Meeting of Technology and Cultural Heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Meeting of Technology and Cultural Heritage

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; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Many researches and surveys have been conducted on Cultural Heritage from past to present. The problem that arises on the basis of all these studies is that the young generation does not adopt, care and protect the Cultural Heritage. People knew their cultural heritage better years ago and protected more.Nowadays, the new generations exposed to different broadcasts such as the internet and television forget their national culture.Our project was born out of the concern of cultural corruption due to the rapid changes in the lives of our youth.In the observations made by our project team; It was worrying for us that students’ curiosity and motivation about cultural heritage are very low. In this context, we decided to cooperate at the European level so that our students discover their cultural heritage and learn how to relate it to today’s life.

The main theme of our project is to achieve our goals by combining our Cultural Heritage with today’s technology and making it sustainable. Cultural heritage According to the Eurobarometer survey, nine out of ten Europeans ask for European cultural heritage to be taught in schools. For this to happen, it is very important that students receive an international education on this subject. In this context, our project will be enabled our students to explore the European cultural heritage, strengthened the sense of belonging to a common European culture and offered them a unique experience. In addition, our project supports the European Union’s goal of “revealing Europe’s rich cultural heritage” and UNESCO’s views on the protection of cultural heritage.

Our main goals in our project:
* Creating cultural heritage awareness in our students
* Creating awareness of protecting cultural heritage in our students
* Strengthening the intercultural understanding
* Transferring cultural heritage elements to digital environment, improving students’ information and communication technology skills
* Increasing values such as collaboration, tolerance, respect for people, empathy and justice in our students with performing arts, history, music, drama and ensuring the sustainability of these values,
* Promoting diversity and intercultural dialogue
* Professional development of our teachers
* Development of e-Safety awareness
* To develop soft skills of participants by using theater and ICT skills together
* To teach our students how to evaluate both national and European cultural heritage and how to benefit from other nations in this regard.

Our project will include students, teachers, school administrators, parents, educational authorities, sister schools and cultural associations between the ages of 15-19.Especially, we plan to carry out our project activities by providing active participation of our disadvantaged students (with social, economic and health problems). 4 students and 2 teachers will participate in all project activities and mobility (LTT) activities will be carried out as follows.

C1.Poland -LTT: Studies on drama and performing arts will be conducted and different cultural drama studies of countries will be examined.
C2.Italy -LTT: The historical costume game will be held and this game will be translated into short films by students.
C3.Turkey -LTT: A workshop called historical heroes will be held and this work will be presented as a video clip by the students.
C4.Croatia -LTT: Students will hold a workshop called “Reviving the past and preparing a development plan for cultural heritage”.
C5.Greece -LTT: Radio Program workshop will be held. Students will perform an online radio program, using their technology skills about the importance of Cultural Heritage.

Concrete results of our project:
* Students will understand the relationship between history and culture and become conscious about education of values.
* Development of high-level cognitive skills by comprehending cultural heritage elements through ICT
* Development of aspects such as secure internet and foreign language development in participants
* Students will improve their information and communication technology skills and use them according to their needs
* Teachers will adopt student-centered approaches
* Disappear of negative prejudices against new technologies
* Students with disadvantaged backgrounds will be able to establish healthy relationships with their peers
* The establishment of an educational environment where students can learn with fun.

Thanks to our project, our students will have more adopt to national cultural heritage and more responsibility.They will learn about the cultures of different countries and develop their drama and theater skills.Our students will introduce our Cultural Heritage to their peers and the society with technological products, thus improving their digital skills. In addition, we will increase the interest and motivation of our students to the school and contribute to the goal of reducing early school dropout, which is among the EU 2020 targets, from 15% to 10%.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131160 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZESPOL SZKOL OGOLNOKSZTALCACYCH I EKONOMICZNYCH & Country: PL

Project Partners

• 5th High School of Agrinio
• Ataturk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “DE TITTA-FERMI” LANCIANO (CH)
• Srednja skola Valpovo