Young digital natives discovering and sharing „glocal“ highlights Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young digital natives discovering and sharing „glocal“ highlights

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Together with our partners from Catalonia (Spain), Burgundy (France) and Lombardy (Italy), we have designed a project that arises from our common interests and needs: We have a rich and varied European cultural heritage which we wish to promote and preserve. We often underestimate the importance of that heritage for our personal lives, our economy and the development of our regions. Through the project ‘Young European digital natives discovering and sharing “glocal” highlights’ we want to motivate our students to (re)discover, understand and share their own culture, and then explore the foreign cultures. Can we succeed in reaching our students – all digital natives – via a European learning setting based on innovative practices and technologies? And perhaps even those who have not yet made use of cultural offers or haven´t had access to it?

Whether using apps on smartphones and tablets, developing digital products, communicating via eTwinning chats and videoconferences, peer and cooperative learning in intercultural teams, realized in a world café and other workshops, creating exhibitions, movies, radio broadcasts or cultural festivals … – the learning arrangement relies on digital media, creative products and types of events as well as open pedagogies as an essential motivating factor.

Central activities: The participants from Italy, Spain, France and Germany will introduce themselves to each other and exchange their interests in the topic and their processing idea via eTwinning before meeting to develop a project guideline. In all partner schools, students deal with different cultural facets and specialties of their own region and analyse for example aspects of history, politics, society, economy, music, art, language, customs and traditions.
The students will get an insight into their partners’ cultures through digital and physical exchange in three steps: preparatory discussions of the culture in the destination country, then personal encounters and experiences, and finally evaluation.
At the centre of each mobility is a mixed-national workshop to develop a multimedia experience tour (actionbound), supplemented by student presentations, cultural explorations and events, also involving external partners and experts.
The virtual and real encounters as well as the ongoing project work are supported by media: teams of students prepare movie clips, radio broadcasts, podcasts and press releases.
Finally, cultural festivals with project exhibitions are organized in all countries. The overall project is now being evaluated and disseminated through various channels.

The participants are mainly 15 to 18-year-old students attending high school (general education and various technological or vocational branches) as well as some 18 to 21-year-old students who prepare an advanced technician certificate. The project benefits from the different student profiles and relies on mutual support with different competences (ICT, foreign languages, media and communication, project management, etc.).

The first meeting to set up the project guide will involve 16 students and the four following mobilities will involve between 24 and 31 pupils each. Thanks to the eTwinning tools, even more students and teachers will be able to participate in both the content project work in schools and the digital exchanges during the 24-month project.

Through this project, the partner schools would like to give students and teachers access to project-based learning in the European context and to endow participants with the following benefits in the long term:
By exploring the “glocal” highlights of the four regions in an intercultural way – both through virtual exchanges via eTwinning and through actual mobility – our students strengthen their awareness of the importance of the European cultural heritage and realize diversity as pathways to new opportunities. Hopefully, they overcome (language) barriers, establish personal contacts across borders and broaden their horizons, develop their digital and foreign language competencies, strengthen their personality, improve their professional prospects and become more open to training, study and work opportunities in other European countries.
The multimedia discovery tours (actionbounds) could possibly be used by the local authorities as an attractive promotional tool for cultural education, for example for school classes and young tourists from both within the country and abroad.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131686 Eur

Project Coordinator

Berufsbildende Schule Wirtschaft Trier & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GROUPE ARCADES – LYCEE LES ARCADES
• Institut de Masquefa
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE STATALE OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO