INnovate Sustain Preserve Intangible Roots in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

INnovate Sustain Preserve Intangible Roots in Europe

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Let us INSPIRE our future generations.

INSPIRE is the acronym of our project and stands for Innovate Sustain Preserve Intangible Roots in Europe. Our team strongly believes we can do a lot to promote our local tangible and intangible
cultural heritage and pass it on to future generations.How? We need to collect all we have ( music/folklore, dances, performing arts,clothing,language and oral traditions, artwork, traditional
craftsmanship, social practices, festivities, cultural spaces, landscapes, flora and fauna, gastronomy, knowledge and skills transmitted from generation to generation within a community) and with all the materials and information collected, create a digital school library- a DIGITAL HERITAGE BOX – and consequently enrich our school, municipality and national network libraries.

Students will be encouraged to collect testimonies, make interviews among the educational and local community about past habits, social practices, oral tradition – individual, collective stories and legends, recipes, just to name some, making use of the modern technologies and ICT tools and resources to register and store information gathered. All the results and materials of their research ( photos, videos, texts, scrolls,…) will be scanned to make them available for future generations.

Then we became aware of the interdependence of cultures and thought of promoting a sense of European Identity and culture and thus creating a partnership with countries that are rich in cultural
roots and have a lot to offer, are behind the long history of Europe, who have common human values and cultural aspects to exchange and schools who promote the digital literacy and digital and
creative citizens, who have a large experience in international projects and are used to organising performing events in crucial areas we want to work on ( dance, folk music, performing arts,
gastronomic events,..), who have a vocational section of tourism to promote and divulge all our outcomes that may be useful to attract tourists to our regions in a sustainable way and gain hard and
soft skills for their careers.

Together we could be learning with each other, sharing common values and offer a unique experience to our students coming from different study areas like computer, tourism, hotel and
catering management, and general areas like arts, humanities, science and technology and enable them with the 21st century skills. Having the following goals in mind:
• to develop awareness for foreign cultures
• to preserve, transmit and divulge our local and regional cultural heritage
• to find out and share common values and cultural aspects
• to internationalise our schools and cities and promote our towns and regions
• to value and promote our past (cultural heritage) and pass it on for the next generations
• to promote cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion
• to create responsible and engaged citizens/ cultural enterpreneurs in building the future of Europe
• to see sights and get to know culture and heritage of a foreign country
• to meet friends in foreign countries (with different cultures)

we decided to meet and share, to meet and work together, to meet and spread the world that we would like to INSPIRE them to love Europe and the European civilisation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153078 Eur

Project Coordinator

Geniko Lykeio Arfaron & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Professional High School for Tourism “Asen Zlatarov”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Marcelino Mesquita do Cartaxo
• Corlu IMKB Fen Lisesi
• Istituto Tecnico Statale CARLO CATTANEO