Mobile Museum abroad Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mobile Museum abroad

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project MoMa, Mobile Museum abroad, provides a unique opportunity for more than 250 students from six European countries and diverse socio-economic realities to work collaboratively in a hands-on learning scenario, debating and rebuilding elements and negotiating experiences in order to create usable learning landscapes and exhibits in the shape of “suitcase museums”. Based on a variety of topics revolving around central contemporary questions from local, European and global perspectives, the context “Perspectives on Europe – European Perspectives” provides the main topic students work on in this project. Central questions of life in Europe are thus at the center of the content of the exhibits that students create.

The work is organized in three main steps: Preceding the LTT meetings, schools prepare/gather materials for possible creative exhibits (interviews, audio samples, video recordings, photographs, texts and artefacts) and create small tasks for the exchange partners to get to know each other prior to the actual meetings. Secondly, during the meetings, students visit museums or historic or cultural sites. Subsequently, they use their materials as well as the experiences they have made during their visit to work with other adolescents in international groups to arrange and create usable “suitcase mueums” with physical as well as digital content. Finally, all suitcases are displayed in an exhibition at the schools for the staff, students and the public Digital documentations of the suitcases are created in order to make them accessible to all participants, regardless of their actual whereabouts.

With this setup, the project pursues the aim of supporting, motivating and enabling learners to acquire and develop basic skills and key competences, including language and intercultural skills, creativity and innovation, digital competences as well as learning to learn. To accomplish these, MoMa focuses on the development of innovative learner-centered teaching methodologies, providing training opportunities to teachers and creating opportunities for the exchange of good practices. The main method is a “learning by doing” approach in which students (re)create constructs for the small exhibits described above. Based on the travelling and exchange idea, the “suitcase museums” are a space for students to create theme-based learning objects for themselves and others; the suitcases additionally provide opportunities for teachers to introduce student-centered learning approaches into their classrooms. The linguistic barriers will furthermore become less noticeable as students interact during and between project meetings. Moreover, students from a relatively large age spectrum can participate in MoMa because the content and shape of the exhibits they create can be adapted to their skill level.

The outcomes of the project, the creative “suitcase museums”, will impact the learning of students by broadening and deepening their perspectives on diverse European realities and cultural contexts, helping them to become more reality conscious and aware European citizens. Students will also acquire new skills researching and rearranging information, negotiating their findings with European peers and turning them into usable products. School and teaching staff benefit from the materials created as they provide multiple opportunities for learning and can also be used as examples of good practices, thus enhancing the quality of teaching. The material outcome, along with its digital version, will act as living construct that is not only a creative exhibition of European and national perspectives, but also a model for student centered learning methodologies and good practices. They will remain in schools and can be used in classrooms in lessons to teach certain contents, but also as models to create further “suitcase museums”, to exemplify methods or for teacher training purposes. Through the exhibitions at the end of the meeting they also serve to dissemninate the results of the projects within schools as well as local communities.

All in all, the activities thus provide opportunities to include a wide range of subjects, cooperative/collaborative work as well as several dimensions of learning and teaching. The project also creates occasions to work with external experts and institutions like museums, teacher training centers and libraries to offer additional learning experience and knowledge. Students have the opportunity to interact with and investigate materials from different countries, exchange ideas and views in international groups and rethink and rearrange them in order to develop learning environments.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 192330 Eur

Project Coordinator

Max-Planck-Gymnasium Delmenhorst & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 31 im. Kazimierza Pulaskiego
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Penalva do Castelo
• Ozolnieku vidusskola
• LICEO STATALE “ENRICO MEDI”
• Liceul de Arte “Sigismund Toduta”