HERO;This project depends on feeling a real necessity to be educated on learning a foreiogn language and arise the level of consciousness about cultural values by using effective ways that excite learners and teachers,like cultural figures.Enthusiastic and social students' dense insists made us concentrate on this project.Because there is an excessive individualism which leads students to forget others. Also because of having an aim like being a member of EU,it has been thought that something must be done about cultural interaction. One of the basic aim is to spread the consciousness of being European. This awareness solely can be improved by learning the cultural figures or values of relevants. By integrating cultural figures of societies we aimed to break up the prejudices among cultures and increase the level of tolerance. And we believe that our environment-especially participants-need to be minded about intercultural values. The outcomes and values of this project will make a new line in our educational methods and give us new viewpoints to EU.In addition,as the project coordinator we aimed proving that all people can be educated not only by limited inners but also by these kinds of free projects. The participating organisations aim at reinforcing cooperation between students,schools,and also communities in what concers the promotion of values decreasing level of people's misunderstanding issues and improving academic achievement in schools by sharing good practises in enhancing and promoting values. For all these purpoes motto HERO(Hospitality,Education,Relation,Opprtunity) took place in our project's headline. Activitios were designed to achive the objectives of the project having in mind the need to develop entreprenevrihip(making videos about cultural heros etc.) autonomy(All the tasks will be performed in English; videos,presentations,using blog and facebook,etwinnig) The quality of a project requines being educacted and expert.So our coordinactors attented seminer about EU projects at diferent times. While maintaining the project we will especially focus on the methodology of Education from the nearest to furthest. Monitoring and evulation will be used in continnuous process of avsesing the progress mod to wards stated objectives so that gaps between the original project plan and actual achievements can be identified and corrected. We prepored a disseminaiton plan to promote an angoing exchange of information.For this reason we prepared a blog and used facebook toraise awerenes of cotribution of students community and schools.Also we aim to prepare a welosite to share experiences and new ideas about project. This project consists of 4 teachers and 3 students for each school. Af the of the project all partners will acquire new learning and teaching methods,gain new experiences in the field of cultural education,like cooperation,time management team /group work ...etc. All in all they will be profesional about intercuntural interaction,overcome cultural bias,learn daily language,have self importance of learning by doing.
CULTURAL FIGURES This project was born on the E-twinning platform, after feeling a real necessity to be educated on learning a foreign language in a different way ( by traveling, meeting people from different countries and cultures) and arise the level of consciousness about cultural values by using effective ways that excite learners and teachers, like each partner's culturalfigures. Being a candidate of EU,it was thought that something must be done about cultural interaction. One of the basic aim was to spread the consciousness of being European. This awareness could only be improved by learning about each other's cultural figures, culture and traditions. By integrating cultural figures from different societies, we aimed to break up the prejudices among cultures and increase the level of tolerance. The outcomes and values of this project ( enhanced European identity through the understanding of cultural diversity; improved knowledge of the cultural heritage of the partner countries;crashing the cultural bias occuring between partners' countries from different regions; learning to show respect to other people and cultures from different countries and regions; giving attention the universal human rights and common humanity culture; realizing the fact that the importance of peace in world; students to show pride and respect in their local, regional and national traditions and culture as well as others’ through an inter-cultural approach; increasing the learning opportunities of the students in terms of life-long experiences; widening the students' perspectives by gaining personal experiences; acquire awareness of being a candidate European Union citizen; knowledge and application of the fundamental principles and elements of time management;understanding the notion of quality in education in an European context; information regarding teaching systems in our partner schools and countries;) made a new line in our educational methods and gave us new viewpoints to E.U. The participating organizations ( Péter András Gimnázium és Szigeti Endre Szakképzo Iskola from Hungary, Zespol Szkol w Jezierzycach from Polandand „Regina Maria” High-school, Dorohoi, Romania, Elbistan Imkb Fen Lisesi from Turkey,) aimed at reinforcing cooperation between students, schools, and also communities in what concerns the promotion of cultural values,decreasing in this way the level of people's misunderstanding and improving academic achievement in schools by sharing good practices in enhancing and promoting the European values. The motto of the project,which was founded with the help of our students, the acronym HERO stands for - Hospitality,Education,Relation,Opportunity, and in time, took prominence in our project's headline.Activities were designed to achieve the objectives of the project having in mind the need to develop entrepreneurship (making videos or presentations about cultural heroes etc.) autonomy (all the tasks were performed in English - the videos, presentations,usingthe platforms Facebook and E-twinnig) The quality of a project required being educated and expert. During the project we especially focused on the methodology of Education from the nearest to furthest. Monitoring and evaluation were done by each partner, before, during and after each mobility, through observation, discussions with the people involved in it, by questionnaires. This continuous process of assessment of the progress made towards the stated objectives was realized so that gaps between the original project plan and actual achievements could be identified and corrected.We prepared a dissemination plan to promote an ongoing exchange of information. For this reason we prepared a blog and used Facebook to raise awereness of our students, community and schools. Also we prepared a web site to share experiences and new ideas about project. This project consisted in one transnational meeting in Hungary, where 2 teachers from each partner country attended, and 2 LLP activities where 3 teachers and 5 students for each school participated. During the project all partners acquired new learning and teaching methods,gained new experiences in the field of cultural education, like cooperation, time management, team /group work...etc. All in all, we became professional about inter-cultural interaction, overcome cultural bias, learned new things about each other and even ourselves, uses English as a communication tooland gained a lot of learning by doing different kind of activities