Portrety Opola, Portrety Dijon, Portrety Pragi – INSPIRACJE, KREACJE Erasmus Project

Project Title

Portrety Opola, Portrety Dijon, Portrety Pragi – INSPIRACJE, KREACJE

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Portraits of Opole, Portraits of Dijon, Portraits of Prague – INSPIRATIONS, CREATIONS – about 300 people participated in the project, including about 220 students (years), 30 teachers and 17 representatives of various institutions. The schools supported student mobility, as the result of which 75 students took part in the exchange program (confirmed by the Europass Mobility document). They were accompanied by 16 teachers. The publication A Little Artistic Guide to Opole, Dijon and Prague was prepared in a common version as well as in native languages. The schools organized 11 exhibitions: 5 in Opole, 3 in Dijon and 3 in Lysa. Apart from that, many other cultural activities were undertaken.

In the school year 2016/2017 – INSPIRATIONS – lectures and lessons on the art and architecture of Opole, Dijon and Prague were organized and conducted also in English, using the CLIL method. Inhabitants of the sister cities were surveyed to gather data for A Short Artistic Guide to Opole, Dijon and Prague. The schools held videoconferences. Foreign-language materials were added to school libraries and students were asked to prepare educational and documentary worksheets for A Short Artistic Guide to Opole, Dijon and Prague, which they did during lessons (art history, literature, foreign languages) and in their free time. In art classes, students created graphic and functional art forms, which were promotional and educational in nature. They designed bags with motifs from Opole (A Fashionable Woman of Opole) and Prague (Famous Inhabitants of Prague). The bags were decorated using transfer printing and screen printing. Students also designed clothes, accessories, jewellery, a series of booklets promoting the monuments of Prague, comics (The Legends of Prague) and graphics which depict the architecture of Prague from the Romanesque period to modernity. In the French school, students staged monodramas inspired by urban space, organized an outdoor photography workshop entitled Windows to Dijon and then posted their photographs on the blog of Le Castel High School. They also participated in cartographic workshops and prepared a miniature model and a 3D map of Dijon. The schools devised the European learning pathway for the profession of visual art technician, as well as a program of workshops in the Czech, French and Polish school. Europass Mobility documents in Czech, French, Polish and English language versions were prepared. In June 2017, a workshop meeting aimed at evaluating the project was held in the Czech Republic. All artworks were posted as an online exhibition on the websites of the three partner schools.

In the school year 2017/2018 – CREATIONS – lectures on the symbols of Opole, Dijon and Prague were organized. In October 2017, an educational pathway was organized in Dijon. It included photographic narration workshops, a movie workshop with stop-motion animation, a workshop on designing logos, an outdoor painting and drawing workshop on using watercolours and ink and a joint exhibition. Disadvantaged students (underage migrants and students from impoverished families) also participated in the project. Local newspapers Trybuna Opolska, Lyské listy and Le bien public published articles about the project. Students prepared creative worksheets for A Short Artistic Guide to Opole, Dijon and Prague. The Polish school organized a workshop on Freeman Tilden’s theories of heritage interpretation. French students prepared educational worksheets in Photoshop and InDesign under the guidance of an artist and graphic designer. In art classes, students created pottery reliefs and 3D forms, small chests with craved wooden decorations promoting Opole, clothes, embroidery, tray cloths inspired by medieval Prague, which promoted the city, and promotional movies “The Faces of Dijon”. In April 2018, the school in Opole organized a transfer printing workshop, a furniture design workshop which was inspired by local Concept design and a photography and movie workshop (Europass Mobility). The cooperation between the schools concluded in the European exhibition shown in the Marshal’s Office of the Opole Province in April 2018, which coincided with the 15th anniversary of the partnership between the Opole Region, Burgundy and the Central Bohemian Region.

The Polish school prepared project documentation, among others in the form of an exhibition entitled Portraits of the Cities for the 800th Anniversary of Opole. The exhibition was shown in the Opole City Hall. The main long-lasting mark left by the project are educational worksheets in national languages and in English, which became a part of A Little Artistic Guide to Opole, Dijon and Prague. The printed guidebook was given to local educational and cultural institutions in the sister cities and it is also available in the electronic form on the websites of the partner schools and the coordinator of the project: http://www.plastyczniak.opole.pl/strony/erazmus-portrety-opola-dijon-pragi/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93540 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Panstwowych Placowek Ksztalcenia Plastycznego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• LYCEE LE CASTEL
• Stredni skola odevniho a grafickeho designu