The Traces of Other Cultures Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Traces of Other Cultures

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The schools which take part in the project “The Traces of Other Cultures” have been engaged in the variety of local, national and European events. All the partners pay attention to education, developing proper social attitudes, growing key competence among the young learners. The reason to apply for KA229 was the further continuation of improvement in the mentioned above fields as well asorganizational skills. The main goal of our project is increasing of tolerance among the students aged 14-16 towards cultural diversity throughout the project, making them aware of social and educational value of the European cultural inheritance and have a tolerant attituge towards different culturest hrough the searching of the influence of other cultures in history, peoples’ lives, contemporary lives of the citizens of our cities and regions as well as opening the schools into international cooperation with schools from diffrent countries. Creating our project “The Traces of Other Cultures” we also thought about improvement and implementation of modern teaching and learning methods using ICT and English language, which will be the tool of communication. The participating students will be girls and boys aged 14-16, the same number of each sex if possible. The teachers speak foreign languages , they are engaged in searching new educational insirations. In each mobility there will be 8 students and 3 teachers. The participants of the project will have to find the traces of other cultures in the places of their living (e.g. buildings, placesconnected with religion, restaurants, signs, symbols, cultural centres), prepare presentations, film sand outdoor games using ICT in English, make relationships with ethnic minorities, which will lead to create an attitude of tolerance.Taking part in such activities will help the students to develop proper attitude towards people who are of different culture and background. The students will search for information in an active, practical way, select it, and in the end present it to others, who will also gain some knowledge. The project will strengthen the teachers’ authority, which in further consequences will help the students to achieve success and develop prestige of the schools in local areas. The teachers engaged in the project will improve their language skills, will become more advanced in terms of schools’ cooperation thanks to the usage of etwinning and become more aware of cultural diversity in their regions.As a result they will get better competence in the process of teaching and they will exchange good practices among themselves. Thanks to that there will be some innovations in the schools. The teachers and the students will make relationships, which can help them in the future, in furthe rcooperation, perhaps in looking for jobs. The methods through which the aims are going to be achieved such as outdoor game, mobilities, using modern ICT and English are highly motivating for the students as well as attractive. We believe that they will help the students to acquire knowledge and proper attitude towards people of different cultural backgrounds that they are themselves.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59338 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 61 im. Jozefa Wybickiego Gdansk & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Colegiul National Nicolae Titulescu
• IISS Don Michele Arena