TACEV has been awarded funding from the European Union's Erasmus+ programme for “ROOTS & ROUTES – Preserving Cultural Heritage through Digital Storytelling”, a project in which it is a partner.
The project, accepted under small-scale partnerships in the field of school education, is coordinated by Szkoła Podstawowa im. gen. Józefa Bema, a primary school in Poland;
the primary schools CEIP Blas Infante from Spain and Osnovna škola Kralja Zvonimira from Croatia are also among the partners.
In the project, which began on 1 September 2026 and will run for 24 months, students aged 8–12 will interview older people in their communities to record traditions and stories that are at risk of being lost.
At least 30 digital story cards created from these recordings will be brought together in Polish, Croatian, Spanish and Turkish in the freely accessible “Digital Story Atlas”.
The main aim of the project is to help children get to know and respect different cultures, and to help students from migrant families feel that their own culture is valued.
As the only non-school organisation in the partnership, TACEV will train teachers from the partner schools in interviewing and digital content production, set up the Atlas's online platform and carry out quality control of the cards produced.
Our foundation will also prepare an open-access implementation guide so that the method can be used by other schools and organisations across Europe.
The project's first face-to-face activity, a teacher training course, will take place in Poland on 9–13 November 2026, led by TACEV experts.
This is the second project in which TACEV has taken part under the Erasmus+ programme.
