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"The project has been conceived in consideration of the fact that modern languages have become extremely synthetic due to ever more frequent use of modern instruments that support very quick and vanishing contacts. The main objective of the project is to consider narration as a metaphor of life and of an ever changing society that promotes a more inclusive citizenship. The project intends to create a strategic networking among organizations in education and training fields (Bimed and Pegaso Online University) and four secondary schools of different European countries, working on initiatives to promote the active participation of students in social life, with particular attention to students coming from disadvantaged contexts. The project is based on the transfer and implementation at a European level of an innovative good practice called “Relay of Creative Writing and Legality” which aims at providing students the necessary instruments for reading, writing, doing and being during the academic curriculum. This practice has been widely experimented by Bimed nationwide since 2004 and this year has involved about 1000 primary and secondary schools. In 2013 and 2014 the project has been awarded the “Prize for higher educational value” from the President of the Italian Republic. In our project, each European school will involve in the Relay two teachers and two groups of ten students each. The opening words of the story will be given by a famous writer and will be sent to the first school which will write the first chapter and will transfer it to another school which will write the second chapter, and so on until the end of the story. Pegaso University will be responsible for the translation and the publication of the final story in the different languages of the participating schools. Students and teachers will be supported by two innovating tools specifically developed for the project: • the Cyrano online platform, developed by Bimed, that will allow the students in different countries to chat through a dedicated chatroom provided with a simultaneous translation system and will help them to debate around the development of the common story; • a blended training course for the teachers on “Creative Writing for inclusion and citizenship”, which entails one week face to face training in Italy and four month online training, through the Pegaso University e-learning platform, and will provide teachers the necessary skills to assist students in the relay. Moreover, in line with the above, the project will involve developing in students other creative competencies. Therefore, students will be given the opportunity to make videos concerning the topics covered in the story. This way the project intends to promote new types of learning approaches that enrich and complete traditional methods. With regard to dissemination activities, four multiplier events will be organized, one in each participating country. The events will represent the opportunity to spread the four intellectual outputs developed during the project. In fact, in the first and second event the multilingual platform and the course on creative writing will be presented respectively. In the third event a small festival of short films will be held to present videos made by students. During the final event called ""Festival of Inclusion"", the story translated into the languages of the partners will be presented in book form. The intellectual outputs are all tangible products whose usefulness will not be limited to the temporal and geographic scope of the project. In fact, they will be made freely available and promoted through open licenses, in order to allow the use outside the participating institutes and to the public at large. On the occasion of the Inclusion Festival, the students of the four schools will meet and will take part in a Summer school, which will take place in the beautiful natural park of Tremiti Islands, the most marginal area of Europe, an environment among the most beautiful in the world, but, because of the lack of services, completely abandoned by young people between 18 and 25 years. Cooperation between students of four different countries will allows them to acquire the ability to operate internationally overcoming the social, linguistic and cultural diversities."
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