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Conferences

The Parsifal project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved.



Final Conference (E6)

Date: 10-12-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
The event took place as a summary of our participation in the project. The presentation of the project and its IOs was enriched with the speeches of specialists connected with education and teenagers’ development, who were talking about some of the issues that the project was addressing, i.e. key competences like reading, use of smartphones by youth and to what extent can a map be used and teaching aid.
The speakers were:
Ms Dorota Zalas, a methodologist and career consultant in CKZiU;
Ms Agnieszka Lulek, a lecturer at University of Silesia;
Mr Roman Budzioch, teacher of vocation al training in Technikum nr 6 in Sosnowiec;
Apart form the above-mentioned, the speakers were Mr Jacek Górski, head teacher of CKZiU, Ms Agnieszka Godlewska, project coordinator, who presented the Parsifal project and its outputs ahe lead the discussion afterwards, and Ms Ewa Bartosińska, who summarised the experience of CKZiU connected to European projects.
50 participants of the conference were teachers of local schools, lecturers from University od Silesia, workers of Smart Fundation, an institution which realises and coordinates various UE projects, career advisors working in local schools and head teachers of schools.
The conference was opened by head teacher Jacek Górski, who welcomed the participants and presented CKZiU. Ms Agnieszka Godlewska took over and started by presenting the main ideas behind Parsifal project, stages of development and project goals. She presented the comments and remarks of students and teachers involved in project realisation, their impressions and conclusions. She also presented some of the feedback we received during dissemination event.
IOs were presented together with few ideas of using them at school for formal and informal education.
After the presentation the invited guests had time to comment and ask questions. The discussion was lively, especially teachers were interested in using IO1 and IO3 in their didactical work. Some guests continued the discussion during the coffee break later on.
Next, Ms Zalas was talking about the importance of a smartphone for teenagers, what hazards are connected with overusing this gadget and how can it be turned into a useful teaching/learning aid. The topic was relevant, as it was one of issues that Parsifal was dealing with.
After a coffee break Ms Lulek was presenting various uses of a map as a multilevel cross-subject educational tool, as well as its application in various vocations we teach in CKZiU.
Following Mr Budzioch was presenting key competences that are sought for by employers and what influence can participation in international project have on developing them.
Finally, Ms Bartosińska presented the benefits that technical school derive from participation in Erasmus+ and PO WER projects.

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Online Dissemination Event (E12)

Date: 25-11-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
Teachers involved in the project organized partial online multiplier events. Taking into consideration the limitations connected to covid-19, each of them was asked to send invitations and organise an event in their own time, suitable for them and their guests, between 20-25 November 2020. All the meetings were organised according to the same programme.
Before the multiplier events, we held a meeting with the involved teachers to establish the programme of online multiplier events and exchange remarks and conclusions. We took care that the multiplier events were organised due to the same scheme and all the participants will receive all possible information. Ms Godlewska and Ms Bartosinska prepared the handouts and the technical information about project background, Erasmus+ programme and EU funds.
Teachers shared their experience to compare and summarise their individual work, work with students, work as a project team. They also discussed their dissemination experience, reactions of target groups, comments.
Guests who took part in the multiplier events were teachers from public schools, teachers form language schools, library workers and university lecturers. Teachers who organised the events started with presenting the general idea of the Parsifal project, with a summary of our assumptions and goals. Next, the project website was presented in detail. While presenting the IOs, teachers were also commenting their work with students, their engagement and achieved effects. As it was our initial assumption, that most work with legends should be performed by youth, with teachers being a guide and an editor, various teams of students shared various experience.
Guests were invited to follow a chosen virtual trip. If a meeting was held with groups of teachers, they were asked how they would use the IOs in their work. This part went smoothly into an open discussion.
In the end of each meeting participants were asked to evaluate the project and the intellectual outputs.

