SHARING CULTURAL TREASURES

Sharing Cultural Treasures The main purpose of the project was to develop cultural awareness in our pupils engaging them in acts of citizenship, not only within our schools and surrounding areas, but as active members of the global community. In this sense each partner organisation brings different experience and competences regarding educational systems, history and cultures in their countries. When pupils went to school they meet others from diffrent socio-cultural backgrounds and had opportunities to make new experiences in a new social environmwent. We, the partners from ITALY (The coordinator) => TURKEY,FINLAND,FRANCE,PORTUGAL AND SPAIN, had an enormous responsibility to ensure that our pupils developped cultural awareness and engaged themselves in acts of citizenship, not only within our schools and surrounding areas, but as active members of the global community, and each partner organisation brings different experience and competences regarding educational systems, history and cultures in their countries. OUR SPECIAL GOALS were; To make students aware that all individuals may be different, To reduce the influence of media and social media on pupils. Providing cultural fusion by breaking prejudices among children, To teach the pupils the basic elements of different beliefs, Adopting the importance of respecting individual differences on ensuring peace in the society for the pupils, their parents and teachers. Teachers and pupils had the chance to exchange their experinces and knowledge. So it contributed to the school athmophere and teaching profession. They also developped their communication skills in English. Disadvantaged pupils were more active and opened to changes. With a positive climate in schools, education were of high quality.The aim of the project was to have a positive impact on the development of pupils' key competencies through building teachers capacity on competence oriented education. A huge number of people ( about 6500) was involved in the activities of our project and contributed to the achievement of the objectives of the project (e.g. Pupils' range of age was in between (12-18) years old, teachers, parents, NGOs, representatives of The Ministry of Culture and of Education and Municipality).The target groups of the project had the opportunity to discover many representations of cultural heritage;(Tangible Heritage,intangible heritage and digital heritage). We organised two short-term joint staff training ( Italy-Spain) and four Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during the project (Turkey,France,Portugal,Finland). The LLTs were planned to involve pupils in different kinds of activities related to the topic ( 4 pupils and 2 teachers).But each short term joint staff traning was of only 3 participants from each country. METHODOLOGY used for each of the topic, a team was set up to coordinate the activities. Our pupils experienced and learned by doing and discovering. Game based learning,Communicative Method,Collboration,Critical Thinking,Visual-Audial slide show,Pupils Centered Group Works,Peer assessment, self-assessment and team work have been methods that used during the activities.The project methodology aims at producing teaching materials that increased teachers' motivation to use digital and non-digital innovative practices, enhance their teaching methods promoting literature and help pupils to develop the key competencies useful for living in multicultural societies. Due to the activities, social cohesion fostered by developing literacy skills, creativity, innovation, ICT skills, social-cultural competences, civic spirit, intercultural skills and competency-based learning. THE IMPACT ENVISAGED OF THE PROJECT: -The development of the creative competences in an intercultural,ethical enterpreneurship,and prosocial perspective of the pupils -İnvolment of families in the educational and formative processes bringing inside them the vlues of the creativity and culture. At the end of the project the participants were 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. All activities had a possitive reflection in life. Some methods and techniques have been used in the lesson. Attending pupils became individuals developed in quality and quantity with a rich cultural accumulation having experienced EU culture and founded transnational friendships.The results has been used long after the conclusion of the project and all results of the project were archived in the electronic form and made available from an online website.