Title: European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Title: European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

In the honour of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, the project contributed actively in developing the proud of being citizen of European and also to promote Europe’s cultural heritage among little students of 7-11 years old.
5 European schools have been involved in the project in specific activities related to the development of pupils’ LITERACY SKILLS, enhancing social inclusion, digital competences, foreign language skills, cultural diversity, critical and active thinking.
During the project, based on learning styles, an important use of Neil Fleming’s model of student learning has been made: visual, auditory, reading/writing preference and kinesthetic, starting from fairytales and storytelling.
This main idea of our project was very helpful during the organization and the management activities, thus it brought motivation for our little students (especially for those who are migrants) and improved also the cooperation between educational institutions and member of families, schools and extended community.
By creating materials adapted for different learning styles, our project made all its participants more aware about the specific ability to learn, but also more able to identify each individual dominant learning style and to manage the learning process in order to obtain the best results.
All partners from our project had different tasks, such as to create the project’s logo, Erasmus+ corners, media presentations, digital stories, scripts, carnivals, lesson plans, promotional materials (flyers) or promote the project in their regions, printed and social media.
Objectives :
– to improve literacy competences and creativity skills for students from 5 European educational institutions
– to develop the spirit of awareness about similarities and differences of 5 European cultures and traditions
– to improve students’ desire of expressing their minds and emotions
– to increase the importance of including storytelling methods in different fields of the school curricula
For the achievement of the project’s objectives , we applied the following activities based on the VARK model addressing to all kind of learners :
-visual learners: logo, digital stories, Erasmus+ corners, questionnaires, bookmarks and wrist bands.
-oral learners: group discussions, web-chat on Facebook page and eTwinning Platform, email discussions.
-read/write learners: media presentations (PowerPoint), fairytales for the magazines, scripts for Puppet shows, dictionary, flyers.
-kinesthetic learners: carnival, instruments produced during the Stories Arts & Crafts activities.
The scholars aged between 7-11 years are actively concerned within the task. As they’re too younger to attend the mobilities, took part at action prepared locally. Each partner provoked Erasmus+ task equipment to reunite all of the pupils involved to participate inside the challenge, and to provide them the feeling of belonging to a group, strengthening their commitment to be energetic participants. Each partner involved as a minimum 30 scholars.
The project team consisted of minimal 10 teachers in each partner school, so a total wide variety of 50 teachers have been actively involved in the task development and could attend the worldwide conferences. in each group there was an English instructor to make sure that the communique in a foreign language wasn’t a barrier and an ICT trainer because of the challenge of using the ICT.
The new teaching principles, collaboration and communication allowed students to compare exceptional educational structures. similarly, the training activities and exchanges of college students proved to be an excellent possibility to increase motivation for language gaining knowledge of through sensible use in real life situations.

Project Website

http://twinspace.etwinning.net/72777/pages/page/446131

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119141,89 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo Laura Lanza Baronessa di Carini & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Colegio Sagrada Familia de Urgel en Sevilla
• Palatul Copiilor Craiova
• GULVEREN PRIMARY SCHOOL
• Szkola Podstawowa im. ks. dr. Stanislawa Sychowskiego w Skrzeszewie