Project objectives:

This project  supports a multi-cultural lifestyle and recognises the cultural heritage of the world. Awareness of European cultures and lifestyles will help to decrease of ethnic, linguistic and religious discrimination. In our schools we plan:

-Knowing each other better;

-Ensuring appropriate “Ideal European Citizenship Concept” by participant institutions;

-Working on acceptance of  ethnic, linguistic and religious differences as richness;

-Increasing  awareness of our pupils and staff about human rights and European common values;

-Firing enthusiasm with history and learning activities

-Exploring the museum’s inner world, which means not only learning more about the history of the museum or its collections of works of art, but also meeting the staff, participating in some of the museum’s activities –  in other words, knowing better and more deeply the subject of our project. 

-Intercultural dialogue.

-Developing creative thinking on artistic matters.

-Developing  artistic taste.

-Discovering new areas of the city and paying more attention to the natural and social environment around the museum we have chosen.

-Exploring the role of our museum in the network of the city’s cultural institutions.

-Collaborating with museum’s staff and working on students’ ideas in creating new activities and various material for the visitors of the Museum.

-Making the museum more famous through teenagers’ eyes.

-Using new technologies in providing original material (DVD, sites, social networks)

The subjects we address are;

Museums,history,active citizenship,Pupils' interest to cultural heritage,Foreign Languge

Approach

-Interviews with the members of the staff of the Museum, and the visitors, especially children and young people. A questionnaire is needed. Using videocameras students may succeed in providing, at the end, a document of some kind presenting their experience.

-Planning new educational activities, such as board games or happenings taking place in the museum’s galleries. Some of them will be presented or guided by the students themselves at least once.

-Approaching, through the students’ eyes, the museum concept in order to present to public its contribution in the cultural life of the country or, even better, its role in the area it is situated (a guided tour in the museum adapted to children or presentations in local press or radio/t.v., foto-exhibition or happenings on the streets around the museum etc.)