Past Roads and Future Ways Erasmus Project

Project Title

Past Roads and Future Ways

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

Project Summary

The project is aimed at Upper Secondary Schools, students in the 16-19 age group and their teachers.
The focus on the Cultural Heritage of the territory has been considered particularly suitable for the purpose of international exchange between European Schools, both because this choice can enhance one of the Key Competences of Citizenship for Lifelong Learning (Cultural Awareness and Expression), and because the primary objective of every exchange, mutual knowledge and tolerance between different peoples and cultures, can only benefit from a full understanding and knowledge of other people’s Cultural Heritage.
The aim is to achieve this goal by focusing on a particular element of the territory: the ancient road routes (PAST ROADS). The ancient roads of the European continent have helped to define and shape the landscape, have allowed material and cultural exchanges, have accompanied the daily life of entire generations: they are an appropriate tool to acquire awareness of the traces of the past.
At the same time, considering the life and professional paths that our young people will be able to undertake (FUTURE WAYS), the project will focus on the promotion of the territory, which can lead to great enhancement on the tourist and economic sector in general (handicrafts, gastronomy), and which can benefit from modern Information and Communication Technologies. As a matter of fact, through the activities of the project, students will be involved in the creation of a multimedia database (REPOSITORY), connected with the routes of their territory and available for free consultation via iOS or Android free Applications.
The study of the cultural heritage and its multimedia documentation (texts, images, films, thematic maps, graphics etc.), that will converge into the repository, will be carried out both during and between LTT mobilities and will focus from time to time on the territory of the six partner schools:

IISS “Francesco De Sanctis”, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi” (Italy) – Project Coordinator;
IES “Castelar”, Badajoz (Spain);
1st. Geniko Lykeio Nafpliou Argolidas, Nafplio (Greece);
Tehnicka skola, Zaječar (Serbia);
Escola Secundária “São Pedro”, Vila Real (Portugal);
Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace “Wladyslawa Broniewskiego”, Bolesławiec (Poland).

The activities envisaged are useful for strengthening some Key Competences for Lifelong Learning: in addition to Cultural Awareness and Expression, they are aimed at enhancing Communication in the English language, which is used for all the activities, and Digital Competence, practiced in the use of ICT.
A methodological approach is expected to be used based on collaboration between students (Brainstorming and Cooperative learning): the pupils will be suitably divided into international groups during LTT mobilities, and invited to collaborate on the project also in their schools through the eTwinning platform. The planned tasks will try to facilitate learning through student collaboration in view of the concrete goal of the repository.
The expected result, namely the realization of the final product, is hoped to have an impact on the activities of our schools, as an example of good practice, but also, in the long term, as a starting point for other intercultural exchanges on the cultural heritage of the territory (both formalized and not).
By means of an effective dissemination of results, which also involves local administrations and operators (companies, associations) that work in various ways in the field of cultural heritage, it is hoped that the APP connected to the Repository of Past Roads can also be used in real life for the benefit of tourists and anyone interested in European Cultural Heritage.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181970 Eur

Project Coordinator

IISS Francesco De Sanctis Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 1st. Geniko Lykeio Nafpliou Argolidas
• IES Castelar
• Escola Secundária São Pedro, Vila Real
• Tehnicka skola
• I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Wladyslawa Broniewskiego w Boleslawcu