Curiosities killed the cat; let’s compare our cultures and learn more about them.

By implementing the project we intended to achieve objectives both for students and teachers. For students we wanted to increase curiosity for different countries, gaining an understanding for ot...

By implementing the project we intended to achieve objectives both for students and teachers. For students we wanted to increase curiosity for different countries, gaining an understanding for other cultures, raising cultural awareness, increasing commitment to their national cultures, meeting their peers from different countries, cooperation in international groups, developing communicative skills, increasing self-confidence, improving foreign languages and digital skills. For teachers we wanted to reinforce leadership and representative skills, to digitalize their lessons.

The program was shaped around History, Art, Music and culture, in English, through tasks based learning activities. Participant countries were involved in international work groups, presenting solid cultural heritage to each-other. Other activities were shaped around the cuisines of participating countries, creativity (pottery, ceramics, watercolor and glass-painting) in international work groups as a representation of each one's identity.

The project was fully successful under several points of view. First of all from a social aspect both students and teachers experienced great moments together and keep being in touch even though the project came to an end. Solid relationships were set thanks to the project through the three countries. On the other hand the project was important to make the participants aware of different cultures and beliefs as well as different tastes and knowledge. Students, teachers and even parents were involved in each activity and actively felt the experience with their five senses; they draw the pictures of the monuments in Rome and visited them afterwards, they wanted to taste Turkish coffee and learned how to make it and even how to drink it, by doing it themselves. Before making some pottery in the pottery musem, they learned about the folk dance in Agost and danced together in the town centre. In short, since every experience has concrete results, the participants kept the products they produced throughout the project, such as paintings, pottery and coffee cups. This active participation and experience was also used in our dissemination channels as a concrete result of the project.