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Art

2020-1-CZ01-KA229-0782922020School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: CZ|SK · Grant: €31,752
International cooperation, international relations, development cooperationNew innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesCreativity and culture

Project summary

The Project "Art" was created in the wake of the very beneficial results and outputs of the School Partnership Project "Live Art" implemented in the school years 2017/2018 and 2019/2020. The intention of the present project is to continue to deepen international cultural and artistic cooperation between the two educational institutions. During this cooperation we want to focus on educating pupils, especially in their field of study in various art disciplines. The project will be implemented during the peroid of 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2021 with the aim of sharing each other's professional skills and competences in selected school-specific art techniques. The pupils will also become acquainted with another education system and will have the opportunity to see the creative work of the pupils and teachers of partner schools. The participants will obtain all necessary information about the working enviroment, tools and procedures. The handover of these skills and knowledge will take place in several forms, especially in on-line communication between pupils and teachers (etwinning), short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and professional educators, a joint exhibition of created works and the use of the created trilingual vocabulary. Individual goals are: 1) Learning the stages of new technology creating a work of art and application of these techniques to the partner school’s educational program 2) Helping young people after graduation with access to the European labor market. 3) The participants will be encouraged to understand the culture and mentality of the partner schools. The internship will be prepared the way that in addition to appropriate given tasks, the students will also gain the knowledge of other art treasures (galleries, museums, art styles of the city and its surroundings, etc.) 4) To adapt to the new system, environment, students, educators, people in other EU countries. 5) To achieve a state when mobilities become a part of the learning process and build on theoretical vocational subjects 6) Development of information-communication skills 7) Personal development of participants and improvement of their educational achievements 8) To improve school leadership and extending knowledge of participating teachers and school staff within the school partnership 9) Strengthening joint cooperation in improving quality and innovation of teaching in schools Short-term mobility of pupils and professional educators, as accompanying persons, will take place after the implementation of on-line communication aimed at familiarization with selected technology, which will be the content of mobility. The first mobility will take place at the Secondary Art School AVE ART Ostrava, the Czech Republic for 12 days during June 2021. The mobility will be attended by 11 pupils from 1st to 3th grades and 2 professional educators who will gain new knowledge and skills in the field of Graphic Design, focusing on working with a large-screen tablet. The second mobility will take place at the partner school Private Secondary Art School Hodruša - Hamré, Slovak Republic. 10 pupils from the 2nd to 4th grades and a professional educator will take part in the mobility for 12 days in September 2021 and will gain knowledge and skills in art field - filigree technique. Supervision of the participants will be performed by an educator (accompanying person) from the sending entity during the internship. This is needed because of the involvement of minor students in the project. The chaperone will be responsible for the participants and will assist them in solving various situations (eg. help with communication, orientation in a new environment, artistic creation). The project will be completed with a joint exhibition of student’s art work. During the exhibition, the work will be presented to other teachers, pupils, parents and the public. The goal of the project is to improve the quality of education and the development of international cooperation and working towards achieving the objectives set in the European development plan for partner schools.

Final report summary

The Project "Art" was created in the wake of the very beneficial results and outputs of the School Partnership Projects "Live Art" implemented in the school years 2017/2018 and 2019/2020. The intention of the present project was to continue to deepen international cultural and artistic cooperation between the two educational institutions. During this cooperation we wanted to focus on educating pupils, especially in their field of study in various art disciplines. The project was implemented during the peroid of 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2021 with the aim of sharing each other's professional skills and competences in selected school-specific art techniques. The pupils were also become acquainted with another education system and will have the opportunity to see the creative work of the pupils and teachers of partner schools. The participants were obtain all necessary information about the working enviroment, tools and procedures. The handover of these skills and knowledge were take place in several forms, especially in on-line communication between pupils and teachers (etwinning), short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and professional educators, a joint exhibition of created works. Sub-objectives achieved: 1) Learning the process of working new techniques and applying them to the education of the partner school 2) help young people after graduation to enter the European labour market - gaining Europass 3) mobility participants are encouraged to understand the cultures and mentalities of the partner schools. Mobility was prepared so that, in addition to reasonable tasks, it would also get to know other artistic gems (galleries, museums, art styles of the city and its surroundings, etc. 4) familiarisation with the new system, environment, pupils, educators, people of EU countries 5) mobility is part of the educational process and builds on theoretical vocational subjects 6) development of information-communication competences through the etwinning platform 7) personal development of stakeholders and improvement of their educational outcomes 8) cooperation of school management and expansion of knowledge, knowledge of participating teachers and school staff 9) strengthening joint cooperation in improving the quality and innovation of teaching The short-term mobility of pupils and vocational teachers as accompanying persons took place only after the implementation of online communication aimed at familiarising themselves with the technical technology that was the content of the mobility. The first mobility took place at the high school of art AVE ART Ostrava, Czech Republic from 6 to 17. 9. 2021 (12 days). The mobility was attended by 11 pupils from 1st to 3th grades and 2 professional educators who gained new knowledge and skills in Graphic Design with a focus on working with a large-scale tablet. The second mobility took place at the partner school Súkromná škoka umelecký priemysl Hodruša - Hamré, Slovak Republic. 10 pupils and a vocational teacher took part in the mobility from the 6th to the 17th. 9. 2021 (12 days) and acquired knowledge and skills from goldsmith's art filigree technique. Supervision of participants during professional mobility was carried out by professional educators (accompanying person) who learned the techniques and ensured that these skills were passed on to colleagues and other pupils of the school. At the same time, the accompanying person was responsible for mobility participants and assisted in dealing with various situations (e.g. communication assistance, orientation in a new environment, artistic creation). The end of the project was completed due to the covid situation by a joint exhibition of school pupils' work on the grounds of the AVE ART Ostrava school. The exhibition presented the work to other educators, pupils, parents and the public. The aim of the project is to improve the quality of education and develop international cooperation towards meeting the set objectives of the European Plan for the Development of Partner Schools..

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