"""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"

"Promoting Art was a collaborative partnership project, developed by six European schools- either art schools or intrested in this topic. Our main aim in this project was to intersect school communities and local communities in art activities like workshops, art festivals, exhibitions and promote the value of artistic education. Teachers and students from 6 different countries (Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Portugal and Latvia) shared cultures, traditions, skills and knowledge having art as a common language. A strong effort was taken, by all partners involved, not only to share this experience among each other, but also with local communities. We believe that art is not only one of the main topic of our students’ studies, art is also integral in our culture and vital in daily life, because it provides us with a deeper understanding of emotions, self-awareness, it brings colour and beauty. Art and culture offer a different kind of nourishment that feeds our soul and broadens our thoughts. Therefore, with this project we promoted art and artistic education to everyone- students, teachers, school children, local communities and residents of our towns. Each partner country was responsible for gathering a set of national and/or local traditions, in some kind of art expression, and sharing it with the partner countries during their visits. Foreign students and teachers met new cultures and traditions, but also learnt and experiment new artistic technics. During the meetings, visiting participants got to know the local art, culture and language, which widened thinking and their understanding of the world. After each meeting, participants disseminated the project, introduced it in their own countries, share the experiences and knowledge with their local communities. Together we had 162 dissemination activities ranging from articles on the net to Facebook posts, exhibitions, festivals, ceremonies of different kinds or even life music concerts. Students became ""teachers"" and developed art workshops for primary school students; students prepared international exhibitions and invited parents, local authorities and local communities to visit their works. We hope managed to bring this projects not only our school communities, but also other people (children, elderly), who wanted to experiment with us and experience art. Be believe we managed to reach minimum 2000 people within 2 years in 6 partner countries. Our project improved our students’ artistic skills and contributed for their future careers. They learnt history of art, different artistic techniques of modern and ancient times, got in contact closely with different cultures and ways of seeing the world. They experimented to try something new. They learnt how to promote their work, in order to earn a living. Moreover, by means of the project task ""Leaflet about companies that promote art"" they recieved a list of art promoting firms, patrons, internet sites which may help them promote their work in the future. Apart from it, they practiced languages to be able to sell their work worldwide, as well as modern technologies, as they are the symbols of our times and the future. We aimed at promoting art also on the Internet, via our project website and dissemination of project activities, by writing newspaper articles and posters informing a broader public about events like art festivals. By developing this partnership, our schools received greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity, developed team work capabilities, creativity and self-assurance, increased motivation and interest in foreign art and artistic works or career; enhanced the commitment of local and regional public authorities in the qualitative development of the artistic education and promotion of artistic events; increased our experience in artistic and European Cultural Diversity acquired by the people involved by partner institutions and other relevant stakeholders after 2 years of the project. Our experience in partnership projects allowed us to know that our students and we teachers improved and developed several skills while working as an international network."

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.