The Art of Food Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Art of Food

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The concept of this Erasmus+ project (“The Art of Food”) is based on cooperation between the BRG Klusemannstraße and the HLW Hartberg.
Humanity has always been dependent on the conditions of their natural surroundings. Due to climate change and a transition of Europe facing a radical change in food economics, we argue with nutritional resources. There are four different workshops planned, in which we assay nutritional habits in each country and look and analyse the history of nutritional production, compare different forms of alternative nutrition, create innovative food designs with regards to ecology and sustainability and and critically approach transportation, packaging and marketing, including the ecological footprint.
The schools that are taking part in this project are the Herttoniemi Coeducational School in Finland, the Institute Can Puig in the village of Sant Pere de Ribes in Spain and the National College Petru Rares in Suceava, Romania. Each partner organisation will participate with 15-20 students at the age between 15 and 17 years.
In the course of the workshops students should gather information of their own eating and drinking habits and those of their families’ and and critically sum up the project week. Important domains like knowledge of European and national culture heritage, which will be gained from dealing with the cultural, agricultural and economic conditions of a partner school’s home country, social awareness, entrepreneurial skills, better skills in dealing with technology and digital media, better research skills and creative skills should be enlarged. The didactic background relies on learning through exchange. Another aim of the project is to work and communicate in close contact with their guest schools.
After the workshops students will present and explain their results and concepts of nourishment and will argue on why their ideas might prove worthy of future recognition on a diverse European continent.
Important domains, such as the knowledge of the European and national cultural heritage, which will be gained from dealing with the cultural, agricultural and economic conditions of a partner school’s home country, should be enlarged. Also, students’ social awareness, entrepreneurial skills, skills of technology and digital media, research skills as well as creative skills are intended to be improved by joining this project. Therefore, it could be said that the didactic background of all activities relies on learning through exchange. Since staying in close contact with these international schools is another aim of this project, participants will benefit from working and communicating transnationally with each other.
The most important objectives are:
– European World Cultural Heritage: Knowledge of European and national cultural heritage will be gained from dealing with the cultural and economic conditions of a partner school’s home country. The project-specific contents, Family environment, culture and media awarness, will be worked upon by international groups of students at each partaking partner school. Thus, students will gain a deeper awareness of their own cultural heritage and that of their guests and hosts.
– Strengthening of competences: In internationally mixed groups, students will deal with different traditions, its cultural meaning and similarities and differences between nations and cultures. Based on the results of their research, students will gain a schematic overview of different life-concepts and their representation in images. The diversity of Europe will span the whole project as an implicit focus.
– Presentation of findings and products: Students will present and explain their results and concepts of a European future, and will argue on why their ideas might prove worthy of future recognition on a diverse European continent. One of the project’s aims is to create an awareness of fairness and diverse regional conditions as a granting factor for European solidarity.
– Discussion and finding creative forms of expression: In a world-café, the students will be asked to present and discuss their findings to strengthen their social awareness. This ‘expanded team’ should enable them to develop new perspectives and ideas, and to transform the given concepts into creative products.
– An aesthetic final product: The self-elaborated concepts will finally be shaped into and expressed in a non-profit image advertisement (i.e. a poster), and/or in an advertising film. This part of the students’ project will be produced during a given timeframe (workshop-/atelier-lessons) with the practical support of arts- teachers.
In particular, students benefit from cultural exchanges, multinational events, visits to cultural and historical sites

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144807 Eur

Project Coordinator

BG/BRG/NMS Klusemannstraße & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Herttoniemen yhteiskoulu
• Colegiul National “Petru Rares” Suceava
• Institut Can Puig
• HLW Hartberg