"""What are you taking along with you?"", this is what one of the first pages of the St'ART Book asks. The St'ART Book is the logbook that students and teachers have filled in for each mobility of the Erasmus St'ART project. Someone answers ""fear"", someone ""hope"", or ""desire to meet people"", ""desire to escape”, someone else freedom, knowledge, curiosity. ""And what do you bring home from this experience?"" is what the final page of the notebook asks instead: the answers - both from students and teachers - are enthusiastic, they speak of energy, vitality, courage, greater self-confidence: ""I come home, but I feel changed "", says Alice, ""I feel richer after this week"" writes Barbara (a teacher), ""I want to travel again, meet new people, visit new countries"" is what most of the Icelandic, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese students write.The project, carried out between 2018 and 2020, called four European cities - Pistoia, Reykjavìk, Porto and Bilbao - and their artistic high schools, to discuss the theme of art with regard to the city, in the belief that art is a means of social change, it constitutes a common good. In writing the project, we were guided by the ""Bilbao case"", the city that was literally reborn after an appalling crisis, thanks also to contemporary art and architecture. We therefore immersed ourselves in the stories, traditions, visions of our cities, highlighting peculiarities that inspired proposals for the cities themselves. The starting point for all of us was the survey titled: ""If I say city, what comes to your mind?"".In Bilbao we made a site specific intervention, inspired by female figures of local folklore, in Reykjavìk the nature that dominates the city has taken over: videos have been created that mix together sounds, photographs, paintings also inspired by the sagas of the territory. In the heart of Porto, the industrial district of Ilhas do Bonfim challenged us to propose new visual solutions, housing utopias, that resulted from photomontages and assemblages. Pistoia was supposed to be the conclusion of the project with an exhibition, a performance, a conference with politicians and contemporary art experts and, when the pandemic prevented us from carrying out this phase, we decided to transform the entire experience into the website, www.erasmustart.com, where we talked about our two years of work, CLIL lessons, discussions among teachers, exchanges among students, relationships among schools, languages, latitudes, different training and education.The main results of this project were:•The arrangement of a contest for choosing a Project logo among students of the partnership,•The design of gadgets promoting the project,•The creation of Power Points, PDFs, videos, stop-motions, pictures, designs, posters, architectural designs and models.•The provision of school corners dedicated to Erasmus plus: on the website of the schools as well as physically in some areas of the partnership schools.•The creation of an online Twin Space dedicated to the project.•The creation of CLIL lesson plans for the project as a resource for teachers and students.•The ad hoc publication of St’Art book: the book was used by the participants during their mobility as a logbook. It was also useful in the phases of monitoring and assessment of the project.•The creation of a Website, a Facebook page and an Instagram portfolio.The back cover of our St'ART Book shows Erasmus of Rotterdam in the engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1526; from Erasmus we tried to learn and keep the spirit, in the belief that every project in his name must be aimed at the growth of people free from prejudices. St'ART, which brings along ideas of dynamism, enthusiasm and, of course, art, is based on the idea that culture and comparison can produce an open, peaceful, borderless and fearless world.Partner CountriesItaly, Spain, Portugal, Iceland"

What does it really take to become a successful artist? Is it enough just to be talented and creative? Persistence, hard work, good communication skills, life-long learning and team work are just some of the important factors that can make a difference between an unemployed artist and the one that can live from his work. Young artists often struggle and face an unpredictable future. This is why we wanted our students to extend their knowledge from just one field of artistic creation to various ones. We believe that all around artists with a strong entrepreneurial awareness will have better chances of employment. This project gave the students and teachers of three secondary art schools from Slovenia, Italy and Bulgaria an opportunity to take part in a rich variety of diverse activities, such as graphic design, textile design, filming, glass, pottery and porcelain design, advertising to mention just a few. The main objectives of the project were:•to enhance students' creativity and to stimulate their innovative ideas in the fields of fine arts, graphic design, product design,•to expand the knowledge of our students from a single field of interest to various ones, and help them with employability.•to raise the entrepreneurial awareness of our students in order to increase their employability.•to give the teachers and the headmasters of the three schools an opportunity to exchange good teaching practices and learn from each other•to improve our students' and teachers' linguistic competence, English in particular and their cultural awareness.We carried out two types of activities: •the activities that were carried out in each of our schools in the same time :- creating logos for the project- turning students' hobbies into business ideas (logos, promotional material, postcards, leaflets)- »An Eye to the Future« in this activity the students through about what defined them most as artists and human beings and expressed the ideas through drawings, paintings, short-stories, videos and other techniques,- creating digital portfolios of students' art works,- getting to know the Europass platform.•the activities that were carried out abroad during three transnational learning and teaching activities:- creation of digital artistic portfolios, - stop-motion animation workshop, - t-shirt designing and felting workshops, - glass, porcelain, pottery workshops,- getting to know the rich cultural heritage of the three countries,During this time they were working in small groups in a non-formal environment, some workshops were carried out in situ alongside traditional craftsmen and mentors. Students got involved in areas of artistic creation, like visual communication and animation, which demand an extended knowledge in digital technology. Students and teachers alike learned about successful business practices, they also produced OER materials, such as videos, application for a creation of a digital portfolio and brochures. The teachers from the three partner schools also had an opportunity to exchange experiences and through lectures and class observation broadened their professional horizon. During the learning/teaching activities the guest teachers carried our workshops, presented good teaching practices to their colleagues, held classes for students in hosting schools and took part in the interesting workshops alongside students.The world of art is beautiful but also extremely competitive. That's why our students need to learn that it takes constant, lifelong learning to stay on top.

Traditional Clothing in Europe, VEST, is a European project of innovation in collaboration based on three fundamental premises, on the one hand the existing similarities of popular clothing in Europe, where the basic garment is usually the same, but it differs in details and complements, on the other hand of the lack of documentary references and research in this regard, and finally of the need to disseminate and strengthen the European cultural heritage, so that citizens actively engage with it.Based on these premises, VEST was born, an initiative that aims to publish a publication that includes a detailed analysis of the similarities of Traditional Clothing in Europe, with the purpose of disseminating it in the member countries and that serves as a support for the delivery of contents. training related to the textile sector, pattern design or fashion. For this, the project includes research activities in the six countries involved, Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Portugal and Estonia, transnational meetings every six months for the exchange of knowledge and multiplier events in the countries of the project partners.VEST is an intercenter strategic alliance, through which schools will join efforts and share their know-how to obtain as a final product a publication that will become a benchmark in the field of traditional clothing in Europe.VEST is therefore an open innovation project, open to the world, which will disseminate the results of its research, field work and technological surveillance through a publication that will be available in print and digital version.As a final result, throughout the two years of the project, we will obtain a documentary product of high historical value that will serve as a starting point for future collaborative projects and with a high replicability capacity that can be extrapolated to the study of other heritage elements. European culture, acting as a tractor effect.