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Online Dissemination Event (E11)

Date: 24-11-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
Teachers involved in the project organized partial online multiplier events. Taking into consideration the limitations connected to covid-19, each of them was asked to send invitations and organise an event in their own time, suitable for them and their guests, between 20-25 November 2020. All the meetings were organised according to the same programme.
Before the multiplier events, we held a meeting with the involved teachers to establish the programme of online multiplier events and exchange remarks and conclusions. We took care that the multiplier events were organised due to the same scheme and all the participants will receive all possible information. Ms Godlewska and Ms Bartosinska prepared the handouts and the technical information about project background, Erasmus+ programme and EU funds.
Teachers shared their experience to compare and summarise their individual work, work with students, work as a project team. They also discussed their dissemination experience, reactions of target groups, comments.
Guests who took part in the multiplier events were teachers from public schools, teachers form language schools, library workers and university lecturers. Teachers who organised the events started with presenting the general idea of the Parsifal project, with a summary of our assumptions and goals. Next, the project website was presented in detail. While presenting the IOs, teachers were also commenting their work with students, their engagement and achieved effects. As it was our initial assumption, that most work with legends should be performed by youth, with teachers being a guide and an editor, various teams of students shared various experience.
Guests were invited to follow a chosen virtual trip. If a meeting was held with groups of teachers, they were asked how they would use the IOs in their work. This part went smoothly into an open discussion.
In the end of each meeting participants were asked to evaluate the project and the intellectual outputs.

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Online Dissemination Event (E10)

Date: 23-11-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
Teachers involved in the project organized partial online multiplier events. Taking into consideration the limitations connected to covid-19, each of them was asked to send invitations and organise an event in their own time, suitable for them and their guests, between 20-25 November 2020. All the meetings were organised according to the same programme.
Before the multiplier events, we held a meeting with the involved teachers to establish the programme of online multiplier events and exchange remarks and conclusions. We took care that the multiplier events were organised due to the same scheme and all the participants will receive all possible information. Ms Godlewska and Ms Bartosinska prepared the handouts and the technical information about project background, Erasmus+ programme and EU funds.
Teachers shared their experience to compare and summarise their individual work, work with students, work as a project team. They also discussed their dissemination experience, reactions of target groups, comments.
Guests who took part in the multiplier events were teachers from public schools, teachers form language schools, library workers and university lecturers. Teachers who organised the events started with presenting the general idea of the Parsifal project, with a summary of our assumptions and goals. Next, the project website was presented in detail. While presenting the IOs, teachers were also commenting their work with students, their engagement and achieved effects. As it was our initial assumption, that most work with legends should be performed by youth, with teachers being a guide and an editor, various teams of students shared various experience.
Guests were invited to follow a chosen virtual trip. If a meeting was held with groups of teachers, they were asked how they would use the IOs in their work. This part went smoothly into an open discussion.
In the end of each meeting participants were asked to evaluate the project and the intellectual outputs.

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Online Dissemination Events (E9)

Date: 22-11-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
Teachers involved in the project organized partial online multiplier events. Taking into consideration the limitations connected to covid-19, each of them was asked to send invitations and organise an event in their own time, suitable for them and their guests, between 20-25 November 2020. All the meetings were organised according to the same programme.
Before the multiplier events, we held a meeting with the involved teachers to establish the programme of online multiplier events and exchange remarks and conclusions. We took care that the multiplier events were organised due to the same scheme and all the participants will receive all possible information. Ms Godlewska and Ms Bartosinska prepared the handouts and the technical information about project background, Erasmus+ programme and EU funds.
Teachers shared their experience to compare and summarise their individual work, work with students, work as a project team. They also discussed their dissemination experience, reactions of target groups, comments.
Guests who took part in the multiplier events were teachers from public schools, teachers form language schools, library workers and university lecturers. Teachers who organised the events started with presenting the general idea of the Parsifal project, with a summary of our assumptions and goals. Next, the project website was presented in detail. While presenting the IOs, teachers were also commenting their work with students, their engagement and achieved effects. As it was our initial assumption, that most work with legends should be performed by youth, with teachers being a guide and an editor, various teams of students shared various experience.
Guests were invited to follow a chosen virtual trip. If a meeting was held with groups of teachers, they were asked how they would use the IOs in their work. This part went smoothly into an open discussion.
In the end of each meeting participants were asked to evaluate the project and the intellectual outputs.

