LIVING HISTORY IN EUROPEAN CITIES Erasmus Project

Project Title

LIVING HISTORY IN EUROPEAN CITIES

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: Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

This Project intends to use the history and historical places as a tool to increase scholastic success, entreprenurship , destroy prejudices,discover the businees opportunities with cultural heritage.
The project partners are 6 schools from Italy,Turkey,Portugal,and Spain, all of them secondary school.The project is addressed to students from 13 to 16 years old.190 student mobility is planned for 2 years.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.

Our objectives are to:
– raise interest on cultural heritage, particularly in Europe.
– create awareness in the local to preserve the cultural heritages.
– put into practice new methodological tools based on outdoor activities on historical and cultural resources with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
– promote peer-learning,creativity and entrepreneurship towards the promotion and valuation of historical places and cultural heritage.
-discover others past and create an emphatic feeling both at schools and in the local
– gain historical thinking skills
– raise attention towards Middle Age in Europa, Roman Empire, the first steps of Christianity those are related tto curriculum
-increase scores (in the exams) towards history,cultural heritages, and read about history

P and C activies are based on a project based learning with a multidisciplinary approach organized around outdoor activities, the usage of skills and peer learning sessions in a cooperative international working atmosphere
Tle letters to the past dwellers will show the difference between the past and today.
The essays ‘Common Past, Shared Future’ will improve the basic writing skills
The short movie and public spotlights will fight against vandalism (Web2.0 tools, blurring faces and open licences will be used)
WEBINAR meetings will help coordinators to sustain a successful Project and good relations among pupils and online seminar.
Activities in the press, official website for the Project,Logos 2021 calenders, uploading the short movies and public spotlights, documentaries to social media, delivering the outputs to the schools,exhibition in the city center will disseminate the Project and help the Project results to remain for long years
Our students will give the message with writing skills and drawing albume that history is a way to create a peaceful atmosphere in the society.

The methodology in all the visits with students will be similar. We will focus on team work, brainstorming,observing and peer learning combined with study visits and outdoor activities.
In C activities study visits will be done to the most famous museum cities and open-air museum in EU,pupils will attend skill seminar,and peer workshops,and will create common visual products
C activities are mainly based on Ice-Breaks through games and ,creating common product,study visits,Twinspace activities and evaluation;.
LTT’s are;
-Workshop and Cultural Heritage Identity in Italy
-Create a Public Spotlight and Discover the Past in Spain
-Creating an anthem and discovering Roman Empire open air museums in Italy
-Gain Historical Thinking Skills and Discover The Treasures of Portugal
-Workshop & Discover The Historical Christianity Open Air Museum and Underground Cities in Turkey

In the 1st JS activity teachers will improve project based learning methods and discuss how to use Cultural Heritage as an educational resource.This JS activitiy is to create a methodology to work on historical cultural heritage as an educational tool to be made available for everybody via ICT tools under a creative commons licence.
In the 2nd JS they’ll learn how to be eTwinning School and basic concepts of marketing and about how to promote entrepreneurial skills in their pupils.They will discover the facilities to use heritage to promote growth and development

Pre and final tests,the progress in pupils’ academic changes in 2 years will be monitor to measure the success of the process and new methodolgies
The methodology and the results of this Project will be introduced to curriculum makers in national seminars and teachers groups in the local,teacher groups in eTwinning platform and with the experts in Webinar meetings in School Education Gateaway Platform.The Project will be a guide in preparing new curriculums.

Schools,Curriculum makers, culture lessons teachers groups,Tourism companies,Tourist Guides, Parents,The people in the local ,Local governers, Museums are our stakeholders

In the short term pupils will raise attention towards history,cultural heritages and read about history,discover the opportunities,will be a part of internationalizing our schools,improve language and ICT skills and progress in their academic success.In the long term they will built cities respecting his own and others’ history and culture

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191090 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES REYES CATOLICOS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO VIA MATTEOTTI 11
• Sabahat-Cemil Ulupinar Fen Lisesi
• DEVREK KARSIYAKA 100.YIL ORTAOKULU
• I.C. Alessandro Manzoni
• Agrupamento de Escolas Marinhas do Sal, Rio Maior