Long Live Cultural Diversity! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Long Live Cultural Diversity!

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The project Long Live Cultural Diversity involves 6 different schools from Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia, Croatia, Portugal and Italy. The project will raise students’ awareness about cultural and historical heritage and improve their knowledge about each partner’s ones. Through the project, students will research and obtain information about cultural and historical heritage, legends and myths, art, literature, music, folk dance, costumes. The students will improve storytelling, drama, acting, artistic and creative works and promote digital and soft skills. A cultural collaboration among the students from different countries will be established, and students transmit their cultures to one another. The project mainly promotes social and educational value of European cultural heritage and supports digital and linguistic competences of project participants. The project activities will support participants to exchange multicultural and multilingual education and enable them to experience lifelong learning while strengthening institutional capacity. The project will embrace all students to strengthen their ties to their communities and their schools.

The project’s main objective is to raise student’s knowledge and awareness about cultural heritage and diversity of partner countries. Specific aims: improvement of language and communication skills; development of organizational and problem-solving skills; improvement of digital/ICT skills; become acquainted with foreign cultures and civilizations, their habits and way of life; acquirement of knowledge and information about the project topics in an international environment (students); learning new approaches to pedagogical interaction (teachers).

Every school will participate with group of 20 students aged 15-18 who will be directly involved in project activities and all the phases of the project: lectures, workshops, dissemination and about 100 students indirectly involved in local activities and a group of 6 teachers involved in all the project activities, 1 coordinator per school and school principal. Indirectly involved, during local activities and hosting of the LTT, there will be 10 teachers per school and school accountants.

There will be six LTT meetings, one in each partner country. Each meeting has its specific topic (Turkey-“Traditional art and literature”; Portugal-“Traditional songs, dances and costumes”; Greece-“Myths and legends”; Italy-“Food in historical tradition and heritage”; North Macedonia-“Historic places”; Croatia-“Tangible and intangible cultural heritage”). All mentioned activities, as well as those held locally, will include lectures, workshops, professional visits, acting, performances and cultural events. Every school will involve as many subjects as possible approaching the topics from different perspectives thus working in a multidisciplinary content. All the materials gathered through the duration of the project will be used in regular and extracurricular classes in all partner countries as well as teachers of other European countries through eTwinning project page. The project activities are based on tangible and intangible cultural and historical treasures of partner countries. Partner schools will introduce some examples of their traditional art, literature, handicraft, food, songs, folk dance, myths or legends of their nations and will arrange a guided tour to their historical sites or natural treasures of their own region. Students are told about legendary stories and history of the buildings or architectural remains they will visit.

The methodologies used to accompany mentioned activities are: flipped classroom, design-thinking, self-learning, problem-solving, cooperative learning and online learning tools at implementing our project activities. Project will be carried out with the use of new technologies, creative expressions, artistic presentations, search, collection, analysis and exchange of information, oral presentations, work in groups and peer methodology.

Final results of the project are: e-book (researched legends, myths, folk dance, art, literature, historical sites, dictionary); leaflets, posters, brochures, booklets (project description, goals and activities; most relevant traditions; descriprion of LTTs) which will be used as dissemination tool; eTwinning project page and website of the project (materials from all LTTs and local activities, as well as photos and videos).
Activities will have long term benefit because the material gathered during the project will be used by partner schools as well as those schools whose teachers are members of eTwinning. The material will be used in various subjects mentioned schools have (arts&music, cultural tradition, languages, tourism, history, geography).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 176400 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ortakoy Zubeyde Hanim Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SOU Gimnazija “Goce Delcev”
• Turisticko-ugostiteljska i prehrambena skola Bjelovar
• Istituto UgoMursia
• 3 Geniko Likio Evosmou
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DA NAZARÉ