Empathy in cultural interaction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empathy in cultural interaction

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

CONTEXT 
We are 5 European schools which want to join our efforts to increase the students’ knowledge and interest in subjects related to the cultural heritage of our countries – Geography, History. Moreover, in a world touched by globalisation in which individuals have a tendency to overlook their own national heritage, we need our students to go back to their own roots by knowing the customs and traditions which have been passed on from generation to generation. We are of the opinion that if you don’t know your roots, you don’t know your foundation and if you don’t know your foundation, you can never thrive. Therefore, we want to cultivate our students’ patriotic feelings, making them look back to their past and their origins, while at the same time opening their horizons to other cultures and their specificities. 



PARTICIPANTS 
Students – the target group is made up of approximately 1000 students aged 12-14, 100 of them having special education needs. 150-200 of them will be selected as members of the work group (minimum 30 / country, but the number may vary according to the size of the target group up to 40). They will be at the core of our project, will be involved in the activities of preparation before the exchanges, 100 of them will participate in the activities during exchanges, will disseminate the information to the other members of the target group after the exchanges. Accompanying teachers – 2 teachers/country/exchange. One of them will be the coordinator, while the other one will be a History/Geography/Literature/Arts/IT teacher 



OBJECTIVES 
The main purpose of the project is to increase the cultural and intercultural awareness of all the actors involved in its implementation. However, being specifically targeted to students, we have set the following objectives for them: 
OS1. To increase the cultural awareness of at least 80% of students, making them more knowledgeable about the history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, music 
OS2. To increase intercultural awareness and competence of all the students, making them more knowledgeable about the other European countries, history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, music. 
OS3 To improve students’ ICT skills by having them use mobile applications and online tools for presentations, activities, evaluation, creation of outputs 
OS4 To improve students’ transferrable skills – communication, research and analysis, team work, adaptability, organisation 
OS5 To improve students’ motivation for learning and self-confidence



At the level of the institutions, our objectives are: 
1. To improve the European dimension and international cooperation 
2. To motivate teachers 
3. To improve the communication and cooperation among all school actors 



MAIN ACTIVITIES We plan to organize 5 exchanges, each dedicated and hosted by each partner: 

1. C1 – The French heritage – hosted by France in February 2021
2.
C2 – The Greek Heritage – hosted by GR in May 2021 
3.
C3 – The Romanian Heritage – October 2021 
4.
C4 – The Turkish Heritage – March 2022 
5.
C5 – The Polish Heritage – June 2022 



RESULTS 
Tangible results include: presentations created by students (30), workshop materials, online brochures (5), the final output “The European heritage”, guest students’ travel journals (80), the eTwinning space, eTwinning forum, photo albums (5), Europass mobility documents (112), certificates of attendance (112) initial and final evaluation forms, mobility documents (agenda, methodology, questionnaires, evaluation forms) etc.



IMPACT 
The institutions will benefit from the good practices acquired and transferred through the participation of students and teachers in the exchanges. They will promote intercultural learning and will open to new models that will benefit the students in the medium and long run, too. We will develop the European dimension of the school and will be better prepared to manage projects under the Erasmus+ programme – both the experienced schools and the less experienced ones. This project will lay the foundation for future cooperation among schools through eTwinning and Erasmus+.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157920 Eur

Project Coordinator

College St Julien Le Mans & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Sehit Servet Asmaz Fen ve Sosyal Bilimler A.I.H.L
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR. 103
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie w Olesnicy
• Gymnasio Paranestiou me L.T.