Preservation of the Local Artistic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage in the European Union in the Mean of Sustainability (Environmental Intelligence) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Preservation of the Local Artistic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage in the European Union in the Mean of Sustainability (Environmental Intelligence)

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Pedagogy and didactics; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The aim of the project was preservation and conservation of those values that are found in the surroundings of the schools in the Europen Union and students took part in it. Furthermore an other goal was to give information about these values not only for students but also the local communities and teachers.

The project’ aim was to give our students opporunity to get knowledge about the colourful culture, nature, artistic heritage and treasures of Europe. Working together in the framework of workshops students could work out the methods of value protection that can be used in the future as well.

The participating students of the five schools were at the same age group, they were 15-20 years old. We planned two transnational meetings (in Turkey and Hungary) where the teachers participating in the project prepared and evaluated the process of the project, but the meeting in Turkey was cancelled because of Covid19. During the project four mobility venues were planned (Italy, Finland, Romania, Hungary) with 100 mobilities whose aim was to carry out the project activities involved in the project. The so-called project days were important parts of mobilities because the countries, schools and the local values were introduced in this way. Another important feature of the project days was elaborating the subtopics (Hungary: “Human and Nature”, Romania: “Modern and Traditional Living Together”, Italy: “Life with Antique Heritage”, Turkey: “Religion and Tradition in the 21st century”, Finland: “The heritage of respectful co-existence with nature and forests” (Alvar Aalto’s architecture and design).

Students got knowledge about the venues, did researches in connection with the local values, formed international student teams worked and collected materials. During the workshops they worked on good practices about how to preserve and converse these values. These good practices will be used in the teaching-learning process of the partner schools within the different subjects in the future. (Geography, Art History, Literature, History, Art, Drawing etc.). During the project days the relevant NGOs and local organizations were involved in the work. Visits were organized to these units, there were professional talks with the staff. Photos were taken, documentaries were made. During the project students produced project products: PPTs for introduction, a six-language dictionary or phrase book to make communication easier. On the basis of the researches every school released subtitled interviews with a 5-minute duration. The interviews were made with relevant experts in 2-3 topics. Furthermore every partner school prepared a Traveller to provide useful pieces of information about the host town. The end products can be seen in a book called Book of Values which includes the values in the surroundings of the schools, and the preservation and conservation and the good practices of them. Documentaries were collected on a DVD. This DVD is available for all stakeholders. Calendars were produced yearly.

To make communication and dissemination easier we established a Facebook group so that the students could get in touch with each other immediately and directly. Project products appeared on the website as well.
Furthermore the project results were uploaded on the schools’ websites thus they became available for the local communities, partner schools and participating organizations. We did not use eTwining.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142605 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dunaújvárosi Szakképzési Centrum Szabolcs Vezér Gimnáziuma és Szakgimnáziuma & Country: HU

Project Partners

• KANLIKAVAK MUSA AYAR COK PROGRAMLI LISESI
• Jyväskylän Lyseon lukio
• Liceo Ginnasio Statale Immanuel Kant
• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC ZEYK DOMOKOS