This is a school exchange association project between the Secondary Education Institutes José Marín de Vélez Rubio (Andalusia, Spain) and the Willibald-Gymnasium of the Bavarian city of Eichstätt (Germany). The objectives of the project are the development of the basic and transversal competences of 28 European baccalaureate students, from 15 to 17 years, belonging to two European regions, from the execution of a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary task centered on learning and promotion of the World Heritage Site or World Heritage declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the two regions: the cave paintings (the idol known as INDALO is the most representative) of the Region of Los Vélez in Andalusia (Spain ) and the walls of the frontier of the Roman Empire (LIMES) in the Eichstätt District in Bavaria (Germany) through a more effective teaching method than the usual teacher-textbook-classroom. The project is designed to cooperate closely in improving students' motivation for knowledge about the European World Heritage, virtual group work, to communicate in foreign languages and entrepreneurship. The task will be developed during 16 months by two mixed groups of work constituted each by 14 students of each of the two countries and whose main final product will be the elaboration of a Pedagogical-cultural Route on the Heritage analyzed, as well as a Poster- Poster of each world heritage analyzed in three languages: English, German and Spanish and presented in PowerPoint format or similar. Each group will be led by a teacher-tutor and will work in virtual contact through the digital platforms (Facebook and eTwinning) during 16 months, carrying out an on-site confrontation and expansion of the data at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year and at the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year. These direct contacts will provide additional value to develop several basic skills - it will allow for cultural immersion and language handling - and will be in the format of a school exchange, where students will live with the host family of their European colleagues. In order to update the training on the pedagogy of the World Heritage of the teachers of the project, they will participate in two joint training courses for short-term teachers that will take place in each country and will be a conference to analyze the pedagogical tools used in Germany to enhance the heritage of humanity existing in the district of Eichstätt (Germany) and in Spain in the Comarca de los Vélez. They will be organized by the Willibald Gymnasium and the IES José Marín respectively. Each course will last 3 days excluding travel days and will be attended by 4 teachers from Spain and 4 from Germany. This teaching-learning is focused from a multidisciplinary point intervening the departments of Social (Geography-History and Economics), Sciences (Biology and Geology), and Languages of the two European centers so that they are integrated in an interdisciplinary way the basic competences on the knowledge and interaction with the physical world, linguistic communication, mathematics, the treatment of information and digital competence, learning to learn, cultural as well as social and civic. The German students of the Willibald-Gymnasium study the Spanish language and the Spanish students of the José Marín study will receive German sessions. The English language will be support and work for the project. The Pedagogical-Cultural Routes and the PowerPoint as a result of the research work carried out by the students will be presented during the mobility of the students in both the Vélez and Eichstätt to the school community: students of the center, teachers, parents, and authorities. local, which may be long-term beneficiaries of the results of the task. It will also be presented at the Cultural Week of the IES José Marín which is held in the months of April 2019 and 2020. Students can benefit from these pedagogical-cultural routes in upcoming courses and citizens of the consequent tourist route.
Context. This has been a project of association of school exchange between the secondary schools José Marín de Vélez Rubio (Andalusia. Spain) and the Willibald-Gymnasium of the Bavarian city of Eichstätt (Germany). Goals. The objectives of the project have been the development of the basic and transversal competences of 28 European high school students, aged 15 to 17, belonging to two European regions, from the execution of a task focused on the learning and promotion of the Heritage of the Humanity or World Heritage declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the two regions: the cave paintings of the Region of Velez in Andalusia (Spain) and the walls of the border of the Roman Empire (LIMES) in the Eichstätt District in Bavaria (Germany). Description of the activities carried out: The tasks have been developed by two mixed working groups each consisting of 14 students from each country and whose final product has been the development of a Pedagogical-Cultural Route on the Heritage analyzed, as well as a Poster-Poster. Each group has worked in virtual contact through the digital platforms Facebook (1), email and whatsApp) taking place an on-site confrontation at the end of the 2018-2019 course with a mobility of students and teachers to Germany (2) and the Beginning of the 2019-2020 course to Spain (3). These direct contacts have allowed cultural immersion and language management and have had the format of a school exchange, where students have lived with the host family of their European colleagues. With the objective of updating the training on the pedagogy of the World Heritage of the teaching staff of the project, they have participated in two joint training courses for short-term teachers that have taken place one in each country, in the district of Eichstätt (Germany ) (4) and in Spain in the Velez Region (5). Each course has lasted 3 days excluding travel days. Results and expected long-term benefits. The Pedagogical-Cultural Routes (6) as a result of the research work carried out by the students have been presented during the mobility of the students in both Vélez and Eichstätt to the school community: students of the center, teachers and parents, who They may be beneficiaries of the results of the task. In the training course for teachers, they have participated in pedagogical workshops of Roman-era atmosphere such as entertainment games of Roman hosts on the border of the Empire and workshops of carving of flint, archery and cave painting in Spain (7 ). The Spanish-German teachers and students have carried out a workshop for the preparation of Neolithic clothing and beads (8) with which a theatricalization of the Neolithic environment has been carried out in the surroundings of the Cave of the Signboards (9) spreading the ERASMUS project to all schools in the region of Vélez and attended by 180 schoolchildren dressed for the occasion with Neolithic clothing participating in the so-called RUPESTRES PAINTING DAY that is intended to be repeated in the next courses. The regional TV channel of Andalusia Canal Sur has made a documentary about the World Heritage of Andalusia in which Erasmus students participated with their Neolithic clothes and beads (10). (1) https://www.facebook.com/Erasmus-Para-ti-para-m%C3%AD-y-para-todos-Patrimonio-Mundial-de-la-Humanidad-850920128640990/?modal=admin_todo_tour (2) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/movilidad-con-alumnos-y-profesores-mobility-with-students-and-teachers/movilidad-a-alemania/ (3) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/movilidad-con-alumnos-y-profesores-mobility-with-students-and-teachers/movilidad-a-espa%C3%B1a/ (4) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/curso-de-formaci%C3%B3n-conjunta-del-profesorado-de-corta-duraci%C3%B3n-en-el-distrito-de-eichst%C3%A4tt-alemania/ (5) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/curso-de-formaci%C3%B3n-conjunta-del-profesorado-de-corta-duraci%C3%B3n-en-la-comarca-de-los-v%C3%A9lez-espa%C3%B1a/ (6) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/resultados-results/ (7) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/ (8) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/taller-de-vestimenta-y-abalorios-neol%C3%ADticos-neolithic-dress-and-beading-workshop/ (9) https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/teatralizaci%C3%B3n-del-neol%C3%ADtico-theatricalization-of-the-neolithic/ (10) http://www.canalsur.es/television/programas/documentales/noticia/1549566.html