The Arts, Federating European Unity. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Arts, Federating European Unity.

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project “The arts, federating European unity” is an opportunity to link the national heritages of the participating countries to the European artistic movements, highlighting the ideas behind this artistic creation. The aim is to gradually build up in pupils the idea that Art is a bearer of meaning, values and a European identity. The idea is therefore to associate each artistic expression, proposed by the different schools, with European values. Starting with concrete objects or shows for the pupils, we must, over time, move towards a philosophical dimension by showing the ideas carried by each artistic expression. Art, through its evolutions, makes it possible to show the progressive construction of the European idea.
To do this, each partner will have to organise the activities around the artistic field they have chosen. Together, the partners will show how, through the example of Art, differences have enabled the construction of Europe. The aim is to show that the dissemination of the different national arts has influenced the other countries and created European unity. It is this unity that will be highlighted through literature, sculpture, painting, crafts… This work will be carried out, over a period of two years, in close collaboration with cultural (museums, theatres) and political (cities, departments, regions) territorial partners.
The objective of each school will be to make a synthesis, within the framework of the artistic field it has chosen, of the continuities, the diffusion and the influences of its artistic field. This synthesis will be achieved thanks to the work sent by the different partners and thanks to digital contacts (eTwinning, videoconferences, audio contacts, emails…) between the pupils. The syntheses, built using different media (videos, photos, texts…), will all be gathered on an interactive digital platform that will evolve over the months. Thus, apart from the mobility of pupils, everyone will be able to refer to this platform, enrich it and make it known within the school, to partners and to the population. At the same time, the feeling of belonging to the European Union will be symbolically consolidated by the development of a logo, a symbol of unity through the arts.
Mobilities will be organised around an artistic field, taken up by each participating country, and developed according to various common European artistic periods. At the end of each mobility, the pupils will report on their stay with the help of their logbook, which will take the form of notes and photographs, and will be the subject of a photo-report. These elements will serve as an outline for the final project for the realisation of the volume model of a “Europe House for All”, which will be made up of various architectural elements specific to each of the participating countries. Photomontages will be made in which a landscape or view of a city will appear, consisting of parts of views taken in different places during each of the pupils’ trips to the various participating countries.
The interest of this project will be to highlight the importance of Art in the union of the different European countries, while expressing national and even regional differences. The involvement of pupils, future European citizens, as well as the dissemination in schools for other pupils, the commitment of parents, associations and leaders of regional or national institutions, will be the guarantee of a dissemination of the feeling of belonging to European citizenship. The sustainability of the project through exhibitions and presentations will contribute to this feeling. The visual work of the pupils (photo-reportage, volume realisations, putting into practice knowledge and know-how…) and its dissemination are the guarantee of its impact.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148299 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée DESCARTES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária de Lagoa
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Montenegro
• LYCÉE JOSEPH PERNOCK
• Liceul Charles Laugier