From everyday to sanctity Erasmus Project

Project Title

From everyday to sanctity

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: Inclusion – equity; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The originator of the project From every day to sanctity is our partner school Tarsus Sehit Halit Ozdemerin Fen Lisesi from Turkey.
In the era of such high intolerance for other cultures and nations, we want to make students aware of common roots that unite us in Europe. These are elements with a cultural, social and religious dimension. We want to learn the relationship between daily life and religion in partner countries, talk about their influence on everyday attitudes, on the system of values in schools, in educational work and discuss the spectrum of issues in the area of broadly understood humanities.
The project’s partners are schools from Turkey, Lithuania, Romania and Italy, which have expressed interest in educating and deepening knowledge about the religious culture of Europe, and places of religious worship related to chosen saints in the countries concerned.
During the programme 30 students aged 13-15 will participate in the international exchanges. The project includes two areas: cultural – social and language. The main tasks of the project are:
● shaping students’ attitudes in a spirit of mutual understanding and tolerance,
● promoting the need for learning foreign languages as a basic communication tool in Europe,
● raising the prestige of the school in the local environment,
● improving the language skills of teachers, gaining new teaching experiences, methodological tools and sharing their own good practices,
● activation of the institution in dissemination of the project in the school newsletter, on the school’s website, in the local press.
During short transnational exchanges there will be meetings organised that will bring closer the habits, culture, religion and everyday life of the host country’s peers. Activities will be supported by local organizations operating in the cultural and religious area in all countries. The essential part of each meeting will be learning about the place associated with the cult of the saint of a given country. In the periods between meetings, students will work on a multilingual dictionary related to the subject and share knowledge through the presentation of developed materials. It is planned to organize meetings and spread the project among local communities (kindergartens, schools, libraries, educational centers, local authorities).

In the language area, students will improve their competences through participation in German language classes, extra-curricular activities in the European Circle. They will use the German language while working in international groups. We will also use distance learning opportunities through: teleconferences, Internet, facebook, WodsatsApp. The project also includes tasks in the field of history, culture, religion and art. The results, such as presentations, posters, multilingual dictionary, game, telephone application, will be based on work in German and English. Students will collect materials on the history and culture of their countries, in particular they will deal with the history and teaching proclaimed by the chosen saints of their country.
This project will also bring new opportunities for all interested parties such as: further cooperation on the e-twinning platform, on which we’ll work with new projects and share long-term changes and advances in our students’ life, implement new experiences, ideas, methods and forms derived from international workshops in curricula in our schools.
In the future, we want to implement a mobility project for teachers and non-teaching staff that will enable them to improve their language, IT skills and social competences and implement modern teaching and working methods. It will also contribute to the personal and professional development of teaching staff and administration. We want to prepare students for exams in German A-1 and A-2 levels in the Examination Center of the Goethe Institute and TOEFLiBT in English Language Examination Center.
We also believe that our project will create an opportunity for our local authorities to establish international cooperation with each other.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 156690 Eur

Project Coordinator

Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa Nr 26 im. Ksiazat Opolskich w Opolu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Bogdan Voda
• TARSUS SEHIT HALIL OZDEMIR FEN LISESI
• “Sandoros” progimnazija
• Liceo Classico e linguistico R Settimo