The primary schools; from TURKEY, LITHUANIA, SLOVAKIA, SPAIN, ROMANIA will create an Erasmus+ KA219 Strategic Partnership Project , titled "Beware of Endless Wealth; Art is Revising European Values!". Our project BEWARE of Vs! aims to promote moral values in European Union using all the branches of Art. Moral values are important in our lives to live in peace altogether. Considering that as a result of globallization of the World, individualism of the people because of the rapidly developing high technology and increasing loneliness and selfishness of the people, we observe that moral values are being deteriorated nowadays. We want to work on the morality to creat a community living together friendly. Hence, we-the teachers- who are responsible for education of all our pupils-our target group- by all means, would like to improve a complementary way of teaching morality in our schools. Art is the most common way among all the people from all over the world that touches the deepest emotions of the human beings. That's why we 've chosen art as a means, in our project, to achieve our goal; teaching fundamental values in European Area, we have planned this project as a transnational one. The objectives of this project is;-to integrate art into teaching morality in schools-to promote the morality in European Union-to rise up the students' sense of belonging to European Union-to scale up the awareness of the pupils and people about morality-to decrease the conflict between people touching their hearts via art and morals-to establish friendship between the partners-to develop the students and the teachers' basic art skills, English language skills, communication and ICT skills-to creat a peaceful environment in our intstitutions and regions-to rise up our students' enterpreneurship-to integrate our disadvantaged students into public-to compare the partner countries' institutions, educational systems, pedagogical materials, cultures, geographies, histories and their sense of morality-to contribute to rincrease our students' attendance to schools and diminish the drop out-to encourage our students to higher education and learn foreign language-to enlarge our students' vision-to provide our pupils to step in an international platformThe participants of this project are;-the volunteer students, parents and the teachers in our schools and other schools in our cities of 5 partners-the volunteer people in the stakeholders, in the other institutions and publicThe activities of this project dealing with the values of "respect, empathy, tolerance, justice and friendship"are ;-creating a "wall" of each value on which the drawings, photos and handmade crafts of the students will be exhibited-creating a chorus which will compose an English child song being generated of 5 stanza; each stanza relevant to each value-Putting a play on the stage -a Movie Day will be organised-flash mobs to "Disabled Center""Education and Training Center"-a photo exhibition with the photos of pinhole technique cameras-trekkking to nature for Friendship-video film contest-signature campaign "Respect to Differences"-arranging a "Justice Torch Parade"-preparing leaflets and broshures-dance performances "Dance for Tolerance"-organising "Traditional Children's Games Ceremony"-organising "Night of Art"Methodology of this project; The methodology we intend to use will be workshops, CLIL lessons, group and pair works, presentations, exhibitions, excursions to the related facilities, contests, group discussions, reflections and games in which we deal with the art branches; painting, music, dance, dramatization and sculpturing besides many interactive activities. The results envisaged;-a DVD of "Child song on Fundamental Values"-a DVD of "Dramatization on Fundamental Values"-a booklet of "The Intergation of Art into Teaching Morals and Good Implementations"The impacts envisaged;-Teaching fundamental values will be promoted-The branches of art will be integrated into teaching the mentioned morals-The students will be more aware of the morals-The students' basic artistic skills, English skills, communication and ICT skills will be scale up-Their inner world will be enrich and their vision will be enlarged, their academic success will develop-The morals will be improved in European Union-The pupils' sense of belonging in European Union will increase-Teachers will improve their professional skills-The disadvantaged students will become more sociableThe longer term benefit;-The quality of teaching morality and the presence of art in schools will be enhanced-The recognition and dignity of our institutions will increase
Europe is a multicultural space without frontiers in which many nations and nationalities live. Everyone is different, so everyone is looking for ways to co-operate with each other in peace, the respect and the audacity in this space. Therefore primary schools from Turkey, Romania, Lithuania Spain and Slovakia have created an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project with the title "Beware of Endless Wealth; Art is Revising European Values!" 2016-1-SK01-KA219-022538. Our project is innovative and points to a progressive view of education. The main objective of the project has been to promote moral values in the European Union using all branches of Art, because art is a way of interacting with people around the world that touches the deepest emotions of the human beings. That's why we chose art as a means to achieve our goal, teaching moral values in Europe. The target group were the pupils of lower secondary ages, from twelve to fifteen: pupils from the disadvantaged social environment, as well pupils motivated by the arts. The project included five learning mobilities with pupils, workshops in galleries with regional artists, creative interactive activities, competitions, group discussions, reflections, excursions and games. Through activities such as trekking in nature, signing campaign, torchlight parade, interactive activities, exhibitions and others - bonds of friendship strengthened at the local. national and international level. Our pupils also developed ICT skills, as well as communicative skills in English language through art, moral values and team work. As examples of good school practice, we bring three outcomes from our international project. One of them is the song about values with the title "Values Song" consisting of five stanzas focused on friendship, empathy, tolerance, justice and respect - the values forming young people in Europe. The second outcome of the project is the drama performance titled "Drama and Justice" which consists of five demonstrations of theatrical performances on the subject of justice. Each demonstration represents one of five countries. The teaching aid "Drama and Justice" on DVD can be a practical demonstration of interdisciplinary relationships for the English, Literature, Art, Civics teachers. The third outcome is the booklet titled "How to Implement Art into teaching Moral Values" in which the teachers can find ready CLIL lessons, ideas for workshops and activities using he branches of art - sculpture, painting, drama, music, dance and Moral Values and English to teach interdisciplinary. There was the "Night of Arts" which took place at the end of the project. There were all kinds of created artwork presented by our pupils. It can be assumed that more than five thousand people have been informed of the project's results. It is possible to prove that branches of art, such as sculpture, music, drama, dance and painting connect people with different cultures and different religions. Our pupils have gained new insights, experiences that will help them to develop their empathy, tolerance and thoughtfulness, and in the future they will create Europe friendlier to all its inhabitants. All participants of the project have realized the importance to live in peace, they are more tolerant and their awareness of equality and justice have increased. Our pupils have learnt greater responsibility towards themselves and towards other people. They respect other people´s opinions and have gained valuable insights into foreign cultures and religions. Teachers have gained new approaches to creative teaching. They are more motivated to work on international projects and open to European culture. Our project reinforced the creation and dissemination of innovation in education by linking CLIL lessons. The project promoted pupils' skills in art, led pupils to realize the importance of moral values for today's world. Through the project, we supported pupils from the socially disadvantaged environment and the regular school attendance has been increased. We also supported talented pupils in arts and in their personal development.The project also contributed to the understanding of the principle of equality, helped to find new friendships for our pupils. All participants of the project and schools could enter the international platform through the project and belong to the great community of the European Union.