Walking between statues. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Walking between statues.

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

We walk along our cities where we live in our everyday life and, imperciptibly, we do not realize that many men and women made the history of these places. We take these walks either as a means of escape or as an ordinary activity to do our daily duties, but we have to be mindful of the fact that the streets of our cities are more than buildings ans sculptures; they are part of our cultural roots, which are linked to different historical periods.
Aim 1: ensure that our students know the historical heritage of the cities by a playful way and through the development of curriculum content. Our students will see why these sculptures are in the streets of our cities and will understand why they are set there by means of varied activities and of the acquaintance with different personalities who made our history. Not only the students will know the biography of these characters, but also the reasons why they deserved an urban spot, fact that will be linked to a learning area (Literature, Music, Science, Sports, Arts…). Therefore, the students will be able to get their own historical reality by a new way.
Aim 2: use ICTs throughout the whole process and for the implementation of the final result. We will use these tools as a way of communication to prepare varied activities with the students. Also, they will be used by the teachers to design the project and specify the needed final details for all the meetings. Furthermore, at the teachers training session, the eTwinning platform will be shown to capture the different steps that the project is having.
Aim 3: adquire better communication skills throughout a working language, different to the first one. This aim wil be got by the interaction that the students and the teachers from the different countries must have to cowork and to share the experiences during the meetings. In addition, it will be the way of relating towards the students in the encounters in the different countries. Spanish will be spoken when the students are in Spain and Portugal and English when they are in France and Serbia.
Aim 4: design a cooperative working, normally used methodology at Siervas de San José School, and it takes a greater significance in a European project.
The fact that you can be in constant contact by forums, chats and audio texts, gives the opportunity to have a close and steady colaboration among the participating schools. This idea of cooperative and collaborative work helps and encourages the learning of all participants. The teachers will ensure the good atmosphere and will facilitate the learning of the students by the discovery of new teaching ways while the experiences of the other teachers and students will be learnt.
The project also involves the student’s families, the whole school community and the local authorities through the assignment of different spots where some of the activities will be carried out during the scholarly meetings.
The activities that will be held throughout the course of the project will be advised on the school web-based platform. In this way, all of them will be known by the whole school community and will be part of the school curriculum. This idea means that all the activities will be assessed because some learning aims will be worked throughout the project. The mentioned aims will get some public final results in the expectation that they will be the start of imcoming projects. In adittion, the project will be open to the settings of the involved cities throughout the implication of the school community and the publication and the announcement in the local press.
The project incorporates four countries (Portugal, Serbia, France and Spain). It is intended for 12-15 year old students (four mobilities will be held in the course of the two academic years) and the sharing of good teaching works, with an initial mobility in which the coordination, the establishment of timetables, the working methodology and the specification of evaluation intem will be worked. Finally, there will be another mobility in which the project will be assessed and the results will be disseminated. The mobilities will be done with the company of seven students of the different schools and the carrying out of varied activities will be overseen. Some of the activities are:
-Virtual activities by Twinspace platform throughout the use of ICTs.
-Classroom activities during the different student exchanges.
-Targeted activities to know the history and the heritage of the involved cities throughout the different characters statues and sculptures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109084 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio Sagrada Familia Siervas de San José & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Karlovacka gimnazija Sremski Karlovci
• Agrupamento de Escolas Latino Coelho, Lamego
• CLG WILLIAM HENRI CLASSEN