Train, Enjoy,Act in Museums ( TEAM) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Train, Enjoy,Act in Museums ( TEAM)

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The fundamental objective of the Turkish Ministry of National Education’s 2023 Education Vision is that children should be equipped with the skills required for both the present day and the future and that they should grow into sensitive, qualified, moral individuals able to use these skills for the good of humanity, passionate about knowledge and interested in culture. Also, European union recommended having cultural heritage at the very core of education and not as a stopgap and seeing education more deeply rooted in cultural heritage through adequate and efficient mutual long-term partnership policies. According to the findings of the Research for CULT Committee- Education in Cultural Heritage Report (2018) Cultural heritage education enhances people’s capability to become not only fulfilled citizens able to live in society but also responsible citizens regarding the protection of cultural heritage. And dynamizing the cultural heritage educations and partnership in this area is strongly urged in the same research paper. Rather than making students passive and information recipient individuals, we should put some effort to make them active citizens who are aware of a common cultural heritage. We should build a caring society to heritage/ art works and tolerant, respectful adults via these educations. But these museum educations/ trips require time, money, efficient, properly trained teachers, and shared responsibilities. At this point, we attach a lot of importance to museum education, and integrate it to the curriculums with extra efforts. Museums offer a variety of educational opportunities for teachers to impart awareness of country’s cultural values in children and encourage their appreciation of culture and art. From every reference guides, it can be clearly seen that, the educational programs, institutions should coorperate with museums and one another to have a common heritage understanding and actively integrate heritage education to their curriculum.
Following the recommendations of Cultural Heritage Report, we designed many museum based activities in Project process both in in-school activiites and multinational activities.In school activities are clustered around themes, which are negotiated with partners in planning period. The partner schools are to make similar activities in their local museums, elaborate the activities via evaluation forms, prooduce outcomes and then share their work in Twinspace. The participant students will engage in many meaningful activities to reach the final outcomes of the Project, such as digital catalogues of the museums, museum memory cards, virtual school museums, student museum portfolios, family logs, school wallcharts etc…
The partners are chosen regarding 3 criteria; 1. Having a school policy about museum education, 2. Being able to offer a theme and activities about their hosting LTT, 3. Having experience in producing the outcomes that are on their responsibility. Thus, 4 partner, representing different cultures and nationality are added to the Project to achieve cultural richness. The partners are Turkey, Denmark, Italy, and Lithuania. Each partner offered a theme regarding their strenghts,2museums and organized a number of ateliers, workshops and museum based activities regarding the theme offered. The themes of the LTTs are 1st LTT – Teacher Training Session(1 teacher from each country) ; 2nd LTT – Cultural Heritage in Turkey (2 teachers and 5 students) ; 3rd LTT is Heritage of Art in Italy (2 teachers and 5 students),4th LTT is Ethnographic and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lithuania (2 teachers and 5 students) ; 5th Heritage of Daily Living in Denmark(2 teachers and 5 students).In each LTT, the host students will actively make presentations, form multinational groups and achieve some pre planned tasks in these multinational groups. Multinational activities are including costume design with the patterns from “pattern hunting “activity, recreating art works, making masks, tanning leather, impressing seals, museum of suitcases, animating rituals.
In the project e twinning platform will be used extensively, in planning period, in sharing in school activities, in evaluating the task, in preparation to LTT phase, sharing the outcomes and in disseminating the results of the project. For dissemination, there will be a teachers’ seminar in each partner country, a teachers group will be formed in e twinning and all the documents, evaluation rubrics will be shared in that platform. The web site of the project will be on air for 3 years and the results will be shared there. In addition to the concrete results, there will be some abstract results and these results will be the conscious members of society about heritage, an awareness on utilizing the museums as an teaching environment for educators, increased cooperation and international experience, high tolerance towards diversity and deep understanding of the concept of heritage.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97053 Eur

Project Coordinator

Eskisehir Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Istituto Professionale Servizi per l’Enogastronomia e l’Ospitalità alberghiera Aldo Moro
• Vilniaus Mykolo Birziskos gimnazija
• Køge Business College