Mali odkrywcy w magicznym świecie europejskiej kultury ludowej. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mali odkrywcy w magicznym świecie europejskiej kultury ludowej.

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The main priority of the project “Small explorers in a magic world of the European folk culture” was to form, among the project participants, a feeling of affiliation to the local community, region or country and cultural awareness in the European society as well as to develop intellectual cooperation in integrated Europe. It was also important to show multiethnic and multicultural diversity including integration processes. The project prepared its participants to learning through the whole life, acquiring and processing information and being critical and creative recipients.
The project “Small explorers in a magic world of the European folk culture” was written for pupils from primary schools.
The partnership cooperation in the project implementation involved schools from Italy- Istituto Comprensivo L. Bassi- S. Catalano, Turkey – 50.YIL GENERAL REFET BELE ORTAOKULU, Portugal – Agrupamento de Escolas Irmãos Passos , Croatia – Osnovna skola Donji Kraljevec, Lithuania – Vilniaus r. Rakoniu pagrindine mokykla, Spain – ES LICINIO DE LA FUENTE and the project coordinator – a Polish Primary School number 110 in Łódź.
During the project implementation regular working project meetings were organised (with both children and teachers participating) dealing with teaching, learning, and coaching – three meetings in the first year of the project and three in the second year. It allowed us to exchange information and share experiences and good practices within the whole group. All the project partners met at a working meeting of the school coordinators, English teachers and school principals during which establishing of effective international cooperation between the entire group of partner schools, distributing tasks, working out common evaluation methods, planning events and designing a website took place.
The main goal of the project was to raise among its participants the awareness of cultural heritage in the united Europe. We achieved our purpose by studying folk culture subjects like: folk music (dance, song, folk bands, musical instruments), folk traditions, and customs (folk holidays, artists, local languages – dialects, food, forgotten occupations), national costumes and material culture (tools, development, national dress, handicraft) or folk themes in art and culture (legends, fairy-tales, stories, poetry, literature, painting, sculpture).
The students participating in the project wrote and exchanged traditional paper letters but they also used the Internet to send emails. This allowed them to form long-lasting international friendships. They also created a folder, which presented interesting places connected with folk culture of each partner country and recorded a CD with folk songs in a professional recording studio. During the project implementation the students edited and published a school magazine (“Folklore Magazine”) presenting their tasks. They also created and published a calendar (for the year 2017) with some information about folk holidays and prepared a cookery book with recipes of regional cuisine. Apart from that, the students also created numerous multimedia presentations about folk bands, instruments and national dress. What is more, they took part in international competitions connected with the project logo, a plush toy or a cover of the CD with folk songs. They participated in dance and craft workshops, meetings with folk artists and trips to ethnographic and open-air museums. The teachers, who supported the students in all the above mentioned activities, created and published a set of interesting lesson plans dealing with and promoting folk culture.
One of the crucial aspects of our partnership was active participation of all the school members in the project implementation (students, parents and teachers) as well as various educational institutions.
One of the final products of our co-operation was an English language website (http://www.eurofolklore-erasmusplus.eu/index.html) with suitable educational qualities in the project subject, showing the achievements of each school and being the main project resource.
The main activities of the project were aimed at developing school curriculum and learning by building up language competence (particularly English). This goal was achieved by writing and exchanging letters among the project participants, learning new vocabulary connected with folk culture, editing and publishing a quarterly “Folklore Magazine”, using modern ICT to prepare multimedia presentations about folk groups and instruments, preparing a cookery book with regional cuisine, and using a video camera to record and share films from the meetings with folk artists and the trips to various museums. All these activities greatly contributed to making European education stronger, acquiring elementary life skills and initiating students into cultural forms of spending their free time without any violence.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 161125,84 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 110 & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Irmãos Passos
• Istituto Comprensivo L. Bassi- S. Catalano
• Vilniaus r. Rakoniu pagrindine mokykla
• 50.YIL GENERAL REFET BELE ORTAOKULU
• IES LICINIO DE LA FUENTE
• Osnovna skola Donji Kraljevec