Let me be your guide – A walk-through of my cultural heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let me be your guide – A walk-through of my cultural heritage

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; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The main goal of the project – teaching students about their own local heritage while valuing diversity, has been fulfilled. The tasks were designed to cater for the common and general needs for each school. The Slovenian school managed to implement an elective subject to its curriculum that is dedicated to tourism and local heritage and where students act as tourist guides for younger students. The Polish school created a game (Scavenger’s hunt) which is widely available for everyone, not only school community and which helps to get to know a famous post-industrial working estate called Nikiszowiec in Silesia. The Polish school also tightened cooperation with the board of local tourist attractions (Guido Mine, Queens’s Luise Addit and others) who now became the school partners in certain actions. The Portuguese School prepared a QR code cultural race in the city of Santa Cruz. (Peddy Paper) Students were organized in groups and were asked to answer questions and solve some charades about the cultural heritage of the city by scanning QR codes on race. The game is available online and was implemented in English classes as well. Some of the questions were designed with the help of the local cultural municipality.

All the activities that were originally envisioned by the project were carried out, but not necessarily by all the three schools. During the course of the project, some activities were tailored to each school’s individual needs, and were also adjusted to the pandemic Covid-19 that hindered the natural flow of the project. We managed to carry out three LTT events as planned but had to postpone and finally change the final LTT to an on-line event. The last LTT was also the only task that was considerably altered compared to the original plan.

The project yielded tangible and intangible short and long-term results. Not only did the project students acquire an in-depth knowledge about their local heritage, but they were also able to disseminate it to other local and foreign students by acting as tourist guides and by participating in workshops where they taught other students what they had learnt themselves. Dissemination within the schools was also possible through social media sharing and informative displays in the so-called Erasmus Corners in each school.

Most of the results were documented and uploaded to the project’s TwinSpace and website. We created instructions and video tutorials on how to make traditional local souvenirs, dances, recipes, on-line quizzes, and questionnaires that can be reused as introductory or revision tools during lessons on cultural heritage; an actual memory game that can be used by younger students or as an official gift, a virtual escape room, treasure hunts, informative leaflets, and brochures.

Treasure hunts and informative brochures will be used in future short-term exchange programmes as all the three schools would like to continue with international activities -the Slovenian and Polish schools are already involved in a new Erasmus Plus project that also focuses on cultural heritage. Most of the materials will be also translated to the participants’ own mother tongues and will be reused during classes dedicated to cultural heritage in the form of an e-textbook. The Slovenian school is also in the process of designing special field trips for other regional Slovenian schools. The trips will be designed in cooperation with the local institute for tourism, sports, culture, and youth and will be partly guided by our students.

Project Website

http://www.letmebeyourguide.art

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87409 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna sola Alojza Gradnika Dobrovo, Dobrovo & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Spoleczna Szkola Podstawowa nr 1 “Nasza Szkola” Zabrzanskiego Towarzystwa Szkolnego
• Escola Básica e Secundária de Santa Cruz