- “Little Farmers Meet the Soil" is a School Exchange partnership project. The project is planned to start on 1 October 2020 and last for 24 months. The partnership related to the project was established as follows: The project was announced through the eTwinning platform. After the exchange of ideas with countries that want to become partners, partnership with five different countries from Europe was established. These partner countries: Turkey as the coordinator, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia. - Our priorities in the project are to support individuals in acquiring and developing the social and educational values of European cultural heritage, basic skills and core competencies. The project has four main objectives: 1.To Provide agricultural skills and ecological awareness. 2.To Improve European citizenship awareness and identity. 3.To develop social skills. 4.To serve to destroy existing prejudices, if any, by raising awareness about active European citizenship. - Our Project aims to provide agricultural skills, innovative practices and experiences with participants from different parts of Europe. Partner schools from six different countries from different parts of Europe will carry out the project.Different groups of 30 students aged between 5 and 10 will participate in each short-term student exchange activity.All partner schools have 3728 pupils in total (Turkey 1200, Slovenia 807, Italy 1202, Bulgaria 184, Romania 220 and Greece 115 students). The project partners include 4 primary schools and 2 kindergartens. -The participants who will participate in short-term student exchange activities; Participants will be determined based on the participant selection criteria prepared by the Turkish partner, the coordinator country: - Having high learner motivation. - Being eager, relevant and participatory at every stage of the project. - Willingness to recognize different cultures and understandings. - Having an idea about European citizenship awareness and identity will be a priority. Project activities and methodology to be used are listed below: Introductory meetings will be held to carry out the activities of the project. The project will be made visible in the school and local area. For these studies, websites, social media, local press, etc. will be used. - Each partner will create suitable gardens for planting agricultural products which are appropriate for their own country’s climate . Preliminary preparation, informing , fence painting, apron design, garden arrangement, hoeing, cultivation, irrigation, maintenance, harvesting, food production and sale will be made. -All participants will participate in a total of 5 different short-term student exchange activities. During the visits, different agricultural workshops, informative events and activities, agricultural and cultural trips will be held in each host country. - Other project activities and outputs which will held with all the participants will consist of letter to seed, painting contest called "My Garden of My Dreams", project logo, poster work, pot design and seed germination, mini greenhouse, calendar preparation, preparing a cookbook called "Tastes from Little Farmers", interview activities with farmers -Predicted Results and Effects For all relevant teachers and other school staff: -New techniques and ideas will enrich their professional experiences, -Language skills will improve, - By involving in intercultural interaction, the awareness of the importance of multiculturalism and linguistic diversity will be raised. Gaining European citizenship awareness will prevent xenophobia by improving social dialogue. -Life skills, organizing and interpersonal skills will improve. For students involved in the project: - The project will increase students' awareness of the importance and complexity of agricultural skills and ecological awareness, Self-confidence will strengthen, - By creating awareness about active European citizenship, existing prejudices will be demolished, if any. - Language, basic interpersonal communication skills will improve, - Sensitivities to cultural diversity will improve. For partner schools: -All participating schools will be strengthened to represent themselves internationally, - A cross-cultural approach to cultivation and cultivation of agricultural crops will be aquired, Learning to cooperate in multicultural and multilingual groups will be provided, - In an atmosphere of tolerance, open mindedness, flexibility and adaptation to new situations will strengthen, In terms of parents involved in the project: -Sensitivity to cultural diversity will improve, -Language skills will improve, Dissemination: In dissemination activities, the outputs of the project (logo, poster, calendar, cookbook, video, photographs, website etc.) will be shared with local and national organizations, and other stakeholder institutions.
-The "LittleFarmers Meet Fields" project includes the School Exchange Partnership. The project started on September 1, 2020 and ended in 36 months, extended by 12 months due to the pandemic. The partnership for the project was established as follows: -The project was announced through the eTwinning platform. After the exchange of ideas with the countries that want to be partners, partnerships were established with schools from five different countries from Europe. These partner countries are Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia under the coordination of Turkey. Slovenia withdrew from the project at the beginning of the project, and Italy in the middle of the project due to the pandemic. The project continued with three partner countries Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. Our priorities in the project are to contribute to support individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and basic competences with the social and educational value of European cultural heritage. The project has four main objectives. These are: 1.To gain agricultural skills and ecological awareness. 2. To raise awareness and identity of European citizenship. 3.To develop social skills. 4. To serve to destroy existing prejudices, if any, by raising awareness about active European citizenship. - Our project aimed to bring agricultural skills, innovative practices and experiences with participants from different parts of Europe. A partner school from 3 different countries from different parts of Europe carried out the project. An average of 15 student groups aged between 5 and 10 participated in the mobility in the project. As the coordinating country, Turkey has 1200 students, Bulgaria 184, Romania 220 and Greece 115 students. There are 2 primary schools and 2 pre-school institutions among the project partners. -Participants participating in the mobility; Participants were determined based on the participant selection criteria prepared by the Turkish partner, the coordinating country. The criteria for the selection of teachers and students involved in mobility in the project were as follows: -To have high learner motivation. -To have been involved in every stage of the project as a willing, interested and participant. Be willing to get to know different cultures and understandings. - Having an idea about the awareness and identity of European citizenship has been a priority. The project activities and the methodology used are listed below: -Introductory meetings were held to realize the activities of the project. The project was made visible in the school and in the local area. Websites, social media, local press, etc. for these studies. used. -Each partner created suitable gardens for the cultivation of agricultural products in the area he determined. After the gardens were arranged, preliminary preparation, information, fence painting, apron design, garden arrangement, hoeing, planting, irrigation, maintenance, harvesting, cooking and selling of products were done. All joint participants participated in 3 different activities in total. During the visits, different agricultural workshops, informative events and activities, agricultural and cultural excursions were held in each host country. -Other project activities and outputs made with all common participants, letter to seed, painting contest named “My Garden in My Dreams”, project logo, poster work, pot design and seed germination, mini greenhouse, calendar preparation, “Tastes from Small Farmers” cookbook, consisted of interviews with farmers. -Result and Effects All relevant teachers and other school staff: - Contributed to enriching professional experience with new techniques and ideas, - Contributed to the development of language skills, - Understanding the importance of multiculturalism and linguistic diversity, being involved in intercultural interaction, - Gaining awareness of European citizenship contributed to the prevention of xenophobia by developing social dialogue, - Contributed to the development of life skills, organizational and interpersonal skills, Students involved in the project: -Project students' awareness of the importance and complexity of agricultural skills and ecological awareness increased, - Contributed to the strengthening of self-confidence at the personal level, - Contributed to the destruction of existing prejudices by raising awareness about active European citizenship. -Language and communication skills improved, - Increased sensitivity to cultural diversity, Participating partner country schools: -All participating schools contributed to the strengthening of their ability to represent in international arenas, - An intercultural approach to the cultivation and cultivation of cultivated agricultural products was acquired, -Learning to cooperate in multicultural and multilingual groups took place, -In an atmosphere of tolerance, open-mindedness, flexibility and adaptability to new situations are strengthened, - By developing educational skills, it also contributed to the formation of communication, cooperation, creativity, discipline, logical thinking and the desire to learn, For parents: - Sensitivity to cultural diversity has developed, - Contributed to the development of language skills, Dissemination: During the dissemination activities, the outputs of the project (logo, poster, calendar, cookbook, video, photos, website, etc.) were shared with local and national organizations and other stakeholder institutions.