Traditions Include Values Erasmus Project

Project Title

Traditions Include Values

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

TIV(Traditions Include Values) is an International project that was carried out under the key Action 2 (School Exchange Partnerships) of Erasmus+ programme. TIV, consisting of 5 partner schools from Italy (the leading partner), Turkey, Portugal, Slovakia, and the Netherlands, aimed at creating better citizens of future by transfering the traditions fostering the INTERCULTURAL VALUES OF EUROPE from nation to nation. We decided to carry out TIV because in partner schools and countries as in all around Europe, the Values Education is a popular topic in the environment where people have been losing their values, being isolated, self-centered, cruel, intolerant and the violence, cruelty, loneliness …etc are increasing rapidly. That’s why, many countries have been performing acts to transmit the Intercultural Values to new generations. We also wanted to take into action in a social matter as responsible people. The project idea had firstly risen in social media and the eTwinning platform, where the Turkish and the Portuguese partner started a project on the eTwinning with the same title (https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/160869 ). Then, other partners joined them and decided to carry our this project under the Erasmus+ programme to make its effects wider.
During TIV, students firstly searched on their traditions having a value at the back side, then, they transfered those traditions to other students from the partner countries by using digital materials, creating videos, acting out, via competitions, etc.. Thanks to TIV, they had lots of different gains such as;

-being aware of their social norms,
-being aware of customs and traditions in partner countries,
-understanding and being aware of the importance of values losing their impact day by day neccessary for a better future,
-being socially active and responsible citizens,
-making new friends,
-experiencing the taste of productivity,
-practising/improving their ICT and language skills,
-understanding the policy, targets, legal bodies of the EU.
During the implementation of TIV, students and teachers from partner countries traveled to each other during LTTAs. In each activity, 5 students and 2 teachers as accompanying persons traveled and carried out the Project activities. Students stayed in host families and teachers stayed in hotels.
But, due to Covid-19 crisis, the last two lTTAs (in Slovakia and the Netherlands) had to be performed virtually. During virtual LTTAs, some partners joined the actvities from their homes while some of them joined the activities from schools and homes. About 200 teachers and students for each LTTA participated in Virtual LTTAs.
TIV consisted of activities in a wide range that besides the ones performed during the LTTAs, partners also performed lots of different activities, such as “Short Movie Competition”, “Photography Competition”, “Snapword Competition”, etc.

Improving participants’ ICT usage skills, citizenship, and personal qualities were other key points of TIV that participants have used and learnt how to use ICT in a true way by creating too many materials digitally like presentations, recorded videos, interviews, etc. Also, representing their country and schools have made them gain self-confidence, be active citizens. The target group of TIV were the students aged between 10-14 called as upper primary or junior secondary students. We chose them as a target group because that age group is at the beginnig of adolescent period during which they gain and form their personal characteristics. We believed that if they gain the expected personal and citizenship qualities at the early age, they will be better citizens and persons in the future.
While implementing our project, as our methodology, we mostly used searching, observing, recording, demonstrating, acting out and lots of different assessment tools. Good communication, good cooperation, planning and a strong sound management became the key factors that led us to reach success.
In long term, we hope;
to create better citizens and human beings of future,
to create the atmosphere firstly in partner schools then in public where the values education has importance and even be a permanent part of regular curriculum,
to create a better, more tolerable, more generous, more peaceful society,
to make local authorities and decision makers be aware of the importance of the issue,
to help to reach the aim of global unity
to help to reduce the isolation in society.
To achieve those short and long term objectives, TIV used the social, local and national media, oline platforms such as eTwinning, SEG, PRSP, school webpages and gave much importance to dissemination and sustainability activities.
To sum up, TIV is a project aiming at helping to transmit intercultural values of Europe and make new generations be aware of their good traditions and values needed for a better world.
TIV has reminded us the taste of being a human donated with values.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135264,89 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo M.K.Gandhi & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Ferreira da Silva
• Zakladna skola, Haniska 290
• Osg Willemblaeu
• antalya kepez mahmut celalettin okten anadolu imam hatip lisesi