Legends Are Back Erasmus Project

Project Title

Legends Are Back

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

We started this project, inspired by the importance of reaching equality-base education for all students. It is imperative recognizing that different students need different resources to achieve the same goals as their peers. All Students, regardless their personal or social background, have the same rights in reaching their educational potential. Partner schools aim to develop an equitable and balanced education system that helps all students to develop the knowledge and skills they need to become productive citizens in society. Rooted in significance by using legends in education, we will focus on the effects of legends on student’s behaviours and attitudes towards moral values; exploring other countries lives through legends and we will meet common values. Legends are traditional stories told about a particular place or person, and can include elements of folklore, mythology or explanations for natural occurrences. Through the use of legends as educational tools, students will interpret social and natural events in different ways and develop themselves in emotional and social areas. Among the biggest problems faced by societies today is the crisis of value conflict and moral breakdown. The need for value education has increased. All kinds of feelings, thoughts and rules that are adopted and kept alive in a society constitute the values. Legends have a functional feature in the transfer of our cultural knowledge and values. We will use culture as a key component in international relations, to increase understanding, socialisation, awareness and international cooperation in the field of education, bringing together students and teachers from different geographies and cultures under the aegis of the European Union. The project aims to develop students’ horizons about creative thinking and new approaches, using the legends and traditions that society has lived for many years and the music and dances that have emerged from them. We educators have the added responsibility of spreading and guaranteeing its dissemination/preservation.
Another aim of this project is to develop positive moral values in students and to protect them from bad habits and addictions, making them more knowledgeable and respectful of their own roots and those of the other partner countries involved.
We are a partnership of 6 countries that aim to address European priorities and meet the needs of our schools as some gaps have been observed: poor knowledge of Europe and key competences such as low level of moral values and disenchantment of pupils due to the fact that some schools are located in less favoured regions and far away from big cities.
It is also crucial for us to spread and develop the theme Legends and Traditions, as well as all the resources and materials produced throughout this partnership, in the curriculum of our schools and to encourage our colleagues to improve their knowledge and diversify strategies, incorporating global and cross-cutting themes in their classes and keeping all the material produced active and useful. We believe that the schools’ curricular principles should reflect values, pedagogical contexts and their needs. For this, they need good quality resources, in terms of human resources, practical equipment, environments and pedagogical resources.
Through this project, participating teachers will increase their confidence, develop their language skills, establish international connections, learn about different school systems and cultures. In this way, they will improve their skills and continually increase their knowledge and experience in embodying global and traditional themes in their teaching practices. We will also open up students’ horizons as well as their focus on the importance of their learning process and the purpose of it. The educational quality of our schools will also grow and schools will be internationally recognized and will be preferred by students. Enjoyment, respect and tolerance will be created among participants from different cultures and cultural bridges will be built through different cultural activities.
The project is addressed to 11 to 14 Ss, including Ss at social risk. Each school will be responsible for coordinating the project, organizing different activities to be carried out for the implementation of the project. In the 2 short-term staff trainings in Slovenia and in Portugal, all the participants will understand the purpose, operation and implementation of the project, and learn how to use eTwinning and TwinSpace effectively as well as other ICT tools. After 5 short-term exchange of student activities in The Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Turkey, Slovenia and Italy, all the participants will get information about other country’s legends, cuisine, history, values, traditions, folklore via presentations, workshops and study visits to areas that have legend legacies. In the future, we want to provide guidance to other schools on local and transnational projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 188720 Eur

Project Coordinator

OSNOVNA SOLA I MURSKA SOBOTA & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo M.K.Gandhi
• Escola Básica 2.º e 3.º Ciclos dos Louros
• Szkoła Podstawowa im. Aleksandra Fredry w Surochowie
• Primary School “Dedo Iljo Malesevski”
• SEHIT IBRAHIM KARAOGLANOGLU ORTAOKULU