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Online Dissemination Events (E1)

Date: 20-11-2020
Location: Sosnowiec, Poland

Description
Teachers involved in the project organized partial online multiplier events. Taking into consideration the limitations connected to covid-19, each of them was asked to send invitations and organise an event in their own time, suitable for them and their guests, between 20-25 November 2020. All the meetings were organised according to the same programme.
Before the multiplier events, we held a meeting with the involved teachers to establish the programme of online multiplier events and exchange remarks and conclusions. We took care that the multiplier events were organised due to the same scheme and all the participants will receive all possible information. Ms Godlewska and Ms Bartosinska prepared the handouts and the technical information about project background, Erasmus+ programme and EU funds.
Teachers shared their experience to compare and summarise their individual work, work with students, work as a project team. They also discussed their dissemination experience, reactions of target groups, comments.
Guests who took part in the multiplier events were teachers from public schools, teachers form language schools, library workers and university lecturers. Teachers who organised the events started with presenting the general idea of the Parsifal project, with a summary of our assumptions and goals. Next, the project website was presented in detail. While presenting the IOs, teachers were also commenting their work with students, their engagement and achieved effects. As it was our initial assumption, that most work with legends should be performed by youth, with teachers being a guide and an editor, various teams of students shared various experience.
Guests were invited to follow a chosen virtual trip. If a meeting was held with groups of teachers, they were asked how they would use the IOs in their work. This part went smoothly into an open discussion.
In the end of each meeting participants were asked to evaluate the project and the intellectual outputs.

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How to use legend and tales to improve students’ skills for critical thinking, to increase their creativity and knowledge of foreign cultures (E2)

Date: 13-11-2020
Location: Polikraishte, Bulgaria

Description
In the event 14 people took part: 10 teachers in Bulgarian language, history, geography, philosophy, arts and crafts, 2 librarians and trainers from the cultural house, 2 administrative personnel (deputy director and pedagogue of the school). The participants involved were 13 women and 1 man, 3 people (21% of all participants) were between 24 and 34 years of age, 6 people (43% of all participants) were between 35 and 55 years of age, 5 people (36% of all participants) were over 55 years of age.
The multiplier event was aimed at presenting the results achieved under the Parsifal project. The event started with an introduction to the project context, aims, target groups and main results. Then presentation of the legends and essays was made. During the presentation, the logic and structure behind the legends and essays were shown and examples with legends and essays from each partner country were given. After that, the project portal was demonstrated, its features were shown, focusing on the didactical importance of the content.
One of the teachers from the school Mrs. Todorka Pavlova, who worked closely with ZAT’s team during the project implementation demonstrated to her colleagues how she worked with Parsifal project content and portal with her students. One the one hand students were involved in describing legends specific for the region, where the school is situated, following the example of the legends in the portal. They also visited the places where the legends happened. After that working in teams, they had to discover similarities in main characters, places, moral and ethical challenges and achievements with other European legends, uploaded in the portal.
We also asked teachers to give us their feedback after the closing of the event.
At the end of the event, we also showed how Parsifal map works and how the app is planned to work. Actual testing of the app was envisaged for teachers to do together with their students.
Participants were quite interested in the project and its activities, there was a discussion for the choice of Bulgarian legends, presented in the portal – ZAT’s team worked with the teachers to explain why the legends were shown in this way – how we focused on most common characters and moral and ethical problems and achievements of characters as to show how Bulgarian believes and traditions have common roots with different EU legends and cultures; teachers shared that it could be interesting for such approach to be implemented for the Bulgarian legends, coming from different regions – building a map and connections between them.

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Multiplier event on educational opportunities about ICT and traditional legends, within the European project PARSIFAL, THE LEGENDS RESEARCHER (E8)

Date: 20-10-2020
Location: Suceava, Romania

Description
The Multiplier event involved 27 local participants from 3 different institutions.
The participants are:
- 21 teachers from educational centre + 1 school director (Suceava Inclusive Education School Center is a special school for students with special educational needs. School levels – primary – 17 classes, lower secondary – 35 classes, VET – 21 classes; 556 students in total; 131 teachers)
- 3 teachers and stakeholders of the County Teacher Training Department (Suceava Teacher Training Department is subordinated to the Ministry of Education and it is the county public authority on charge of delivering professional training courses to teacher and to provide resources for their professional development), and
- 2 representatives of the Suceava County School Inspectorate (Suceava County School Inspectorate is the public authority in charge of representing the Romanian Ministry of Education in Suceava County).

EuroEd, as organisers, decided to held the Multiplier event in Suceava – city located in North-East of Romania, and catalogued as location with low opportunities and with various disadvantaged target group – dealing with disadvantages from economic point of view, lack of opportunities for teachers to access training programmes, with very poor infrastructures in schools, students with low results in schools, students with very high rate of parents abroad, students with the highest rate of school abandon in the country. In this context, the event intended to reach a specific target group related to students with special educational needs from the specialised Inclusive Education School Center. Parsifal project has been evaluated as a successful educational product with high impact for this category of target group. For this reason, EuroEd as organisers involved the most essential public authorities in the field of education from the County, the School Inspectorate and the Teachers Training Department.

