The fundamental aim of the project is to improve young people's intercultural communicative competence in a complex, knowledge, skill, attitude and responsibility based manner. The pedagogic experience confirmed with a measurement gave the fundamental idea of the project, according to which the young do not know the EU in a suitable depth although they were already born in one of the European Union's member states. However, in order to let this European human, social community be able to grow for the ones living in it – particularly for the young - they must consider it to be their own and have to take an active role in the life of this union. Human relations, friendships, the knowledge of the other nations’ cultural values are all the key to becoming a European citizen. This project does intend to facilitate this process. We are planning to develop the intercultural communicative competence along with six different cultural segments: national parks, world heritage, national holidays, traditions, gastronomy, family celebrations. The thematic processing of a single cultural area is carried out by students by dint of mentor teachers and experts in between the periods of the mobility (approx. 700 students are active in the partnership momentarily), and the most active students will present the results of their research work at the project meetings in an interactive, witty, creative way. In the course of the analysing and researching work, besides the change of the students' cultural knowledge and skills, their command of the English language, their digital literacy and reading comprehension are about to improve as well. Short-range teacher mobility comes true in parallel with the project meetings, during which with the host country's co-ordination, the educators will acquire experience and knowledge with respect to training, teaching methodology, as well as they support and control the youngsters’ knowledge growth relative to cultural topics and lend a hand with the improvement and advancement of personal connections among the young. For the practical implementation of the project, seven countries (HU, PL, PT, S, NO, LT and TR) will work in partnership and it is Hungary that undertakes the coordinator role. Each country's youngsters and teachers will meet in person on the basis of a prepared schedule beforehand. At least two students and one teacher will be sent as representatives on the project meetings. The last, closing project meeting in Hungary will be held as part of Szentendre Spring Cultural Festival 2020, thus the results of the international cooperation will gain wide-ranging publicity considering that Szentendre is a tourist and cultural centre, whose visitors represent many nations. In the interest of the quality assurance of the project, the participant schools' management (headmaster, financial chief officer, project coordinator and topic leader) will attend a kick-off, interval and closing transnational project meeting in compliance with the schedule of the project. All the partners are committed to fulfil a high quality implementation of the project. The products made in the course of the realisation of the project (EU-quiz, CD/DVD knowledge materials, issues, web App Socrative formative assessments), the good practices and experiences will be shared in public, as well as their own pedagogic community will perform the practical application of all the increments of the project so as to develop their own methodological skills. The efficiency of the project will be assessed in accordance with pre-specified indicators and the long-term effects of the project on the young will also be looked into. The personality changes of the students collaborating in the project means the most important, long-term effect of the project, as a result of which they will become such citizens that will respect each other's culture, interpret the human rights well and be able to act in favour of Europe's society.
Traditions Across Borders project: Seven countries’ seven schools from Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey made an agreement in order to contribute and fulfil the goals of this project. We believed that accepting and respecting culture and habits of other nations is possible if we are acquainted with other countries. The participating countries represent different parts and culture of Europe. Six fields of intercultural sphere were focused on this project, namely gastronomy in Portugal, traditions in Poland, national parks in Lithuania, national holidays in Norway, family holidays in Sweden and world heritage sites in Hungary. Through these topics participants improved their intercultural competences and foreign language competences. By carrying out the project's tasks participants used different ICT devices and applications which strengthened digital skills and competences of the students and teachers. The project started with Kick-off meeting held between 17 and 19 October in 2017, in Szentendre, Hungary. The project coordinator, Hungary (HU) organized programmes and activities of the Kick-off meeting. The meeting agenda included essential topics, such as introductions, financial issues, introduction of workflow and tasks for implementation of the project. LI, S, NO, PL, PT, HU partners had own theme area of the project. The learning,teaching,training activities were held in the host country organized by focus on the chosen cultural area. In each Learning,Teaching,Training Activities (6 times), all seven nations represented (except in case of world heritage sites due to pandemic), where participants, students and teachers met. Each partner delegated at least 2 students and 1 teacher on the learning, teaching, training activities. In case of TR only teachers attended at meetings because they represented a primary school. The description of the LTTA-s is available in the section of implementation of the report. Learning, Teaching, Training Activities were based on the following activities: introduction of host school, presentation of the given topics' material e.g. PPTs, completing socrative quiz by using socrative application, introduction of short films of the given topic, cultural pro-grammes based on the actual topic of the meeting. eg. visiting national park etc., team building programmes, certification ceremony. Interval transnational project meeting of the project was held between 2 and 06 of December in 2018 in Denizli, Turkey. The purpose of the meeting was to summarize, evaluate the results of the first 3 blended mobility by introductions of films, presentations that were created by students and teachers. Partner schools’ management members took place on the meeting from Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey. Traditions Across Borders, 3- year long strategic partnership KA2 project reached its final day on 31st August in 2020.The sixth blended mobility of Tradition Across Borders project was held between 17 and 21 of August 2020 in Szentendre, Hungary. The main topic of the project meeting was based on world Heritage Sited. Due to pandemic situation worldwide the original plan of the project had to be changed drastically, organised programmes, agenda and meetings were cancelled. New regulations, and modification of travelling regulations let partners have the meetings but with very different circumstances. Hungarian partner as coordinator organized blended and closing meetings between 17 and 21 of August in 2020 in Szentendre, Hungary. Closing meeting was held between 19 and 21 August 2020.Participants from Portugal and Poland managed to be participated on the meetings. Partners from Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Turkey could not join the meetings due travelling restrictions. On the presentations’ day students from Hungary, Poland and Portugal introduced presentations of world heritage sites of their countries. Partners from Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Turkey represented their presentations of the topic world heritage sites via Zoom application. During the video call partners summarized the outcome of the 3-year long project. Programmes and activities were organized by the host partner school. Teachers, students and staff of the school were involved in all activities and programmes. Host country organised excursions and trips in order to discover world heritage sites of Hungary.Cultural trips, programmes were in Budapest, Hollókő, Eger, Lake Balaton, Tihany. Visiting these sites of Hungary meant to be great cultural, emotional experience to all participants. The partners closed the week with certification ceremony, giving an overall evaluation of the project, and made agreement if it is possible participated together in strategic partnership in the future. The materials such as photos, short films, videos, presentations of the 3-year project are available on Facebook site: Traditions Across Borders Eplus on the participated schools' website and http://traditionsacrossborders.com/.http://petzeltj.hu/aktualis-palyazatok/traditions-across-borders, https://www.facebook.com/e.traditionsacrossborders.9, https://www.facebook.com/groups/291714468000968/ on the participated schools' websites.A presentation attached to the report, it contains photos of the the 3 year long project.