Students’ International Knowledge Unveil Lovely Areas Erasmus Project
General information for the Students’ International Knowledge Unveil Lovely Areas Erasmus Project
Project Title
Students’ International Knowledge Unveil Lovely Areas
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 2017
Project Topics
This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation
Project Summary
The “Enrico Medi” is located in Randazzo, important medieval town on the slopes of Etna Volcano (Sicily) and at the crossroad of three natural parks: Etna Park, a UNESCO heritage site since 2013, Alcantara River Park and Nebordi Park.
The school has a wide educational offer, with different study courses (LIceo Classico, Liceo Linguistico, Tourism, Catering and Hospitality, Agriculture) most of them are related to the training of professional workers in the field of Tourism. Unfortunately the students have poor awareness of the potential of the territory and, at the end of the study course, they frequently fail in finding/creating work opportunities in the area and, more and more often choose to move elsewhere in search of a job.
The applying organization (located in Italy) and the 5 partners (located in Croatia, Latvia, Portugal, Spain and Romania) share similar needs and agree on developing strategies of active interaction between schools and territory. Therefore the priorities of S.I.K.U.L.A. are the KNOWLEDGE, DEVELOPMENT and PROMOTION of the different geographical areas.
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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
Build up students’ awareness of the touristic potential of their areas and create strategies for its development and promotion
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
-make students aware of the great potential of the area in which they live through its peculiarities’ knowledge
-start cooperation with local organizations aimed at its touristic development
-create a network among European schools, with similar needs, located in rural areas with great touristic potential (especially in relation to food and wine, naturalistic routes, cultural highlights).
-encourage cooperation, mobility, creativity and innovation to promote youth entrepreneurship, through the comparison of different cultures
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
All the project’s activities will be managed by 6 WORK TEAMS (one for each participant organization). Every team will be made up of 20 students and 5 teachers, selected among those who prove to have skills that are relevant to the planned activities.
The transnational meetings’ participants will be 100.
ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT AND METHODOLOGY
PREPARATION (AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2017)
Activities:
-creating work teams, web platforms, formats and templates, logo, mascot and slogan proposals
-selecting items to be included in the PROMO TOURS (nature trails, cultural routes, food and wine tours)
There are 3 MOBILITY steps. Each transnational meeting will last 6 days.
1. START (OCTOBER–NOVEMBER 2017)
Total number of travelling people: 15.
Transnational meeting (only teachers, 3 for each country). The meeting will take place in Spain and it will focus on defining the activities’ details (guidelines agreement, logo, mascot and slogan to be chosen among all proposals)
2. DISCOVERY (JANUARY 2018-MARCH 2019)
Total number of travelling people : 60.
6 transnational learning/teaching meetings involving 3 countries per meeting. Each travelling organization will participate with 2 teachers and 3 students.
Activities of each transnational meeting
-presentation of the characteristics of the territory by the receiving organization
-PROMO TOURS creation (each group of three countries will create a PROMO TOUR of the receiving area). At the end every participating organization will provide its own PROMO TOUR which will be edited and shared (in the web platform) by the WORK TEAM of each receiving school.
-EUROPEAN DISHES creation (each group will create an original dish combining tastes and products of every country)
3. EXIHIBITION (MAY 2019)
Total number of travelling people: 25.
Transnational learning/teaching meeting in Sicily focusing on the organization of a great event: the EtnaSchoolExpo. Each travelling organization will participate with 2 teachers and 3 students.
Stands and pavilions will be built in the town centre in order to carry out the different activities:
-PROMO TOURS presentation
-tasting of local products and partners’ countries’ specialties
-EUROPEAN DISHES tasting
-final meeting with all partners, local politicians, companies, tourist agents, journalists.
RESULTS AND IMPACT
The project action will certainly have a learning/teaching impact due to the development of skills both in teachers and students (communicative skills, territory knowledge, managerial skills, digital competences) of which they will benefit in the short and long term. S.I.K.U.L.A. will also have a social impact thanks to EtnaSchoolExpo which will be a model of results’ dissemination as well as a way of touristic promotion. In the long term further editions of EtnaSchoolExpo are likely to occur.
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 65600 Eur
Project Coordinator
ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE ENRICO MEDI & Country: IT
Project Partners
- COLEGIUL TEHNIC DE INDUSTRIE ALIMENTARA
- Instituto de Educação e Formação do Sorraia, Lda.
- EKONOMSKA SKOLA BRACA RADIC
- Rigas 18 vakara (mainu) vidusskola
- IES MODESTO NAVARRO