For the organisation of the event and for recruiting participants, EuroEd sent a press release in the regional newspaper - https://www.ziarulevenimentul.ro/stiri/invatamant/a-parsifal-in-cautarea-legendelora--217494103.html


The organization of the event was distributed in 5 sections:
1. The context of the event – About EuroEd – The benefits of the teachers through the Erasmus+ Programme
Participants were introduced in the topics of the event and its aims. The experience of the organisers, EuroEd, has been presented also.
In the introduction of the event, as the first section, EuroEd decided to present and speak to the teachers about the Erasmus+ Programme and about the variety of benefits that can bring to the teaching process and to the professional and personal development.
Here a presentation with the opportunities Erasmus+ programme offer to teachers and students have been delivered. The session was an introduction and an invitation to teachers to get more involved in educational projects, highlighting the variety of opportunities.

2. About the Parsifal, the Legends Researcher project
This section included:
Presentation of the project (partnership, main idea, specific objectives, results)
Overview and navigation via the project website, showing to the participants the main sections and contents of the Parsifal project.
Participants received the information about the legends selected from Romania and studied on the Parsifal project. The legends were presented, and the details included on the website as educational resources were showed and debated. An overview of the legends from the other countries were done also.
Participants were introduced in the 5 topics of the essays produced and showed and discussed about the connections identified with the legends from other countries.
Participants were very interested to navigate through the national legends selected and read about the original stories behind, and find the connections with legends from other countries.

3. Legends and ICT in the teaching process – workshop
Participants were introduced in a workshop with the topic on Integrating Legends into Teaching-learning Practices. The focus was to debate on the approach of legends in the classroom and most of all on the benefits reached by the students. The participants discussed about the improvements that legends can bring: Improves student writing standards through fun, online writing prompts to use in writing practice; Supports differentiation with curriculum-aligned persuasive writing activities; Provides powerful insights to assess and track progression; Celebrates creativity and recognizes student writing.
Participants discussed about the connection of stories and language learning, as stories have benefits that go beyond the mere comprehension of the story, benefits that are intrinsically related to language development and cultural understanding.
As practical activity, participants took the example of the Living Fire legend presented in the Parsifal project and discussed about the opportunities that can be reached by students via different school disciplines: like, Sciences, Geography, Biology, Literature.

Participants discussed about the example of the Parsifal project as a resources for Integrating ICT into Teaching-learning Practices: Promise, Challenges and Future Directions. Participants were involved in debates on the following topics:
1.What ICT resources (Internet, E-mail, word processing, databases, spread sheets, digital scanners, and education software package and computer printer) knowledge, attitudes and skills do the selected instructors have?
2. To what extent instructors integrate ICT to pedagogy/teaching-learning and ethics in instructional process?
3. What issues and challenges (materials, trainings, attitudes, support, and classroom conditions) affect the use of ICT in universities teaching- learning process?
The focus of the discussion was on how to support the students with learning disabilities to use ICT equipment and how the school can support and offer an efficient infrastructure.

4. Example of a class lesson using the Parsifal project legends
For a better understanding of the use of the Parsifal project resources created as teaching materials in the classroom, participants received an example of how to organise a lesson.
The Lady’s Rocks’ legend studied in the Parsifal project has been selected and presented as example of class lesson. The details about the origin of the legend were presented, than the didactic relevance was presented. Participants received examples of activities that can do at class by using the legend resources offered in the Parsifal project.

5. Benefits of stories and legends in the teaching process
This section of the event was essential to highlight the benefits that the stories and legends can bring to the students and to the teaching-learning process. Participants were presented the main benefits: describe failures and successes, allowing others to avoid mistakes or reach a successful outcome; help students explore important life themes relevant to their future pathways; help students feel a sense of familiarity, relevance and security with the learning environment and context; help to communicate to others what we have learned from those events or encounters; enjoyable and entertaining; motivate, inspire and connect with students; Important cultural values and practices are passed on; Myths and legends from other indigenous cultures can also provide relevant key messages to share with students.

