"EUROPE: MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINS A COMMON FUTURE. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MIGRATIONS TO EUROPEAN CULTURE.CONTEXTThis project is the continuation of the Erasmus + KA229 ""United in Diversity"" carried out during the 2018/2020 period. In this project we focus our work on the integration of people with disabilities. But we realized the need to continue the project based on cultural diversity and different origins, since an important part of our students affected by migrant families or belonging to ethnic minorities. Some of these students have identity and integration problems that affect their schooling.PARTICIPATING SCHOOLSLe Bastion College, Carcassonne (France)Vedruna La Presentation school, Alcoy (Spain)Descartes TDK College, Tartu (Estonia)MAIN OBJECTIVE: EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICESSPECIFIC OBJECTIVES1. Teaching students to investigate their origins and feel proud of them.2. Demonstrating in a practical way that migrations have been common throughout history.3. Helping students to analyze the contributions that different cultures have made to the society in which they live and to the construction of the European Union.4. Preventing early school leaving, suffered by a part of migrant and ethnic minority students by enhancing their culture and origins and making them feel part of this common project.5. Promoting a comprehensive approach to language learning based on the linguistic diversity present in the classrooms of the three schools participating in the project.6. Developing in the students the key competences that serve to learn to recognize false news in general, and those related to prejudice and stereotypes about migration in particular, through a scientific comparison of the data.7. Promoting common values, commitment and civic participation through the development of social and intercultural skills as well as critical thinking.ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALSC1. WHO WE ARE: Students will record presentation videos of their families in English, French or Spanish to get to know each other and as the start of research on their origins. During the 1st mobility, families will prepare typical dishes from each of their cultures.C2. WHERE WE COME FROM: 8 ALCOYAN / CARACASSONNESES / TARTUENSES LAST NAMES. The students will investigate the origins of their families going back to their great-grandparents. Objective, to discover that the majority have a past of migration (national or international).C3. DIVERSITY ENRICHES US. Students will investigate the contributions of migrations to the culture of their country and, therefore, to European culture. With the results, they will create digital question games (Kahoots) to spread the results.C4. THE ROOTS OF A DIFFERENT EUROPE: MIGRATION STORIES. The students will interview migrants and, with prior authorization, they will create oral comprehension linguistic activities with the videos of the interviews and written comprehension with the transcript. They will also learn about the work of two NGOs that work with immigrant families.C5. DISMANTLING FALSE NEWS ABOUT MIGRATIONS. The students will track on social networks to find news about migrations and analyze their veracity with official data, with the aim of dismantling ""fake news"" and developing their critical spirit.C6. WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND WHAT OTHERS KNOW ABOUT MIGRATION. The students will reflect on everything learned during the project and will create a survey that the students themselves will pass to citizens of the three participating European cities.EXPECTED RESULTSBreak stereotypes among students, teachers and families about migrants or ethnic minorities and value the richness of diversity.Reinforce the European identity of all the students, and that all feel integrated in the school.Improve the level of foreign languages among students and teachers.PARTICIPATING STUDENTS AND PROFILEThey will benefit from the mobilities24 teachers of different subjects118 students between 14 and 16 years old. A part of them from migrant families or ethnic minorities.IMPACT AND BENEFITS FOR PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONSThroughout the project there will be a dissemination plan in which different resources will be used, including the eTwinning platform.It will have a very positive impact on:Students: It will improve their level of languages, it will have a personal impact, it will help them to break prejudices and have a critical vision of the newsTeachers: They will develop professionally thanks to coordinated work with other European teachersFamilies: It will improve the relationship between families from different culturesSchools: They will internationalize and create new synergies for future projectsOthers: The materials created will serve language teachers in general and NGOs that work with immigrants."

Art has always been around in one form or another, helping mankind in the development of diverse activities and their outcomes.Art is as vast as an ocean, embodying a wide range of activities, such as drawing, painting, photography and architecture, etc. If we take a look at our past, we can see that the earliest form of art that mankind learnt, was painting, presented on ancient walls. Art is a way of expression, a way of joy, a way of making people understand things which can’t be done verbally. In fact, we can say that everything that is beautiful is art.Art is everywhere around us, and not just present in the museums and galleries.Every culture is associated with art.Art facilitates the preservation of culture. With the help of art, we’re able to learn the past culture and heritage of societies and facilitate future generations with the same.Art makes people optimistic about their future. Art can be used to help spread a message of inspiration, making people achieve great things in life. Art can be a form of communication between people, to focus on common issues for the betterment of humankind.We have a bad year world-wide because of the pandemic and we we need to be optimistic and we need to communicate each other.We need to make our art lessons effective again.While doing this we want to make our art students more equipped with necessary basic skills and we want to increase their key competences with creative and imaginative art activities.With our project we will use open learning opportunities and distance learning.Thus with our project 'Art rallies together internationally with students and teachers' we want to turn the disadvantages of this pandemic to an advantage for arts.Arts students don't need school walls to learn.If they need, it is for painting.We carefully selected our partners.Each acticity is specific and common for the selected countries.The participants will experience different art activities in each mobility.They will make Gilding Techniques in our mobility,Pencil-Drawing in Italy, Photograpy and Video shooting activities in Poland (Gdansk).We chose this partner from our country because they are experienced with Erasmus projects but we aren't.This is our first attempt.So if our project is funded they will help with the details and the organisation point.We will make Gothic art in Croatia, Marbling-Art (Ebru) in Turkey, Perspective drawing in Spain,Oil-Painting in Sweden.Six of the partners are schools and one is an art gallery.We want to cooperate with this galery because there are great artists and they will join the mobilities.It is very important for participaters' acquisition of key competences and basic art skills.Each school will work together with the art galleries in their cities as well.This is very important for sectoral cooperation and dissemination of the project results.Each mobility will last five days.And the partners will join the mobilities with at least four students and two teachers.Partners will choose the students according to their interests ,skills, behaviours, future targets and socio-economic situations.We want to add the disadvantaged students to the mobilities and school art works thus the social inclusion target can be fulfilled.One of the accompanying teachers will be an art teacher and the other will be an English teacher for a good communication.Before the mobilities, international online art lessons will be organised among the partners for preparation.Thus the participants will benefit distance learning effectively.During the mobilities the participants will practice with experienced teachers and painters.Thus learning by doing method will be used.We know that this is crucial for art education.The Objectives of the Project-showing the richness of the European art culture-increasing the students' artistic experiences and self confidence-giving participants a chance of interacting with different art cultures and make them more equipped-encouraging and motivating students to use arts as means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country, as well as of the partner countries-developing the language and artistic skills through practice-using open place and distance learning internationally-developing creativity, communication and promoting teamwork through international activities in order to stop the phenomenon of discrimination-creating some products: banners,drawings,paintings,posters,exhibitions,videos,short film,photos,photo album,interviews,questionnaires,surveys,booklets-the diversification of art teaching-learning methods through a practical-experimental,active-interactive approach in order to modernize the teaching/learning/evaluation process-the creation of facebook/instagram/youtube/twitter accounts of the project.In long term, the participants of this project will be more equipped on arts, more informed about other art cultures and thus more creative.