The project is a cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices between 6 European schools from Poland (the coordinator), Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal. The total project duration is 24 months starting from 1 September 2018. The participants of the project are students aged 12-16 attending comprehensive or vocational schools. The project title is: UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country. The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be for students a training course that will make them improve culturally and humanly. The project to be undertaken is a synergistic action among the partner schools to develop, in teachers, students and other stakeholders, operational skills and responsible actions aimed at the application of the values and principles of UNESCO. The collaboration activity will have as its objective the knowledge of UNESCO sites, the diversity of expressions of cultural heritage, sustainable development and above all the stories, the experience of people related to that UNESCO site. The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be training courses for students that will make them improve culturally and humanly, making them informed, responsible and active citizens, respecting differences and cultural diversities. Therefore, the partnership will aim to share teaching practices, help teachers to work in cooperation with other subjects and create a European network on the eTwinning platform in order to exchange teaching methods. It also aims to create a team of Erasmus students that can work to develop cross curricular practices such as diversity, seen as a common heritage of humanity that must be handed down to new generations to nurture creativity, the origin of cultural traditions that feeds on new contacts cultures. We are sure all project results will be successfully achieved including the eBook, the board game, concert, workshops and conferences, the international camp-contest for students in order to show the collaborative skills. There will be a database with materials for students and teachers created. By means of organizing an international lessons based on the project method, the motivation of learning and teaching and students' assessments will have raised, teachers and students will use the materials and gain knowledge for everyday use. Therefore, this project will be important to involve pupils failing at school, pupils with learning difficulties and those who have never been abroad before and have never experienced multiculturalism. The project’s aim is also to train the pupils to become open-minded when confronted to diversity and to other cultures of Europe. Additionally, there is the importance of experience sharing among both teachers and students. We all need international cooperation to exchange the best teaching and learning methods. Apart from a bunch of common knowledge we all share, every country uses their own unique teaching methods we would like to discover and make use of on domestic ground.
The project was the cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices between 6 European schools from Poland (the coordinator), Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal. The initial project duration was 24 months but due to Covid pandemic it was prolonged to 36 months - starting 1 September 2018, ending 31 August 2021. The participants of the project were students aged 12-16 and teachers of comprehensive or vocational schools. The project title was: UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country. It was a synergistic action among the partner schools aiming at the development of teachers, students and other stakeholders, their operational skills and responsible actions designed to the application of the values and principles of UNESCO. The collaboration activity had as its objectives the knowledge of UNESCO sites, the diversity of expressions of cultural heritage, sustainable development and above all the stories, the experience of people related to certain UNESCO site. The purpose of this partnership was real achievement of the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. In order to know and study UNESCO sites, discover and tell their stories, there were training courses for students that made them improve culturally and humanly, making them informed, responsible and active citizens, respecting differences and cultural diversities. The partnership's purpose was to share teaching practices, help teachers to work in cooperation with other subjects and create a European network on the eTwinning platform in order to exchange teaching methods. It also aimed at he creation a team of Erasmus students that could work to develop cross-curricular practices such as diversity, seen as a common heritage of humanity that must be handed down to new generations to nurture creativity, the origin of cultural traditions that feeds on new contacts cultures. We are sure all project's results were successfully achieved including the eBook, concerts, workshops and conferences, the international camp-contest for students in order to show the collaborative skills. There was a database with materials for students and teachers created. By means of organizing an international lessons based on the project method, the motivation of learning and teaching and students' assessments have been raised, teachers and students used the materials and gained the knowledge for everyday use. Therefore, this project was important to involve pupils failing at school, pupils with learning difficulties and those who have never been abroad before and have never experienced multiculturalism. The project’s aim was also to train the students to become open-minded when confronted to diversity and to other cultures of Europe. Additionally, there was the importance of experience shared among both teachers and students. We all needed international cooperation to exchange the best teaching and learning methods. Apart from a bunch of common knowledge we all shared, every country used their own unique teaching methods on domestic ground. During the implementation of the project, we organized and carried out 3 short-term joint staff training events in which 43 teachers from partners' schools & 72 local participants took part, 6 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils in which 47 teachers and 161 students from parners' countries participated and more than 320 local participants took part. We organised about 15 workshops, lots of seminars, concerts, conferences in each partner's country.