Dimensions of European Cultural Heritage

"Dimensions of European Cultural Heritage" was a strategic partnership project involving 6 schools from 6 different countries: Poland, France, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Spain. This partnership resulted from a common need and it addressed a common aim, that of documenting, preserving and promoting the values of our national and European cultural heritage. Despite our geographical, economical or political differences, we shared similar ideas and strove to accomplish our goals in this partnership. Our project intended: 1.To increase the level of knowledge on cultural heritage in a group of 230 students (aged 10-15) and 61 teachers from Croatia, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Spain over a period of 24 months. In fact, the project was extended nad lasted for 36 months due to the covid 19. 2. To recognize, document, preserve, promote and pass forward knowledge of cultural heritage. 3. To increase, by the end of the project, within a 2 years period of time, a sense of tolerance and understanding among the total 291 participants, while gaining a new sense of national and European identity. 4. To upgrade ICT skills and competences among the participating students and teachers. As mentioned above, the total number of participants was excpected to be 291, consisting of 61teachers and 230 students, in the 10-15 age group. They formed the project teams in the 6 countries. They all were from public schools. They were to be involved directly in the project locally and 105 of them (the mobility participants) internationally. On returning home, they shared their experiences and disseminated the results of their work with their peers and the local communities. However, because of the pandemic time, even more students and teachers participated actively in the project. Our virtual meeting gathered about 160 participants. It wouldn't have been possible unless we had had organized the virtual meeting. Paradoxically the pandemic circumstances created new experiences. We planned to organize various activities, all aiming to increase the participants' interest and knowledge on the subject. And we implemented all plans and even exceeded the plans. There were workshops, contests, field trips, the parallel eTwinning project and learning activities for both teachers and students. They were carried out nationally, in each of the participating schools, internationally, at training events or virtually, by internet. Especially the last ones were underlined and were inspirational for us. The widely used internet communicators were frequently used by us as well. All the results of our project are accessible to the public, by school libraries, eTwinning and internet webpages, the Erasmus+ platform. They are of vital importance for our project dissemination, as they provide open and free access to a wide variety of audience, which can make our project internationally visible and recognized. Finally, we hoped to upgrade participants' ICT skills and competences, change their attitude towards a new sense of understanding and awareness of cultural heritage issues and also foster future mutual international cooperation among partners. Thanks to the project, new projects are possible, in new formats, not only Erasmus+. Our schools aim to develop their European dimension and expand international cooperation. ICT skills were upgraded the most due to its extensive use in pandemic time. To sum up, the project was accomplished, reached its objectives and paradoxically, beacuse of pandemic experience occurred to provide the project schools with extraordinary value - virtual meeting, which became an added value. The cooperation between teachers and students proved to be fruitful and promising in the future. The team of coordinators worked together to prepare the final report and to complete the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.