The event ended with the Conclusions and evaluation, feedback collection. The presenters highlighted the most important aspects about the use of legends in the teaching process, and about the importance of using resources as Parsifal at class.

The feedback received from the participants, via the evaluation forms:
- By participating in this project I was left with new information about school dropout, very good and concrete methods and solutions.
- I learned new things, resources and legends were well chosen.
- An extremely motivating project for teachers who work every day with disadvantaged groups.
- An interesting project, useful for both teachers and students.
- The project was a real opportunity.
- Extensive, complex project; Wonderful, professional, dedicated people; extraordinary experience; new, useful methods; various materials.
- A very interesting, useful and even beautiful project. Thank you for everything!
- This project enriched me with new ideas, methods, soul and life experiences.
- A unique, well-organized project that served the interests of the target group, stimulated their participation and improvement and formed modern and necessary skills.

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How to use legend and tales to improve students’ skills for critical thinking, to increase their creativity and knowledge of foreign cultures (E7)

Date: 04-09-2020
Location: Rusalia, Bulgaria

Description
20 people took part in the event: 14 teachers in Bulgarian language, history, geography, philosophy, arts and crafts, 4 mentors (psychologist and pedagogues, who care for the activities of students outside of the formal curriculum), 2 administrative personnel (director and manager of the school)
The profile of participants involved: 6 men and 14 women, 6 people (30% of all participants) were between 24 and 30 years of age, 10 people (50% of all participants) were between 31 and 50 years of age, 4 people (20% of all participants) were over 50 years of age.
The contents of the multiplier event: The multiplier event was aimed at presenting the results achieved under the Parsifal project. The event started with an introduction to the project context, aims, target groups and main results. Then presentation of the legends and essays was made. This presentation was made by Dr. Miglena Molhova. During her presentation Dr. Molhova showed the logic and structure behind the legends and essays and gave examples with legends and essays from each partner country. After that, the project portal was demonstrated, its features were shown, focusing on the didactical importance of the content. Dr. Molhova also shared examples of how teachers worked with their students in other countries (shared experiences during partnership meetings – searching for common features of legends between countries, using the project content to develop critical thinking, how the content can be used in language learning). For the Bulgarian legends and their connections with the legends of the other countries the BG team of the project demonstrated an example of a didactical activity. We chose one legend from each partner country, drew pictures of each legend, which were put on a board so that participants could see and access them, prepared cards with names of the main characters, challenges and main moral findings, which we scrambled and gave to participants to put under each drawing and guess the legend. After they did that we asked the to discuss similar main characters, challenges and moral findings from Bulgarian legends they knew (the video attached in the pictures’ folder shows how Ms. Ina Petkova from ZAT’s team reads the legends). The idea of that reading was that it also includes suggestopedia approach to teaching – how students can learn important information subconsciously remembering it if the text is read in certain way). We also asked teachers to give us their feedback after the closing of the event.
At the end of the event we also showed how Parsifal map works and how the app is planned to work. Actual testing of the app was envisaged for next events.
The conclusion achieved: all participants were very interested in the project and its activities, a lot of discussion happened at place of how they can combine art and theatre approaches in working with Parsifal project content; how they can ask kids write their own stories or how some events described in legends be recreated for better and easier learning (for example in a history or geography class).

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Parsifal, the Legends Researcher – Multiplier Event (E5)

Date: 26-07-2020
Location: Suceava, Romania

Description
The Multiplier event involved 13 local participants from 12 different institutions. The participants are all teachers from secondary schools (10 teachers), high schools (2 teachers) and kindergarten (1 teacher).

EuroEd, as organisers, decided to held the Multiplier event in Suceava – city located in North-East of Romania, and catalogued as location with low opportunities and with various disadvantaged target group – dealing with disadvantages from economic point of view, lack of opportunities for teachers to access training programmes, with very poor infrastructures in schools, students with low results in schools, students with very high rate of parents abroad, students with the highest rate of school abandon in the country.

The organization of the event was distributed in 5 sections:
1. The context of the event – About EuroEd – The benefits of the teachers through the Erasmus+ Programme
Participants were introduced in the topics of the event and its aims. The experience of the organisers, EuroEd, has been presented also.
In the introduction of the event, as the first section, EuroEd decided to present and speak to the teachers about the Erasmus+ Programme and about the variety of benefits that can bring to the teaching process and to the professional and personal development.
Here a presentation with the opportunities Erasmus+ programme offer to teachers and students have been delivered. The session was an introduction and an invitation to teachers to get more involved in educational projects, highlighting the variety of opportunities.

