The European Travelling Arts Exhibition Erasmus Project

Project Title

The European Travelling Arts Exhibition

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Our Project is entitled “The European Travelling Arts Exhibition” and arose as we reflected on how far our schools have come collectively in the 15+ years we have been involved in Comenius and latterly Erasmus+. In that time we have seen a great change in the way in which we communicate and whilst ICT has greatly enhanced our communication, in other ways we recognise that we have lost something of the excitement and thrill experienced on receipt of a letter or parcel through the post. Thus to recreate something of this excitement in our schools we decided that to receive a monthly parcel would spark excitement and renewed enthusiasm with our pupils for a new joint project. So the idea of a “Travelling Art Work” was born, a piece of music or a painting chosen by each partner to represent the Culture of their country. This would then be the stimulus for pupils to explore, share and create ideas and ultimately their own works of Art
We believe firmly that the Arts is the ideal curriculum area through which to develop not only Cultural Awareness but also much coveted employability skills, such as flexibility, perseverance, creative thinking + problem solving. Culture is at the heart of all our communities and has been a feature of mankind since the beginning of recorded times. Each generation has developed and left its mark for the next, however with the rapid advances made through technological developments we are in danger of losing skills that are no longer deemed necessary and to this end we have integrated Folk Art into our project so that the older generation of our communities can share knowledge and skills with our young people, skills such as knitting, crochet, weaving etc. and in turn our young people can share their world of computers, virtual classrooms and creative Apps.
Our partnership consists of 6 countries, France, Poland, Ireland, Spain, Greece and Northern Ireland, representing both rural and urban life. Our schools range in size from 1,000 to only 15 pupils and span the age range of 3 to 15 years. 4 of the 6 schools have worked together in previous successful partnerships and we view our bond as much more than a working partnership, we are Europeans, educationalists colleagues and friends.
As a result of our project our pupils will develop as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors to society. Success will be measured through their engagement and commitment to the project, how they involve their parents + grandparents in the project and attendance atl our final activity our European Arts Exhibition.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85822,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

St Mary’s Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• BEGOÑAZPI IKASTOLA
• Ecole Sainte Famille
• Scoil Eoin Pol
• Szkoła Podstawowa im. K.Odnowiciela w Pobiedziskach
• Monothesio Nipiagogio Neou Zygou