INTERCULTURAL BRIDGES EXTENDİNG TO EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTERCULTURAL BRIDGES EXTENDİNG TO EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

CONTEXT
The starting point of our project is to bring together different languages and cultures with our partnership of 6 European countries to reduce the negative bias and stereotyping of differences as a member of the European family and thus to gain a multicultural and multi-dimensional understanding. In the observations and interviews of our guidance service in our institution, we have observed that our students may feed negative attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices because they haven’t recognized people from different cultures. For this reason, we have started a project with Greece, our founding partner through eTwinning platform, in order for our students to see different cultures in place and our teachers to share their culture, knowledge and experiences with international schools, and we have met with our other partners for the same purpose.
The innovative aspect of our project is that while sharing cultural elements (language, traditional meals, folk dances, dances, music, children’s games, UNESCO cultural heritage) with our partners, we will enrich our activities with the methodology supported by the European Commission (content and language integrated learning). Thus, we will contribute to the development of language skills in addition to raising awareness of CLIL methodology and cultures.

OBJECTIVES
Envisioned Objectives:
1.To develop multi-cultural understanding and acceptance by recognising the cultural values and UNESCO cultural heritage of each of the partner countries (at least 55 percent of the participants will have a wider knowledge of other cultures)
2.Cooperation with different schools of Europe to see cultural diversity in place and develop a sense of belonging to the European family; (at least 30 points will improve positively in the attitudes of participants towards other cultures)
3.Develop ICT and language skills with international activities (approximately 65% of participants will develop digital and language skills)
4.To promote early language learning awareness and multilingualism by integrating CLIL methodology into content to promote a comprehensive approach to Language Teaching and learning

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Our project consists of six common schools and 108 teachers with 54 students aged between 11 and 16 will benefit directly from our project. The number of students who will benefit indirectly is 4062 and the number of teachers is 395. In our project, priority will be given to students coming from families with low socio-economic level to support students with fewer opportunities and students with lower social intelligence and different cultural backgrounds.

MAIN ACTIVITIES
6 Learning Teaching Training (LTT) activities will be carried out in order to encourage intercultural approaches to cultural heritage and to reduce negative prejudices and stereotypes against differences by gaining intercultural awareness.
C.1.February 2020-CLIL Education-Italy – short term partner teacher training
C.2.May 2020-tell me your story-Greece
C.3.October 2020-will you play with me?-North Macedonia
C.4.January 2021-our traditional meals-Romania
C.5.March 2021-let’s dance with me-Portugal
C.6.May 2021-our traditional handicrafts and UNESCO cultural heritage-Turkey

METHOD
Different methods will be used to perform project activities and achieve the best results: questionnaires, observation and interview, CLIL methodology, application-based learning, project-based learning, game-based learning, problem-solving, case studies, analysis and reflection.

ABSTRACT RESULTS
1. Encouraging collaboration in multicultural environments and thus enhancing intercultural dialogue
2. To increase intercultural awareness and reduce negative prejudice and stereotypes against differences
3. By recognizing different cultures, reducing negative attitudes towards “others”
3. Active use of eTwinning platform and disseminating Erasmus + program consciousness
4. Improve language skills with lice skills

NON FIGURATIVE RESULTS
1. Project website, blog, and Facebook and Instagram pages
2. An e-book with cultural elements of partner countries
3. E-course contents created with CLIL
4. Twinspace page
5. Digital story, music box and e-map

IMPACT
The expected impact of the project on participants and organizations is to increase awareness of language, communication, ICT and intercultural. It is thought that the projected effects of the project will increase exponentially and will be extended to the long term as the students and teachers participating in the project will spread the applied methods, share their experience and knowledge with other students and teachers. The concrete results of the project CLIL integrated e-courses, e-books, videos, posters and brochures designs, digital story book, Digital Music Box) collected by all public schools and other local schools will be distributed among educational and cultural organizations. Thus, the widespread impact of the project will be increased.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167040 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kozan Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Primary School “Dedo Iljo Malesevski”
• EscolaSecundária/3 Prof. Dr. Flávio F. Pinto Resende
• Liceo Statale “Tito Livio”
• 2o DIMOTIKO SXOLEIO KOLINDROU
• Colegiul de Industrie Alimentara “Elena Doamna”