Culture Covers Values Erasmus Project

Project Title

Culture Covers 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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CCV(Culture Covers Values) is an International project to be carried out under the key Action 2 (School Exchange Partnerships) of Erasmus+ programme. CCV, consisting of 5 partner schools from Latvia (the leading partner), Turkey, Portugal, Croatia, and North Macedonia, aims at creating better citizens of future by transfering the cultural elements fostering the INTERCULTURAL VALUES OF EUROPE from nation to nation. We have decided to carry out CCV 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 action on a social matter as responsible people. The project idea has 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/215292). Then, other partners joined them and decided to carry our this project under the Erasmus+ programme to make its effects wider. During CCV, students will firstly search on their cultural elements having a value at the back side, then, they will transfer those cultural elements to other students from the partner countries by using digital materials, creating videos, acting out, via competitions, etc.. Thanks to CCV, they will have 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 CCV, students and teachers from partner countries will travel to each other during LTTAs. In each activity, 5 students and 2 teachers as accompanying persons will travel and carry out the Project activities. CCV consists of activities in a wide range that besides the ones to be performed during LTTAs, partners will also perform lots of different activities, such as “Short Movie Competition”, “Photography Competition”, “Snapword Competition”, etc. Improving participants’ ICT usage skills, citizenship, and personal qualities are other key points of CCV that participants will use and learn how to use ICT in a true way by creating many materials digitally like presentations, recorded videos, interviews, etc. Also, representing their country and schools will make them gain self-confidence, be active citizens. The target group of CCV are the students aged between 14-19 called as upper secondary students. We have chosen them as a target group because that age group is at the adolescent period during which they gain and form their personal characteristics. We believe that if they gain the expected personal and citizenship qualities at that age, they will be better citizens and persons in the future. While implementing our project, as our methodology, we will mostly use searching, observing, recording, demonstrating, acting out and lots of different assessment tools. Good communication, good cooperation, planning and a strong sound management will be the key factors that will lead 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 in education have importance and even are 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, CCV will use the social media, local and national media, oline platforms such as eTwinning, school gateway, project results sharing, project website, school webpages and give much importance to dissemination and sustainability activities. To sum up, in a world where gap generation, social isolation, violence, intolerence, self-centered life, cruelty, etc. are increasing rapidly, CCV is a project aiming at helping to transmit intercultural values of Europe and make new generations be aware of their good cultural elements and values that are needed for a better world. CCV will remind us the taste of being a human armed with values.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Rigas Raina vidusskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• SECONDARY MUNICIPAL SCHOOL KOCO RACIN C.O. SVETI NIKOLE
• Agrupamento de escolas Francisco Fernandes Lopes
• Aksaray Hazim Kulak Anadolu Lisesi
• Tehnicka skola i prirodoslovna gimnazija Rudera Boskovica