Our project "The More You Know, The More You Love" that will last for nearly 2 years, combines 5 partner countries from Turkey, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. We have planned 5 LTT activities for short-term exchanges of groups of pupils with 5 students and 2 accompanying persons and 1 short-term joint staff training event with 4 teachers from each partner country. The teachers who will take part in the project have the knowledge, skills and language skills to manage this process successfully. 5 different students in every mobility during the project will benefit, a total of 25 students is to be appointed. Our criteria for the selection of the participant students are; they are supposed to have responsibility, willingness and language skills, ability to work in groups. The students who have these criteria will be assessed for language skills.This assessment will be set by a committee of English teachers at our school. In case of a large number of students with the same criteria, priority will be given to the students who are unable to take part in transnational activities economically. During our project, folk songs, folkloric dances, festivals, traditional rituals which are part of cultural identity will be organized and the young people will become social and will be tolerant to each other and recognize each other's cultures. In this project we will use methods such as drama, play, learning by doing, group work in transnational events. The countries participating in the project need to see their cultures to recognize each other, or to experience as a part of that culture for even a short-term. Because culture reflects society. We want to recognize and promote the architectural structure, music, handicrafts, folk dances, culinary culture of countries with this project. During these meetings cultural excursions will also be organized to promote historical and cultural values apart from educational activities.As a product of our project, a mini dictionary consisting of everyday expressions of the participating countries, a collection of folk songs and folk dances from each participating country will be prepared and used for the target groups as dissemination activities. "The More You Know, The More You Love" aims to promote, maintain and share cultural values. Thanks to this project we want to contribute to the personal and social development of our students and teachers. We want to stay close to the distances, be close to students, and establish permanent friendships, so we want to contribute even a little bit to the world peace. We aim to bring cultural riches together with our project, to meet at events of different cultures and to contribute to the formation of conscious youth.We want to pass on our cultural heritage to the next generations and introduce them to individuals in different countries. At the same time, we want individuals to learn their own cultural, national and spiritual values and to be contemporary, open-minded and love each other. Our project aims to overcome cultural conflicts without considering religion, language, race and gender differences, to combat prejudices and to cooperate in tolerance environment to provide. With this project, we want to help our young people become individuals who own their own values, who respect the values of other countries, who are self-confident, thinking, inquiring, acting in their own creativity. To create a team spirit in students, to be "we" rather than "I", to produce something hand in hand and use it is one of our most important purposes.Those who have learned the cultures of each other and have succeeded in being tolerant will serve for world peace in the future. Thanks to this project, participant teachers will increase their confidence, develop language skills, establish international relations, learn different cultures. In this way, the teachers who have improved their skills will open the horizons of their students and they will increase the quality of their schools. Our school will be recognized internationally and will be preferred by students. It shouldn't be ignored the fact that our project will provide economic benefits and employment for the participating countries locally, as well as the contributions we have mentioned above. It will be created love, respect and tolerance among the participants from different cultures. Cultural bridges will be built by carrying out different cultural activities and communication skills of students will improve.
Our project "The more you know, the more you love", developed for almost 3 years, combines 4 partner countries from: Romania, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. The partner from Spain withdrew from the beginning of the project, his tasks being distributed to the other participants. 3 LTT activities were organized for short-term exchanges of groups of students from Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania, with the participation of 67 students and 27 accompanying teachers, plus students and teachers from host schools. Due to the covid pandemic, the group from Turkey was not able to participate in LTT mobility in Romania. The project was extended at the request of the participating countries by one year. The LTT activity in the Czech Republic took place online / practically and was attended by 85 students and 25 teachers from all 4 partner countries. A short term joint staff training event was organized by the coordinating country Romania: "The role and impact of cultures on society", with the participation of 20 teachers from partner countries. The teachers who participated in the project were selected based on their knowledge, organizational skills and language skills to successfully manage this project. Our criteria for selecting students were: - English language skills / at least A2 / and the desire to improve them - The desire to improve their social and communication skills - Knowledge of national culture and traditions - Artistic skills - Ability to work in a team - ICT skills and the desire to improve them - The desire to improve their knowledge of other countries, culture and traditions During our project, workshops were organized that presented folk songs, folk dances, traditional rituals that are part of the cultural identity of the organizing country, and we believe that young people have become more sociable and will be tolerant of each other and they will better appreciate their cultural values. In this project we used methods such as drama, play, work learning, group work in transnational events. The participating schools had the chance to present their local and national cultural values in order to get to know each other and for the chance to offer students traditional cultural experiences even in the short term. We managed to recognize and promote the architectural structure, music , crafts, folk dances, culinary culture of the countries with this project. During these meetings, cultural excursions were organized to promote historical and cultural values, in addition to educational activities. As a product of our project, a mini dictionary consisting of everyday expressions of the participating countries, a collection of folk songs and folk dances from each participant in the country, a course on "The role and impact of cultures on society", a magazine entitled: "The more you know, the more you love-Romania" were prepared and used for the target groups as dissemination activities. "The more you know, the more you love" aims to promote, maintain and share cultural values. Thanks to this project we managed to contribute to the personal and social development of our students and teachers. We managed to stay close regardless of distances, to be close to students and to establish permanent friends, to contribute even a little to world peace. We brought cultural richness together with our project, to meet at events from different cultures and we contributed to the formation of conscious young people. We managed to pass on our cultural heritage to future generations and present it to people in different countries. At the same time, we believe that the participants learned from their own cultural, national and spiritual values and to be contemporary, open-minded and loving. Our project has managed to overcome cultural conflicts, without taking into account the differences between religion, language, race and gender, to combat prejudice and to cooperate in an environment of tolerance to be offered. With this project we help our young people to become individuals who have their own values, who respect the values of other countries, who are self-confident, think, ask, act in their own creativity. Creating a team spirit in students, being “us” rather than “me”, producing something hand in hand and using it was one of our most important goals. The participating schools have been recognized internationally and we believe that in the future they will be preferred by students. Cultural bridges built through various cultural activities and students' communication skills will be improved in the future by providing communication channels to participants that will remain open for at least 2 years after the completion of the project.