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ART LINKS BORDERS - EL ARTE UNE FRONTERAS
ART LINKS BORDERS - EL ARTE UNE FRONTERAS
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Attending to the priorities of "Europe 2020" and "ET2020" we believe that schools should pursue the highest quality of education, promoting the internationalization and openness to other European countries and the foreign languages, promoting the immersion of students in a changing society, seeking to be strategic leaders in the times we live. Our project "Art Links Borders – El Arte une Fronteras" aims to develop the 1st and 3rd "Europe 2020" priorities: the growth based on innovational education and the inclusive growth, cohesionating people and cultures, considering achieving the following objectives:1. Promoting socio-cultural inclusion, the union of cultures within Europe and the promotion of the English Language.2. Implementing innovative and new methodologies in our teaching practice, to increase the motivation and involvement of our students.3. Achieving greater impact and educational influence on the whole community, promoting training and other actions by encouraging the creation of a network of people and institutions.4. Implementing the results of this project in the development of future plans and programs.The project partners are from five countries of the European Union (Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania) and we count on teachers who have a high level of academic and professional qualifications, experience in projects LLP or Erasmus +. As the target groups of the project, we have taken into consideration students of primary and secondary education, as well as all the educational and civic community, having developed strategies of impact and dissemination as seminars, exchange of best practices and training and teaching activities.Society and students, target groups of the project, are around 20,000 people, and they need to increase the knowledge of different cultures and they can do it through art and audiovisual and innovative creations. It is the population at risk of social exclusion, in social, cultural or economic inequality, the main beneficiary from the progress made and promoted by the project, but also other students and people involved in.The main activities to be developed are:- Workshops for teachers: "CLIL, Innovation and Education"; "Creative Education and Dance"; "School Quality and Inclusion"; "Intercultural Use of ICT in Art and Education"; and "Games, Innovation and CLIL Evaluation".- Mobility of small groups of `ambassadors´ students where social inclusion and innovative activities will be developed.- Creation of an educational guide serving the educational community titled as "Educational Innovation, Arts, Social Inclusion and CLIL".- Creation of open courses and seminars for families and teachers, both at classroom and online.- Creation of profiles on social networks, website and use of Youtube to promote an interconnect and innovative training built by the students.- Workshops and innovative audiovisual creations: Workshop of "Stop Motion" animation, video, soundmaps, Art in the Environment, Cave Paintings Workshop, creation of geolocated maps, Geocaching, Art in Technology, etc.- Publication of academic papers on the motivation to learn English and attitude towards the social and cultural inclusion.Within the project, we are going to use an analytical and critical methodology, with special attention to the processes of quality control and improvement and correction, based on a fluid, open and current communication, in order to ensure the best development and the maximum efficiency.The expected impact on all the participants and target groups will be:- To increase awareness of students and the educational community about the necessity to promote social inclusion, improving their attitude towards people of other cultures or countries, and promoting a greater integration of all sectors of the community, inside and outside school.- To promote the importance of English as a Second Language, encouraging dynamic and motivating pedagogical methodologies.- To develop innovative strategies to positively influence on the attitude and motivation of students, reducing the high school dropout rates.- To empower students and develop their competence of "learning to learn".In conclusion, we seek, in the long-term, to improve society which we are part of and to make our teachers more innovative professionals and motivators, growing at an institutional level and promoting quality education and educational excellence.