2. About the Parsifal, the Legends Researcher project
This section included:
Presentation of the project (partnership, main idea, specific objectives, results)
Overview and navigation via the project website, showing to the participants the main sections and contents of the Parsifal project.
Participants received the information about the legends selected from Romania and studied on the Parsifal project. The legends were presented, and the details included on the website as educational resources were showed and debated. An overview of the legends from the other countries were done also.
Participants were introduced in the 5 topics of the essays produced and showed and discussed about the connections identified with the legends from other countries. This was an opportunity for the teachers participants to express and change knowledge on other legends potential to be included and links with legends from other countries.
Participants were very interested to navigate through the national legends selected and read about the original stories behind, and find the connections with legends from other countries. This session of the event made the teachers to rediscover the interest in integrating legends, stories and fairy tales in the teaching process and in developing skills, attitudes, values and knowledge for students.

3. Legends and ICT in the teaching process – workshop
Participants were introduced in a workshop with the topic on Integrating Legends into Teaching-learning Practices. The focus was to debate on the approach of legends in the classroom and most of all on the benefits reached by the students. The participants discussed about the improvements that legends can bring: Improves student writing standards through fun, online writing prompts to use in writing practice; Supports differentiation with curriculum-aligned persuasive writing activities; Provides powerful insights to assess and track progression; Celebrates creativity and recognizes student writing.
Participants discussed about the connection of stories and language learning, as stories have benefits that go beyond the mere comprehension of the story, benefits that are intrinsically related to language development and cultural understanding.
As practical activity, participants took the example of the Living Fire legend presented in the Parsifal project and discussed about the opportunities that can be reached by students via different school disciplines: like, Sciences, Geography, Biology, Literature.

Participants discussed about the example of the Parsifal project as a resources for Integrating ICT into Teaching-learning Practices: Promise, Challenges and Future Directions. Participants were involved in debates on the following topics:
1.What ICT resources (Internet, E-mail, word processing, databases, spread sheets, digital scanners, and education software package and computer printer) knowledge, attitudes and skills do the selected instructors have?
2. To what extent instructors integrate ICT to pedagogy/teaching-learning and ethics in instructional process?
3. What issues and challenges (materials, trainings, attitudes, support, and classroom conditions) affect the use of ICT in universities teaching- learning process?


4. Example of a class lesson using the Parsifal project legends
For a better understanding of the use of the Parsifal project resources created as teaching materials in the classroom, participants received an example of how to organise a lesson.
The Lady’s Rocks’ legend studied in the Parsifal project has been selected and presented as example of class lesson. The details about the origin of the legend were presented, than the didactic relevance was presented. Participants received examples of activities that can do at class by using the legend resources offered in the Parsifal project.

5. Benefits of stories and legends in the teaching process
This section of the event was essential to highlight the benefits that the stories and legends can bring to the students and to the teaching-learning process. Participants were presented the main benefits: describe failures and successes, allowing others to avoid mistakes or reach a successful outcome; help students explore important life themes relevant to their future pathways; help students feel a sense of familiarity, relevance and security with the learning environment and context; help to communicate to others what we have learned from those events or encounters; enjoyable and entertaining; motivate, inspire and connect with students; Important cultural values and practices are passed on; Myths and legends from other indigenous cultures can also provide relevant key messages to share with students.

The event ended with the Conclusions and evaluation, feedback collection. The presenters highlighted the most important aspects about the use of legends in the teaching process, and about the importance of using resources as Parsifal at class.

The conclusions achieved:
- Teachers need to get more involved in educational projects like Erasmus+
- The event was an opportunity for the teachers participants to express and change knowledge on other legends potential to be included and links with legends from other countries.
- Participants were very interested to navigate through the national legends selected and read about the original stories behind, and find the connections with legends from other countries. This session of the event made the teachers to rediscover the interest in integrating legends, stories and fairy tales in the teaching process and in developing skills, attitudes, values and knowledge for students.
- The Parsifal project showed what improvements legends can bring: Improves student writing standards through fun, online writing prompts to use in writing practice; Supports differentiation with curriculum-aligned persuasive writing activities; Provides powerful insights to assess and track progression; Celebrates creativity and recognizes student writing.
- The Parsifal project resources created have been evaluated as useful to help students explore important life themes relevant to their future pathways; to help students feel a sense of familiarity, relevance and security with the learning environment and context; to help to communicate to others and discover the connections with other countries; to motivate, inspire and connect students; to develop important cultural values; to show how to connect different school subjects through an interesting and enjoyable teaching method – stories.

