The project "THE FUTURE IS OUR JEWEL" brings together 6 partner schools around a common formation in the creation of jewelery, but whose cultural, heritage and professional histories are multiple. That is why one of their needs is to highlight the diversity in the world of jewelery, so that these diversities become resources of common wealth, learning spaces and opportunities, with the result of obtaining good personal and professional projects of our respective jewelery students, target group of the project. A fundamental pillar will be to promote Sustainable Jewelery, a concept with which we intend to raise awareness and inform all participants of the bad practices that are committed in the jewelery sector, whether in the environmental field or social ethics, promoting solutions for the implementation of new more sustainable work models that offer an ethical and just jewel, prepared for the future and the demand of a sector more aware and related to the ecological trend. The project will last 3 years, through them, the didactic, will teach essential knowledge and techniques to consolidate student learning and their future work. Our primary objective is to be able to involve as many students of jewelery as possible (minimum 600). Taking into account the identity and the European territory of today, we consider it's impossible not to accept the diversity of techniques and ways of learning from the same profession. That is why another fundamental aspect will be values such as equality, tolerance and union. From this alchemy of these four pillars, equality, sustainability, union and tolerance, we wanted to combine the 4 elements (Water, Air, Fire and Earth) where the purest materials for jewelery are obtained, and we relate them not only because the 4 elements are past, present and future as the three phases of the project; we relate them because we wanted to link them with our 4 pillars E(arth)QUALITY/SUSTA(ir)INABILITY/UNION/TOLE(wate)RANC(fir)E where the raw material and the idea of the project are combined, in order to raise awareness especially with the concepts of union and sustainability, within the Jewellery sector. The work program during the three years of the project is related to the 4 types of activities that correspond to the 4multidisciplinary phases and methodology for the implementation and management of our strategic partnership: 1) RESEARCH and deepening on materials and concepts related to the themes of each year, the jewel of the past, the jewel of the present, the jewel of the future always following the approach of sustainable jewelery. 2) CREATION OF JEWELS taking into account the contribution of the diversities and particularities of each country through an active and open methodology, from the idea to the production guided by the teachers but as personal development of the personality of each student. 3) REALIZATION OF THE CATALOGUE with the aim of informing through writing, spreading the creations made, emphasizing the European dimension of the project and the importance of the contributions of each partner. It will be a common catalogue, made at the end of each year, with all the jewels selected for each itinerant exhibition. 4) EXHIBITIONS and collective presentation, between 15 and 20 jewels will be selected in each school and each year there will be a large exhibition of jewelery that will be moved every month to the other partner schools so that all the members can exhibit them. The project also provides training mobilities for students whose added value is related to the resources provided by each partner and the creation of an environment in which exchanging, sharing, discussing and developping new practices and techniques in the realization of sustainable jewelry. The results of the project will be divided into concrete that is all the achievements and creations made and intangible, that is all those that the project will achieve in the teaching staff, the students and the schools and that will lead to an internationalization of the centers. The impact will be seen first in the participants who will gain new skills and will be able to compete in the labor market as future professionals, in schools with a quality training related to a new European identity and at European level thanks to the broad international networks of the partners. Sustainability is a fundamental pillar and is integrated into all stages of the project through the use of sustainable materials in research, the creation of jewelery, the catalogue and itinerant exhibitions. In addition, to ensure that it can produce benefits and they could be used in the long term, even in countries not directly involved and also after its completion, the website and all results will remain operational after the project closure to allow all stakeholders and partners to communicate with each other, share ideas, propose improvements and update innovative methods.
The project "THE FUTURE IS OUR JEWEL" brought together 6 associated professional schools around jewelery training, but whose cultural, heritage and professional histories are diverse. This is why one of the needs was to highlight the diversity in the world of jewelry, so that these diversities become resources of common wealth, learning spaces and opportunities, with the result of obtaining good personal and professional projects from our respective jewelry students, target group of the project. The life of the project was affected by the Covid 19 Pandemic and the resilience of the participants, students and teachers came though. A fundamental pillar was promoting Sustainable Jewelry and solutions for the implementation of new sustainable work models that offer an ethical and fair jewellery prepared for the future and the demand more awareness in the sector related to the ecological trend. The project lasted 40 months. Its objectives and the applied didactics, made it possible to teach essential knowledge and techniques for the consolidation of student learning, their personal development and their future work. More than 500 students were involved. Taking into account the European identity and territory of today, we consider that it is impossible not to accept diversity in the teaching of the same profession. That is why another fundamental point will be the ethical values such as equality, tolerance and union. From the alchemy of these four pillars, equality, sustainability, union and tolerance, we combine the 4 natural elements (Water, Air, Fire and Earth) where the essential natural materials for the jewelry practice are obtained, within these 4 pillars artethe past, present ant future which represent the three phases of the Project. We link them to our 4 pillars, IGUALDA(gua)D / SOST(ierra)ENIBILIDAD / UNI(fueg)ON / TOLERA(ire)NCIA where the raw material and the idea of the project, to make us especially aware of the concepts of union and sustainability, under the protection of jewelry. The work program was related to the 4 types of activities that correspond to the 4 multidisciplinary phases and methodology for the implementation and management of our strategic association: 1) RESEARCH and in-depth study of materials and concepts related to the themes of each year, the jewel of the past, present and future, always following the Sustainable Jewelery approach. 2) CREATION OF JEWELRY taking into account the contribution of the diversities and particularities of each country through an active and open methodology, from the idea to the production, guided by the teachers, as a personal development of the personality of each student. 3) CREATION OF CATALOGS of selected pieces (252) with the aim of informing, disseminating the creations made, emphasizing the European dimension of the project and the importance of the contributions of each partner. 4) EXHIBITIONS and collective presentation of selected pieces. Every year a large traveling exhibition was held on a monthly basis in the other parnership schools, exhibited in different exhibition spaces. The project included training mobilities for students whose added value was related to the resources provided by each partner and the creation of an environment in which it was possible to exchange, share, debate, develop good and new practices, more techniques in carrying out sustainable jewelry. The results were divided into concrete and intangible in the teaching staff, the students and the schools and that lead to an internationalization of the centers. The impact has been observed first in the participants who obtain new skills and can compete in the labor market as future professionals, in schools giving greater visibility, new relationships with centers and companies in the sector, institutional recognition of the work carried out and training of quality related to a new European identity and at a European level thanks to the extensive international networks of the partners. The coordinating Escuela de Arte 3, has been awarded the 2021 National Craft Award to a Public Entity, for its work for years in favor of the transmission of knowledge, concepts and values in favor of teaching excellence in the field of Artistic Crafts. In addition, to ensure that it can produce benefits and be used in the long term, even in the countries not directly involved and also after its completion, the website and all the results will remain operational after the closure of the project, allowing through the links all stakeholders and partners can to communicate, share ideas, propose improvements, update innovative methods and why not, create relationships for other projects.