Imagine Europe without educational borders. Imagine Europe joining different cultural heritages as a central objective but keeping their individuality. Think of different cultures, different philosophies, and different histories joined under a common vision of a prosperous future for all European citizens. Education is the key and of course we have to provide and ensure all conditions leading to this goal. During the meeting in the three mentioned countries our students will perform some traditional Cypriot, Italian and Greek dances depicting some parts of our culture (costumes, way of life). Also our students and teachers will teach some of these dances and get all the European counterparts, teachers and students join in the learning of the steps. This activity will bring together the students and promote the team spirit to conduct a project together and have a mutual respect towards the cultural differences. We are also proposing a number of visits to Historical Monuments representing global humanitarian values. Visiting Ancient Olympia will develop experientially the understanding of athleticism, peace and ceasing fire. Also, the common origins will be strengthened under the prospective of globally spread humanitarian basis. During our visits in such Monuments students and teachers will record information, data and education material inquiring thus the values that developed the vision of a united Europe . We want students to realize and not just learn about global humanitarian values and face the consequences of breaking these values. Furthermore, through these visits we wish to further develop our students' skills, especially in the field of non-typical learning, such as foreign languages, communication, ICT and technology. We wish students to practice their knowledge in foreign languages and communication. Of course, we propose also a sequence of activities such as poster exhibition, exhibition about European Monuments, video presentations and multicultural videos and workshops. Through all these activities we wish to develop students consciousness and awareness as far as concerns humanitarian values that developed the basis of European Union. We believe that nowadays more than ever it is of high importance to empower young people beliefs to global, international values as presented and promoted within European Union. This will be mainly achieved by mentioning the common roots and origins of all European people, visiting historical monuments, communicating, exchanging ideas and traveling. We want open minded students, that really feel and act as European citizens. Our main goal, according to this project is directly oriented towards this direction, as we will encourage students to become shareholders of the European Civilization through the centuries and especially focus on each country’s monuments of world value. Thus the topic learning through traditional dancing and ancient theatre will lead students to the result that deterioration or disappearance of any item of the cultural or natural heritage constitutes a harmful impoverishment of the heritage of all the nations of the world.
At first, we strongly believe that nowadays-more than ever-it is of high importance to empower young people’s beliefs to global values as presented and promoted within the European Union. This is mainly achieved by highlighting the common roots and origins of all European people, something we achieved with visiting historical monuments, traveling, communicating and exchanging ideas. Moreover, what we also wanted was to further develop our students' skills, especially in the field of non-typical learning, such as foreign languages, communication, ICT and technology. We strongly believe that in total all students practiced adequately their knowledge in foreign languages and interacted (communicated) extremely well.
At the present global reality, where countries’ balances are changing, we firmly believe that today's European students must develop into open-minded and highly qualified citizens who are aware of the humanitarian values that developed the basis of the European Union. It is of high importance that they believe in the existence of a Europe that binds different cultures into one, but allows them to maintain their uniqueness. In addition we were very interested in using the Ancient Theatre and traditional dance (the second one for the first time in an Erasmus+ program) as a means of learning, thus shaping the European common consciousness. Finally, we considerate it was extremely important that students from different cultures can harmoniously work together for a common goal.