intercultural heritage – bridges instead walls Erasmus Project

Project Title

intercultural heritage – bridges instead walls

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The bilateral partnership between the Kaufmännische Schule Heidenheim and the IES Pinar de la Rubia Valladolid was meant to let students on a highschool- and college-level research information about the shared cultural heritage of Europe with the help of monuments (Denk-mal). The project was meant to be interdisciplinary (German, English, Spanish, History, Politics, IT, Economics).

Our project guided the students through digital and analog research, field inspections and the sharing of the selected monument’s presenations. The face-to-face encounter in the partner’s homecountry lead to profound, inductively developed knowledge about both, the home and the foreign project partner’s culture, their historical awareness and traditional self-image.
Shared reports for the school’s radio and podcasts let the students explore the need for cooperation and communication in foreign languages. The students achieved a certification with the Europass, helpful during the application-process.

The partners learned to cross boarders of space and time with the help of modern, digital media and to present their homecountry, their culture and history in German, Spanish and English. They acted as ambassadors. The students mostly communicated in digital and online ways and worked with e-twinning. They used innovative gadgets, programs and apps to create V-logs, chats, live-conferences and more. In passing, they learned how to use the new media safely and were confronted and taught about data protection and copyrights in workshops many times.

Our project has deepen the awareness of our connecting cultural heritage in Europe and enabled them of European citizenship and therefore the possibility to explore the European market with sustainable methods. In our opinion our students realized through our project the vision of cooperation, partnership and cultural sharing in the European Union.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60792 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kaufmännische Schule Heidenheim & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IES PINAR DE LA RUBIA