“Stone and wood- two materials of traditional habitat, two materials of artistic expression” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Stone and wood- two materials of traditional habitat, two materials of artistic expression”

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

“Stone and wood- two materials of traditional habitat, two materials of artistic expression”

This project brings together seven structures from three countries (France, Poland and Croatia) both school partners (Klesarska skola Puscisca, Quintin Professional School, Zespol Szkol Lubawa) associative partners (French-Polish Association Côtes d’Armor Warmia and Mazury of Saint Brieuc, Memory of Saint Thelo) and local public organizations (Franco-Polish Center of Olsztyn and the ethnographic ecomuseum of Olsztynek).
This project is part of a bilateral cooperation initiative established by agreements between the Department of Côtes d’Armor and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. It is also part of a cooperation agreement between the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and the Dalmatian region in Croatia. These three partner territories are rooted in a rich legacy of heritage built from the two materials – wood and stone that have shaped their history and landscape, marking the ingenuity and cultural richness of their creators. This heritage is currently an important asset for the economic and social attractiveness of these territories.
Our goal is to enable partner organizations in three territories to network, increase their capacity to operate at the transnational level and share and compare ideas, practices and working methods. The skills required for these trades are based on the know-how of the history and traditions of professional woodworking and stone techniques. We want to build the acquisition of this traditional know-how by offering participants a panel of professional training in line with companies creating jobs in the wood and building trades. This will enrich a course of academic training towards jobs in heritage restoration companies. Our goal is also to reconcile students with Art and the cultural heritage that surrounds them.
We wanted to highlight this small rural heritage, often forgotten, absent in tourist guides,
away from main trails and paths and to transmit this love to younger generations. Another goal is to promote exchanges between countries on good practices of protection and enhancement of heritage.
The project will be aimed at young people in the second grade and in CAP, aged 15-17 (born in 2003 – 2005), some of whom have fewer opportunities for different reasons. The other actors of this project will be trainers and teachers of the professional disciplines of wood and building trades, teachers of applied art, language and high school documenters and teachers in charge of ICT Information Technology and Technology. Communication. 3D technology teachers using modeling programs. The cultural animators and mediators of the partner Museums.
The language of exchange will be English for all project partners.

During the project, the joint restoration through three international projects of small rural heritage (mills, bread oven …) and collective creation of three artistic works combining two emblematic materials of the three territories:
The stone (Granite Breton and stone Brač) and wood. The three planned immersion camps will also be an opportunity to organize operations in each territory to promote the cultural heritage built (conferences, exhibitions, films). The Partner Museums will then make the exhibition venues available to the general public.

The methodology employed initiates the adoption of new pedagogical practices to develop cross-curricular competences between the professional disciplines of the wood and stone trades and applied art disciplines to meet the needs of disadvantaged groups and take into account the differences in learning outcomes related to geographical and socio-economic disparities. The partners are at the antipodes East-West and South of Europe.

The results of this project will be disseminated through the exhibition of the joint works produced and exhibited in the three territories during event renditions and in the Partner Museums. A conference will be organized at each exhibition to promote this work.
In the long term we hope to sensitize young people to the problem of local heritage by giving practical tools to build the Europe of tomorrow. We hope to give them the tools to achieve better integration into the labor market. We hope that this project will help develop new partnerships for organizations like ours, located in rural areas, but capable of working in a European dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123359 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association franco-polonaise Côtes d’Armor Warmie Mazurie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL JEAN MONNET QUINTIN
• Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego – Park Etnograficzny
• Klesarska skola
• ZESPOL SZKOL
• Mémoire en demeure
• Centrum Polsko-Francuskie Côtes d’Armor-Warmia i Mazury w Olsztynie