Fairy Tales That Unite Us Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fairy Tales That Unite Us

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: Social dialogue; Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

“Fairy Tales That Unite Us” is a project to be implemented by teachers and students from partner schools , situated in: Turkey, Netherlands and Hungary. All the participating schools come from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Although they have different socio – economic conditions and their ways of lives are different, teenagers face similar problems everywhere. Fairy tales are imaginative stories with rich visual and contextual elements that bring fourth visceral emotions in people. People who are ready for fairy tales instinctively know that these stories are not literally true on the physical plane, but are true pictures of inner events and circumstances, of inner challenges and forces which must be faced and overcome. In regard to the issue of good and evil, it is a reality that teenagers, and all of us, do encounter challenges and bad or frightening experiences in life. The fairy tales, in which such experiences are redeemed in various ways according to the particular story, help to give teenagers the trust that challenges can be overcome and that we are not powerless.

Fairy tales are also used to transfer culture from one generation to another all over the world and is an important factor to carry universal messages in nations’ cultural history. Due to fairy tales having an educational function, the individuals are directed to the good. Our purpose is; decreasing the intercultural differences , preventing the estrangement of individuals to their own cultures and resolving the lack of communication among the family members and in the society providing fairy tales to give universal messages.The images within the fairy tale tell the story of all people, of all generations and of all times. It fulfills essential qualities within the human being’s soul. Fairy tales are also a vital part of the moral education of a teenager.

With modernization fairy tales are supposed to be as an element used in the past and they are thought to be losing their functions.The universal massages given in the fairy tales like goodness, cooperation, loyalty, friendship, faithfulness are valuable all the time.We aim to revive the forgotten fairy tales and combine the technology with the fairy tales, increase the communication, make the society familiar to each other and break down the prejudices. Our aim is to transfer cultural and universal values from past to present.We want to enhance communication in the family between peers and cultures via Fairy Tales and provide teenagers use technology in an innovative way so that they will improve their imagination and increase a way of productivity.The students will enhance their skills by using the language and universality of the fairy tales. A common point of view will be formed by determining the differences and similarities of the fairy tales of the partner countries.
Description of the activities:
Ice breakers will be done to enable the participants to get to know each other and feel more comfortable.
Surveys will be applied to determine the needs analysis and to find out the impact of the project on the student’s improvement at the end of the project.
Animating films,preparing slide show and presentation,writing fairy tales and role playing,dramatization,Imagining and drawing of one’s own fairy tale of forest,voice acting,preparing puppets and presentation, holding an exhibition will lead the participants have a common European framework , share different cultures, improve cooperation ,peer working.And these activities will also foster the imagination and self confidence of the participants.

Methodology:
In this project , mixed methodology, peer working,role playing,animating,dramatization,web2 tools, drawing,voice acting,presenting,analyzing methods are used.

For this Project;
experienced , skillfull, communicative , responsible and coherent 3 teachers and 5 students are chosen in each partner country and the coordinator country.
The participant students will be chosen according to their linguistic, communicative and technological skills and their ability to cooperate in different cultures with an interview done by the project teachers.
The target groups in our project are students aged between 14-18, parents, local authorities, NGOs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108672 Eur

Project Coordinator

De Nieuwste School & Country: NL

Project Partners

• BORNOVA ANADOLU LISESI
• Kaposvári SZC Eötvös Loránd Műszaki Technikum és Kollégium
• BOLU SOSYAL BILIMLER LISESI