EU INTERCULTURAL PATHS

The main reason to apply for our project came from the need to broaden understanding about the common European cultural heritage and the link between nations that nowadays have cultures that seem far away (West - East). Taking the Roman cultural heritage as common link, the project seeked to connect students from Spain, France and Turkey and foster the intercultural dialogue between youngsters. What we have achieved is to connect students from different cultural areas of Europe to favour understanding, discover the cultural heritage and foster the intercultural dialogue within and outside the EU. This way, our students could approach to different realities and promote values like social inclusion of young people from different origins, empathy, open-mindness and tolerance and also a good command of a foreign language.

When we applied for the project, we wanted to achieve different objectives, which are directly related one to another: - Promoting the knowledge of cultural heritage of the participant countries and the intercultural dialogue on values between West- East and North-South, both within and outside the EU. - Foster the understanding and the exchange between cultures as a way to improve social inclusion of students. - Enhance the adoption of inclusive learning methodologies including digital tools that would improve the academic performance of diverse students, and reduce the digital gap. -I mprove the comunication skills of students in several foreign languages and appreciate the value of them in all aspects (social, cultural, linguistic, etc.)

In our project we included four main types of activities linked to the our project's objectives and organitations goals: - Preparation course: this course comprised a set of learning activities linked to the realisation of virtual mobilities. This activity focused on the video recording and edition course taken by the students in order to create a video project with the skills they developed in this actitivity. - Networking and study visits: this second activity deepened the cultural understanding and networking between the 3 centres. The aim of these short- term exchanges was to: a)Network and get to know the centres b) Exchange of good practices between teachers and finally c) Prepare the virtual mobility expected between students on the chosen topic - Virtual Mobility: the virtual mobilities between students were to enable them to connect and get-to know each other. Cooperation and digital skills were improved, as well as their language skills - Local dissemination activities: They were implemented in collaboration with the local authorities and addressed society in general (audiovisual products, intercultural presentations, etc), with these activities our project became known by the people in the three participating countries.

Regarding our students, with the development of this project they achieved the results detailed below: - Ability to research over a given topic. - Improvement of their critical thinking. - Ability to work with audiovisual tools to present a topic/story - Capacity to develop cooperative work through online means. - Reduction of digital gap between students from different backgrounds. - A better understanding of social media tools. - A better knowledge of the participating centres and their cultural particularities. - Awareness of different realities from one country to another and identification of common barriers faced by students. - Improvement of social skills through the interaction with others out of their zone of comfort. - Improvement of language skills through the communication with foreign students. - Awareness of the social inclusion and diversity topic. - Appreciation of diverse cultures. - Favour tolerance and inclusion within local communities. - Awareness of the commom and our own cultural heritage. - Enhancement of the dialogue with the local community. And we as teachers got all these results and additionally: - Improvement of teachers`s skills to work transnationally with colleagues from other centres.