"Skills Talents Aptitudes Responsibility Serendipity & Culture of Resilience Entertaining Artistic Teams Illustrating Values with Innovative Tools for Youth" is an exchange of good practices project which will start on June 30th 2021 and will last for two years. The coordinator of the project is France, collège du Fium'Orbo, the other countries are Poland, Szkola Podstawowa nr 11 im. Stefana Batorego Italy, Istituto Comprensivo Santorre di Santarosa Savigliano and Slovania, Prva osnovna sola Slovenj Gradec. This inclusive project will involve around one hundred 12-14-year-old students and twenty teachers. The main objective of the project is to stimulate creativity in all possible fields and cultural awareness to trigger resilience, action and joy in rel life context. The other project priorities are social and educational value of the European heritage and innovative digital practices; We also chose those current topics to illustrate and to implement doing: gender equity; sustainable development and foreign languages improvement. In order to develop our students creativity and entrepreneurial skills in city and natural environments, we decided to imagine a role play in which the students would be the employees of the trendy "Stars & Creativity Entertainment Agency", whose talents in various artistic eras, but also in technical, digital and journalistic fields, would be booked by four towns and schools during mobilities to organize a creative entertainment event, according to particular topics, the ones chosen as project priorities. The project will be both virtual using the eTwinning platform and real life during the mobilities; After being hired by Stars & Creativity, the students will receive prior to each mobility a precise "order" for a cultural, artistic and creative event booked by the mobility town; the students will get organized on the TwinSpace in European teams and will be taught each time a new creativity method to answer the challenge and to imagine the programme of their entertainment event;( Challenge storming; Clarification; Synectics; the Deming wheel...) They will get acquainted with the artistic association which will help them locally and well as with other experts. Finally, they will suggest their programme for the entertaining event in a digital form to the town advertising their talents creatively. During the mobilities, the students will have set their clear mission; coached by the association and teachers to provide them with a balance constructive and direct instruction activities during the artistic implementation aspect of the creativity-based process. The students’ creativity will also be tested if something unpredictable happens, they then will have to be able to overcome coached by their teachers in order to deliver their final entertainment events in due time. Some events might be shot directly in the places of interest to be projected on walls during the final performance using various technical tools; others will be performed directly during the final performance; the students will be able to suggests exhibitions, installations, movies... the goal will be to answer the town's order, stick to the topic, combining high culture, pop culture, computerize art, projections... according to their imagination and sensibility triggered by the magnificent places visited. The first mobility will be in Poland and the challenge will be “Artistic and creative Poland through ages”. The second mobility will be in Italy and the Italian challenge will be "M.A.D. for Italy! Music Art Drama in artistic itineraries”. The third Challenge will take place in Slovenia and it will be entitled "UNESCOs places as backdrops for disruptive creativity". The last performance in Corsica, France "Sustainable Art for the Mediterranean Sea" will be special, the students will be experienced; they will imagine a form of sustainable Art to campaign for the Mediterranean Sea protection after studying the issue in real life with experts. The final entertainment performances will be managed along with the local association which will be invited to augment it with shows from their students. Student journalists will report the final event for our magazines. The expected results will be: a methodology of creativity processes; a guidelines to educational related work in towns and in the Nature to create artistic content adding sustainable art to campaign and suggest solutions ; our mobility magazines with our final artistic performance inside, students testimonies, interviews, articles to tell about the mobility and explaining our process; we will finish the Art, creativity, city and nature-based learning glossary; newsletters about creativity, volition, about the importance of sustainable art and constructive journalism to take action for Climate change. We will suggest training courses on those topic for students and teachers; we will have some activities in our eTwinning group that you could join!
We have chosen to work on these priorities in order to: - Stimulate creativity and cultural awareness - The social and educational value of Europe's cultural heritage. - Innovative practices in the digital age Themes: Sustainable development / Gender equality / Teaching English. Pupils and teachers: We wanted to develop a multitude of formal, informal and non-formal skills for our pupils and teaching staff. We wanted to share rich moments with our pupils so that they could work on their values, attitudes and skills. EPLE: This project enabled us to obtain recognition for the EPLE with two national quality labels and two European eTwinning quality labels, which were awarded to the pupils at a ceremony covered by the local press. Académie & national: Mme Collomb has used the productions in eTwinning training courses, to run workshops on "Creativity with eTwinning" at the national eTwinning 2022 conference, in a winning CARDIE project at the JNI in Strasbourg in 2022 and on many occasions in partner countries and at TM Italy, where we organised training courses for Italian teachers using our products and workshops for pupils.
We applied for this project because Covid had brought a great deal of gloom to our school and this absence of face-to-face contact in the school had weighed heavily on the motivation and resilience of our pupils. We all agreed that the lack of contact with nature and outings to the towns, and the lack of artistic and cultural activities, had affected their will and their learning. Our main aim was therefore to boost pupils' creativity and resilience, by exploring the future, arts, health and European citizenship pathways. We thought it would be interesting to work on an entrepreneurial project to achieve this, particularly in the field of entertainment in the service of culture and the arts, sustainable development and gender equality. We also wanted to enable our pupils to compensate for the lack of oral expression in English during confinement and to develop the digital and psycho-social skills that are so useful in the 21st century. Our rural REP secondary school is always keen to develop the formal as well as the non-formal and informal skills of its pupils.