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Multiplier Event of the international Erasmus + program project “Parsifal, the Legends Researcher” (E3)

Date: 22-06-2020
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Description
On 22th of June, 2020 the final conference (multiplier event) of the international Erasmus+ programme’s project “Parsifal, the Legends Researcher” was organized by the project partner Kaunas Jonas and Petras Vileišiai school. The event was organized to share the results and good practices of the project and to discuss how the outcomes developed within the project could motivate students to learn also how it could influence lessons and make them more attractive.
The conference brought together teachers, lecturers, future teachers (students in pedagogy), educators from different Lithuanian cities and institutions (more than 40 participants, 41 were external participants who were interested in Parsifal project’s outcomes and usability in educational process), all of whom were indifferent to the topic of the conference. The presentations were followed by productive question-and-answer sessions.
Vida Drąsutė, coordinator of international activities of the project, opened the event and presented the project itself: aim, activities, partnership and good practice examples and how international projects influence teachers motivation.
The importance of the project content was emphasized by Gediminas Grėsus - the teacher responsible for the content development and coordination of the local activities at Kaunas Jonas and Petras Vileišiai school. In his discourse, he stated that narrative folklore, such as tales, stories, meanings are connected by the basics of each nation's worldview, ethnographic life and spiritual customs, but at the same moment are different on their own specific topics, problems. During the project, it was very interesting and meaningful to analyze the works of folklore from different countries and to observe the common elements and similarities connecting different nations. Gediminas presented the results created during the activities of the project, the legends that were selected by the teachers of Kaunas Jonas and Petras Vileišiai school, as well as the teachers of other participating countries. The results were later translated into national languages. All results and tools for their adaptation in the lessons are available on the project website: parsifal.pixel-online.org.
English teacher Jolita Ravinienė shared her good experience and said that participating in the project was a really useful experience and motivated not only teachers but also students. The analysis of legends with students helped to find out the roots of the common European culture and to review the arrangement of legends, tales and stories on an interactive map.
Vilma Milašiūnaitė, vice-principal for education of Kaunas Jonas and Petras Vileišiai school emphasized the common European cultural values, which are reflected in the cultural traditions of different countries. Project activities helped students to develop a sense of cultural belonging, to become aware of the idea of a united Europe.
The director of Kaunas Jonas and Petras Vileišiai school Dalia Lapėnienė emphasized the active involvement of associated partners, highlighted that the methodology for the development of reading and writing skills created during the project and the acquired good practice are applied in the educational process. She emphasized that is very important to share project experience and created intellectual outputs with teachers from Lithuanian schools during in-service training events. It is obvious that international initiatives, intercultural cooperation motivate teachers to update the curriculum and look for more diverse ways of conducting lessons, so we hope to have more such initiatives in the near future.

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Legends and myths at the roots of our culture (E4)

Date: 27-05-2020
Location: Genova, Italia (Online event)

