VIAJE ENTRE CULTURAS: LA EUROPA DE LOS CONTRASTES Erasmus Project

Project Title

VIAJE ENTRE CULTURAS: LA EUROPA DE LOS CONTRASTES

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Research and innovation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our project has been developed in four neighbouring European counties, which have excellent communications, a common history, as well as a common future. Each one of our centres has got a different profile, which has not only enriched the others, but has also provided knowledge, experience and working procedures. The tasks, which we have done together, have improved the project. All of the teachers and students have been able to learn other ways to work on the same topic. We started out by researching on the Latin origins of each country and this point leaded us to its current situation as we studied the industry, the concern for the environment, the diet, the economy, the scientific and technological development and language of each country.
The objectives of our Project were the following: To contribute to the development of European citizens who will be active and involved in the Europe of today without forgetting their own roots; To favour intercultural exchanges; To promote the activities that would enable the teachers and the students to work in teams, cooperating with the colleagues from other countries, so that they could express their own ideas while they respect diversity; To contribute to oral and written competence of our country and that of the other participating countries. That is, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese and Italian; To learn to improve the use of Information Technologies as a means of communication and disclosure of our work; To promote interdisciplinary and transnational activities; To encourage integration while respecting cultural and linguistic diversity; To exchange teaching experiences between the teachers, as well as the possibility of adapting them to our school; To promote the mobility of the students through exchanges.
An average of about 70% of the students of the four schools have participated actively.
The four schools which have participated are:

• The Etablissement des Soeurs de Notre-Dame in Namur (Belgium) has 600 Francophone students aged 12 to 18, who study Secondary Education in four differnt branches of knowledge.
• The Liceo Piero Gobetti in Génova (Italy) is a public secondary school. The students are aged from 14 to 19 and may choose from the following options: Languages, Social Science, Ballet and Human Science.
• Escola Profissional Cisave de de Guimarães (Portugal), was founded in 1991 and it provides secondary vocational training. This school has 13 classes in the áreas of Information Technology, Tourism, Communication/Marketing and Advertising, 3D Digital Design and Commerce.
• IES JAIME II in Alicante (Spain) is a public school where Secondary Education (Educación Secundaria Obligatoria) as well as Bachillerato, in the fields of Social Sciences, Humanities or Technology and Science, can be studied. Our students are aged from 12 to 18.

Besides the short-term mobilities and our participation in the Multiplying Events, all the activities which had been programmed, have taken place.
After carrying out all of these activities, we have developed the following intellectual products which have been published on the project website:
https://sites.google.com/site/proyectoerasmus20142016/
These are:
Webpage “Our Origins”; Recipe book: “What’s for Dinner?”; Tourist guide about “New Tabarca”; Exhibitions about the Environment; Two series of lectures; A photograph contest and exhibition; A book “Study of Our Student’s Work opportunities”; Webpage: “Economy; Webpage: “Young people in 21st century Europe”; Learning Units and Surveys
We used an active methodology. Our students had to search and organize the information so as to produce the documents of the exhibitions and all the other work (books, websites..), always supervised by the teachers. This was reinforced by visits to the cities, industries, museums, and participation in conferences and meetings. Furthermore, we have always been in contact using the Information Technologies.
Our results have exceeded the expectations we had when applying for the project. Therefore, the impact on the different educational communities and on other sectors of the population has been enormous thanks to an active and innovating methodology based on the use of I.C.T, modern languages and a supranational conception.
As expected, there has been an improvement in the languages used, as well as in I.C.T. Another one of our goals that has been acquired was to open our students’ minds. The benefits in the long run have become a fact for our students: a greater knowledge of the countries that surround us, contact with other educational systems and the promotion of mobility among students and teachers. Furthermore, the products that we have developed can be used by anyone, not only in the educational world, but in any other area not connected to it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 146147 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Jaime II & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Etablissement des Soeurs de Notre-Dame
• LICEO STATALE PIERO GOBETTI
• Associação Comercial e Industrial de Guimarães