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"The house of the rising memory"

2018-1-IT02-KA229-0485532018School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: IT|FR · Grant: €32,675
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningCultural heritage/European Year of Cultural HeritageCreativity and culture

Project summary

The project"The house of the rising memory" was born to promote the dissemination of history among children and the study of the same through the search for sources (documents, videos, objects).The approach aims and expects to stimulate intergenerational dialogue on relatively recent historical events by recovering experiences and objects related to the more personal sphere (photos, testimonies, etc..) also inducing the emergence of hidden family heritage, otherwise destined to be dispersed and forgotten over the years. An experience of "Citizenship" and "Community" among different people, united by the desire for peace and the hope that sharing common experiences supports mutual well-being. The value of "memory" and "remembrance" depends on the need to identify the answers to moments when incidental events lead to feelings of distancing and dispersion of the European experience.The project, in fact, focuses on the parallelism between the most famous Normandy landing and the Avalanche operation, which took place on 9 September 1943, and which is the most imposing aeronaval military operation in history, in terms of number of men and means, ever carried out in the Mediterranean. The Comprehensive Institute "A. Gatto" has 1361 students, 120 teachers and 20 employees. Our Institute started in 2014 the Erasmus plus experience and has continued until today to compare with different European countries, implementing all the good practices acquired in different projects. The social context in which our school operates is characterized by a strong presence of families from areas surrounding the city such a surrounding, together with the relatively recent establishment of the municipality, born in 1929 has led to the absence of a shared collective identity Denis DIDEROT school is located in Tourlaville, 237 rue Augustin le Maresquier and is directed by Guy Bertrand. Includes 60 teachers, 580 students. The Institute was chosen as a partner because it is located on the most important site for the historical event that happened "the Normandy landing" therefore, since our partner is at its first Erasmus experience we would like to share and socialize the best practices acquired by our staff and at the same time discuss a common theme but already successfully implemented by the French partner school. The project includes meetings with historians with comments on the vision of sources, the collection and listening to testimonies as well as visiting places representative of the events. It also provides for the re-enactment of the landing and the clashes in battle with historical groups in uniform and original military means. The confluence of all the material produced in a digital archive "Regesta.exe" open to consultation through the platform (www.xdams.org), makes the memory and testimony of the events available to the world community. Monitoring committees have already been set up at each school, transnational meetings, a timetable with the methods and contents of exchanges between establishments. Training models and pedagogical analysis grids will also be shared between schools. Erasmus + KA229 project, 23 people will benefit from mobility where students will use French, Italian and English languages to communicate and collaborate In addition, this partnership project will open all participants and parents to other cultures and school practices during mobility and training. Finally, school blogs, institutional websites and the eTwinning platform will allow the dissemination of this partnership project and the exchange of innovative professional practices. This innovative project at local level would allow institutions to take on an international dimension, which would give a strong added value to the dissemination and impact of learning. This project was carried out in collaboration with the Denis DIDEROT school for 2 years. The project will include modules of research and history learning teaching activities in the cities where the project is based, which should ultimately improve the high level of competences, the validation of the common base (modern and mother tongue, history and geography) and the social and civic competences of the pupils. A great deal of attention will be paid to dissemination activities, since only the consolidation of the results obtained can guarantee us the identification of tools in the future that will allow us to continue the experience we have gained but, above all, in reality, as is the case with our projects, to extend their territorial and thematic boundaries. We will obviously use all the means at our direct disposal (press releases, websites, social networks) to spread the knowledge of the project but we believe that the main vehicle of communication can be the children's archive.

Final report summary

"The house of the rebirth of memory" was designed to encourage the dissemination of history among children and the study of it through the search for sources (documents, videos, objects). The approach envisaged stimulating inter generational dialogue on relatively recent historical events, through the recovery of experiences and objects related to the more personal sphere (photos, testimonies, etc.). making the hidden family heritage coming out, otherwise destined for dispersion and oblivion over the years. An experience of "Citizenship" and local "Community" which would then be confronted with communities of different nations, united by the desire for peace and the hope that the sharing of common experiences would support mutual well-being. The value of "memory" and "remembrance" in response to the need to identify virtuous directions at times when accidental events induce feelings of distancing and dispersion of the European experience. The project, in fact, has focused on the parallelism between the most famous Normandy landing and the Avalanche operation, which took place on 9 September 1943, and which is the most important aeronautical military operation in history, in terms of number of men and means, ever carried out in the Mediterranean. Project has been realized by the Comprehensive Institute "A. Gatto" of Battipaglia (Italy) and the Denis DIDEROT school, located in Tourlaville, 237 rue Augustin le Maresquier and directed by Guy Bertrand. Both institutes had already approached similar issues and the project was the venue for mutual feedback and for sharing methodologies and technologies. The project has included meetings with historians with comments on the vision of sources, the collection and listening to testimonies as well as visiting places representative of the events. During its evolution, project has increased the use of digital technologies more than expectations. In fact the confluence of all produced materials in a digital archive was already planned, collected for the free consultation thanks the xDams platform (www.xdams.org). It have been made available the memory and testimony of events. Further, thanks the collaboration of local associations and companies, we have realized an innovative, complete, cloud infrastructure that, adding new components, manages the entire chain, from collection to publication. A new platform "A memoria!" has been made available to the organization, a simplified way to collect heritage, a tool adequate to the capability of younger pupils. xDams OS has integrated digital contents, in compliance with international standard used for management of the cultural heritage. Finally all information has been published on a dedicated website, www .avalancheday.org, in which editorial contents has been added to the testimonies collected by the children. A point of excellence has been the publication of data in Open Data format, in particular in its most advanced format: the Linked Open Data, an initiative of international relevance. Project has also provided for the re-enactment of the landing and the clashes in battle with historical groups in uniform and original military means. Thanks this intensive use of technology, the project has well managed the limitations imposed by the lock down determined by covid19. The face-to-face meetings have turned into online events while the work of the children, already based on cloud applications use, has not been interrupted, on the contrary, it has been the opportunity to accelerate the technological literacy of children. The study of the bases of Internet connectivity has been supported by the creation of an e-Book (translation of en existing eBook). It will be a result of the project that will go beyond the project itself and will remain available to the activity of the training community (in Italian and English). The covid emergency has made more evident the importance of one of the project requirements: the saving of testimonies and objects related to the family sphere (photos, stories, etc.). There is a need to bring out the hidden family heritage, otherwise destined to be dispersed and oblivious over the years. The covid has made the obsolescence process even more rapid and irremediable, while the children have shown that there is the possibility of collecting, organizing and enhancing the memory of the older generations. These generations are therefore more fragile and subject to the risk of dispersion, both naturally, for the time flow, both due to dramatic events such as the onset of epidemics, such as the covid19, or big drama as the second world war. The project was organically included in the initiatives of the respective local communities

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