Myths, Tales, Art and Games for Intercultural Cooperation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Myths, Tales, Art and Games for Intercultural
Cooperation

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

To participate effectively in the increasingly complex, digitally interconnected, multicultural societies and globalized economy that characterize today’s world, students need to think critically, communicate effectively, collaborate with diverse peers, develop cross-cultural skills, solve complex problems, adopt a global mindset, and engage with information and communication technologies.
As educators, it is vital these tendencies be recognized and counteracted from the early school years. We have to raise awareness of 21st century skills and create the necessary environment to develop them in early childhood learning possess. We also have to provide every student with the cross-cultural skills necessary to achieve intercultural cooperation.
M.A.G.I.C. (Myths and tales, Art, Game for Intercultural Cooperation) is a project of five (5) European Kindergarten and Primary schools (Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Estonia, and Lithuania) intended to run for 2 years.
This project focuses on enhancing intercultural awareness amongst the participants and their organizations ensuring children have the knowledge and skills to be successful in the modern workforce. It will promote an understanding and respect of diverse cultures and gain an appreciation of one’s history and traditions. Our ambition is to create a sense of belonging to a European culture as well as to prepare students to live consciously and responsibly in a United Europe.
Students will be informed about other European cultures via Art, games and cultural heritage. This will foster mutual understanding between children from different ethnicities and develop their communication, digital, musical and artistic skills. Moreover we intend to increase children’s interest in reading and writing, support the development of innovative ICT based content and use extracurricular forms of work with them as an opportunity to practice, think creatively, work in teams and learn ”by doing”.
In addition we wish to promote creativity, competiveness, language learning and linguistic diversity, to exchange good practices, encourage the best use of results and to create and share innovative and meaningful products.
The project activities will be realized with children from 3 to 12 years old, teachers, parents and members from local community.

The main activities of our project are 5 eTwinning Study Projects and 5 LTT Activities. Each LTT combines physical mobility with virtual exchanges through eTwinning and gives the chance to those who cannot participate in the mobility plan to take part in a “virtual mobility”.
“Myths, Tales, Games and traditions of my country” are planned for the first year of the project including a website along with one in E-twinning named M.A.G.I.C and a logo competition.
In the second year of our common work we will focus on “Europe my home through Arts”. History and traditions, music, dance and crafts will be exchanged and shared by all participants.
At the end of our project we hope to have helped the pupils acquire a sense of belonging to a wider European culture, accept diversity, respect other cultures and develop 21st century competences. We also intend to contribute to the teachers’ professional development and via teacher mobility to offer alternatives for lifelong learning. The local community will be given the chance to get acquainted with the knowledge of how to interact with all the authorities involved in the learning process. The expected results of the project include a web site, an e-book to be uploaded on YouTube Education and on ECAS dissemination platform, videos and crafts.
The results of the project will be uploaded in twinspace as well giving thus feedback not only to the partners involved but also to any e twinning member interested in the various aspects of the cultures discussed in this project.
Schools will have a multi -motivating learning environment and a better comprehension of differences of other cultures. The project will also contribute to their openness to others and to an increased support and involvement of other local stakeholders: local and regional authorities, companies and parents’ associations. The use of various teaching approaches and strategies will motivate the whole school’s population and would be an opportunity for every participant to cultivate the skills of 21st century and become an active European citizen.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/98255/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98997 Eur

Project Coordinator

21st Primary School of Athens “Lela Karagianni” & Country: EL

Project Partners

• 48° Circolo Didattico “Madre Claudia Russo”
• Kindergrten Detski Svyat
• Lohkva Lasteaed
• Siauliu r. Kursenu lopselis-darzelis “Buratinas”