TRUST KIDS: Our Cultural Heritage Entrusted to Tiny Hands Erasmus Project

Project Title

TRUST KIDS: Our Cultural Heritage Entrusted to Tiny Hands

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

TRUST KIDS is a project that focuses on cooperation and exchange of good practices between schools.The main goal of the project is to develop a deeper understanding of the way how we can preserve and maintain our cultural heritage. We, the teachers are responsible for making our pupils aware of preserving and maintaining our cultural heritage. Because cultural heritage has a crucial role to play in building the future of Europe. Furthermore, learning about our cultural backgrounds and those of our partner countries and friends from all over Europe helps us appreciate the wonderful diversity of European Cultural Heritage and EU citizenship. In the two years’ project life cycle, we intend to promote activities from the different forms of cultural heritage such as ; tangible, intangible, natural or digital. There are various ways to express our culture, such as through storytelling rituals, music, poetry, costume, dance, traditional sports and games and handicrafts. While arranging activities, we are planning to use ICT skills of different web 2.0 tools at a great extent to promote cultural heritage in digital forms. Our key objective will be to make our pupils (aged 5-12) actively involved in activities first to learn their own cultural identity than the partner countries and so to develop the spirit of awareness about the similarities and differences about 6 European countries’ cultural heritage. We want students to understand an issue of worldwide importance, gain a sense of social responsibility and be proud of what they have as heritage. The project will also enhance EU awareness, democracy and help tackling early school leaving and disadvantage. Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit a lot from the activities. Through collaborative experiences, both pupils and teachers will learn how to collectively plan, work towards a common goal, recognize and navigate individual differences in skills, abilities and attitudes. We will promote a sense of empathy, intercultural understanding and respect to other cultures, customs and traditions, make pupils and teachers feel more and more Europeans and value e-Twinning as the platform that has allowed them to open up to Europe and get to know other schools and learn from the experiences of others as well. We will enhance ICT-skills, communication in English, creativity, innovation, also train and encourage teachers. The partnership consist of 6 schools providing education for primary school students:
Europaschule Falkensee, Germany
Asagı Cıyanlı S. Ahmet Birkac I.O, Turkey
13th Primary School Polichni Thessaloniki, Greece
Istituto Comprensivo TE2 Savini San Giuseppe S. Giorgio, Italy
Szkola Podstawowa nr 58 im; Jerzego Kukuczki w Poznaniu, Poland
CEIP GLORIA FUERTES, Spain
The methods going to lead to the achievement of the project’s objectives will be: project based learning, discovering learning, classroom discussions, cooperative learning, hands-on learning, on-site investigations, case studies, computational and online learning. The main tool for communication between partners will be Twinspace chats, e-mails, video conferences, Skype and other messengers. In the project life cycle, 3 short-term staff training events and 3 short-term exchange of pupils are planned. To reach the aims of the project, a variety of activities will be scheduled. Before the exchanges, students will take part in chat sessions on Twinspace, then after the exchanges they will share their experiences on Twinspace. Also, before, during and after the exchanges, all partner schools will work collaboratively on eTwinning. A comprehensive assessment of the project will be carried out at each international meeting. Satisfaction surveys to be used by the coordinator will be made by the participants. The following outcomes are planned:
Booklets will be produced, an eTwinning project, a project calendar, a collection of stories (ebook), animoto videos, comics, calligrams, folk songs, traditional games, handcrafts (wooden toys), school project corners, Project Brochures, web pages, exhibitions, conferences, Skype meetings, webinars for exchange of good practices, gained experiences during the project lifetime and multicultural dialogue. Exhibitions of photos, online-diaries and presentations, exhibitions of posters (celebrating etwinning day and international World Heritage Day), video interviews etc.
Local communities will be reached by a concrete dissemination activity based on specific actions the partnership will perform (distribution of the outcomes to schools and libraries in town, invitations to exhibitions and meetings). Inside the organisations the project results will be introduced to teachers and parents’ council. The dissemination strategy is designed to reach schools and educational institutions, cultural organizations, local and regional public bodies and curriculum developers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144740 Eur

Project Coordinator

Europaschule am Gutspark & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 58 im; Jerzego Kukuczki w Poznaniu
• CEIP GLORIA FUERTES
• Istituto Comprensivo TE2 Savini San Giuseppe San Giorgio
• ASAGI CIYANLI SEHIT AHMET BIRKAC ILKOKULU
• 13TH PRIMARY SCHOOL POLICHNI THESSALONIKI GREECE