Shaping Young Europeans’ Future through Drama Erasmus Project

Project Title

Shaping Young Europeans’ Future through Drama

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; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Introduction
The main goal of this project is to respond to recent modern world needs—building adequate skills in our students to help in their successful adaptation and realization and raising students’ awareness of being active European citizens through the help of creative learning and creative teaching.
Six European schools will participate in the project, united around the idea that drama can be the shortest route to shaping young Europeans’ future — raising their creativity, awareness, responsibilities and building an active attitude toward world problems. The project aims to promote open education and innovative practices in a digital era, as well as social inclusion and supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences. This project will contribute to promoting equality, social cohesion, active citizenship, and enhancing creativity and innovation in European education.
Project outline
We live in a globalized, competitive world relying on new technologies and unlimited information where STEM education plays a major role in the 21st century. In a modern world without any “soft” skills, any individual, no matter how technologically skilled he/she becomes, will be at a disadvantage having no ability to easily communicate and collaborate. These “soft” skills acquired in drama education can support and even improve the “hard” skills learned in STEM subject areas. This project will integrate art, especially drama, into STEM. Students and teachers will be exposed to 6 drama training sessions to train their “soft” skills – communication, collaboration, creativity – needed for their future successful adaptation and realization.
Workshops for teaching and learning creatively through drama will be held during the partners meeting in every participating school. Students and teachers will be exposed to 11 workshops to learn how to integrate drama in STEM school subjects. All forms of drama, including pantomime, role plays and improvisation will be used. Participating teachers will observe and discover different ways to be innovative, creative and to improve their performance in the classroom during their daily work. The best teaching model is one which develops skills in the practice of creative teaching. We want to equip teachers with different drama techniques to be applied to education as a creative method of teaching of different school subjects and effective emotional management in our classrooms. All participants in every LTTA will share the learned creative drama approaches with the rest of the students and teachers in their schools. Local and regional seminars will be organized in order to share the project results and creative experience with more teachers. An e-book “Using Drama in STEM teaching and learning” with teacher resources of creative drama approaches and techniques in STEM school subjects in 7 languages will guide teachers in Europe through the project website end the eTwinning platform. Integrating drama methods, drama techniques and drama games into teaching and learning in all school subjects will develop skills of native language communication, learning skills, public and civil competencies, cultural awareness and creativity.
Students will participate in 21 theatrical performances, one concert, three competitions for the creation of a project logo, an original song-anthem of friendship between young people in the EU, and the creation of an original play related to bullying at school. The students will show their talent through writing plays, songs, creating booklets, trailers and posters for the plays and through participating in theatrical performances and flash mobs.
With the project we want to open a window to different cultures, languages, people, and cultivate students’ European identity. The students will translate national comedies in English and perform them on stage. A friendship dictionary with basic words in 7 languages- English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish and Greek will be created by an international team. An e-book with all project plays will be published on the project’s website and the eTwinning platform.
Furthermore, we want to establish with students the concept of social responsibility. Students from all partner schools will create 6 plays related to the UN Global Goals and perform them on stage in international teams. Students will practice active citizenship in action through six flash mobs which will spread the word about the UN Global Goals in all partner towns- Kazanlak, Seville, Bari, Krakow, Rethymno, Solingen.
Six Learning /Teaching/Training Activities for students and teachers will be held in Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, Germany. The project involves schools which will set up a parallel eTwinning project, which will be used to support the sustainability of the project.
Conclusion
We believe that Drama can be the shortest way to shape young Europeans’ future .

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167880 Eur

Project Coordinator

SU Ekzarh Antim I & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Istituto Paritario “A. Volta”
• Friedrich-Albert-Lange-Schule
• IES PUNTA DEL VERDE
• PIRAMATIKO GENIKO LIKIO PANEPISTIMIOU KRITIS (RETHYMNO)
• II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Krola Jana III Sobieskiego w Krakowie