Our Strategic Partnerships project 'Learning on Display: How to Create a School Museum' is devoted to the educational purposes and benefits of creating a school museum along with introducing elements of Museum education into the partner schools' curricula. It aims to develop 'Guidelines for Creating a School Museum' while going through four phases: initiation, planning, establishment and running of real and virtual school museums in the partners' institutions as the focus will be on promoting multicultural diversity of the partner schools. The project main goals are to promote inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination in educational institutions through exchange of experience and know-how between different types of organisations involved in education - 2 vocational high schools, 4 schools providing general secondary education, a school of arts and a technical school. The idea of the project is to develop guidelines on how to create museums inside our schools - both real and virtual - in order to involve teachers and students into various activities related to museums and also to provide open access to relevant materials, documents and media, making them available for the public, both in printed and digital form on the project platform. Since the core section of the school museums is expected to be "The Diverse School Population", the project will lead to fostering the development of intercultural competences and critical thinking, combating discrimination and segregation. Our project will contribute to improve the attainment of young people through accessible educational activities. Teachers will also benefit from this project as they will be given the opportunity to vary their pedagogical repertoire. The methodology used in this project is based on active learning and collaborative learning, on sharing experience and ideas and on involving all participants in decision making based on consent to achieve best results helping teachers to get more and better solutions at facing diversity and students' needs. As a result of this project we expect to find some solutions to the problem of the shortage of materials for including Museum Education into schooling process; to improve links between school education and museums and enhancing quality and attractiveness of task-based learning; to exchange good practice, mastering up-to-date approaches; to develop relevant teaching materials for Museum education and help teachers introduce elements of Museum education across the school curriculum; to connect teachers interested in introducing elements of Museum education with each other and to show that partnership and collaboration are the most responsive to different circumstances and the most effective when building on diverse expertise, strengths and resources. We also intend to produce Compendium of best practices 'Museums as Educational Partners'; the Guidelines 'How to create a school museum - real and virtual'; a Blended Package of Learning/Teaching Materials “Learning on Display’’. A web-based project platform will support the partners’ communication in the process of development of the project outcomes. It will contribute to learning and knowledge sharing functionalities, reporting tools, file storing and collaboration tools. The open educational resources/a set of practical learning resources will be uploaded to the project platform as flexible e-learning paths suited both for autonomous and teacher facilitated use. During the project cycle we plan to have 3 transnational project meetings, 2 short-term joint staff training events and 1 short-term students' exchange, which will definitely contribute to the project implementation and better project results. We are going to promote the project both in our own organisations and at an external level. The project work will definitely strengthen the cooperation between our organisations with a view to establishing exchanges of practices as well as promote the development, testing and implementation of our project activities.
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