LITTLE ARTISTS ACROSS EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

LITTLE ARTISTS ACROSS 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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early childhood education and care; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Arts occupy an important place in the pre-school curriculum, however the methodology used differs from one school to another and from country to country. By this project, we aim at identifying techniques, methods, and best practice approaches that all the partner institutions can apply successfully.
The project OBJECTIVES are:
– to develop children’s creativity, aesthetic sensibility and interest in cultural activities, their social and emotional skills, communication skills, problem-solving skills;
– to improve the partners’ institutional ability to involve kids in artistic activities, by jointly identifying innovative methods of teaching and practicing arts, but also to get the local community and cultural organizations involved in the school activities;
– to experiment best practices from different educational systems and to introduce new approaches of organizing the educational process;
– to develop the teachers’ ability to have a more creative approach in their teaching activities by integrating art elements and digital tools;
– to disseminate the results and share the best practices experienced to the school institutions and communities.
Particularly important in our project is to stimulate European cohesion between children, teachers and communities. Only through cooperation of educational institutions with different systems of education, and the contribution of each school through sharing expertise and generating of new ideas respectively leads to innovation in education.
The project “Little Artists across Europe” will include a wide range of participants starting with the preschoolers and teachers from the partner institutions, the children’s families and local communities, and continuing with partners from the teaching community – other schools and kindergartens, universities and organizations that provide training activities, cultural institutions such as theatres, museums, libraries, art clubs, NGOs, local authorities. The target group of the project consists of 50 teachers and 400 children enrolled in six partner institutions and their parents. The project’s corporation is made up of the following partners:
– Gradinita cu Program Prelungit “Floarea Soarelui”, Romania – coordinator
– Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria, Portugal
– 25 Dr Petar Beron Sofia, Bulgaria
– Kindergarten “Ivanic Grad”, Croatia
– BABY ERASMUS SL, Spain
– SEHIT TEGMEN AYFER GOK ANAOKULU, Turkey
In order to stimulate children’s creativity by means of ARTS during our 2 year project, we’ll group our activities as it follows: MUSIC and DANCE, VISUAL ART ACTIVITIES, LITERATURE AND THEATRE. Thus, the children and teachers will be involved in activities such as: music activities based on Orff method, discovering other countries traditional dances,visual arts activities (drawing, painting, modelling, paper mache, quilling, origami), dance activities, literature activities, studying important literary works from other countries national thesaurus. They will be involved in art contests and exhibitions, theatre perfomances, video-conferences, creative workshops carried on in partnership with different cultural institutions, visits. In order to stimulate their creativity they will be stimulated to create their own short stories. The teachers involved will develop their teaching skills and their capacity of using digital tools in the educational process, the training activities for the teachers (webinars, workshops, the experience exchanges, training courses) helping them enrich their knowledge and cultural horizon.
The expected results are:
-the project website
-“Erasmus corner” in every partner institution
-the project logo
-Musical and art contests
-A 2023 calendar with images taken during the project implementation
-Presentations of the recorded dance activities and also of the musical activities specific to each partner institution
-Exhibitions organized in the partner institutions/ public institutions displaying different painting techniques
-Art catalog displaying children’s works of art
-Theater performances
-a best practice methodological guide on techniques used in visual arts activities “PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT”
-DVD: “International Collection of Traditional Dance and Music”
-A multilingual dictionary for children
-exhibitions of drawings/paintings representing aspects from the studied stories
-a short collection of stories created by the children
-the project newsppaper “News from the Colorful World of Art”
-eTwinning project based on our Erasmus+ project aiming to disseminate our activities and results and attract other partners.
By participating in the project the involved schools will develop in all levels: children and parents, teachers, institutional policy, on a long term as we intend to continue implementing the best practice strategies identified.The project’s results will remain available on the project website and eTwinning with free access for everybody.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132964 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gradinita cu Program Prelungit “Floarea Soarelui” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• 25 Dr Petar Beron Sofia
• SEHIT TEGMEN AYFER GOK ANAOKULU
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria
• Kindergarten “Ivanic Grad”
• BABY ERASMUS SL