About
Cultural heritage shapes us and our everyday life and we find it in every part of our life. It represents the diversity and richness of our cultural traditions and connects Europe through a common history. It is very important to understand it, to respect it and to find a way to bring it closer within the European space. The cultural heritage brings people together and contributes to cohesion. Together with tourism, it supports the growth of economy and job creation in cities and regions and it is crucial for Europe's relations with the rest of the world. In the sense of our region and a wider European criterion, it represents a great potential that we must make better use of. Children and young people are the ones who will become the guardians of our heritage for future generations. An inalienable part is the educational value of cultural heritage and its contribution to sustainable economic and social development. The culturale heritage has positive but undervalued influence on our societies. It contributes to the quality of our lives as well as to social cohesiveness and intercultural dialogue.
Erasmus+ brings people together
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
Our project consisted in creating a fictitious travel agency to idetify and describe the cultural heritage of the regions of the partner schools in various forms (a brochure, a glossary, a website, arranging trips), to attract new clients, to use the theoretical knowledge of students in practice to enable them to enter the labour market and to consolidate their key competences. We wanted to make students to be aware of the need to get to know other cultures whatever they were studying in order to become open-minded and cosmopolitan European citizens who were also able to respect all the cultures not only inside but also outside the borders. The aim of our project was to stimulate and encourage not only students but also general public to discover and get to know cultural heritage of Europe and to stengthen the feeling of membership of common European family. The problem was that a lot of young people were not prepared to enter the labour market because the theory overweighed the practice. By this project, we wanted to improve and broaden students´skills, e.g. leadership, creativity, flexibility, risktaking, cooperation, responsibility, interpersonal skills, stress management, self-confidence, critical thinking, initiative and communacation.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The main aim of the project was to increase entrepreneurial skills among the students aged 16 - 19 to make them more active not only at local labour market. We wanted to raise students´awareness of cultural heritage of the region through a fictitious travel agency the output of which is a brochure of landmarks in the region the part of which is a glossary of every day phrases in 5 languages (English, Slovak, Polish, Italian and Spanish), a website of the travel agency and arranging a tour of the region. We also wanted to develop cultural awareness of the students and the public, to develop partnership of the students and the schools involved in the project not only at regional level but also at international level, in particular with the partners from Poland, Italy and Spain, and, last but not least, to consolidate key competencies of the students. The outcomes of the fictitious travel agency were planned to be used in the process of education at all partners´schools, especially in subjects such as Economics and Tourism Business.
Erasmus+ Enriching Our Cultural Heritage