About the project

 

 

We are 4 European schools brought together by similar needs. We want to offer our students the best possible alternatives, to improve their skills, motivate them and boost their creativity and self expression.

We are all aware of the requirements of today’s educational systems, which promote the involvement of students in extracurricular activities so as to get them more actively involved in their own learning path, to enable them to thrive while doing something they are passionate about. Whether high or low achievers, our students are all united in the same desire to meet other pupils, share their hobbies, interests and passions, work together, communicate with them and find out more about the European cultures. We are well aware that there will also be challenges on the way, but we are determined to overcome them together, as a team. We have selected this project topic as a result of our discussions with students. We offered them a variety of options for activities of interest to them. The majority chose photography, partly because it is not a very unknown domain. Most of them would know how to operate a camera, but they are also interested in finding the subtleties of this art form.

Besides students, we will focus our attention on teachers and we are eager to share knowledge and practices so that we can adapt them to our schools. We believe that there is a lot to learn from each partner country and school, each of us facing certain difficulties that we are keen to surpass by observing how other schools deal with similar situations. In order to meet all these goals and attach a stronger intercultural component to the project, we have decided to combine photography with students’ daily lives, their culture, their problems, their views

and artistic perception. Therefore, we intend to organize 4 students exchanges along the project:

1 – A day in my life - photography basics;

2 – My school, my region - color, light and design techniques, capturing motion in pictures;

3 – My town – Principles of composition;

4. My Europe – Learning to edit photos.