This is a social and cultural Project,where everybody is chosen according to their interests and abilities in the project topics and foreign language.It is supporting intercultural dialogue and our main goals are social adaptation,cultural transmission socialising,without any discrimination. Among our goals are comparing cultures and knowing the importance of our own culture.We aim to identify our common and different values and build bridges between cultures.We want to do cultural and sportive activities about literature, music, dance, art, clothes, dishes, and local historical topics.We aim to experience EU culture closely and bring our institute to a point that has reached cultural harmony.Students will learn about different cultures and build new international friendships.Cultural differences will be met with tolerance.All individuals will develop in quality and quantity and finally will have a rich cultural accumulation. Profile Turkey,Italy,Croatia,Greece and Portugal are partner schools in this project.Each school will choose 4 students for each mobility.These students will be chosen according to their ability in folklore,music,English,literature,art and history.2 teachers with proper branches for the each activity will attend the mobilities. Activities Each country’s participants will present its cities local history through short movies.Each country will present a local dance Show.In English prepared sketches will be presented.Each country will represent its local art through Powerpoint and a final common painting of each local art will be painted. Each partner will teach the others their local songs and a mixed group of all students will present these songs on the final day.Students playing an instrument will show their performances.Each country will introduce their local dishes to the other partner countries. Methods used during the project Game based learning,Communicative Method,Collboration,Motivation and Creativity across the curriculum,Visual-Audial slide show,Student Centered Group Works, Animation. Results Partner schools will transfer the good practices.The partner schools will continue their connections.They will provide the continuity of the friendship,cultural cooperation and solidarity.Participants will get experience in foreign languages. They will become individuals having increased their social performance, open to foreign culture, increased to moral and motivation values, sharing and enterprising.With the transfer of the European innovative and succesful local culture education methods and executions,the quality of our school’s education will rise.Education standarts will be on international level. Students will prepare a brochure, banners and presentations and write diaries,and organise a photograph exhibition. Envisaged Impact Increasing cultural education activities Providing Education materials about learning about our neighbours A close cooperation between the town municipality and the school Enriching the creative urban local cultural programme with education are the expected local effects. Students will gain an educational development and ability to use this development.The improvement of the school atmosphere, openness and improving the cooperation between the other country schools,establishing a strong relationship between students and teachers,a better team work between education and management departments,a better team work between teachers are expected. Experiencing different education methods, knowledge experience about new topics, knowledge experience about European Union,knowing the partner countries’ education systems, creating strong bonds with the partner countries’ teachers, improving Project management abilities,improving English,opportunity to know other languages than English,improving social abilities,motivation to work with a disciplined group are expected. Self-confidence, knowledge experience about European Union, knowledge about partner countries’ life style and education, local culture knowledge, strong bonds with the partner schools’ students,motivation and improving foreign language abilities, improving team work, improving social abilities, showing interest and tolerance to other countries’ language and culture are expected. Targets Strenghtening the European level of the participating schools in our Project. Increasing transfrontial cooperation capacity. Improving the ability to handle with new difficulties This Corporation will also encourage participation and tolerance values as mentioned in the Paris Declaration. Longer –Term Benefits The School,teachers and students will form a viewpoint which is meeting cultural differences with tolerance. All activities will have a possitive reflection in life. Some methods and techniques will be used in the lesson. Attending students will become individuals developed in quality and quantity with a rich cultural accumulation having experienced EU culture and founded transnational friendships.
Our project was about presenting our local culture in the categories of history,dances,art,literature, music and food to our partners and getting to know theirs. Students taking part in the project were chosen according to their interests and abilities according to the project topics and foreign language. Our aim was to support intercultural dialogue and our main goals were social adaptation,cultural transmission,socialising without any discrimination and getting to know European lifestyle and culture.Everybody got the opportunity to compare cultures and be aware of the importance of our own culture.We identified our common and different values and built bridges between cultures all around Europe.We made many cultural and sportive activities about literature, music, dance, art, clothes, dishes, and local historical topics.Students and teachers experienced EU culture closely. Students learnt about different cultural habits and built new international friendships.Cultural differences were met with tolerance.All individuals developed in quality and quantity and finally had a rich cultural accumulation. Turkey,Italy,Croatia,Greece,Portugal and Romania were partner schools in this project. We chose our partners from e-Twinning and Project partner search platforms. 4 students and 2 teachers took part in the mobilities. Of course the number of chosen students and teachers changed in the virtual mobilities. Each country’s participants presented its cities local history through short movies in Croatia.Local dances were prepared and presented in Italy.Sketches about local habits were written,rehearsed and presented in Greece.Local artists were presented to the other partners through Powerpoint and students painted different symbols of their hometowns in Portugal. Students presented their local singers and song writers and sang songs in their own language in Romania.Some of them played instruments during the virtual mobility.Each partner school prepared visuals of their students preparing a local dish and showed them at the virtual mobility in Turkey. Methods we used during the mobilities were Game based learning,Communicative Method,Collboration,Motivation and Creativity across the curriculum,Visual-Audial slide show,Student Centered Group Works, Animation. The Partners in this project transferred the good practices between each other.Students and teachers still continue their connections.This project provided the continuity of new friendships,cultural cooperation and solidarity.Participants experienced new foreign languages. Students became individuals having increased their social performance, open to foreign culture, increased to moral and motivation values, sharing and enterprising. Students prepared a lot of materials for each mobility,which they later also presented at their own schools and also on Erasmus Days Exhibitions. Students gained an educational development and the ability to use this development.An improvement in the school atmosphere was witnessed,other students became more interested to take part in new projects and were eager to show themselves.The cooperation between the other country schools established a strong relationship between students and teachers. Different education methods and a wider knowledge about the European Union were experienced by students and teachers. Teachers got the opportunity to learn each others education systems, a strong bond was built between the partner countries’ teachers which ended in improving Project management abilities. Students improved their English and got the opportunity to know other languages than English, they improved their social abilities and built up a motivation to work with disciplined groups. Their self-confidence increased while they experienced knowledge about partner countries’ life style and education and local culture. They formed strong bonds with their peers and improved their foreign language abilities,team work,social abilities,interest and tolerance to other countries’ language and culture. The European level of the participating schools in our Project was strenghtened.The ability to handle with new difficulties was improved.This Corporation also encouraged participation and tolerance values as mentioned in the Paris Declaration. Schools,teachers and students formed a viewpoint which was meeting cultural differences with tolerance. All activities had a positive reflection in everybodies life.The attending students became individuals who had developed in quality and quantity with a rich cultural accumulation having experienced EU culture and founded transnational friendships.