, a very important school has developed by the main national representative in Graphology: P1-IGM Istituto Grafologico Internazionale “G. Moretti” of Urbino (lead partner).
The aim of the project is to share and disseminate good practices through the sensitivity of European universities and schools that have understood the importance of handwriting in digital age and give value to graphology as an intangible heritage of humanity in favor of new generations.
For this reason, teachers and school counselors will be involved in an interdisciplinary way helped by Handbook and online courses. They will be sensitized to defend handwriting in three main directions:
– For improvement of teaching techniques and methods.
– To consolidate good educational orientation practices against early school leaving and adolescent distress.
– To rethink and enhance teaching by adapting new IT technologies with manual writing.
All these things will be done through synergy with the other teaching and evaluation methods used in Europe in the educational sphere.
These three elements are developed within the three Intellectual Outputs envisaged by the project:
IO1 relates to tools for teaching staff engaged with ISCED 3 students aged 14-16. Tools of IO1 will be useful for teachers to acquire relationship methods suitable for information exchange to be used in favor of individual students and class groups.
The shared objective is to increase the skills of an important part of educating community which has as its last goal educational success of children in a delicate evolutionary phase.
IO2 is aimed at operators who provide guidance to ISCED 3 students in the 14-16 age group. The objective of IO2 is to make communication and relationship styles shared between school counselors/psychologists on the one hand and graphologist consultants on the other, to encourage the orientation processes of children.
IO3 consists of a set of tools for teaching staff, to promote a renewed adoption of handwriting in teaching. This will also happen through the new applied word processor technologies which combine advantages for typical learning of handwriting (creativity, information processing and critical analysis) with advantages of technologies, such as the logical-visual structuring of text.
Partners were chosen based on their sensitivity to the topic and on the basis of their respective skills:
Istituto Grafologico Internazionale “G. Moretti” (lead partner) has been operating in Urbino since 1970. It is an Institute aimed to promoting graphological disciplines and, among various sectors in which it is engaged, it also carries out graphology consulting activities for school and professional orientation.
P6- University of Wroclaw in Poland has a department that develop studies about youth distress and deviance and every year organizes a Symposium of studies on the comparison of handwriting. The Symposium now celebrating its twentieth year.
University of Bucarest, with its Faculty of History and Philosophy, conducts studies on birth and history of writing as a complex process relates to human being in his entirety. In collaboration with partner P4-EA Asociatia European Academy, carries out studies on use of handwriting in digital age.
P8-BBTraining is an institution involved in training and project managing. It is technical partner who will take care of structuring and implementation of Handbooks and online courses provided in IO’s of HALO project.
HALO project also involves three bodies operating in school world, one for each country:
P2- IISGB Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Giordano Bruno” di Budrio – (BO) for Italy. P7-LIWRO Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr VIII im. Bolesława Krzywoustego for Poland; P5-ISJ Inspectoratul Scolar Județean Alba for Romania.
The final objective of HALO is to make available good practices generated by partners during the project in favor of entire European school system through the outputs available online.
The Project is proposed precisely when Istituto Grafologico Internazionale “G. Moretti” of Urbino IGM celebrating its fiftieth year (1970 – 2020). We believe that the widespread collaboration between different territories and different experiences combines with idea of interdisciplinarity that IGM has always promoted and defended. So, collaboration between disciplines, but also collaboration between territories, always keeping the person at the center.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 246240 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Grafologico Internazionale Girolamo Moretti & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Nr VIII im. Boleslawa Krzywoustego we Wroclawiu
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “GIORDANO BRUNO”
• BB TRAINING SRLs
• UNIWERSYTET WROCLAWSKI
• INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR JUDETEAN ALBA
• ASOCIATIA EUROPEAN ACADEMY
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI