AMONG THE CULTURE Erasmus Project

Project Title

AMONG THE CULTURE

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: Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Project Summary

Title : “Between Cultures“
Countries: Romania, Latvia, Turkey
Duration: 1 September 2018 – 31 August 2021

The present project was aimed at students between 16-19 years old, who studied in 2 European schools (in Romania, Latvia) and in a Turkish school next to Ankara, “Yavuz Sultan Selim Fen Lisesi”.

The general objectives were: promotion of key competences (ICT and language competences) in the programme; promotion of equality and inclusion in education through the inclusion of disadvantaged young people in the project; exchange of experience with teachers and recognition of the levels of formal, non-formal and informal education through EU instruments (Mobility Pass).

In the project, we identified 2 categories of participants: direct beneficiaries who formed the Target group and indirect beneficiaries who participated in transnational project activities as organizers, athletes or supervisors of the international groups.

Direct participants were selected on the basis of the entire selection criteria established during the writing of the funding application: openness to learning German languages, personal results in German, tolerance, inclinations, social skills: team spirit, tolerance, friendship.

The number of direct participants comes from 48 people. All participated in local project activities. Disadvantaged students: 27.

Number of participants in C-type project activities varied between 4 -10/ institution according to context. After the withdrawal of Bulgaria and Poland from project and taking over their duties from Romania and Turkey, we found a number between 4 – 8 participants and 2 – 4 accompanying teachers. Following the coronavirus and rejection of C activities in 2021 and 2021, Romania had 10 direct participants in Latvia, August 2021.

They were selected for transnational project activities thanks to their results during local activities. Number of disadvantaged students: 46 / institution for the whole project period.

Total number of disadvantaged pupils 60 (as direct and indirect participants).

Number of indirect participants: 50 / Institution: students, teachers, parents of direct participants, ONGs, etc.

The local activities took place in local schools and had as a purpose preparation of transnational project activities and to fulfill the specific objectives: improvement of linguistic competences (OS 1) through short texts, crosswords, quizzes; improvement of ICT competences (OS 2): logo, blog, platform; formation of awareness among young people through specific readings (OS 3), better general knowledge (OS 4), formation of team spirit through sports and other activities (OS 6).

At the level of LTT we organized the activities like this: 2 Tip C face-to-face in Romania; 1 face-to-face and 1 virtual type C in Turkey; 1 virtual activity Type C and 1 activity face-to-face in Latvia.

A transnational project meeting was a part of our plan. It had as its purpose evaluation of local and transnational activities, preparation of the events of the activities Type C, management issues. Host country: Turkey, Aprilie 2019.

As a result of the implementation of the project, we write for both concrete and abstract results (acquisitions on an abstract level such as the formation of consciousness). The results are in contact with dissemination. In this way, we have realized the following materials : 3 plays, 2 radio plays, 1 project logo, 1 student film, 1 magazine with all project materials, power point materials, 3 exhibitions.

At the end of the project activities, all participants + their companions have acquired
-better social skills (100%);
-better ability to write and speak German (80%);
– gaining knowledge of computer software and its use (80%);
-Understanding that sport can create strong interpersonal connections (100%);
-expended knowledge of interculturality: the taboo aspects; the need to know certain rules of behavior; different habits; name meaning, etc. (100%);
-better knowledge of youth literature with texts in German (80%).

At the end of the project activities, the direct participants
-close, friendly relations established (80%);
-understood the duty of every citizen to denounce antisocial acts 80%;
-Get knowledge of new education systems, similarities and differences identified 100%.
-were able to insert in the lessons interesting facts about the general cultural aspects of the participating countries: religious and national holidays, customs, traditions, elements of interculturality (100%)

* at least 75% of the students became unbahängig in the German lesson;
* minds. 80% of pupils made progress in ICT;
* 75% of students develop metodological skills for the purpose of research;
* 80% of pupils improved social skills: tolerance, respect for minorities, social inclusion of disadvantaged people;
* 100% of students added value by accumulating knowledge in representative project locations;
* 100% Students feel more important of their contribution in the project (personal awareness); they create a value scale as a milestone in life;
* 100% of indirect participants and skateholders wanted to visit Turkey or Latvia;

Sustainability: through the on-line competition “Landeskunde DACH” (continued), exhibitions with project products, resumption of some project topics within the framework of other projects.

Project Website

http://cngi.is.edu.ro/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75934,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul National ,,Garabet Ibraileanu” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Tiscady secondary school
• Yavuz Sultan Selim Fen Lisesi
• SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA CHALUPKI
• Sredno uchilishte Hristo Botev