Integrating Cultural Heritages to the Digital World

<< Background >>The project wa motivated by sharing a strong link to belong to the 4 cities which have important historical sites designated by UNESCO or selected as European capitals of culture.With this shared feature,we wonder what united us educationally,resulting in a series of common needs&shared between the 4 schools,despite the distance separating them.Each school applied some questionnaires to the pupils&teachers about how to improve students key competences.Approximately students and teachers stated that learning through cultural elements will supply a rich environment to develop key skills.And it is inevitable to make use of colourful world of web 2.0 tools in such a digital world to learn tangible heritages like monuments,artworks,books,historic towns,archaeological sites or intangible heritages like history, traditions,expressions arts,rituals of European countries to create an e-archive. Needs:Project is derived from the demand for; >Improving the key competences of the students and teachers >awaking pupils about European cultural heritages; giving them the role of setting contact past, present and future; preventing from the threat of getting lost effective usage of ICT tools to integrate cultural heritages to learning.<< Objectives >>The importance of digitally competent teachers has been dramatically brought to light by the recent Covid- 19pandemic,which forced schools to find solutions to replace face-2-face activities.Our project has explored the educational potential of digital cultural heritage, so that teachers will efficiently integrate it into their lessons, regardless of the subject they teach.Thanks to the innovative pedagogies, pupils has improved the key competences ;multilingualism, digital, interpersonal, cultural awareness.<< Implementation >>2 virtual activites for pupils; 2 face-to-face mobilities for teachers (Portugal and Turkey) -2 face-to-face mobilities for teachers&pupils(in Timisoara/Romania -Rijeka/Croatia are awarded as European Capital of Culture) The project has been carried on eTwinning portal The project meetings and some activities were done on zoom. Learning scenarios to integrate cultural heritages to the digital world;LTTs on usage of web2.0 tools, language learning activities via CLIL, cross disciplinary methods.<< Results >>Students and teachers have improved their key skills, encountered new teaching methods like inquiry and project based learning - minimultilingual dictionary(5 languages), 12 learning scenarios of digital heritages by all partners, in English and in partners languages , the booklets of training activities (ICT tools) , ebooklets of traditional cook/games, the project website , archieve of project results on wakelet, 8 project seminars for diffusion (local, regional, national), 12 webinars at European level.