TransOceanic Cultures: Education, Amnity, Nature Erasmus Project

Project Title

TransOceanic Cultures: Education, Amnity, Nature

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; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The most important human value that binds people together is love and friendship. The biggest problems of today’s world are lack of love, intolerance, not trying to understand people. As a result of this, the bonds between people are severed, starting from the relations between people, societies, cultures, and causes problems to grow between countries.
In this project our ambition is not only to teach our students and communities about other cultures, but to understand and respect the differences – and hopefully also to adopt new ideas and implement them in their own cultures. What will happen when we mix Inuit and Turkish culture? The Arctic and Euroasia meet each other and we truly believe that the result will be a warm hearted, joyful, full of laughter experience that will expand beyond the project schools into our communities and create friendship and school cooperation, that will last long after the project has finished.

In our globalized world, problems reaching social dimensions starting from the individual are affecting not just one society but all societies through the Butterfly Effect. A world without intercultural interaction, without communication with people from different social structures, without dialogue between religions will turn into a world dominated by chaos, disorder and war. All negative concepts that begin in micro-sized people, especially our children, threaten the world as well as the society to which they belong. Our project aims to stop this threat in all communities, starting with our students, who are covered with immaculate emotions and who are not yet polluted by bad concepts and emotions. We think that the best way to do this is for our students to be exposed to and embrace diversity by building relationships between cultures and people.

With our project, we aim to develop love, tolerance through cultural and sporting activities. we will promote education, equality, gender balance, inclusivity, diversity and cohesion through the sharing of good practices and fight against disadvantages, discrimination, hatred and racism. Greenland, the project partner, and the schools from Turkey, which agree on the main objectives of our project, have found each other through Etwinning. Our project, which started with the idea of trans-oceanic communication, has excited the common schools because it will bring together completely different cultures, religions, beliefs, climate and people. In our project, Greenland represents the poles, cold climate, Christian religious belief, people from different ethnic backgrounds and the unknown, while Turkey represents the middle generation, Mediterranean climate, secularism along with Islam, cultural and linguistic diversity, our enthusiasm for the project has increased. The partner schools then developed the idea of the project with e-mail, social communication networks and various means of communication.

In a globalised world where borders are just lines, citizens of all countries are also citizens and Labour candidates of other countries. Therefore, the continuation of sustainable development depends on increased cross-cultural dialogue.

By expanding the educational activities of our schools in our project, which will benefit 34 students and 8 teachers directly, 2200 students and 120 teachers indirectly with 11-14 years of age.:
– Students will be trained as individuals who are academically successful, open to multiculturalism and innovation, respectful of nature and Human Rights, and non-racially-sexist by promoting communication and dialogue between cultures, religions and ethnic groups.
– To contribute to the mutual promotion of cultural heritage by drawing attention to the similar aspects of the international cultural heritage will be provided to understand the common cultural heritage,
– Our teachers, students and schools will feel European citizens and will be internationalized,
– Students-teachers and servants of ICT-language proficiency and multidillicity will increase,
– Exchange of new and good practices and harmonisation between curricula,
– Disadvantaged and SEN students will be made to feel part of the community and the school,
– By including all our stakeholders in the activities of our project, awareness of our stakeholders such as inclusiveness, feeling European citizens, respect for Environment and nature, use of digital technology, multiculturalism will be created,
– Through sports, dance, art, food and traditional music activities, the prejudices between countries will be broken . ,
– The national and international prestige of our schools will increase.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85546 Eur

Project Coordinator

Atuarfik Ukaliusaq & Country: GL

Project Partners

• 23 NISAN ORTAOKULU