Media meet art Erasmus Project

Project Title

Media meet art

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: Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

In this project, all the teachers involved wanted to acquire new inputs and knowledge in the fields of media competence and new technologies – especially in the field of teaching arts – and thus to expand their competences. The pupils were able to experience and apply this knowledge in the lessons. Information on European artists and their works was acquired and subsequently applied productively through the use of modern media in the artistic field.

The objectives for our project have been clearly defined by all participating project partners:
.)Training of teachers,
.)Transfer of digital competences in the field of teaching arts and art instruction to the pupils
.) Dissemination of best practice examples
.) a joint product (medi[a]rt dictionary)

The project included five schools from France, Great Britain, Finland, Denmark and Austria. The Austrian School, which has already gained a lot of experience in other European projects, took the coordinating role in this project. All partners teach children in the same age group and in some cases they already had extensive experience in using modern media in the classroom or wanted to do so. All teachers involved were aware that the use of modern media is very important for the future of pupils. Through this project, the pupils were prepared for the intelligent use of modern media in a European context. The project helped to cover the ubiquitous need for a meaningful use of all modern media and technologies, thus paving the way for secondary schools and facilitating the future employment market for pupils.

The eTwinning platform was used for networking the participating schools and furthermore, the project participants and other interested parties were able to access the resulting documents in the form of a “medi[a]rt lexicon” (information of the artists and their art forms and works, reports on job-shadowing, protocols of meetings, evaluations, best practice examples, hourly drafts, photos, works of the children…) and others.
In order to facilitate the dissemination of all results of the project at regional, national and international level, a dissemination plan was drawn up (see annex), to which all project partners adhered and ensured its implementation.
Internal school meetings and regular evaluations recorded and document the status of the project’s success.

The subject of our mobility was job-shadowing, in which art lessons with modern media were hosted. The guests were also able to present their country, culture and language to the host children. A clearly defined trip and job shadowing schedule explaining the format and the contents of these trips has been developed, which enabled well-prepared, smoothly ran and efficient meetings. Together, in exchange and discussion at eye level and through the same practical experience on site, the key topic of art with modern media experienced decisive impulses.

Two transnational project meetings were held at the beginning and end of the project to support the organisation and evaluation of the project.

The long-term benefit lies in implementation at international level. All participating schools learnt about other methodological approaches to the topics. Furthermore the partners compared, adopted and merged the different approaches into a uniform, European and cross-cultural methodology.
The newly acquired competences in the field of art and especially in the field of new media were transferred to the pupils. This new knowledge helped to pave the way for the pupils future (further choice of school, career opportunities, career choice,…), to counteract risks such as early school leaving, reduced career opportunities due to a lack of competence in the ICT sector.
Only through the cooperation of several nations was it possible to ensure that the respective expert knowledge (of teachers, and consequently pupils – the future employees or employers) was transported throughout Europe and implemented in the respective school curricula.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71860,81 Eur

Project Coordinator

VS Gutenberg & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Cornerstone Academy Trust
• Pateniemen koulu, Oulun kaupunki
• Nr. Aaby School
• Ecole élémentaire R.R Blusson