Changing the world requires one step at a time. The COSMUS project is the first step in this process, by way of teaching the participants knowledge of diverse cultures and an understanding of how to live together, in a perspective of global citizenship. 

Objectives

• To develop strategies of social integration, intercultural understanding, a sense of belonging and of valuing people. These strategies are achieved in the contexts of school, community and the city. 
• To promote formal and non-formal learning processes through transference of skills, digital literacy, ICT and multimedia, as well as communication in both native and foreignlanguages.
• Promoting the capacity for social and civic responsibility and entrepreneurship in cultural, aesthetic and artistic environments. 
• To satisfy the needs of training and learning of teachers and pupils in a meaningful way and at the level where there is flexibility in the approach of the application of the curriculum. This is achieved through collaborative work, as a team or independently, by sharing and building knowledge responsibly as well as through a logic of innovation, creativity and problem solving.

At the invitation of the Project coordination, the intervention of the Department of Museology/CeiED consisted of coordinating training actions with the schools involved in the project.

Research Team

• Mário Moutinho
• Miguel Feio
• João Mouro
• Adelaide Silva
• Ewelina Swiedrych
• Joanna Dera
• Engin Sofu
• Serkan Benli
• Laura Uixera-Cotano
• Pau Alonso-Monasterio
• Wim Simoens
• Christophe Vandenberghe
• Charlotte Depoorter
• Laura Deschuymer
• Clementina Nogueira
• Mário Antas
• Arijana Medvedec
• Despina Daravinga
• Haris Dimitrakopoulos
• Sofia Nika
• Miron Mirela
• Chiribau Albu Mihaela
• Cozma Georgiana
• Axinte Petronela
• Mariangela Sapienza
• Álvaro Militi
• Maria Ricciardello

Partners

• Externato Frei Luís de Sousa
• Colegiul National de Arta “Octav Bancila” Iasi, Romania, 
• Associação Almada Mundo, Almada, Portugal
• Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 1, Wroclaw, Poland, 
• Istituto Istruzione, Capo d’Orlando, Italy
• Ismail Sefa Ozler, Adana, Turkey, 
• Associació Meraki Projectes de València, Valencia, Spain
• Eekhout Academy, Kortrijk, Belgium,
• Kallitehniko Gymnasio, Thessaloniki, Greece, 
• Instituto Piaget, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
• Departament of Museology of Lusófona University (Coordination of COSMUS’ training program)