Tracce di Memoria Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tracce di Memoria

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 school education

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; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The project proposal stems from the assumption that European Cultural Heritage represents an enormous potential for the construction of European citizenship as a concept which is based on the value of cultural diversity and allows individuals to build and shape their own identities at different levels, overlapped but not in contrast among each other, including local, national and European dimension.

The educational value of cultural heritage is nowadays widely recognized both at societal, scientific and institutional level. The dynamic relationship between identity and diversity and how cultures evolve because of absorbing elements from other cultures are at the core of this project, allowing secondary school students to discover and understand the value of cultural diversity through the legacy left by ancient populations living in the same territories and to learn the importance of cultural “contamination” as a way to enrich and shape local and territorial identities.

Based on these premises, the project has the following specific objectives:
• To promote the social and educational value of cultural heritage and its contribution to social inclusion and the construction of a European citizenship based on the value of cultural diversity as the legacy of local identities and ancient migrations
• To create and develop an innovative educational methodology addressed to high school pupils, aimed to promote the active involvement of the pupils in the construction of paths of discovery and interpretation of cultural heritage under the thread of ancient migration flows
• To promote the development of key competences and skills among pupils, such as in particular the spirit of initiative and communication in foreign languages, social and civic skills, awareness and cultural expression
• To strengthen the link between the management of archaeological sites and the local communities
The project envisages a wide range of results, which are strictly interconnected between them and functional to the achievement of the above described specific objectives. The most important tangible result is the TRAME Manual for teachers and educators, containing the description of the educational methodology targeted to high school pupils and developed by partners throughout the project. The TRAME educational methodology will be based on a multidisciplinary and participatory approach to heritage, aiming to promote intercultural dialogue and foster the active participation of pupils in the construction of paths of discovery and interpretation of cultural heritage under the thread of ancient migration flows.

Pilot courses to test and validate the educational methodology will be run by the staff of partner organisations in Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Poland and Turkey, lasting around three months (2-3 hours per week) and involving both school teachers and heritage managers as facilitators of the learning process. The pilot courses will involve at least two classes per institute, with a total of around 200 pupils in 5 different countries.

The TRAME consortium, led by Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, was built step by step starting from the selection of relevant archaeological sites which could be directly or indirectly involved and connected among them under the common thread of ancient migratory flows. The consortium is characterized by a transversal nature, involving different types of organisations such as schools, public and private entities in charge of the management of important archaeological sites and a regional public body responsible for educational policies. It is composed by 8 organisations from 5 different countries, embracing an extended area ranging from the Mediterranean (Turkey, Italy) to the Western Balkans (Serbia) and Central Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland), characterized by a huge cultural diversity but nevertheless connected by common traces of memory involving religion, funeral rites, trade routes, Roman colonization, etc.

The project will involve different target groups in its different phases. First of all, teachers and heritage managers will be engaged and will cooperate to jointly develop an innovative educational methodology. In fact, both categories are in need of effective tools and methodologic approaches to take advantage of the educational value of cultural heritage and engage pupils in its conservation and valorisation. In a second phase, the effectiveness of the methodology will be tested on high school pupils, who will be involved first in laboratories at local level and then in transnational activities allowing them to work together with their peers from other partners’ countries. The students will benefit of a new multidisciplinary and participatory approach to heritage, focussed on their learning needs and allowing them to overcome cultural barriers and combat stereotypes related to diversity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 289266 Eur

Project Coordinator

Parco archeologico del Colosseo & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Liceo Classico statale Pilo Albertelli
• KULTURALIS OROKSEG MENEDZSEREK EGYESULETE
• School of design
• Pécsi Hajnóczy József Kollégium
• ARHEOLOSKI INSTITUT
• CATALCA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI