Cultures and interculturality Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultures and interculturality

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The future of Europe will be based on smart, sustainable and inclusive education: improving the quality and effectiveness of education systems in the EU. In this context, preschool education is the keystone of the success of lifelong learning, social integration, personal development, and later professional insertion. The preschool period is the stage where education can influence the development of children with the highest efficiency.
By cultivating values such as respect for the other, tolerance towards diversity, complementarity between values, the kindergarten is able to harness the potential wealth of multiculturalism without undoing the identity of any culture.

The Gulliver Kindergarten in Sfântu Gheorghe aims to carry out the KA229 Cultures and interculturality project between 01.12.2019 – 30.11.2021 between the Gulliver Kindergarten in Romania, the Create Partnership Trust in England and Papatya Anaokulu in Turkey.

The objectives of the project are: enhancing the development of intercultural skills on the identity, culture and intercultural communication of 1480 preschoolers and supporting the understanding of their own culture and other cultures by the end of the school year 2020-2021; developing intercultural competences and better knowledge, acceptance and respect for the social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity of 703 teachers by the end of the school year 2020-2021; the increased quality of the didactic process at partnership level in an intercultural context during the implementation period of the project through exchanges of best practices and international cooperation.

The teachers and preschoolers will process the main cultural characteristics related to the objectives of the project at the partnership level during the learning weeks, in weekly projects: children’s day, national days of participating countries, religious holidays, family, fairy tales, poems, traditional folk songs and dances, national costume, crafts, Europe, traditional dishes, artistic creations.

During the partnership we will arrange three short – term joint staff training events with a duration of 4 days to achieve the project objectives through the following themes: intercultural communication (CLIL method – Romania), intercultural dialogue (Teaching Training- Coaching& Mentoring Skills in Preschool – Turkey), cultural identity (storytelling method – England). 4 preschool teachers will participate in these activities from each country.

The main project goal is to reach an improved intercultural competence and greater understanding of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity among all teachers from the institutions, as well as among parents and preschoolers. The international teachers’ team will exchange good practices and develop educational projects and activities, so that their intercultural learning would be visualized through the project results.

Project results: Intercultural Guide to Good Practice; e-products: video clips, audio and video recordings; project site, Facebook page; weekly project plans (learning, teaching activities).
Teachers will develop intercultural attitudes and values such as respect for the values of their own culture and other cultures.
Preschoolers will acquire knowledge on cultural awareness and expression (awareness of local, national and European cultural heritage).
Parents will experience interactive exercises and challenges throughout the parents’ program that will stimulate them to help the children better reflect on cultural identity.

The impact on preschoolers will materialize in a significant increase in the interest in the cultural characteristics of ethnicities present at the partnership level.
Teachers will become able to help children learn about other cultures, memorize their learning experience.
Greater recognition will be given to the important role of families through their direct involvement in parental education programs.
The internationalization of the institutions, particularly through transnational cooperation and the exchange of best practice, will lead to high-quality preschool education.
The project will help raise awareness of the local and international community regarding cooperation issues and initiate improvement processes, future initiatives.

Cultures and interculturality project greatly contributes to achieving one of the main objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy: to reduce the rate of early school leaving below 10% by offering quality preschool education.

The sustainability of the project will be ensured by developing new eTwinning projects in the future and within the Erasmus + program; valorization, multiplication of concrete results (good practice guide, e-products) in the partner schools of each institution; improving the policies of local, national, international authorities by taking over the project results.

Project Website

http://www.gulliverovi.ro

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 41376 Eur

Project Coordinator

GRADINITA CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT GULLIVER & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Create Partnership Trust
• PAPATYA ANAOKULU