CULTURES ON A PALETTE Erasmus Project

Project Title

CULTURES ON A PALETTE

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; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Cultures on a palette” is a natural and logical continuation of the dynamics our schools’ e-twinning project. The variety of the project’s activities makes it really different and innovative; it’s an encounter with the topic from the past through the lens of the present, via an interdisciplinary observation. The synthesis of the school partners is innovative: partner schools are a canvas of different cultures, even on their own. The combination of all these schools is an “explosive” mixture that will produce outstanding results. The Greek school, the coordinator of this project partnership, is a small multicultural school experienced in Erasmus+ projects. Similar is the case of the French and Spanish schools; although bigger in student and staff potential, they face the same problems arousing from multiculturalism. The Estonian school is the smallest of all but with great interest in honoring local traditions. The Turkish school, on the other hand, although in the capital city, has identified the need to develop tolerance, improve digital and foreign language skills, communication skills, interdisciplinary attitudes, social inclusion and parents’ involving in education of their children. This canvas of totally different schools will work together to foster a high-level sense of community inclusive of diversity. Exploring and understanding what our heritage is in its diversity, while exploring and understanding our partners’ heritage, will lead us to a better understanding and perception of alterity. In the meanwhile, all of us will benefit from developing the students’ and teachers’ social, English language and ICT skills, come closer to local community by involving it in our project, eliminating incidents of racism, xenophobia and early drop out.
We will achieve all these goals through the activities that have already started on the projects’ twinspace and they will take “flesh and bones” during the LTTAs meetings in the 5 different countries during the 2 years of the project. All of us, about a 100 students and teachers in total who are interested in developing different kind of skills and are interested in Cultural Heritage, will work on different aspects of Cultural Heritage. First we will work on Natural Heritage by discovering each country’s natural wonders, flora and fauna. Then, we will go on with Human Architectural Wonders protected by Unesco. Our students are those who will search for information and organize the guided tours to these architectural wonders. Our wonderful collaboration will go on with the intangible aspects of Cultural Heritage; Language, National Clichés, Body Language, Social Codes of each country will be developed in front of us thanks to the work done by the students. Important personalities have played a critical role in each country’s cultural heritage that’s why it is crucial to find out their contribution to each country’s culture; our lesson plans implemented by the students on the “Teacher for a Day” activity will be based on them. Last but not least, traditions and customs could not be absent from our project; all of us will work with great joy and enthusiasm to get the best presentations of our traditions, traditional foods, music and dances, traditional costumes and stories, fairytales coming from our past but affecting our present. All the above mentioned activities will lead to wonderful creations; online compendiums of presentations on different sub-topics, an online game and map that will be filled in with new data after each LTTA meeting. Students will act as journalists, directors, actors to create short films, digital magazines, press articles, interviews, and commercials to foster each country’s cultural heritage. Cultural festivals and open seminars will take place during the LTTAs meetings involving the local community, parents, local authorities, special scientists as well as traditional dance, music and food clubs.
The impact of our project will be direct not only to participant schools but to local and regional societies as well, since they will be directly or indirectly involved in our activities. Our wish is to achieve our goals and make our schools and local communities become aware of our own and of other countries’ cultural heritage and find the ways to preserve it. All projects’ products will be available for everyone to use and can find them online on our project website, twinspace, partner schools’ websites and in the schools’ libraries, Town Halls’ libraries in forms of brochures, leaflets, CDs and DVDs. Our project will be sustainable as we intend to hold an annual Cultural Heritage Festival so as to remind the need of preserving our culture in the course of years. On top of that, teachers of our schools are going to continue cooperating on different Erasmus+ and e-twinning projects. Moreover, other teachers will be able to use our lesson plans as well as the project’s activities in curricular or extra-curricular courses about culture.

Project Website

https://coperasmus1921.wixsite.com/website

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136276 Eur

Project Coordinator

GYMNASION ME LYKEIAKES TAXEIS ASOPIAS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Umitkoy Kiz Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi Fen ve Sosyal Bilimler Proje Okulu
• Saverna Põhikool (Saverna Basic School)
• College Gutenberg
• COL·LEGI EPISCOPAL “MARE DE DÉU DE L’ACADÈMIA”