Eleni Despotidou, a member of the Pedagogical Group of the Vamos
Environmental Education Center, completed the first Erasmus + mobility in
Seville, Spain. Erasmus + Project Title: "Nature and Culture as Tools for
Intercultural Education" approved by S.S.F. (State Scholarships
Foundation) under programme code: 2019-1-EL01-KA104-062085. This move was made
in the context of training members of the
Vamos E.E.C. Pedagogical Team on innovative teaching methods so
as to incorporate new tools and techniques into the EEC curricula.
The Chain Foundation's ‘Las Otras Orillas’ programme refers to the
links between the city of Seville and North Africa and the New World (America).
Visits to archaeological excavations, monuments, cathedrals,
synagogues, mosques, palaces, cemeteries, in the Castle of the Inquisition
in Seville, Cordoba, Tarifa, Cadiz, Bailo Claudia and other places.
During the programme there was an onsite observation and study on
the shaping of the culture and architecture of the area in contact with
different cultures (Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Arabs / Mauritanians) and
religions (Christian, Muslim, Jewism) combined with trade, discoveries and
more. References have been made through poetry and arts related to immigration
through time.
All in the light of the
constant movement and exchange of populations to and from Europe - immigration,
refugees, exploratory expeditions.
