Culture Ambassadors Erasmus Project

Project Title

Culture Ambassadors

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation,including customs,practices,places,objects,artistic expressions and values.Cultural Heritage is often expressed as either Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage(ICOMOS, 2002).Cultural heritage implies a shared bond, our belonging to a community. It represents our history and our identity;our bond to the past,to our present,and the future.
Cultural heritage often brings to mind artifacts (paintings,drawings,prints,mosaics,sculptures),historical monuments and buildings,as well as archaeological sites and also photographs, documents, books and manuscripts,and instruments, etc. as individual objects or as collections.
Partner schools that are aware of the importance of culture and cultural heritage for society,have different works to increase cultural awareness of students.For example;in Bulgaria,we have a big kitchen and we cook different traditional meals of other countries.In Turkey,they try to increase common identity understanding via drama,in North Macedonia,they give the bond between past and present by teaching handwork and traditional dances. In Romania,music teacher organise concert with their students.They sing traditional songs of their country.And Portugal have culture courses to teach differences and similarities of among cultures.But,unfortunately each partner don’t reach their aim.All partner schools are located in a small and rural area.To feel cultural unity, people need to live it.So we decided to meet students, bring students together.They will learn culture and cultural value with by interacting with each other.We will reach our aims with peer learning and living doing method.
Culture Ambassadors (CTAS) project aims to;
*increase common identity understanding via drama
*give the bond between past and present
*teach differences and similarities of among cultures
*experience and discover our diversity
*start an intercultural interaction about what we have in common
*respect differences and different cultures
*learn how to create an awareness of Cultural Heritage within courses,
*use creative drama and other techniques and methods of constructivist approach
*strenghten the profile of the teaching profession,
*exchange good practises
*give cultural awareness with artifical objects,music dish,photos of historical building and natural landscape,museum concept,archeology concept and common building work
*develop digital ability

To reach our aims we will have 12 concrete results:
*Drama Club
*Clay Artifacts (From Drama to Sculpture Workdhops)
*Drama Booklet
*Culture Flavor eBook
*h5p Interactive Video
*All in One Monument
*Culture Concert
*YouTube Channel
*Ctas Culture Exhibition
*3D virtual Museum
*CTAS Corner
*Traditional Song eBook

We will caryy out 5 flows and 29 local activity. There will be a “Short-term joint staff training events” and four “Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils”. There will be 72 students and 32 teachers in mobities. Also approximately 800 people in total will be affected in local activities.
Students will have opportunity to increase the awareness of Cultural Heritage via cooking different traditional food from different cultures- designing and drawing their own symbols as a heritage to the future- peer learning and teaching method used for exchanging traditional song of matched country-visiting cultural, historical and natural places.They will benefit from the technigue of creative drama in order to express themselves, to use body language, to use their lincuistic skills, to use collaborative learning and to develop communication skills. They will identify, characterize and define the cultural heritages of the participating countries via food, increase social value of European CH,share their knowledge and experiences with their friends after they go back to their countries. They will be able to realize the concept of common world heritage and its implications; the respect and solidarity between distinct cultural identities,to bond the past to the future via different cultural activities,to link the past to the future via cooking,designing and drawing their own symbols as a heritage to the future,traditional songs, visiting historical and cultural sites and digging activities.Also they will create a European citizenship consciousness,develop digital skills,increase the awareness of different languages,work with people coming from different cultures and create a common working platform,feel sense of belonging,abolish differences via cooking and digging activities.

Teacher will have oppotunity to strenghten the profile of the teaching profession,to learn how to create an awareness of Cultural Heritage within their lessons,teach their colleagues how to use creative drama in order to design objects for the purpose of CH awareness,to learn the technigue of creative drama,tolearn how to integrate creative drama technigue into their curriculum.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123654 Eur

Project Coordinator

OU “Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiy” & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.1 DOBIRCENI, Judetul BOTOSANI
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedrouços
• OU DEBRCA
• SEHIT SÜKRÜ ÜNLÜ ORTAOKULU