This document describes an Erasmus+ project called "My Culture, Your Culture, Our Culture" involving kindergartens in Greece, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, and Italy. The goals of the two-year project were to help young children understand cultural heritage through activities and raise awareness of different cultures. Teachers and students collaborated online and in person on activities focused on traditions, customs, foods, and languages of the participating countries. The final products included e-books, websites, and other digital materials sharing what was learned.
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Ελλάδα Πορτογαλία Πολωνία
Λιθουανία Ιταλία
Συντονιστικό σχολείο: Νηπιαγωγείο Ριζαριού
Το σχέδιο είναι διάρκειας δύο ετών και χρηματοδοτείται
από την Ευρωπαϊκή ένωση σε συνεργασία με το Ίδρυμα
Κρατικών Υποτροφιών Ελλάδας, που είναι και ο Εθνικός
φορέας της χώρας μας.
Συμμετέχουσες χώρες
4. Motives and purpose of the project
The aim of this project was to understand the cultural
heritage of young children, through relevant selected
activities in the field of preschool education (including
ICT), in order to raise awareness and awaken their
cultural awareness for the protection of cultural heritage
and the creation of new realizing that our lives and our
future depend directly on our past.
5. Cooperation
Five schools representing more than 2.000 students from
northern and southern Europe collaborated on this project
and gave teachers and students the opportunity to cultivate
their cultural awareness and strengthen their European
identity by knowing the culture of other European nations
and form the attitudes of a European citizen, who is
characterized by tolerance, desire for improvement, care and
respect for local and global cultural values.
6. Final products
• Publishing e-books with customs - Traditional cuisine, local
costumes, dances, games, Myths, fairy tales and tradition,
Museum education, Olympic education, acceptance and
diversity, Traditional professions - World cultural monuments.
• Creating e-books with stories made by children, electronic
dictionary and sharing Dvds and Cds with children's and
traditional songs.
• Website creation with all project activities and educational
material and 3 supporting e Twinning projects
• Electronic bank for cultural education material
• Europass for participants.
7. Themes of sort training events
Exchange of experience meeting Trainings :
• "Study of educational systems and instructions for using e twinning
platform"
• "Educational applications of new technologies in cultural education "
• " Culture as a way of teaching and learning tolerance to others and
acceptance of the diversity "
• "The necessity of the Museum education in kindergartens (Objectives
and Benefits)
• Exchange of experience : " Cultural education and Innovative actions
new methodologies, pedagogies and strategies "