Description
43 people participated to the event. They were all teachers from associated partner schools who had worked on the legends in the project portal “Parsifal, the legends researcher” and from other high schools in Genova.
The Headmaster welcomed the participants and introduced the event. Professor Giovanni Vallebona talked about the importance of Erasmus+ projects and how important it is both for the students and the teachers to have contacts with foreign schools and to have the chance to compare and share ideas. He thanked the participants from the associated partner schools for working on the project and for disseminating the results; he thanked the teachers from Montale and the students, especially the students from class 2A AFM who took part in the project the previous year and who prepared some videos to introduce the Italian legends on the portal.
He then left the floor to Professor Rossella Risso who managed all the outputs of the project. Professor Risso introduced the three outputs and the general aim of the project; she named all the foreign partner schools and the associated partner schools in Genova and explained how Montale worked on the project step by step. She then introduced professor Maria Grazia Morello who worked on the two legends “Lake Misurina and Mount Sorapiss” and “Romolo and Remo and the foundation od Rome” with class 2A AFM in the school year 2018/2019. Professor Morello talked about the importance of legends for the cultural background of every country and for the importance to teach young students to read and interpret and appreciate legends and myths. She pointed out the relevance of legends in reference to Italian culture and the classic background, which is still a vivid presence in contemporary society and which must be preserved. Professor Stefania Galuppi spoke of the drama class she taught during the second half of the school year 2019/2020 and how she taught the students to dramatize their reading. Professor Galuppi introduced the video made by the students, using the images from some videos posted on the Parsifal project website and narrating the legends of “Lake Misurina and Mount Sorapiss”, “The devil’s column”, “Saint Galgano and the sword in the stone” and “Beautiful Alda”. After the video, Professor Patrizia Signorini introduced IO2 and the importance of developing writing skills. She explained how the students in 4C lin and 4G lin had to read all the legends to find the right connections before writing their essay. She also explained that a great attention was paid to the correct register and the use of formal language. Arianna Proto, a student from 4G lin, then explained how she worked to write her essay and what she learned. Her participation in the project helped her to develop important writing skills, which she will need to prepare for her end of course exam. Professor Risso then showed the project portal to the assembly, the repository of legends, the essays and the third output, the travels. She surfed the three pages relating to the three different outputs and showed the outcomes. The travel “Fire-breathing dragons and other frightening creatures” was introduced. Dragons being very common animals in many legends, starting from the legend of “Saint George and the Dragon” the virtual journey develops in the other countries. The most similar legend to the one of Saint George is the Polish legend of the Krakov Dragon. A second video which showed the connection between these two legends was then showed to the assembly. The video was made by 2A AFM, under the supervision of professor Galuppi.
Professor Risso concluded the event showing the websites of the other international projects involving IIS MONTALE, in particular the Erasmus+ project CLIL4STEAM. Some space was given to the participants to ask questions and share their opinion. Some teachers expressed their interest in the project outputs and expressed their appreciation for the outputs and the results.
After question/answer time was concluded, Professor Risso shared the online questionnaires. The questionnaires were collected and the certificates of attendance were send by email.

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The International Conference of Cross-Cultural Competence

Date: 22-11-2019
Location: Iasi, Romania

Description
The Conference is designed to review the many aspects of the multidisciplinary debates, both of theoretical and practical research on Cross-Cultural Competence. These meetings are designed to enhance the understanding of relevant issues at regional and international level in Social Sciences and Humanities Research.

The paper ” The Parsifal Project Common Cultural Elements In European Legends, Myths And Traditional Tales” was published in the journal "Cross-Cultural Management Journal", Volume XXI, Issue 2/2019 (https://cmj.seaopenresearch.eu/volume-xxi)

Conference web site: https://cmj.seaopenresearch.eu

Article presented
The Parsifal project, common cultural elements in European Legends, Myths and Traditional Tales

The article is based on Parsifal, a European project funded by the Erasmus+ programme (Project Number: 2018-1-PL01-KA201-050865), which is being implemented by EuroEd Foundation Iasi, Romania. The project aims to bring cultural heritage to the attention of students to enrich their learning processes. The project looks at traditional tales and legends in each partner country (Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania) with a view to identifying common European roots. The paper focuses on main themes and common features identified in Bulgarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian legends: real and mythological characters and animals, heritage, environments and common objects, recurring situations and challenges, moral and ethical topics.

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Intercultural Communication: Research, Theory and Practice

Date: 10-05-2019
Location: Iasi, Romania

Description
Intercultural communication skills and competence are becoming increasingly more relevant as the globalization of business, trade, media, education, etc. brings into contact people from different cultures, that used to inhabit geographical areas which are wide apart. At a time of increased risks and uncertainty, intercultural communication is recognized as a life skill that needs to be developed in educational, business, social, religious and political contexts.
The purpose of our 2019 conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of intercultural communication focusing on recent research, theories and practice.

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How and why folklore can be taught

Date: 09-05-2019
Location: Iasi, Romania

Description
The fifth edition of the workshop "How and why folklore can be taught" is attended by Mrs. Academician Sabina Ispas. The discussions aim to identify concrete solutions for the attractive teaching of traditional culture lessons.

Title of the presentation
Integrating local stories and traditions into classroom teaching. Case study: Erasmus + Parsifal and TIK projects.

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Oline Multiplier Event

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Multiplier event on educational opportunities about ICT and traditional legends, within the European project PARSIFAL, THE LEGENDS RESEARCHER

20-10-2020
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