- Soverato (CZ) - Italy
- Satriano (CZ) - Italy
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ERASMUS K1 PROJECT
HERITAGE EDUCATION FOR INCLUSION AND EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP – Calabria UNESCO Experience (HEIC-UE)
About the course
- Duration: 5-12 Days
- Location: Soverato
- Topic: Cultural education, Cultural heritage, European citizenship
course description
“Heritage Education for Inclusion and European Citizenship – Calabria UNESCO Experience” is an innovative Erasmus+ training programme specifically designed for teachers and school staff from all educational levels exploring how cultural heritage, especially UNESCO-recognised sites, traditions and landscapes can become a powerful tool to enrich school curricula, promote inclusion and foster intercultural dialogue among students of different ages and backgrounds.
Building on expertise developed through European collaborations on cultural heritage education, this programme invites school professionals to discover Calabria’s exceptional artistic, historical, natural and intangible heritage, transforming these resources into engaging learning activities suitable for diverse school contexts.
Calabria, a land shaped by centuries of Mediterranean civilization (from Magna Graecia to the Byzantine, Norman and Aragonese eras) preserves some of the world’s most significant cultural treasures. Its UNESCO sites, traditions and landscapes offer an immersive learning environment ideal for developing new teaching strategies, enhancing pupils’cultural awareness and strengthening their sense of belonging to the European community.
Through the discovery of Calabria’s heritage, participants will not only explore local and Mediterranean history but also strengthen their understanding of European citizenship, learning to connect local identities with shared European values and intercultural dialogue.
The JUMP ACADEMY offers an immersive experience of Calabria’s culture:
- exploring the Mediterranean diet through interactive cooking workshops, connecting culinary traditions with cultural and historical heritage;
- visiting the city of Reggio Calabria (UNESCO site), “National Archeological Museum” monuments and urban heritage;
- discovering the Greek-speaking Calabria (Calabria Grecanica), home to a precious ethnic minority that continues to preserve its unique linguistic, ritual, and gastronomic traditions;
- visiting the Scolacium Archeological Park located in Squillace which preserve the remains of the ancient city of Scolacium, a settlement with origins in the Greek and Roman periods;
- participating in digital workshops to create booktrailers and multimedia content, enhancing digital skills while exploring and interpreting the cultural heritage of the region.
This combination of experiential, digital and interdisciplinary activities ensures that participants can immediately translate their learning into innovative and engaging teaching practices for students of all ages.
LEARNING GOALS AND PRIORITIES
Cultural heritage education – especially in regions with a deeply stratified historical identity such as Calabria – acts as a natural bridge toward active citizenship and a deeper understanding of the European dimension.
Exploring UNESCO cultural sites and traditions in the region means:
– understanding Europe’s Mediterranean roots;
– recognising the value of cultural and linguistic diversity;
– develop an understanding of the key concepts and research areas related to European cultural heritage;
– learn to distinguish and work with both tangible and intangible forms of cultural heritage;
– promoting intercultural and inclusive approaches in the classroom;
– developing transversal skills related to history, geography and culture.
The course highlights how Calabrian heritage can become a living laboratory for interdisciplinary teaching activities, storytelling, education and it is designed to address the Erasmus + priorities for school education:
- Inclusion and diversity: cultural heritage becomes a tool to value students’ identities, promote intercultural understanding and European citizenship;
- Digital transformation: use of digital tools for documentation and storytelling, developing students’ digital literacy and critical thinking;
- Common values and European citizenship: UNESCO heritage provides a bridge between the local and the European dimension, strengthening students’ sense of belonging to Europe;
- Innovation in teaching practices: new methodologies and laboratories that engage students in exploring, analysing and reinterpreting cultural heritage.
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Program
Training Modules
Certification Details
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Target Group
This course is designed for teachers and educational staff working at any level of school (primary, lower secondary, or upper secondary) in both public and private institutions.
It is also suitable for school coordinators, inclusion and support teachers, language and cultural mediators and other educational professionals involved in curriculum development or intercultural projects.
