“Ancient civilisations meeting Europe”
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This premise underscores the notion that “History is a science that allows us to understand the past, thereby comprehending the present we live in and shaping our future.”
By integrating the resources and efforts of 2 schools and 1 organization, this pilot project addresses current issues by contextualizing them through the lens of our ancient civilizations, at the time when the foundations of our current society began to be laid. Advanced democratic societies value their origins and incorporate this understanding into the learning of their history.
Knowing history allows us to understand where we come from, and forgetting it means we ignore where we are heading towards.
REGARDING THE ERASMUS+ PROGRAM, THE PROJECT ADDRESSES:
POLITICAL PRIORITIES
HORIZONTAL
Common values, commitment, and civic participation.
HORIZONTAL
Environment and combating climate change.
SCHOOL EDUCATION
Development of key competences.
THEMES
Cultural heritage
Identity, citizenship, and European values
Environment and climate change
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES, STARTING FROM ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS:
Related to our history.
To deepen the knowledge of the ancient civilizations that originated the cities and regions of the countries with partners in the project (Spain and Greece).
To learn about the most significant historical milestones of Spain and Greece.
To correlate the common historical and cultural aspects of the cities, regions, and partner countries of the project. This objective is linked to the priority "Common values, commitment, and civic participation." It is related to the selected themes "Cultural heritage" and "Identity, citizenship, and European values."
Related to the European Union.
To enhance the understanding of the European Union as a common space for economic, political, and social development.
To strengthen the strengths of the project partner countries by relating their common historical and cultural aspects (objective A.III) to the values and principles that underpin the European Union.
To promote coexistence through the absence of war conflicts, exemplifying through those battles that have occurred since our ancient civilizations. It is linked with the priority "Common values, commitment, and civic participation." It is related to the selected topic "Identity, citizenship, and European values."
Related to sustainable development.
To highlight the most significant environmental damages in Spain and Greece, starting from their ancient civilizations.
To praise historical actions considered as good environmental and sustainable practices.
As a source of some of our current environmental awareness shortcomings in society, to show the importance of not having used sustainable practices since antiquity. It is linked with the priority "Environment and combating climate change." It is related to the topic "Environment and climate change."
THE SPECIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS OR RESULTS WE AIM TO PRODUCE ARE:
I. A historical narrative with high-quality open educational and learning materials, which can also be used by other educational centers and society in general.
II. A reinforcement in society of already established democratic commitments, highlighting the benefits of creating the European Union, and given the scenario of escalating warfare affecting European territories.
III. A compilation of historical environmental milestones in the framework of the participating countries, internalizing in our students and in our society the importance of climate change as a consequence partly attributable to the entire historical course since our ancient civilizations.
These results will be materialized through the generated creations (didactic units, comics…), their transfer to students, and the corresponding dissemination.
Erasmus + KA210SCH project, code: 2023-1-ES01-KA210-SCH-000152434
