"Passion and experience in theatrical activities at school gave birth to the project ""Europe Reinassance"". We are three partners schools located in Italy,Greece and Austria and we came together in the idea ofexperimenting an innovative teaching method using performing theatrical activitison subjects such as History and History of Art.Pedagogical methods of ""Drama in Education""inspired us, we intend to change the traditional teaching approach or integrate it with practical performing activities that involve students in the creation of historical re-enactments -one for each country- and multimedia products -useful tools for everyone, to share online as learning objects and more accessible. It is a proposal capable of motivating and including students of various skills and social backgrounds.After considering the vocational specificities and the needs of the schools involved in the project, we identified the following goals among the European key competences:- educate on the value of the European cultural heritage (material and immaterial) studied and staged in suggestive city places that reproduce the historical contexts represented.-testing a new approach to the disciplines through performance activities.-share and compare with other European schools, exchange good practices.-inclusive education and contrast early school leaving.- implement the digital skills of pupils and teachers.-develop social skills and intercultural skills following interaction with other languages and cultures.-develop language skills. Language courses will be organized to achieve a European certification, but above all, pupils of the three schools involved - who study English language as the 1st foreign language - will use it as a target language throughout the project, improving communication skills.Each country will involve an average of 4 escorts and 12 students aged between 11 and 15 in the three planned mobilities (Italy, Greece and Austria).November 2020 / January 2021 preliminary activities:• LTTA seminar and project organization.• Introduction to the use of twinspace• knowledge between pupils via twinspace (and other methods)• preparation of tools (logo creation, website / blog creation, presentation video clip)• learning of technologies (software for making videos etc.).January / May 2021: 4 permanent workshops begin (Theatrical, Computer, Twinspace and Music / dance / Choreographic). The laboratories will carry on the work in parallel by creating a series of final products.The three countries collaborate on the ""Italian Renaissance"" under the guidance of the Italian patner.A. theater workshop - writing texts, assigning roles and rehearsals for the show “Insula Baglioni”B. multimedia laboratory - creation of multimedia products:1. video clip / cartoon about the show.2. video clip ""Best of Umbria""3. Creation of products for dissemination (posters, flyers, Teaser trailers)C. etwinning laboratory - interaction between partners with twinspace, meet, and more.D. music / dance workshop: -podcast of Renaissance music - execution of a Renaissance dance.June / November 2021 collaboration on the Greek Renaissance under the guidance of the Greek team. The workshops remain the same with the same organization and goals: setting up a historical re-enactment ""A Bridge to West Europe"", podcasts of Renaissance music and dance, video clips to illustrate the representation (A Bridge to West Europe) and to present the city (Best of Ioannina).From December to May 2022 collaboration on the Austrian Renaissance under the guidance of the Austrian team: preparation of the show ""Massimiliano - the last knight"", podcast of local Renaissance music and historical dance workshop, production of two video clips: ""Massimiliano - the last knight "" and “Best of Wels”.The project involves schools and cities communities, as well as local theater and cultural organizations, contributing to their development because: 1. It will implement the profiles of organizations; 2.Encourage internationalization and the emergence of a deeper European awareness; 3. It will offer new opportunities to create further partnerships and projects.The project lasts 2 years. Dissemination will take place several times throughout the project. It will start on the first meeting with the involvement of the Italian school and town, then intermediate dissemination events are scheduled for each country, in the following month the realization of its show (June 2021 Italy, December 2021 Greece and June 2022 Austria). The final dissemination event will be held in Italy in October 2022, with the participation and contribution of all."

The project assumes the cooperation of two schools from Austria and Czech Republic, two neighbour countries which share a common cultural heritage in different areas (history, economics, arts, culinary art and so on) due to a common history as Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918. Today, exactly 100 years later – after difficult periods of war and isolation – , especially the border regions of Austria and Czech Republic (Upper Austria and Southern Bohemia) have returned to a good understanding under the common flag of the European Union. Nevertheless the cooperation and understanding between Upper Austria and Southern Bohemia which are part of the European Region Danube – Vltava could still be increased which is the main goal of the project. Activities within the project should follow a long – term cooperation of the two schools, specifically continue on activities that could also include other schools or institutions of the European Region Danube – Vltava. The aim of the project will be to catch a common European cultural heritage in the eyes of the pupils. Although the target areas are very close one from each other and although there is a lot of shared heritage between Austrian and Czech culture, pupils of the actual generation often are not aware of it. So the project aims to figure out these commonalities and to make pupils conscious that a peaceful cohabitation in a European context is only possible by understanding the specifics of the neighbours’ culture – including its similarities as well as the differences. The THREE MAIN TOPICS of the project can be resumed as follows: LANGUAGE – CULTURE & HISTORY – TECHNOLOGY. LANGUAGE: A first important step to understand each other is a common basic language that nowadays is English. Nevertheless the mastering of the idiom of the neighbour population is indispensable in order to discover the common heritage. Therefore we would like to organize language courses in which the participating pupils and teachers will learn the basic competences of German and Czech language by using the method of CLIL. CULTURE & HISTORY: From the very beginning of the project, arts will play a fundamental role as different art techniques will be completed with digital photographs and a documentary video. Pupils take pictures or make videos of objects that represent a common cultural heritage between Czech Republic and Austria such as old houses, churches, castles etc. Alternative to photos and video clips the historical buildings/locations can also be painted or drawn. TECHNOLOGY: This activity will build bridges between the foregoing two activities (language course and course on cultural heritage). The pupils will work in teams of 4 students – 2 Austrian and 2 Czech students - and document the process of the whole project. As material of documentation will be used video clips, pictures, posters and 3-D printing. This multimedia documentation should always show the special cultural heritage object and present it to a wider public in English, German and Czech language (subtitles, etc.). The crest of the presentations’ preparations will be an exhibition to the public, officials and parents at special representation rooms. The project assumes an involvement of classic technologies (painting, drawing), as well as a suitable addition of modern technologies (photograph, HDR-photograph and digital video). Within the project communicative skills of pupils and their ability to work in a group will be developed. The development of art skills and creativity of the pupils will also take place. Individual activities will enable pupils to become aware of cultural monuments that dispose on a common cultural heritage between Austria and Czech Republic, broaden their horizons and enable them to understand our common history in a better way. At the same time it will bring pupils an interesting comparison of perception of this cultural heritage. For everyone a single cultural monument offers different aspects and for pupils, as well as for teachers, it will be interesting to figure out these different perceptions. We also aspect a positive influence on the area of tourism as pupils will like to travel in the neighbour country with their parents and friends to show them the original places they have visited and to talk to them about their positive experiences they have made during the project. This could also influence economy as pupils will be motivated to go abroad after leaving school for working or studying. The fact that pupils will learn basic knowledge of German or Czech language will encourage them to study or to work in Austria or Czech Republic what would be an enormous long-term impact of the project.