Let us Bring Europe Together for heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let us Bring Europe Together for 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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Actual society is rapidly changing and we are creating a framework where people is expected to move more frequently from their birthplaces to different locations. To succeed in this new situation it
is important to know how to communicate with each other in a multicultural context, with different languages, religions, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. And the first step in this direction is
to know what defines the identity of people, at individual and community level; what defines our own identity.
We need to take action and to be aware of the importance of Nature and Cultural heritage. In this project we intend to valorize all those natural and cultural, material and non material resources at local level that, not being milestones of civilization, also help us to explain who we are, our history and our idiosyncrasy.
Our objectives are:
– To raise interest on natural and cultural heritage, particularly in Europe.
– To highlight the importance of environment as an essential element in our lives.
– To put into practice new methodological tools based on outdoor activities on local natural and cultural resources with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
– To promote creativity and entrepreneurship towards the promotion and valuation of environment and material and immaterial cultural heritage.

The project partners are five schools from Iceland, Lithuania, Turkey, Sweden and Spain, All of them with experience working on transnational projects and with an interesting heritage in their locations. The project is addressed to teachers and students (student age:14 to 16 years old).
The project activities are planned to investigate about the local natural and cultural heritage, their influence on people’s identity and their potential as a tool to communicate and to work together as
well as to promote the development of the local areas where they are located, at both social and economic level. The working scheme is to learn and investigate about the local heritage resources
and share that knowledge in transnational meetings; to learn about the entrepreneurial project linked to those heritage resources and to raise appreciation and consideration towards it with the development of promotional material at local and transnational level. Approximately more than 120 mobility (mainly student mobility) is planned for 2 years. It is widely agreed that the prosperity of our
world’s future is closely connected to well-educated children. In our project we will make it clear that each student’s voice is heard, because in a milieu of cultural diversity different views act as a catalyst
for progress at each level of social life. Student and teacher exchanges and other activities in the project will also enhance an understanding toward diverse perspectives on European citizenship and help our students to develop an appreciation of the European cultural diversity and an empathy for different cultures.
In the first short-term staff training meeting, in Iceland, teachers will learn about the basic ICT tools and skills needed to successfully deal with the task in the project.

All the project activity will be based on a project based learning with a multidisciplinary approach organized around outdoor activities and peer-learning sessions in a cooperative transnational working atmosphere. We intend with this project to raise awareness in our students and the educational community towards local heritage and its importance, providing other schools with the guidance and examples needed to replicate the initiative in future projects at local or transnational level with great success.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Víkurskóli & Country: IS

Project Partners

• Jensen Gymnasium Göteborg
• IES CAL GRAVAT
• HAYME ANA KIZ ANADOLU IMAM HATIP LISESI
• Utena”Saule”gymnasium