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heARTs connected through ARTs for a sustainable future!

2022-1-PL01-KA210-SCH-0000842122022Small-scale partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: PL|TR|IT · Grant: €60,000
Bridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divideCreativity, arts and cultureTeaching and learning of foreign languages

Objectives

By implementing the project we wanted to give a consciousness for environmental issues, inclusion and diversity, the importance of a sustainable society, the need for virtual cooperation, experimentation and critical thinking to the teenagers. By getting help from the artists and their works, we wanted to reach and inspire more people for these aims, help teenagers think critically and express themselves more freely. Through art, we connected more people to one another and made them discover themselves. Our first priority was "Common values, civic engagement and participation". It was linked with our aims of integrating with different cultures, being a bridge between them, uniting differences, and respecting origins. Our second priority was “Environment and fight against climate change”. Attention was paid to nature, pollution, carbon footprints and finding solutions about these problems by getting help from art works. We linked this priority with our aim in which students were able to evoke public acknowledgment on environmental problems. Our third priority was “Promoting a comprehensive approach in teaching and learning" through interactive group works. Students practiced discussing, writing, observing, reading and comparing.

Background

The project was a response to the needs of partner schools students’ from Poland, Italy and Turkey in the field of working together in order to change the teenagers’ attitude towards a sustainable development. A lot of teenagers were constantly getting lost, left alone in a competitive digital world, losing their connection to the rest of the society and becoming blind to the social and environmental problems. All the partners decided to write a project to protect teenagers from being indifferent to these problems and to show them how to be active people and productive citizens, aware of their society and able to find solutions as well as express their ideas freely. Attention was paid to collaborative work and sharing values, equality of the ethnic origins, positive feelings that add a lot to the humanism, intercultural communication and the diversity of ideas.This project aimed to integrate different cultures, avoid social differences, evoke an awareness for the protection of nature and various environmental issues, help students become more experimental, innovative, creative, and more comprehensive in English language. The improvement of their critical thinking methods, self-confidence, technology knowledge were also crucial.

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