Cultural heritage is widely recognised across Europe as a vehicle of cultural identity.The protection of our common heritage and the promotion of cultural diversity are also very important instruments for bringing different communities closer and enhancing dialogue between different cultures.It is often said that young children learn the quickest.Their inquisitive minds explore and question the world around them; they are flexible and eager to be engaged.As they grow, they bring with them the skills, knowledge and ideas that they absorbed at an early age.They transmit these to others they meet and, later, to their own children. Investing in early education is therefore one of the most powerful tools to make a positive change for the future.It is an inevitable necessity for European societies to understand each other better and to develop a positive attitude in the 21st century by integrating and complementing each other's characteristics and approaches.Prejudices, fear, indifference and lack of information make it difficult for young people to recognize and accept different cultures and people from different origins.Today's young people prefer to put their identity in the foreground without investigating the past, without examining different cultures.The common points of societies with different geographical and cultural conditions can be revealed by examining their backgrounds, and cooperation can be expanded in Europe without conflicts and prejudices.Our project is to bring together the great hearts from different countries and to create a great world with a cultural tolerance for every human being.While studying on the project, the natural beauties of tradition, custom, songs, folk dances, handcrafts, art, food, beverage, historical buildings and partners are examined.Extension activities will be carried out through local TV channels and local newspapers. Through this project, students will have a chance to respect differences, appreciate similarities, and have established a lasting friendship that is necessary for world peace.The focus of the project is also to strengthen the intercultural knowledge and understanding on importance of the Cultural Heritage among the participating pupils and staff and in addition to get a deeper understanding of the different European Heritages, their approaches on how to adopt them and the diversities of the tangible or intangible heritages through Europe.The teachers and the pupils involve in the project will have the opportunity to compare the different perspectives, identify common and/or different contents accordingly to the project themes. During this partnership we will compare the Cultural Heritages and exchange experience, ideas, traditions and try to discover new approaches for how to adopt our Cultural Heritages.In 'HEROS', teachers will enhance their professional knowledge about developmentally appropriate practices for inherit the Heritages and use this knowledge to transfer to their students.Pupils and teachers will be able to have experience and benefit from the mobilities and having communication through using language and share cultural games,songs,traditions and other kinds of heritages that we have taken possession of. We will have 5 mobilities with 5 partners and during this mobilities both students and teachers will have the chance of breaking the prejudices and they will interact,produce the language,have communications and learn about the cultural heritages of other countries and their approaches to saving Cultural Heritage.The students will have opportunuties of finding out howto adopt cultural heritages and learn a lot on history and diversity of the cultures.To raise awareness,create motivation, using the language in natural environments are among the most important affects of our project. However; cultural visits to the most important attractions of cultural heritages will increase our students awareness and they will also observe the adoptation of other cultures.Our partners are really collaborative, innovative and have the consciousness of adopting Cultural Heritage.We have considered importance of the location of the countries, the amount of the cultural heritages both tangible and intangible ones and the willingness of the communication in urgent times during the project.We have announced about the partner reguest on every kind of online platforms such as schooleducationgateway,e-twinining partner search,facebook groups.We have chosen the best partners for us because they are also willing to dissemminate the project from the beginning and after the project completed.With the help of social networks of project pages on facebook,twitter,instagram,youtube,the twinspace on e-twinning, the project's website,local tv channels and local press ; our project will have a great amount of impact through the students,parents and teachers around the towns, cities, countries and on international scale.
Cross-cultural discourse brought our communities closer together.Young children were inquisitive,questioned and examined the world around them in our Project process.They participated eagerly and transmitted their findings to others, developed a positive attitude by integrating and complementing each other's characteristics and approaches.We overcame prejudices,break away fears, indifference and lack of information and made it possible for young people to regonize and accept different cultures and put their identity in the foregound, investigating the past,and examining different cultures.After the project students felt what happened in partner countries; they an impact on them and they showed emphathy and concern.Our project brought together the great hearts from different countries and created a great world with a cultural tolerance for every human being.While studying on the project, the natural beauties of tradition, custom, songs, folk dances, handcrafts, art, food, beverage, historical buildings and partners were examined.Extension activities were carried out through local TV channels and local newspapers.During the unexpected stiuation of Covid19, with all the partner countries we didnt lose contact, we achieved to be uptodate of activities moreover we planned extra webinars and online workshops for our students about heritages which we hadn't mentioned on the application form.Through this project, students had a chance to respect differences, appreciate similarities, and established a lasting friendship .We achieved to the goal of strengthening the intercultural knowledge and understanding on importance of the Cultural Heritage among the participating pupils and staff and in addition to get a deeper understanding of the different European Heritages, their approaches on how to adopt them and the diversities of the tangible or intangible heritages through Europe with the help of presentations of students during the mobilities and online workshops/penfirend activities among others. The teachers and the pupils who were involved in the project had the opportunity to compare the different perspectives, identify common and/or different contents accordingly to the project themes.During this partnership we compared the Cultural Heritages and exchanged experiences, ideas, traditions and discovered new approaches for how to adopt our Cultural Heritages.In 'HEROS', teachers enhanced their professional knowledge about developmentally appropriate practices for inheriting the Heritages and used this knowledge to transfer to their students.Pupils and teachers were able to have experience and benefit from the mobilities and having communication through using language and share cultural games,songs,traditions and other kinds of heritages that we have taken possession of.We succesfully carried out 4 face to face mobilities and 1 onlne virtual mobility at our schools.Both students and teachers gained valuable experience and benefited from the mobilities and communicating through using language and sharing cultural games,songs,traditions and other kinds of heritages.We all worked on the common output of our project which we published.With the help of that handbook the students will have opportunities of finding out how to adopt cultural heritages and learn a lot on history and diversity of the cultures.To raise awareness,create motivation, using the language in natural environments were among the most important affects of our project. We delivered that common product of our handbook to all equivalent schools in our region and to all ministries, managements related to education and culture.Moreover; cultural visits to the most important attractions of cultural heritages increased our students awareness and they also observed the adoptation of other cultures.Our partners were really collaborative,innovative and had the consciousness of adopting Cultural Heritage.We considered the importance of the location of the countries, the amount of the cultural heritages both tangible and intangible ones and the willingness of the communication in urgent times during the project.We had announced about the partner reguest on every kind of online platforms such as schooleducationgateway,e-twinning partner search,facebook groups.We had chosen the best partners for us because they were also willing to dissemminate the project from the beginning and after completion of the project.With the help of social networks of project pages on facebook,twitter,instagram,youtube,the twinspace on e-twinning, the project's website (www.heritageofus.com),local tv channels and local press; our project had a great amount of impact through the students,parents and teachers around the towns, cities, countries and on international scale.Our project got the eTwinning Quality Label from National Support Servies in Turkey and partner countries .Here is the quest username and password of our twinspace. username: ulusalajans.misafir.1 password: 12345678