Title: United by the European Heritage Context and background: Our mutual cooperation had its starting point with the eTwinning project”Unite our cities and enjoy the cultural diversity”(2016, and currently running a new edition ).Heritage is the knowledge core in this project and the socializing tool among members.This eTwinning project was implemented in each school by a KA101 Project which included jobshadowing experiences to learn the strong points of others.Alfonso VIII Secondary School was highly interested in the VIMMERBY GYMNASIUM(Vimmerby, Sweeden) on Interculturality and migration, and likewise Vimmberby GYMNASIUM wished to know more about early drop-outs.Both schools included teacher training on issues dealing with migration, social inclusion and Language Teaching Methodology.Working together on the jobshadowing meetings included in the KA101 Projects has certainly strenghthen an association among both schools that will consolidate with this KA229 Project which has been elaborated in common. The two public Secondary Schools feel the need both in the students and in the teachers to awaken the need for knowing,, keeping and valuing European Cultural value as a source of learning and socializing. Objectives: With this Project the participants are aimed to experiment diversity as an irreversible fact in Europe nowadays which implements the European Cultural Heritage and empowers the linguistic diversity, source of personal enrichment and development. The project includes the following learning, teaching and training activities: - Two short term exchanges (6 days ) for two groups of 10 students ranging 15 to 18 years of age from one school to the other accompanied by two teachers, to work on collaborative workshops to highlight the Cultural Heritage of both associates/partners. One meeting in Sweeden and the other in Spain. The aforementioned worshops will be open to the rest of students of the Host School. - Two training activities for all teachers together ( 5 days ), a congress in each social institution which will be attended by 3 teachers of the associated school. These training activities will be open to the rest of teaching staff of the host school. The backbone of this conference will be the pedagogical importance of the European Cultural Heritage tackled through any subject of knowledge. There will also be a space for reflection, debate and a share of experiences following new methods, strategies and organizational styles which favour social inclusion and interculturality in class. The methodology used in the activities will follow this sequence : study od the need, programming, timing, development and assessment. In any case it will be a collaborative methodology which will use the eTwinning tool as a platform of study, planning, programming and communication of each step of the project besides any other on-line communication mean among the project coordinators. The expected results are: workshops on cultural heritage of the partners, from the most recent to the furthest; the development of the team working ability, students implication in the organization of activities; long term training in the associate schools on heritage and cultural diversity in the classroom; improving communicative and lingüistic competence of the participants in English/Spanish ;he development of the digital competence of participants and the global competence by accepting European migrating movements as historical facts which enrich our culture. The expected impact is to increase the european and global dimention of the partners,to achieve a school community open to Europe,to spread the associates and to share the Erasmus+ experiences among the students in the field of school education.The Cultural European heritage is a trait of identity for all and therefore it should be kept and valued by all its members. As a long term benefit a relationship between both schools is expected so as to keep fixed exchange collaborations either with Erasmus+ projects or with eTwinning ones on different knowledge subjects as a member of the net of UNESCO schools or any other type of international collaboration.
Title: “United by the European heritage” Context and background: Collaboration between partners began with the eTwinning project “Unite our cities and enjoy the cultural diversity” (2016). Heritage is the backbone of knowledge of this project. This eTwinning was implemented in each center with a KA101 (2017) project that included job-shadowings to learn from the strengths of the other. IES Alfonso VIII (Cuenca, Spain) wanted to learn from the experience of Vimmerby Gymnasium (Vimmerby, Sweden) in how to approach the interculturality and migration, and Vimmberby Gymnasium wanted to learn from IES Alfonso VIII experience in how to fight against early school dropout. The job shadwing meetings of these KA101 projects consolidated, in fact, an association that gave rise to this KA229 project (2018). With this project both centers have tried to awaken in students and teachers their concern to know, conserve and value the European cultural heritage as a source of learning and socialization tool. The main objective has been that the participants experienced European cultural diversity as an irreversible fact that enriches the European cultural heritage, inexhaustible source of learning, enhancing linguistic diversity, source of enrichment and personal development. The learning, teaching and training activities have been: - Two short-term exchanges (5 days) for two groups of 13 students between 15 and 18 years old, from one partner center to the other, accompanied by two teachers, to work together and collaboratively activities on the Heritage of partner countries. The meeting in Spain took place from 03/18/19 to 03/22/19 and in Sweden from 04/08/19 to 04/12/19. The activities were open to all local students. - For reasons of COVID19 the two joint planned training activities for staff were developed as virtual mobilities. Each activity was organized by a partner center. Both lasted 3 days long. The number of teachers directly involved and beneficiary of the activity has been greater than expected and these activities have benefited a significant number of local students too. Virtual training sessions were open to the rest of the educational community. The title of the activities reveals the central theme: “European Heritage as an educational resource” from Cuenca from 04/21/21 to 04/23/21, and “Interculturality in Europe: a challenge educational”, from Vimmerby from 04/28/21 to 04/30/21. These activities included lectures, debates and reflections, times to share experiences about didactics on the use of Heritage in the classroom and organisational strategies for social inclusion and interculturality in the classroom. The methodology has followed this sequence: analysis of reality, programming, timing, development and evaluation. We include the activity of extra coordination that involved making agreements about postponing some activity due to the COVID 19, request extensions and convert some activity to virtual mobility. A methodology that has been collaborative and that has used eTwinning as a platform study, planning and publication of results, in addition, its videoconference tool and other platforms as a means of coordination. The meetings have had an appropriate periodicity to the circumstances of each moment. The results have been: 17 workshops on Spanish heritage and 12 workshops on Swedish heritage during the student mobilities, 23 training presentations on virtual mobilities; it has improved the ability of participants to work in a team; The number of teachers and students involved in the organization of activities has risen; it has been achieved that Erasmus projects be seen as a source of permanent training for the teachers; it has improved the communicative and linguistic competence of participants in English / Spanish; the development of the digital competence of participants has been relevant, and the global competence of the educational community by accepting European migratory movements as historical facts that bring cultural richness has improved. Impact: the international and European dimension of the partner centers, a school community more open to Europe has been achieved, the network of European partners has increased and Erasmus+ experiences have been shared to all educational sectors. The European cultural heritage has become an identifying feature of the centers and consequently it must continue being worked on and valued. The expected benefit has already been achieved by consolidating the relationship between the two centers in a new KA229 action (2020). A new eTwinning project has been promoted in different areas of knowledge and the network of UNESCO schools has been made known in the center partner.