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MY CULTURE - YOUR CULTURE - OUR CULTURE Newsletter #1
After our project had been approved, all partner schools announced the project on our school' s
project boards and informed and motivated our students to apply. Coordinators conducted
interviews with applicants and formed project teams.
My Culture - Your Culture - Our Culture is the Erasmus+ project, type KA229, school
partnerships for the area of general education. The topic of the project is cultural heritage and
the aims are to present each other’s history, dances and costumes, songs, literature, art,
cuisine and other cultural activities at local, regional and national level.
Partners in the project are the following schools:
Derici Mustafa Gürbüz Anadolu Lisesi from Kuşadası in Turkey, Istituto Istruzione Superiore Orso Mario Corbino from Partinico in Italy, EPAL Alexandrias from Alexandria in Greece, Liceul Regina Maria from Dorohoi in Romania, Agrupamento de Escolas de Vila Real de Santo Antonio from Vila Real de Santo
Antonio in Portugal and Ekonomska škola Požega from Požega in Croatia.
The first activity within the project was the LOGO COMPETITION.
The criteria for the competition had been determined and each school chose the winning logo
which was to be presented at the Croatia mobility.
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Before the Croatia mobility, eTwinning group, Twinspace, Facebook and Youtube channels were
created. Each team made a video about the history of their town and presented it during the mobility.
Videos can be found on the project Youtube channel.
LOGO PROPOSALS:
#MCYCOC
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Host and guest students had been
determined a month before the
mobility and students started
communicating.
Agenda for the Croatia mobility
was created.
And the adventure began
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The official logo of our
project has been chosen!
CONGRATS TO
THE TURKISH
TEAM!
From 10 to 14 December 2018, Croatian
partner hosted the first mobility and
welcomed 35 foreign students and
teachers. Students were accommodated
in the host students' homes and teachers
stayed at a hotel.
As the aim of the project is to present
cultural heritage, and the topic of the first
mobility was local history, the Croatian
host prepared a week full of culture and
history related activities, visits and
workshops.
After the welcoming programme which
Croatian students enriched with songs,
music and presentations of their school,
town and country, a tour of the town was
organised and the host students
presented the most important cultural and
historical monuments of their town.
During the tour, we visited Požega Town
Museum where we listened to a lecture on
the history of the museum and the heads
from Rudina, the romanesque stone
heads which originate from the 12th
century and which had been discovered in
the vicinity of Požega. The teachers held
their first meeting and voted for the official
logo of our project.
The next day we went on a trip to Vukovar
where we visited the Museum of Vučedol
Culture, located just 4 km from Vukovar,
on the right bank of the Danube river
which is one of the most significant
archaeological sites in Europe as this
attractive location was first inhabited as
early as in about 6000 BC. The Vučedol
culture flourished between 3350 and 2300
BC and is therefore contemporary with
the Sumer period in Mesopotamia, the
Early Dynastic period in Egypt and the
earliest settlements of Troy. We visited the
centre of Vukovar as well and the host
students spoke about the town, its
suffering and destruction during the
Homeland war in 1991 in Croatia.
Nowadays Croatian people regard it as a
symbol of peace, resistance and survival.
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Wednesday was a day for workshops -
students participated in workshops in which
they made Rudina heads out of modelling
clay and the one in which they learnt about
and wrote in Glagolitic script, the oldest
known Slavic alphabet. Meanwhile, the
teachers listened to the lecture and
participated in a workshop related to thinking
routines and visual thinking. Our foreign
guests had an opportunity to learn some
phrases in Croatian language as a lecture
and workshop on Croatian language was
organised for them as well.
On Thursday we visited Zagreb. First we
explored the Zagreb City Museum and then
we enjoyed the professionally guided
sightseeing tour of the old city centre and the
Zagreb Christmas Market. After that students
were divided into international teams and
embarked upon a scavenger hunt activity
which was devised to enable them to see and
explore the city, take plenty of photos and
videos and turn them into videos which will
remind them of this visit once they return
home.
On the last day of this mobility we visited a
local radio station, were greeted by the
deputy county prefect, held a prize quiz on
cultural achievements, handed out
certificates and gifts, some experienced snow
for the first time and had a lot of fun and
happy moments at the farewell dinner where
we celebrated this new partnership and new
friendships with music and dancing.
Enriched with new experiences, enthusiasm
and appreciation we look forward to the next
mobility that will be held in Italy in March
2019.
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It was a fantastic experience. I was hosted by a Croatian student. Her family treated me like a princess. They were very kind to me. I learned some Croatian words and above all I have new friends in Croatia.
I made a lot of friends. The town where the project took place is small but Croatian people have a big heart.
For me, the mobility was something unbelievable, it was an amazing week, actually the best week of my life and I'm very happy because I had the opportunity to be there. In that week, I made myself a lot of new friends and built stronger friendships, I'm proud to say that I became of another family and also I discovered some amazing places from Croatia, like Zagreb. I felt amazing, I didn't feel like I was surrounded by strangers, just by friendly people, people who I am not afraid to call my 2nd family! I can't wait to meet them again and to be again in Croatia!
I I was amazed by the school because It is completely different from mine. I would love to visit Croatia again in the future. Požega may be a small town but it sure is a beautiful one. The colorful houses and the scenery were eye catching but what really intrigued me the most was the passion the students had for the local history.
Amazing. Perfect. Special!
Flabbergasting!
First when I got into this project I really thought this is just about travelling, meeting new people and cultures. But guess what? I was really wrong. The week of the mobility in Croatia was for many of us the best week of our lives. Why? Because we made so many real friendships, the best memories and now we all have one big family which we like to call "Erasmus+ family". I heard a lot about this kind of projects from our teachers and other students, but this experience was 100 times better than I could ever have imagined. Starting with the program, I really had fun every single day. On the days when we were travelling I visited places I had already seen 1000 times in my life, but this time they looked different to me, somehow special. I learned that places are not the ones that matter, the people with whom you are surrounded are the ones who make the places special. I really liked the activities that we had during the mobility, especially the scavenger hunt. Usually I'm very shy and when it comes to public speaking I really fail every time and I'm scared of talking in front of more than 2 people, but this time I wasn't afraid at all and I actually did have a lot of public presentations during the project in front of 60 people. I think it's because the group of foreign students and teachers who came to Croatia was just amazing. Everyone was very kind and supportive. It was just amazing how such different people connected so much during just one week. On the last night the Croatians planned a little surprise; we sang 5 songs in 5 different languages. We had been preparing that for 2 weeks and stayed many times after school, missed some classes etc. The foreign students and teachers were really touched and it really meant the world for me that they reacted like that. And in the end I want to focus on hosting. I hosted a Romanian student, Ionuț. I never thought that I'll connect with my guest that much. Some people asked me how am I not afraid of having a complete stranger in my house for a week... He is the most kind and polite person I have ever met and since day 1 in Croatia he wasn't a stranger anymore, he became a part of our family. Everyone still misses him at home and I am very happy that I got to host him. The hard work really paid off because now I'm richer for 38 friends and 1000 memories.
Jorge and
Maria from
Portugal:
Serena and Victor
from Sicily
Ionut from Romania
Athanasios and Anastasia from Greece
Murat from Turkey
Here is Marijana's ovierview
of the Croatia mobility week
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Some more photos
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