1

ROM-FIS: Understanding Cultural Diversity through Romany: Traveller Identity

01.09.1997-01.09.1999

2

Colour Keys Flexible Ensemble: teaching material

01.10.2001-01.10.2003

3

Fairy Tales/end product: Musical

4

PArtIE: Poetry, Art, Identity for tomorrow Europeans

5

Intercultural communication through performing arts

1

ROM-FIS: Understanding Cultural Diversity through Romany: Traveller Identity

The objectives of the two-year project within the education of Romany and Travellers children is to promote the awareness of cultural identity in these children and the understanding of cultural diversity in all children. This is done by

1) planning in-service training modules for teachers and Romany/Traveller contact persons in mixed group training in each partner country,

2) by developing teaching material for raising international awareness to be used by teachers, including items for history, geography, religion, social studies, music and handicrafts and

3) by testing and evaluating the training and the produced materials. All the work is done in collaboration with minority contact persons. The main target groups of the project are both minority and majority pupils, teachers and minority contact persons. During the first funding year the project aims at producing the three separate in-service training plans including overheads and handouts, the manuscripts for the teaching materials to be put together and finalised in an international working seminar and implementing and evaluating the in-service training modules.

Code

41009-CP-1-1997-1-FI-COMENIUS-C2

Action/Type

COMENIUS-C2

Theme(s)

- Education for children of disadvantaged target groups
- Intercultural education - Fight against racism and xenophobia

Project span

01.09.1997-01.09.1999

Organisation

HÄMEEN LÄÄNINHALLITUS - THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF HÄME
KOULUTUS - JA KULTTUURIOSASTO

Organisation type

Public authority (regional)

Contact

Ulias SYVÄNIEMI

Address

Briger Jaarlinkatu 15 - PO Box 150
13101 HÄÄMEENLINNA
Suomi / Finland

Email

uljas.syvaniemi@lh.interim.fi

Telephone

+35 – 83 62 22 31 0

Fax

+35 – 83 62 22 33 1

Partners

(IE) ST. PATRICK'S NATIONAL SCHOOL

(IE) ST. THERESE PRE-SCHOOL

(IE) TEACHER'S CENTRE - GALWAY

(IE) TUAM TRAVELLERS' EDUCATION AND D...

(SE) OXIE REKTORSOMRÅDE

(FI) HAIHARAN KOULU

(FI) KAUKAJÄRVEN KOULU

(FI) LAHDEN KOULUVIRASTO

(FI) NEKALAN KOULU

(FI) OPETUSALAN KOULUTUSKESKUS

(FI) SAUKONPUISTON KOULU

(FI) SUOMEN ROMANIYHDISTYS / FINNISH ...

(FI) TAMPEREEN KOULUVIRASTO / TAMPERE...

(FI) VUORIKADUN KOULU

2

Colour Keys Flexible Ensemble: teaching material

Goal of the project "Colour Keys Flexible Ensemble: teaching material" is to develop a new teaching method as well as material for piano students from young through teenage children. The method and the material aim at group classes in particular. Thus, the teaching material can be employed in different learning and teaching situations. Among them are music schools, as well as the pedagogic and didactic education of piano teachers in conservatories and universities.

Piano teachers and professors, and university and school students are testing the teaching material.

Code

94213-CP-1-2001-1-FI-COMENIUS-C21

Action/Type

COMENIUS-C21

Theme(s)

- Arts education

Project span

01.10.2001-01.10.2003

Organisation

SIBELIUS-AKATEMIA
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Organisation type

Higher education institution

Contact person

Leena BRANDER

Address

TÖÖLÖNKATU 28, P.O. Box 86
260 HELSINKI
Suomi / Finland

Email

leena.brander@siba.fi

Telephone

+35 – 89 40 54 48 9

Fax

+35 – 89 40 54 56 9

Partners

(DK) DET KONGELIGE DANSKE MUSIKKONSER...

(NO) NORGES MUSIKKHØGSKOLE

3

Fairy Tales/end product: Musical

The third year of the project "Fairy Tales" ended in a play performed in the vehicular language (English) based on a fairy tale or a legend characteristic of "the place where I live". Each partner institution chose one during the second year of project and wrote a script both in their mother tongue and in English. The script was divided into three parts: introduction, narration and conclusion. The introduction and the conclusion are shared by each partner institution. The team tried to point out all that is shared by the countries involved in the project and all that makes them different. We have been active in making our students aware of the similarities and the differences during the three year project.

