Cultural heritage is a link to our past, our present and a bridge to future generations. It is a fact that people in time have neglected it in favour of comfort and a better living standard . There are many reasons why cultural heritage is in danger of extinction nowadays. For instance, urbanization, particularly in terms of buildings construction, industrialization, bad govern policy, wars, natural disasters stands for amounting threats to cultural heritage sites. All this has led to long debates in the name of protecting and preserving cultural heritage. Besides, many youngsters are not aware of the value of their cultural heritage. All the five schools involved in this project belong to areas that have strong features regarding cultural heritage and its preservation conditions (e.g. Lisbon, Șirince, Ephesus, Tsarevets hill, Agrigento, Castellammare, Pietroasele). Participating in this project is regarded as an efficient and pleasant way of learning and developing competences necessary for their success in school, career and civic life. This partnership is unique because of its multidisciplinary approach. We are dealing with European citizenship from different approaches. The objectives we would like to achieve are: to increase the students' awareness of the preservation of cultural heritage and of the importance of Europe's cultural heritage through education, to enhance digital competence and the ability of using English, to exchange ideas and good practices about the topic, to develop the students' imagination, originality, cultural knowledge and general background, to raise awareness of the importance of life-long learning, informal and non-formal learning, to foster intercultural dialogue among the participants, team work, social inclusion and critical thinking, to understand practices, policies and systems of education and training across countries better and to establish networks and partnerships There are 5 partners from 5 different countries (Turkey - the coordinator, Italy, Romania, Portugal and Bulgaria) and each partner organisation brings different experience and competences regarding educational systems, history and cultures in their countries. A huge number of people ( about 1500) is expected to be involved in the activities of our project and will contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the project (e.g. students' range of age is in between 15 and 19 years old, teachers, parents, NGOs, representatives of The Ministry of Culture and of Education and Municipality). We will organise one Short-term joint staff training ( Italy) and four Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during the project (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Turkey). The LLTs are planned to involve students in different kinds of activities related to the topic ( 6 students and 3 teachers). During the LTT in Italy there will be a training for learning how to protect cultural assets(intervention, knowledge and refunctionalization), for Auto CAD, 3D Printer and for how to create an App. Some of the main activities perfomed in LTTs are: a seminar, workshops "Language preservation", "Photo and Music", case study related to the preservation of certain cultural or historical sites and on urban communication, exhibitions, drawing ”The City of the Future”, dictionary of common words, competition “The Best Photographer”, field trips to historical sites, "Cultural Heritage Documentaries”, "Erasmus + Monument Wall", “From Past to Present through the Viewfinder” creating The Mobility and The Activity Evaluation Forms. Our local activities will be: creating and updating an Erasmus+ Corner at schools, organising a logo contest, making web sites and disscussion groups, App and its tutorial, Podcast, 3D Printings, using eTwinning platform, preparing a seminar, an international dictionary, booklet, posters, brochure, leaflets, presentations, exhibitions, photo albums,movies. Methodology to be used for each of the topic, a team will be set up to coordinate the activities and will designate specialized persons to train the participants. The activities will be centred on the student, the teachers are just guides of the activities. We want them experience and learn by doing and discovering. Peer assessment, self-assessment and team work will be methods that will be used during the activities. At the end of the project the participants are expected to be more aware of the importance of preserving cultural heritage,to be active and successful citizens. They will have the chance to develop language and ICT skills, tolerance to other cultures. Dissemination of the project will be provided by websites , social Networks, Erasmus+ corner, seminars, brochures, booklets, posters, local media. At the end of the project, its positive effects on target groups will continue by making results accessible and durable via e-Twinning, our mutual web site,educational and social sites, podcast and App.
Cultural heritage is a link to our past, our present and a bridge to future generations. It is a fact that people in time have neglected it in favor of comfort and a better living standard. There are many reasons why cultural heritage is in danger of extinction nowadays. For instance, urbanization, particularly in terms of buildings construction, industrialization, bad govern policy, wars, natural disasters stand for amounting threats to cultural heritage sites. All this has led to long debates in the name of protecting and preserving cultural heritage. Besides, many youngsters are not aware of the value of their cultural heritage. All the five schools involved in this project belong to areas that have strong features regarding cultural heritage and its preservation conditions (e.g. Lisbon, Șirince, Ephesus, Tsarevets hill, Agrigento, Castellammare, Pietroasele). Participating in this project was regarded as an efficient and pleasant way of learning and developing competences necessary for their success in school, career, and civic life. This partnership was unique because of its multidisciplinary approach. We dealed with European citizenship from different approaches. We achieved the objectives with this project: The project increased the students' awareness of the preservation of cultural heritage and of the importance of Europe's cultural heritage through education, enhance digital competence and the ability of using English, exchanged ideas and good practices about the topic. It developed the students’ imagination, originality, cultural knowledge, general background, raise awareness of the importance of life-long learning, informal and non-formal learning, foster intercultural dialogue among the participants, teamwork, social inclusion, critical thinking. The participants understood practices, policies, systems of education. They trained across countries better, established networks and partnerships. There were 5 partners from 5 different countries (Turkey - the coordinator, Italy, Romania, Portugal, and Bulgaria) and each partner organization brought different experience and competences regarding educational systems, history and cultures in their countries. A huge number of people who were between 15- and 19-years old student, teachers, parents, representatives of The Ministry of Culture and of Education and Municipality were involved in the activities of our project and contributed to the achievement of the objectives of the project. We organized one Short-term joint staff training in Italy and four Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during the project in Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Turkey. The LLTs were planned to involve students in different kinds of activities related to the topic. During the Short-term joint staff training in Italy, trainings were organized for learning how to protect of architectural assets (intervention, knowledge and refunctionalization), for STEM, for Auto CAD, for using 3D Printer, for how to create an App. Some of the main activities performed in Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils LTTs were: a seminar, the activity of "School in Time", the activity of story writing ”Every historical site has an important story to tell”, Workshop “Case study”, presentations about culture, Dictionary of common words, exhibition entitled ”Traditions and customs in danger of extinction”, workshops "Language preservation", workshop in black and white photography, discussion about cities similarities and differences, workshops about intervention music, preparation panels, "Photo and Music", case study related to the preservation of certain cultural or historical sites and on urban communication, drawing ”The City of the Future”, competition “The Best Photographer”, field trips to historical sites, "Cultural Heritage Documentaries”, "Erasmus + Monument Wall", the activity of “From Past to Present through the Viewfinder”. Our local activities were creating and updating an Erasmus+ Corner at schools, organizing a logo contest, making web sites and discussion groups, using eTwinning platform, booklet, posters, brochure, leaflets, presentations, exhibitions, photo albums, movies. Methodology to be used for each of the topic, a team was set up to coordinate the activities and designated specialized persons to train the participants. The activities were centered on the student, the teachers were just guides of the activities. We wanted them experience and learn by doing and discovering. Peer assessment, self-assessment and teamwork were methods that would be used during the activities. At the end of the project the participants were provided to be more aware of the importance of preserving cultural heritage, to be active and successful citizens. They had the chance to develop language and ICT skills, tolerance to other cultures. Its positive effects on target groups continued by making results accessible and durable via e-Twinning, web site, educational and social sites and App.