Our Milieu Through Our Camera Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Milieu Through Our Camera

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; Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

“Our Milieu Through Our Camera” is a project with the main aim of exchange of good practices. It will start in September 2020 and will last 24 months.
Turkey and Lithuania came together at the eTwinning platform they created the idea of the project. They conducted a needs analysis with project teams in the schools of these two countries. First, they decided to do an eTwinning project. We have cooperated with our partner schools in The Republic of North Macedonia, Italy and Romania as a result of long evaluations and interviews with the schools that reached us via eTwinning. In the surveys (all partners conducted the survey) prepared and applied to students by our teachers:
It was seen that our students have not visited a relative or a neighbour for at least one year, and there have been months since they had a walk in their neighbourhood. So, it is clear that communication gap between the young and old population is getting bigger and bigger every single day.
Many of the students are not even aware of the natural beauty in the surrounding villages. The percentage of those who do not visit the historical buildings in their town is over fifty percent. The ratio of those who do not meet with a touristic, historical and natural beauty at a distance of approximately one hour by car is quite high. Starting from our street, we need to know our neighbourhood, our town, our city; rediscovering people, buildings, villages, vineyards, gardens, fields, natural beauty, historical sites, tourist sites; meeting them; being aware of our environment must be the duty, responsibility and goal of all of us.

Our main objectives are:
– raise the awareness for active citizenship.
– decrease everyday stress by exploring the environment.
– enhance awareness of the culture of European countries.
– make people promote children to be creative and productive.
– strengthen the cooperation among students, teachers and parents.
– explore the feeling of creating.
– carry out education outside the school.
– motivate students with fewer opportunities.
– enhance searching and research techniques.
– use technology productively.
– to have empathy and openness to diversity and interculturalism.
– to be a part of digital society positively.

We have had our inspiration from all the four of The strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training 2020 objectives:
– Make lifelong learning and mobility a reality
– Improve the quality and efficiency of education and training
– Promote equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship
– Enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training

The participants in the project will be students between, aged 13 to 18, teachers, local school staff, parents, society and public authorities. Approximately 360 students, from 5 countries, will actively be involved in local and international activities. When we consider the total number of students in schools, parents, local schools and society, it is clear that thousand of people will be informed and involved in project activities.

We will have 3 LTTs in the first and 2 LTTs in the second year. In international visits, 5 students and 2 teachers from each country will be hosted during the mobility. A total of 100 students and 40 teachers will participate in international visits.

As in the project title, our activities will be centred to introduce our environment with all kinds of recording devices, especially mobile phone cameras.
The project will provide information on how to determine places, regions, buildings, components, planning and mapping methods, video, photography techniques (by a teacher at school or in the region). During the period between visits, students will continue their planning, research, discovery, ranking, editing, photographing, videotaping activities.

Collaborative method discussion, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, case studies, narrative research, data collection, historical research, kinaesthetic learning, digital tools, peer-observation, critical reflection, brainstorming, analyses will be the methodology we are going to conduct.

Our results will be: presentations about their town, city and country. Questionnaires and Surveys. Project corners, booklets of neighbourhood and city
video clips of “people, our town; our nature; our agriculture”, video interviews, posters, short video of each mobility, Logo Contest, My City Mind Map,
Project website, eTwinning Project, 2022 Photo Calendar, Facebook Page, YouTube channel.

We will conduct series of dissemination activities to reach the widest impact and to get the most potential longer term benefits. These activities will start among the partners and at school level and the stretch out to other schools, local community, wider society in order to bring a dimension of internationalization.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kelmes District Saukenai Vlado Putvio Putvinskio gymnasium & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Tirebolu Anadolu Lisesi
• SHMK”Drita”
• IIS L.ACCIAIUOLI – L. EINAUDI di ORTONA
• Scoala Gimnaziala Mihail Kogalniceanu