My Art and Me Erasmus Project

Project Title

My Art and Me

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Social dialogue; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Today,increase usage of internet especially among young people ,the rapid advancement of ICT and technological developments have dragged young people to a virtual world ‘by removing them from the elements comprising their cultural identity.In fact,they have avoided building real social relationship with their families,friends and the other people.They have imprisoned themselves in their own world.We made our students familirized with their own cultural values and traditional handcrafts firstly,and then made them to become aware of other European traditional handcrafts.We drew them to real social enviroments with workshops during the project,so theybecame more social,communicative and self-confident individuals.Our participants will realize the comman points comprising the cultural identity of a nation with other cultures,especially in the area of traditional handcrafts.So,they will discover the joy of living together instead of ignoring them.
The rapid growth of the mass productions meeting consumer demands more effectively have prevented the existence of handcrafts in communities.However ,this case causes the extinction of aesthetic perspectives. Our students’manual skills and their aesthetic perspectives will have been improved while they are rubbing elbows with eachother’s cultural values.Our project will lead to create new working areas by bringing handcrafts into the forefront as an alternative and infact as a rival to mass production.Rising the rate of transition to higher education that is one of the major aim of EU 2020 Growth Strategies will have been supported by routing our students to handcrafts departments in universties
In our globising world,our students coming from different ethnic groups have changeable problems related to social and academic succes with their friends,familes and teachers that mostly stem from the inability of setting up empathy with eachother and other cultures.Compliance problems of them are supposed to be worked out by combining them eachother with several project activities such as workshops.The sense of responsibility,working within discipline,focusing on,solution and product oriented approaches which are very crucial for life success will have been acquired by our students.
*We know that the greatest challege for the success isn’t genetics,but it’s the lack of social inclusion.
Our target groups are firstly our own teachers,students,parents ,and then our partners’teachers,students,parents and various institutions,organizations, and the citiziens of all partner countries.
We aim to create ‘Great World Culture’ by keeping tradional handcrafts alive and transfering them to new generations and meeting our participants on a common ground that can also be considered as cultural bridge among them.So,our target group will have been encouraged to be European citizen by overcoming linguistic and cultural obstacles.
To implement our projects.
-Project website ,facebook project webpage and e-learning platform on e-twinning will be created and Costant communication with the partners will be provided with them.
– Each partner school in regular intervals and Romania will apply surveys as one in the beginning ,one half way down and one in the end to all partners.
-The logo,banner,slogan and art contests called “My Artwork” will be organized in each partner school for the promotion of the project .
-The brochures including the examples of major traditional handcrafts will be prepared.
-Famous myths and legends related to the birth of traditional handcrafts will be searched in the regions of partner schools.
-“Project Corners” in each partner school and“Project Days” in the cooperation with local authorities and with the participation of local folk will be organized.
-Several workhops, fashion show and exhibitions will be organized in Turkey.
-Seminars and conferences and presentations will be organized with the participants of craftsmen and academicians.
-Cultural trips will be arraged to Etnography museums and traditional handcrafts’ workshops by each partner.
-Photo Album,DVD, online Project Journal will be prepared.
-We will make use of media and press,project website,facebook project webpage,online project journal,school websites,etwinning,billboards,seminars,conferances,workshops
-International certificates will be handed to our participants.
Results and impact of our project anticipated,our participants and our school will have
-Tolerance and respect to other cultures,international experience.
-Artistic ,qualified hobbies,self confidence
-New job opportunities related to handcrafts.
-Competence in practicing ICT field.
-Social inclusion and descrease in the rate of early school leaving,the rise of academic success and transferring to higher education.
Some handicaps will be coped with.
-Early school leaving,unemployment
-Prejudices of the staff and students,ignoring eachother in the same community.
-Cultural corruption,lack of real-social com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118985 Eur

Project Coordinator

Denizli Ahmet Yesevi Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Liceul Teoretic German Johann Ettinger
• Music School of Kavala
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Paredes de Coura
• ALBAYRAK BORSA ISTANBUL MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• I.I.S.S. “Carlo Maria Carafa” Mazzarino