Cultural Heritage is a Bridge from Past to Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Heritage is a Bridge from Past to Future

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; Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

Cultural heritage should be taught and shared with students and, awareness of the importance of its preservation should be raised. In this sense, the task of schools is to teach, value and preserve the unique cultural and natural heritage through curricular and extracurricular activities. We believe that implementing this project will contribute to our students’ learning about cultural heritage and being aware of the importance of protecting and sustainability of it. The project aims at motivating children to learn more about tangible and intangible cultural heritage The project deals with the idea of how important cultural tourism for a country’s economy is.
Another goal is to help institutions develop better prevention and intervention plans to deal with social inclusion. This project will also help participators to understand and value being an EU citizen. It
will also enhance the participators’ feeling of democracy. In order to achieve these goals we have set the following goals:
1) To promote conscious in cultural diversity and cultural heritage
2) To improve their knowledge and skills.
3) To cooperate internationally
4) To create synergy by encouraging the relationship among students coming from different
cultures.
5) To make a contribution to cultural integration against any kind of discrimination
6). To raise the consciousness of tangible and intangible cultural heritage
7)To promote more active participation in society
8)To promote greater understanding and responsibility for social, linguistic and cultural diversity
To reach these objectives we plan to do these activities
*Debate: Students will form groups and they discuss about protection of cultural heritage and how cultural tourism effects economy.
*Role-play activity: Students will search about historical heroes and they will act out anecdotes from their lives.
*Drama: Dramas will be formed, proverbs and idioms will be acted out.
*National traditions, folklore, and cuisine: Students will present their local rituals, cuisine, and music, traditional clothing.
*Environmental and sports activities: Students will perform sports activities, trekking, and environmental protection activities.
*ICTs and e-learning: Schools will open Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, social networks
*Cultural tourism: Workshops about cultural and historical heritage will be held in countries during the mobilities.
*Social awareness and cultural volunteer service: Students will sell the traditional souvenir items of each participant country and donate the money to the chosen charity organizations.
Developing European cultural values for 500 direct participants-students and 500 indirect participants-teachers, parents through cooperation between schools in 5 countries (Turkey, Hungary, Croatia, Spain and Czech Republic ) over a 24-month period. Our participants are aged between 15 and 18 some of whom have disadvantages socioeconomically and come from different cultures. Each country will inform the others about the cultural conflicts like holocausts and refugee problems their countries experienced in their past. The projects’ results will be disseminated locally, nationally and internationally to all students involved, teachers, parents, rest of teaching staff and management.
Some short terms results include: giving our target groups of teens the chance to say out loud what worries them, encouraging their critical and creative thinking, expanding their knowledge of English, refining their oral production and presentation. Throughout the project’s lifetime, all participants will do their best to turn our international collaboration into an enjoyable experience, where everyone will feel important.
The result of this work will be a significant expansion of teaching facilities supporting teachers in the teaching process. Each partner school will share their best experiences. Implementation of this project will contribute to raising the quality of school education by increasing teachers’ knowledge and skills through learning best practices in education across Europe. Our project is student-centred​ and most of the activities will be carried out by pupils themselves. Impact on children as learners will be multidimensional – experiences will be positive and enjoyable within an educational environment for children who might not otherwise ever meet and communicate with children and adults from other countries. Also by this international project, we hope that the students will enhance their basic and transversal skills. They will add to their potential learning power in the labor market. In the future, their qualifications should help them to find a better job. All staff involved will benefit from sharing practices with colleagues on different methods of teaching and learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145830 Eur

Project Coordinator

Péter András Gimnázium és Kollégium & Country: HU

Project Partners

• MANISA TICARET BORSASI ANADOLU LISESI
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA JUAN CARLOS I
• Srednja skola Mate Blazine Labin
• Moravska strední skola s.r.o.