Re ART TRUeSTory

KA2 Strategic partnership (2014-2016)  between:

Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Bechyně (SUPŠ Bechyně, Czech republic)

Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis of Porto (EASR Porto, Portugal)

• we succeeded in receiving the Erasmus+ subsidy to organize project meetings for the management of the project itself, to launch exchanges of students and teachers, learning activities and to work on the outcomes in the form of various art steps, publications and exhibitions at both schools
• we intend to enhance language teaching and learning skills in English, as a communication language, but also to arise interest for another European language, for a foreign country, culture, people, in order to motivate students to travel abroad and to get involved into international cooperation between schools
• the aim is to support creative and personal approach to art, to include project activities in our school curriculum and to involve students from both schools in the project via competitions, voting contests, art activities etc.
• to learn various art techniques from each other, to realize that students are part of the project and they bear the responsibility for the success of the whole two-year work

The project Erasmus+ KA2 has been supported from the funds of the European commission and it allows a two-year cooperation between the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts of Bechyně and Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis of Porto. We have many points in common, indeed: both schools were founded in 1884 as one of the oldest art schools in the country and we share very similar study fields (graphic, ceramic, industrial and multimedia design).

The project was called Re: ART TRUeSTory, suggesting that our aim in two years is to create an animated story that will be inspired by both our cultures, written by students, technically and artistically produced, promoted on posters, accompanied by their own logos and all in all, actively created both by Portuguese and Czech students.

School exchanges, visits of art museums, galleries, and workshops will become part of the work on the project. Our aim is to involve students from all study fields, due to a large spectrum of activities that are involved in the project work. We intend using English as a communication language; however, we are also looking forward to learning bases of another European language.

We strongly believe that Erasmus+ project will achieve what we are expecting, i.e. it will join more closely our school with a foreign school, it will motivate our students to use their skills more practically and creatively and that students will be more interested into speaking English, travelling, broadening their minds and creating friendship with people all around the world. We do hope that the project will be successful and we all will learn as much as possible!