Code

04-ITA01-S2C01-01168-3

Theme(s)

- Theatre, Music, Dance
- Foreign language

Outputs
LA BELLA MERLA

The final products of the project are a video cassette or a DVD, a tape cassette reproducing the soundtrack of the play and the script with the photos that illustrate the play.

Organisation

Hausjärven yläaste

Organisation type

(Upper) Secondary Education

Contact

Yrjö SIPILÄ

Address

Oitti

12100 HAUSJÄRVI

Suomi

Email

yrjo.sipila@hausjarvi.fi

Partners

(IT) Agostino de Pretis

Stradella

(ES) C. P. Tomillar

Arroyo de la Miel

4

PArtIE: Poetry, Art, Identity for tomorrow Europeans

The PartIE project aims at increasing European awareness among students, teachers, and, if possible, the whole school community by discovering, analysing (studying and comparing), creating and exchanging pieces of art (music, painting, literature, dance and photography). In this way we learn about our own and others' personal and regional identities, and the differences and similarities among them. In the end we experience art as a medium to form and to express a European identity. The activities we carry out to achieve this general aim are an additional motivation for both teachers and pupils in their daily practice, and a stimulus to co-operate beyond borders of any kind, to improve our IT skills, to learn new languages or improve the ones we know, and to fight racism and xenophobia.

Code

05-ITA01-S2C01-00315-3

Theme(s)

- Cultural tradition
- Theatre, Music, Dance
- European identity

Outputs
PArtIE dances – pavana

For this activity each partner school produced a DVD of a traditional dance. We then exchanged the video to learn the other countries's dances. Our school interpreted a medieval dance, a pavane. In the video you can see a banquet and the dance.

Organisation

Madetojan Mussiikkilukio

Organisation type

(Upper) Secondary Education

Contact

Johanna KEMPPAINEN

Address

PL 45 (Suvantokatu 1)

90015 OULU

Suomi

Email

johannak@ope.ouka.fi

Telephone

+35 – 88 55 84 90 72

Fax

+35 – 88 55 84 90 99

Partners

(BE) Humaniora Kindsheid Jesu

Hasselt

(DE) Friedrich-Koening-Gymnasium

Würzburg

(IT) Liceo Scientifico Statale A. Messedaglia

Verona

5

Intercultural communication through performing arts

It is a scholastic project with 5 participating nations: Italy, Finland, Spain , Belgium and Germany. In the preceding two years we have held project meetings and final festivals. All this to prepare the final product of the project: a Musical. During the last year of the project three meetings have been held: Nov 2005 (staff and students): project meeting in Zaragoza (Spain). During the meeting, dance and theatre workshops were organised. February 2006: (staff and students): project meeting in Kassel (Germany) to meet with the drama directors, the orchestra directors and actors. Evaluation of the work developed. May 2006 (staff and students): project meeting in Helsinki (Finland). Presentation of the project's final product: a Musical, choirs and dances performed in different schools in Helsinki. Final evaluation of the project. All the events and the produced material have been recorded in the database of the project.

Code

05-ITA01-S2C01-00430-3

Theme(s)

- Theatre, Music, Dance
- Foreign language
- European identity

Outputs
DVD

A DVD has been produced to record the Final event of the three years project: the Musical. The Musical was presented to the students of different schools and to an audience external to the school. The local authorities have participated to the event.

Organisation

Vaskivuoren Lukio

Organisation type

Second Stage of Tertiary Education (Leading to an advanced research qualification)

Contact

Jussi YLI-VAKKURI

Address

Virtatie 4

01600 VANTAA

Suomi

Email

jussyliv@vantaa-vaskivuori.fi

Telephone

+35 – 89 83 93 56 18

Partners

(IT) Elio Vittorini

Lentini

(ES) IES Pablo Gargallo

Zaragoza

(BE) Vrije Sint-Lambertusscholen

Westerlo

(DE) Jakob-Grimm-Schule

Kassel