The general objective is to create a school puppet theater to promote inclusion in a fun way, to prevent the dangers that threaten the students - especially school drop-outs & to offer superior teaching opportunities through free & unlimited specific access to quality education for min 3000 pupils between 3 and 19 years old. The partnership includes 5 institutions: The Theoretical High School "M. Kogălniceanu" Vaslui (coordinator), Istituto Statale Frosinone 3 (Italy); Agrupamento de Escolas of Vialonga (Portugal); Gymnazium of Livadia (Cyprus) and Şcoala Gimnazială 1 Pungeşti (rural school with no experience in projects located in an economically disadvantaged region). All the schools involved have a considerable number of students in vulnerable, socially disadvantaged, disabled, migrant, refugee or geographically isolated families (about 35% of the total) .The project thus meets the European priorities and the project's outline and expertise will be easily transferable to other European schools. The cultural phenomenon of the puppets will be considered on the creative side, the new technologies, the support to the pupils and also, the European cultural heritage. Specific Objective 1: to promote innovation & inclusion, learning by puppets & their civilizing, historical, artistic, communication & computer aspects in language teaching (French, English, Italian) through a unique original methodology.Product 1: Methodology of teaching with puppets against dropout & exclusion Product 1 BIS: The album "Discovering the traditions of puppets" SO 2: Supporting creativity, competitiveness, employability, growth of the spirit of initiative & involve at least 200 underprivileged students in 15 puppet shows & 5 studies on the cultural and historical aspects of puppet theater.OS3: develop a creative computer instrument on the eTwinning space of the project & a smartphone software for a linguistic & computer friendly & creative puppet approach in the 5 institutions involved +3 course materials for the training of teachers & students.Product 3: Project Etwinning Space and group; Product 4: Information site of the project; Product 5: 6 course supports; Product 6: Smartphone software with puppets.OS 4: strengthen social inclusion through a puppet festival (2 editions) created by the 5 project teams; Product 7: 2 editions of the International Puppets Festival.OS5: Encourage 630 students not to leave the school, improve the programs of the 5 schools concerned, increase the monitoring of the project by creating 3 course materials for 3 optional language courses (En, Fr, It) and counseling with puppets; 3 optional courses & couseling by puppets in various languages.OS 6: develop inventiveness & sense of theater through 15 puppet shows with original scripts & a documentary film in 4 episodes on the implementation of the project: Product 9: documentary film in 4 episodes; OS 7: Increase the didactic and computer skills of 20 language teachers by 10 multimedia art lessons using puppets, 10 multimedia history lessons & 10 language multimedia lessons with puppets (Product 10); OS8: reinforce cooperation & learning by using the information technologies through 12 webinars & 4 international training sessions during the 4 meetings. The main website of the project will be hosted on a domain having a web space rented for a long period (7 years) for maximum visibility,development and dissemination of all the project products that will be stored.The access to the methodology, creative texts and performances realized within the project will be offered for free to other institutions and potential users;puppets didactic techniques will be developed and updated during successive sessions.The course supports for the training of teachers and pupils will be used and supplemented at other new training sessions.The pieces created as part of the project will be published in a publishing house.The documentary filmed during the project will participate in international festivals, the multimedia workshop will continue to produce films.The documentary film of the project will also be placed on the video sites. Multimedia art lessons with puppets, those of multimedia history with puppets & multimedia in modern language (En, Fr, It) with puppets will be inserted in several MOOC courses. The webinar system will be maintained as mean of communication in a professional manner. The optional language course supports (En, Fr, It) using puppets will be offered to interested schools. The international puppet festival will be continued in a project of valorization. L'album on the cultural phenomenon of the puppets will be published at a specialized publishing house. New eTwinning projects on puppetry will be created.
The Erasmus+ project "Puppetry for Inclusion" was implemented for 36 months (2019-2022) by 5 schools from Romania, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus. The general objective was to create a theater of school puppets to promote inclusion in a fun way, prevent the dangers threatening students, including dropping out of school and offer superior teaching possibilities through free and unlimited access. specific to a quality education for 3000 pupils between 3-19 years old. The main objectives of the project were: to promote innovation and inclusion, learning by puppets and their civilizing, historical, artistic, communication and computer aspects in language teaching (French, English, Italian); support creativity, competitiveness, employability, the growth of the spirit of initiative; make a friendly and creative linguistic and computer approach to puppets; strengthen social inclusion; encourage students not to leave school; improving school programs; increase the impact of the project; develop inventiveness and a sense of drama; increase the didactic and computer skills of teachers; strengthen cooperation and learning through the use of ICT. The implementation was carried out through integrated approaches by incorporating the project into the school curriculum. A total of 3,400 pupils (aged 3 to 19) and 310 teachers (all subjects combined) took part in the project. Emphasis was placed on students with learning difficulties, having various obstacles. They took part in the activities of the project are included in their classes, did additional lessons and workshops in drama, languages, e ICT, production of puppets, screenplays and evaluation by questionnaires, quizzes and talks. The students cooperated in international groups during the mobility periods. All other activities took place in workshops and theater groups improving school results. Participants increased their skills, motivation and satisfaction in school work. Teachers have improved their skills in languages, drama, puppet pedagogy, docimology and computer science. They participated in four training courses while the students completed four exchanges with learning activities. In total, 600 teachers and pupils were involved, including 144 directly. The teachers worked on the skills and collected the materials needed for effective implementation, dissemination and evaluation. The pupils were put in real communication situations. The participants have created and published a large number of quality common final products: 281of which the main ones are: the official site, the site of the Romanian Journal of Didactic Archeology, the site of the International Festival of School Theater of Animation, the Methodology of the project, the album "Praguri * Seuils * Thresholds" published by Editions Alfa 2022, the project's smartphone application, 4 eTwinning groups and spaces, 10 Telegram groups, a YouTube channel, a Newsletter, 151 films ( the project's documentary in 30 episodes, direct transmissions, filmed plays, dissemination activities, two international Symposiums, three Festivals), the project's MOOC platform with 20 lessons for students and teachers, 40 original scripts, the method for learning languages with puppets (French, English and Italian) published by Editions Alfa, three editions of the International Festival of School Animation Theater, a large DEOR Consortium. All the partners have worked on the production, testing, use and dissemination of these products. The Quality Label awarded to one of the eTwinning projects and the first prize in the Made for Europe competition, the first prize in the Bilingual Theater Festival testify to the recognition of the quality of our project. The impact of the project proved its importance at local, regional, national and European level as it was disseminated in different ways: organization of Erasmus+ Days in schools, permanent exhibitions, project spaces, project workshops for pupils and teachers, training courses, a large DEOR Consortium. In addition, emphasis was placed on cooperation with parents, local authorities, libraries and museums, eTwinning and social networks. The project had an extremely positive impact on the participants. Thanks to the project, the pupils, teachers and other participants not only acquired knowledge about the diversity of the cultural heritage of puppets, but also social and intercultural skills as well as practical know-how in the world of entertainment. They have developed their tolerance towards other cultures, religions and languages. In addition, participants improved their language and computer skills.