“Let’s Unite! Nature – National Identity – International Heritage.” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Let’s Unite! Nature – National Identity – International 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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

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.Especially their own countries,they will be familiar with the natural heritage settlements and cultures in these natural environments.
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, 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 Germany(Delitzsch), Turkey(İzmir), Slovenia(Črnomelj), Italy(San Nicandro Garganico) and Portugal/Madeira(Funchal) in all of them secondary school.All of them with experience working on transnational projects and with an interesting heritage in their locations.The project is addressed to students 13 to 16years old.
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 100 mobility (all of them 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 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 beginning of ltt’s meetings, all of partners teachers will learn about the basic ICT tools and skills needed to successfully deal with the task in the project.All short-term exchange of students, partners and student will devote time to learn about the heritage of the host countries reflecting on the influence of heritage on people’s identity, learning about the threats and opportunities of Natural heritage and the importance of the cultural one creating promotional material based on their own gathered material (pictures, video clips, graphs, maps, etc)Students will learn basic concepts of marketing and about how to promote entrepreneurial skills in their pupils, also students will explore the possibilities to use heritage to promote growth and development and will pick up local entrepreneurs on heritage to present case studies to their colleagues.Teachers will be on the creation of a methodology to work on heritage as an educational tool to be made available for everybody via ICT tools under a creative commons licence.
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.
With this project, our students will lead voluntarily and enthusiastically to work in their cities / regions in the future.The most important goals of the project are;
Understanding the role of nature in cultural identity, the impact of natural resources on sociological development,Perceiving the complementarity of “natural cultural heritages” on the norms, traditions and human relations of countries,Gaining wide perspective with to perceives positively understand our will be.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151116 Eur

Project Coordinator

Christian-Gottfried-Ehrenberg-Gymnasium Delitzsch & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Escola Básica 1,2,3/PE Bartolomeu Perestrelo
• Halit Ozpirinc Anadolu lisesi
• Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “De Rogatis-Fioritto”
• Srednja sola Crnomelj