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BEFORE AND AFTER - CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN EUROPE

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-CZ01-KA229-061177
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 102,528 EUR

BEFORE AND AFTER - CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN EUROPE

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The BEFORE AND AFTER - CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN EUROPE project will address the topic of transformation of European cultural landscapes in the course of time, it will compare the situation now and in the past in four different European regions. The topic of cultural landscapes will be connected to several up-to-date sub-topics. We will try to answer the question “How do the following phenomena influence the landscape we live in?” The phenomena we will be focusing on being mainly: Hydroelectric power and other renewable energy sources, mining, traffic and infrastructure, agriculture but also visual pollution and some others. Our goal is to teach young people about their own region's past and make them understand it in the context of the common European space they share with their peers from different EU countries.This proposal is built on the ideas and results from the previous DIGITAL STORYTELLING THROUGH TIMELAPSE VIDEOS (Erasmus+ KA2, 2017 - 2019) project which was carried out by three partner schools (Czech, Finnish and Spanish) - all of them will continue their partnership in this new project and one more partner (Danish) will be added. Similarly to the first project about videos, the outcome and concrete results will be visual. The participants will create a gallery of BEFORE/AFTER photos which will compare different places, learn about their history and present. An example of such a photo comparison can be found here https://bit.ly/2TqUbiN.The participants of the project will be students of the four partner schools, aged 14 -18. There will be 4 international short term student exchanges (meetings), each of them hosted by a different partner school and attended by 3 groups of 5 students and 2 teachers from each partner school. It means that there will be up to 15 student mobilities from each school during the project. First, the participants will investigate in local archives and museums, where they will look for the BEFORE photos, old photos of places that no longer look like they did in the past. In the next step, they will interview local senior citizens about those places and their stories. And they will share the photos and stories with participants from other countries (TwinSpace will be used as a platform and a parallel eTwinning project will be started for this purpose). Then the second and the most important part of the project will take place – small groups of students (5 students and 2 teachers) will travel to other countries and, with the help of their peers, visit the places in person, see them with their own eyes, learn about their history, reflect on their current state, take the AFTER photos and create the BEFORE/AFTER comparisons with commentary.These participating young Europeans will gain new IT skills (taking and editing photos), meet their peers from four different European regions, learn about their history, listen to the stories of those places told by senior citizens, and see their own region in broader European perspective. The participants will deepen their understanding of cultural diversity in Europe through taking photographs of significant places connected with the project topics – in their home regions and abroad, thus will be able to compare the situation in different places in united Europe. As far as the project management is concerned, a traditional sequential methodology (Waterfall) will be used. It means that every step is to be pre-planned and laid out in the proper sequence, so that the project's advancement could be easily monitored. During the international student exchanges, various training activities are scheduled, these will use methodological tools like lectures, demonstration lessons, moderated discussions, mindmapping, workshops and buzz groups.The long term benefits for participating organizations will be in innovation of their teaching methods, deepening and strengthening the international ties of these organizations and development of professional and personal competences of the staff involved in the project.

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