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The final conference of the Parsifal Project 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
All the virtual journeys produced by the partners are now available on the project portal in the section dedicated to the Interative Map.
Teachers and students can now have a look at them and use them in class in order to improve literacy and digital skills and at the same time improve their knowledge of cutlural heritage of Europe.
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.
An online Multiplier Event took was held by IIS Montale in order to present the deliverables of the Prasifal project to end users and stake holders.
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 fourthpartners' meetingwas held online on 25 May 2020. Agnieszka Godlewska from CKZiU (PL) and Andrea Anzanello from Pixel (IT) conducted the meeting. The partners reviewed all the eactivites carried out in the framework of the Intellectual Outputs 1 and 2. The meeting was also the opportunity for the partners to review the travels of the Map developed for the third Intellectual Output.
Finally, the partners discussed about the need of extending the project and the organisation of the Multiplier Events accordingly.
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.
The project partners start coping with the COVID19 pandemic. The partners are now checking all the future activities in order to undertstand if some re-scheduling are needed.
In order to produce all the necessary deliverables and to organise the Multplier Events the partnership will ask an extension of the project to the Polish National Agency.
The Interactive Map is now ready and displayed on the project portal. The Map will host le virtual journeys the partner will produced in order to travel through different cultural spots in Europe.
The third partners' meeting took place in Sofia (BG) on 20 - 21 February 2020. Agnieszka Godlewska from CKZiU (PL) and Andrea Anzanello from Pixel (IT) conducted the meeting. The partners presented and analyzed through a transnational discussion the essays produced. The meeting was also the opportunity for the partners to discuss the next activity which is the development of an Interactive Map of the legends.
The project partnership started to work on the implementation of the Interactive Map where users will be able to "travel" around the partners' countries discovering the similarities of the legends proposed by the partners.
The Beta version of the Interactive Map is planned to be ready for the second half of February and it will be discussed during the third partners meeting in Sofia (BG).
The identified legends have been analyzed at a transnational level in order to identify the common European roots. The is available.
The identified legends have been analyzed at a transnational level in order to identify the common European roots. The Essay on Main Characters and Animals, Real and Mythological is available.
The second partners' meeting took place in Kaunas (LT) on 27 - 28 May 2019. Agnieszka Godlewska from CKZiU (PL) and Lorenzo Martellini from Pixel (IT) conducted the meeting. The partners presented the identified legends in order to assess them and to proceed with the related translations. The meeting was also the opportunity for the partners to discuss the next activity which is the production of the essays.
The Polish legend of Gingerbread is available on the project portal.
A long time ago, there were many respectable bakers making gingerbread in Torun, but one of them was the most popular. He was making the sweetest mouth melting gingerbread, giving it as many shapes as his imagination would allow him; such as rounds, hearts, stars, flowers. His most elaborate were in the shape of a carriage drawn by a horse, house, princess and other folks.
The Lithuanian legend about about the Establishment of Trakai Castle is available on the project portal.
Legend tells that Trakai appeared on women's whims. Kestutis’ Duke of Trakai and Samogitia, wife Birute was unsatisfied that there is very little water in Old Trakai (about 3 km from Trakai) compared to her birthplace Palanga. As the result in the end of XIV century Kestutis begun to build new castle on the peninsula and about 1376 moved there. Later Duke Kestutis and his son Vytautas the Great built another castle in the largest Galves lake island.
The Italian legend Lake Misurina and Mount Sorapiss is available on the project portal.
Misurina was the daughter of king Sorapiss. Their kingdom was in the area bordered by the Tofane, the Marmolada, Mount Antelaus and the Three peaks of Lavaredo (all mountains extending between the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto). Sorapiss was a huge man with a kind soul. He had lost his wife when ....
Teh first Bulgarian legend is available at Devil’s bridge. The devil’s bridge is a bridge over the Arda river, municipality of Ardino, district Kardzhali. According to the legend, the creator of the bridge is craftsman Dimitar from the nearby village of Nedelino. He undertook the challenge to build a bridge over the wild river even if all that attempted this before him failed. He did a magnificent job and extremely fast as well, but died soon after he was done ...
The project partners are currently creating the network of schools interested in promoting awareness of religions and foster a sense of mutual tolerance at school. Several schools have already been involved from partners' countries. Teachers and counsellors will work together with the project partners in order to develop synergies between school and labour market. Do not hesitate to contact them!
The Kick-off meeting took place in Florence on 4 - 5 December 2018. Agnieszka Godlewska and Lorenzo Martellini presented the project and the activities to be carried out to the partners. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partners to get to know each other and to discuss all details related to the project's activities. The partners presented an example of national legend. At the end of the meeting all the partners had a clear view of the future project's implementation, the financial rules and the next activity which is the identification of 5 legends at national level.
The Parsifal project has been funded, by the European Commission through the Polish National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme, with the aim to improve secondary school students' achievements in literacy making reference, through traditional tales and legends, to the cultural heritage surrounding them.
This process can be used to motivate students to learn, making them the protagonists of their learning process.
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