This project, entitled "Music and performing arts at the service of the community. Socialization through our cultural heritage“ belongs to the Erasmus + program of the EU in the field of education, specifically within the key action 2 on school education (KA229). This is a STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP of the following three European schools: - Heinrich Heine Europaschule, Dreieich (DE) - Liceo Statale Gaio Valerio Catullo,Monterotondo (IT) - IES Santa Catalina de Alejandría, Jaén (ES) The latter being the coordinator of the association and belongs to the National Agency ES01 Project MAIN PRIORITIES are: - Horizontal: Social and educational value of European cultural heritage - School education: Promoting the acquisition of key skills and competences The following are the most relevant general project targets : A. Develop and strengthen the feeling of belonging to a common European area with rich cultural diversity. B. Promote the participation and rapprochement of young Europeans to a part of their cultural heritage (music, performing arts ...) C. Use Spanish as a language of exchange in the project and enhance its key feature as European lingua franca. D. Raise awareness of moral and social values in the students, educate citizens who are committed to their environment and learn through working with and for their community. Special emphasis will be put on the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1.- Appreciate the multiculturalism and inclusiveness of the circus world as an artistic discipline and take part in a circus show. 2.- Attend a flamenco show, know the main flamenco musical forms and collaborate by playing percussion (palms and flamenco cajón) 3.- Feel the music and transmit it as silence music through Italian and Spanish Sign Language 4.- Compose music for a play with instruments made from recyclable and reusable materials. 5.- Dramatize guided tours of emblematic monuments of our environment and create special atmosphere through storytelling for school groups. 6.- Reflect on the effects of music therapy on elderly people and those of biodanza on adolescents. 7.- Identify the main features of belly dance, hip-hop and funky dance together with some latin dances. About 400 students aged 15 to 17 will be participants, being the 15% beneficiaries with fewer opportunities. In addition, the project will indirectly impact over 5,000 people among students, teachers, families and collaborating organizations. The projected ACTIVITIES, which are included in the calendar, are integrated in daily schools work. Among them we highlight: - Local preparatory and dissemination activities (in each centre) - Transnational meetings of long-term youth (8 students) - Short-term exchanges of groups of students (48 students) - Joint staff training activities (3 teachers) There is a broad catalogue of activities: - Research on cultural heritage (music and diversity in culture) - Inclusive recyclable craftsmanship (with children and people with disabilities) - Dramatized monumental visits and storytelling - Fusion of performing arts (circus, music and theatre) - Workshops of modern dances and Arab dances - Music therapy and body expression as a multicultural language - Didactic concerts and master class (flamenco, percussion ...) - Music of silence (for the deaf in sign language) - Sound of a play The METHODOLOGY ; it must be eclectic as every school has different needs, concerns, cultures and systems but we will keep common aspects alluding to the new active methodologies: "flipped classroom", "e-learning", ABPy and ABP, cooperative learning, and peer learning. We will use investigative and inductive methods, non-formal learning and informal and special mention for the service-learning methodology. This would be a basic pillar to socialize our cultural heritage, forming European citizens committed to their environment and working for and to the community. The RESULTS and the impact are diverse affecting all sectors of the community: - Dynamization of the departments involved. - Use of service-learning and other active methodologies - Appreciation of European cultural differences and respect for them - Inclusion of minorities (gypsies, immigrants, refugees ...) - Improvement in competences (linguistic, social-civic communication, cultural expressions..) - Development of critical thinking, creativity, innovation capacity and entrepreneurship - Exchange of good teaching practices between partners - Development of a new professional perspective towards innovation - Exchange of knowledge and experiences with host students In the future,the dissemination of results through very diverse communication channels will allow many other schools to benefit from the project, work experience and its conclusions.
The project that is now reaching its end "Music and the performing arts at the service of the community. Socializing our cultural heritage" Erasmus+ KA229, within the EU’s Erasmus+ programme in the field of education, in Key Action 2, has been developed within a STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP made up of 3 schools from different countries with different artistic concerns which have been shared among them and their communities: - Heinrich Heine Europaschule, de Dreieich (DE) - Liceo Statale Gaio Valerio Catullo, de Monterotondo (IT) - IES Santa Catalina de Alejandría, de Jaén (ES), as coordinator and belonging to the National Agency ES01 In this final report we mustn't neglect the effect that the exceptional situation of health, social, economic and mobility (not only at European level but worldwide) has had on the development of the project along the last 6 months (1/4 of it). It is clear that the activities due to the last quarter of it have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and everything drastically changed in our everyday society. We would never have imagined that our projects, our educational centres, our lives, our countries and the whole of Europe would totter facing something as unexpected and convulsive. Little by little we have been recovering health and a certain normality that has allowed us to finish the project in time and form, in part thanks to the fact that a large percentage of the goals initially set had already been achieved with the development of the activities that were carried out during the first 18 months. Fortunately, being on schedule until the end of February, all the general objectives, framed within the two horizontal priorities of the project, have been achieved, i.e. enhancing Europe’s cultural heritage and boosting the acquisition of key skills and competences. Only a few of the specific objectives, linked to activities to be developed in the short-term exchange to Spain, which was not carried out due to force majeure, have not been achieved (e.g. everything related to flamenco). At the end of February 2020, when the health situation was becoming more difficult in Italy (one of the countries of the association) and was already beginning to have a great impact in Spain and Germany (the other two)the coordinators of the three centres made every effort to ensure the safety of the participants while assessing the degree of achievement of the objectives initially set. Thus, many of the local activities, 4/4 of Long Term Mobilities and 2/3 of Short Term Exchanges, have been completed, although neither the joint training of teachers nor the DCI being carried out in Spain.We obviously, were aware that such decisions would entail the repayment of the budget share allocated to non-implemented activities. According to the specific indications addressed to the beneficiaries of the Erasmus+ projects in process in Spain, "within the framework of the mobilities related to the risk areas affected and declared by the competent authorities...., the force majeure clause may be applied in a justified manner, in accordance with Clause II.1 of the General Conditions of the grant agreements". At the same time, it was up to the organisations and individuals participating in Erasmus+ programmes to decide whether to cancel or postpone planned mobilities in affected areas After careful analysis of the numerous communiqués of the European Commission and the National Agencies on the health crisis and how it was affecting the development of Erasmus+ projects, UNANIMOUSLY, it was decided to close our project on schedule (31/08/2020) based on educational, social, cultural and mobility restrictions in the participating countries and without a possible extension, especially because of the uncertainty of its implementation during the course of 2020/21, since it was not possible to guarantee the safety of the participants and having achieved the objectives of the project. In terms of the results obtained, in addition to the direct benefits of actively participating students (improvement in linguistic, digital, entrepreneurship, cultural, social and civic awareness and expressions and learning to learn), activities related to the project theme have been launched in the participating centres (Erasmus+ club, circus/acrosport, collaboration with associations, reading club and dialogue groups,theatre and dance workshop, didactic concerts and music masterclass). In addition, the number of mobilities of students initially programmed in charge of the management budget has been increased and the project has been disseminated among our educational communities and our environment.