Pinteresting taste Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pinteresting taste

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The Project “Pinteresting taste” is a project bringing together the Dutch school “Het Hooghuis Heesch” and the Slovenian school “Osnovna šola Prebold”. In our “global community”, students have almost endless possibilities in choosing where they want to study and work. Within the European Union there is an obvious need to learn about other countries from the Union, their culture and cultural differences, as well as what they can offer in terms of work and study.
We dubbed our project “Pinteresting taste” because we plan to use the differences in the food cultures of Slovenia and the Netherlands as a starting point for our exploration of each other’s cultures. How come there are so many differences in the food cultures in Europe? What influence do the geographic position, the history, the customs and the holidays have on the food of a certain nation?
It goes without saying that one needs their foreign languages in order to be able to explore the culture different cultures and lifestyles in Europe.
We are planning our project for 36 Dutch and 36 Slovenian students aged 13 to 16.

2 Dutch and 2 Slovenian teachers will participate in and guide the project. Together with their students, the teachers will stay in the hosting country for a week. The students will get a clear picture of the culture and the everyday life of the hosting country. Visiting students will stay with the hosting students in their family homes and will in this way experience daily family life in the country they are visiting. The students on both sides will use German and English language for their communication purposes, the languages they both learn at their schools. In this way they will improve their communicational skills and set their ground for international contacts in the future.
They will experience first-hand how important the knowledge and usage of a foreign language is, since they will have to partake in real communication situations while staying and engaging with their fellow students and their families. This will motivate them even more to study German and English in the future.

Teachers will not only stay in contact with each other during the exchange weeks but will maintain continuous contact using digital means. We are going to use the eTwinning platform and Pinterest to publish the results and findings of our project and will communicate live with the partners during school lessons using FaceTime or Skype. In this way we will be able to create an international classroom in which we will work together on our project and its assignments. Students will get to meet each other for the first time using these FaceTime meetings. This will enable them to talk to each other (in a foreign language) and get to know the student from the partner country. We think that this will surely motivate the students to practice their foreign languages. Beside that it will give them a glimpse in another country and their customs.

Apart from the students and the accompanying teachers, more people will be involved in the project; families of the hosting students and other teachers at school will help prepare the food fair and cultural festivities which will take place at the two schools in the Netherlands and Slovenia. This will make the project a vital part of the school life in both countries.

During our stay in the hosting country we will go on excursions to really get to immerse ourselves in the culture of the country. We will visit Amsterdam, take a still-life painting class at the Rijksmuseum and see the marvellous paintings by the great Dutch artists Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fans Hals and more. We will visit the house of Anne Frank and take a glimpse at this dark part of Dutch history. In Den Bosch we will visit the biggest cathedral of the Netherlands, the Sint Jan, and we will learn how to make the famous local sweet treat, the Bossche bol, which we will of course taste as well.
At the “Openlucht museum” we will discover how people used to live in the Netherlands in the past and which influences we can still see today in the food and the national holidays.
Whilst visiting Slovenia the Dutch students and their Slovene partner students will follow three different ‘food trails’ from three different regions which will all be explored by the field trips. Thus students will look more deeply into the traditional Gorenjska (Upper Carniola) region cuisine, The Kras (Karst) region cuisine and the Štajerska (Styria) region cuisine, the last being the Slovenian partners’ local cuisine. Students will learn how to prepare desserts typical for all three above mentioned regions. The field trips will offer the Dutch students a unique experience to explore Ljubljana, Bled, Škocjan, Celje and Piran.
Both countries will provide a very varied program and our aim is to increase the students’ European identity and make a lasting impact on their lives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Het Hooghuis locatie Heesch & Country: NL

Project Partners

• OSNOVNA SOLA PREBOLD