Story Seeds - from Ireland to Italy (and back again!)

Title: Story Seeds - from Ireland to Italy (and back again!) 

Authors: 24 classes from Ireland and Milan 

Date published: June 2025 

We are thrilled to present the fruits of CESDA—Creative Education for Primary Schools in Disadvantaged Areas, a collaboration between Fighting Words in Dublin and La Grande Fabbrica delle Parole inMilan. This Erasmus+ project brings together children, educators, and communities from Ireland and Italy through the power of storytelling.

What emerged is a bilingual story sharing project where, over the course of 10 months, more than 500 children from 12 primary schools in areas facing educational disadvantage co-wrote these tales: each story began in one school, centered on their local community, then was passed across borders, and continued in another school, which added the flavor of their own local community, creating a truly shared narrative between classrooms and cultures.

In this collection we have battles with purple monsters, rocket journeys, hot air balloon adventures, tackling mummies running from both criminals and the police and much more. This project was kindly funded by the EU and supported by Léargas.