Program
Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, businesses and citizens of our territory. Each local context has its own economy so it’s always useful, in training programs, to get in contact with concrete examples (experiential learning and real based learning).
WEEK DAILY SCHEDULE
Sunday: arrival of participants, transfer and welcome.
Lodging. Depending on the time, support for a quick dinner in the city, free time and rest
Monday morning
09:30-12:30
Welcome and presentation of the JUMP team. Outdoor team building game “The Mission Impossible in Soverato”. Getting to know the important places of the city, orientation points, traditions and cultural elements, getting in contact with local citizens.
Monday afternoon
15:00-17:00
Introduction to the cultural heritage and UNESCO in Calabria
“Experience Calabria: Language, Culture, History and Mediterranean diet” – indoor session designed to explore the linguistic, cultural, historical and culinary heritage of Calabria.
Tuesday morning
09:30-12:30
Exploring tangible and intangible heritage in Calabria and experiencing cultural heritage through digital workshops
“Let’s book trailers workshop – to create booktrailers and multimedia content, enhancing digital skills while exploring and interpreting the cultural heritage and patrimony of the region.
Tuesday afternoon
15:00 – 18:00
Learning through heritage: experiential activities
Walking tour to the old village of Soverato Superiore, visiting the Church of “Maria Santissima Addolorata” and the statue “La Pietà” by Antonello Gagini. Exploring the streets of the borgo antico “u chianu”
Wednesday morning
09.00 – 12.30
Learning through heritage: experiential activities
Visiting the “Scolacium” Archeological Park in Squillace – Discovering the ancient city of Scolacium, a settlement with origins in the Greek and Roman periods
Wednesday afternoon
15:00-17:00
Understanding the European and Mediterranean heritage context
Cooking workshop, connecting culinary traditions with cultural and historical heritage
Thursday (all day)
7.30 am – ready to take the regional train
Learning through heritage: experiential activities
Visiting the city of Reggio Calabria (UNESCO site), the “National Archeological Museum” monuments and urban heritage (Extra cost for the lunch)
15.00 ready to take the train to go back to Soverato
Friday (all day)
8.00 ready for excursion – Visiting Bova Marina (RC) – (Extra cost for the lunch)
Learning through heritage: experiential activities
Discovering the Greek-speaking Calabria (Calabria Grecanica), home to a precious ethnic minority that continues to preserve its unique linguistic, ritual, and gastronomic traditions.
Saturday morning
9.30 – 11.30
Designing interdisciplinary lessons on heritage and diversity and developing a personal teaching and learning pathway
Evaluation and delivery of formal certificates/Europass and admin documents.
Sunday
Departure of participants
Training Modules
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- understand the European and Mediterranean heritage context;
- identify and work with different forms of cultural heritage;
- promote inclusion and intercultural understanding;
- strengthen European citizenship and common values education;
- experience cultural heritage through digital workshops
- apply heritage as a pedagogical and interdisciplinary tool;
- implement innovative and active teaching methodologies
TRAINING MODULES
Module 1: Introduction to the cultural heritage and UNESCO in Calabria
Module 2: Exploring tangible and intangible heritage in Calabria
Module 3: Understand the European and Mediterranean heritage context
Module 4: Experiencing cultural heritage through digital workshops
Module 5: Learning through heritage: experiential activities
Module 6: Designing interdisciplinary lessons on heritage and diversity
Module 7: Developing a personal teaching and learning pathway
Certification Details
JUMP certifies 36 hours for 6 days course (6*6) or more if necessary by adding extra hours per day. Or 30 hours for a 5 days course (6*5).
The course can also be extended to a 2 weeks course with the option of 10 days or 12 days if desired and agreed, depending on the sending organization’s project.
10 days are without weekend (5+5), 12 days are from Monday to Saturday morning (6+6)
At the end of the training, JUMP issues a formal certificate of attendance, and the team is available to complete the Europass certification document according to the EU template and other documents required for reporting by the sending organization.
Cost
The cost is fully covered by the Erasmus grant.
Write to info@associazionejump.it to ask for information on costs and the services provided to plan your mobility project in Soverato with JUMP.
