THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE INTRODUCED AS DIDACTIC TOOL AND TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCE IN VET CURRICULUM THROUGH THE “FORM-ARTE+” EUROPEAN PROJECT BY THE GRUPO SAN VALERO

The European project “FORM-ARTE +” aims to validate a learning model that integrates, as three new transversal competences of Vocational Training, the European Cultural Heritage, the Digital Competencies and the Environment. This approach arises by identifying the suitability and profitability of using new methodological approaches that, completes the respective curricula with another transversal competencies broadening the knowledge base and their skills.

The project involves partners from four European countries (Spain, Austria, Italy and Portugal) who have selected the Camino de Santiago as European Cultural Heritage and multi-purpose educational resource. This will allow vocational training centers of four countries to select different training branches and develop new unexplored learning dynamics in VET ambit

The grant awarded by the European Union for the development of this project exceeds 250,000 euros and will last for 30 months. Its beginning, was marked by the attendance of European partners at the kick-off meeting during 26 and 27 November in Zaragoza, at the headquarters of the San Valero Group.

The San Valero Group promotes this new European project, in the framework of the ERASMUS + Program of strategic partnership for the cooperation for innovation. The objective is to validate a new methodology of international interest using the European Cultural Heritage as a new transversal teaching resource on which professional knowledge can be applied, while also acquiring other skills (culture, environment, digitalization ...).

This new approach seeks, additionally to the acquisition of digital skills, the promotion of Cultural Heritage and the defense of social values, including the environment, among young people. The “FORM-ARTE +” project introduces a new vocational learning approach, cultural and environmental as a new didactic pool for young people from many Vocational Training families. Saint James Way, is taken as the first European cultural itinerary and this approach can be enlarged to other touristic routes od the European Cultural Heritage.

Expected results of the project:

- Didactic guide for VET trainers available in 5 languages.

- European Cultural Heritage-oriented manual of BATs (environmental Best Available Techniques) and BPs (environmental Best Practices) in 5 languages to strengthen transversal competences acquisition in several regulated branches of vocational training, criteria of interest for the European Cultural Heritage.

-E-learning platform in 5 languages on the sustainability measures applied and experienced in 6 loading houses along Saint James Way for the ultimate purpose of being a new interactive learning approach supported by a mobile classroom for the presential seminars foreseen in several stages of Saint James Way.

- Two pilot actions to validate the new methodological approach. 50 professors and 250 vocational training students from different VET families and nationalities participate in the validation of the new methodological approach and the elaborated contents.

-Multilingual e-learning platform and face-to-face seminars in the four countries, taught at a mobile classroom of the Grupo San Valero (España).

Project partners:

Coordinator: GRUPO SAN VALERO (ESPAÑA)

Partners: FUNDAÇAO DA JUVENTUDE (PORTUGAL)

MINISTERIO DE MEDIO AMBIENTE (AUSTRIA)

PARQUE TECNOLÓGICO ENVIRONMENT PARK (ITALIA)