The title of the project is "Creative vibrations", the main goal of the project is to shape students' creativity through art. The project will involve students aged 15-19 from secondary schools. The project will include 5 upper secondary schools from: Poland, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Croatia and a cultural institution from Poland. The project has planned 5 short-term student exchanges in each partner country. The theme of each exchange will be a different form of art, namely: theater, film, photography and stop motion animation, music, film. During each mobility trip, students will shape their creativity through a different art form. In addition, they will increase their cultural awareness through learning about the history and customs of a given country, establish acquaintances and friendships, and increase key competences, including the use of a foreign language. In the project, the material results will be the creation by the participants of a theatrical performance, short films, photography exhibition, stop-motion animations, music concert, dance performance. Teachers from schools will be able to exchange experiences, learn about how a cultural institution works and works, what methods and forms of work of people employed in it. The project will develop methods and forms of work that can be transferred to school in the future. By participating in the project, students will improve their key competences, which in the future will allow them to enter the labor market, and schools and cultural institutions will gain greater prestige in the local environment. The project will allow to establish permanent contacts with cultural institutions, exchange of experiences, which in the future will contribute to a greater shaping of students' creativity.
The main aim of our project was to foster creativity and innovation through art. Creativity nowadays is not only about thinking outside the box, it is also about facing problems, making changes and often taking risks. Creativity goes hand in hand with innovation, because whoever is creative is also innovative. Education through the arts is an excellent way of fostering creativity and innovation. Performance, film and performance seem to be attractive tools to achieve the main goal of the project. In the modern school, film and theatre are important educational tools. Used skilfully, they contribute greatly to modernising the teaching-learning process. The changes taking place in education should take film and theatre into account, as it is not only a useful didactic tool, but also an important cultural text that is attractive to young people. Through the implementation of the project together with a cultural institution, the teachers wanted to learn about methods and forms of working with pupils from the arts in the broadest sense of the term, which could be used in their work with pupils, which would increase pupils' motivation to work, develop their passions and interests regarding the arts and develop creativity and innovation.
The 'Creative Vibrations' project was designed to show that in an interesting way, through attractive forms and methods of teaching, such competences as creativity and cultural awareness, which are important in today's world, can be shaped as life skills. We believe that shaping attitudes such as creativity and cultural awareness will contribute to the development of pupils' specific skills, which will have an impact on their self-realisation throughout their lives. Creativity seems to be very important today, as it will make pupils more open to new experiences, respectful of their colleagues at school, or more independent in planning and carrying out their professional work later in life. Creativity is a human characteristic that each of us is born with, and it is the school's task to shape it in such a way that it becomes a life attitude, thanks to which pupils will think creatively and creatively, to think creatively and creatively, to solve problems, to be open to new ideas and at the same time to be aware that they may be criticised. By participating in the project, we wanted the participating organisations to be seen as modern, developing organisations, looking for new solutions in working with students.