THE YOUNG KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND EUROPEAN TABLE

The project was strictly linked to the topic of the European Year of CulturalHeritage. The cooperation among four different European countries- Italy,Portugal, Poland, Latvia saw teachers, of different subjects, and as many aspossible young students aged from 11 to 14 enthusiastically sat around ourhuge European table with the intention to discover as much as possibleabout old and new traditions in cuisine. Food was the leitmotif of theproject around which a lot of planned activities were made in order toachieve objectives which came from specific priorities. Social andeducational value of European Cultural Heritage was one of the mostimportant on which the objectives were planned.During the duration of the project- 24 months- different activities weremade to achieve the prefixed objectives according to the methodology oflearning by doing. the experience through laboratories and workshops wasthe privileged methodology to carry on the planned activity for the project.So, the students were challenged by creating WEB PAGE, LEAFLETS,CREATING LOGO AND MAKING A LOGO CONTEST, USE OF THE SOCIALMEDIA, CREATIVE WORKSHOPS, PROJECT CORNER IN SCHOOL, ACOOKBOOK.5 mobilities planned in the project, but only 3 made because of Coronvirus: the first one in Italy to define and plan; the other ones to Poland andLatvia as decided by each partner, to realize the activities planned togetherby the use of the etwinning.Due to the pandemic caused by Covid -19, the two-year Erasmus plusproject for the exchange of good practices could not be concluded asplanned together with the partners. The last mobility for teachers andstudents, scheduled in March in Portugal and the final meeting for theconclusion of the project scheduled in May in Italy, at the coordinatingschool, were compulsorily canceled due to force majeure.The teachers involved in the activities at their schools and in their respective countries were busy with the planning of distance learning, to ensure the continuation of the training offer. Taking into account that the situation in Italy was of great emergency and that the lockdown forced the closure of schools from March 6th till the end of june and that this has caused considerable difficulties in the daily management of educational activities, it was considered appropriate do not continue with the Erasmus activities planned and for this reason an appropriate declaration has been produced for the cancellation of the meetings due to” force majeure”.However, in the months preceding the pandemic all the planned activities were completed, so it can be said that the following results were obtained with evident positive impacts, both on the teacher and on the students involved as well as on the whole school community.