The basic aim of the education is to give the students the qualities of being an individual and to prepare these individuals for their life. In our day, educational environments which is do not go beyond a certain curriculum have been become controversial situation. Our world needs generation who is researching, querying, thinking and producing and this situation has made the emergence of new educational concepts as a compulsory.
In order to bring all these positive qualities to our children, it is important for the family and teachers to bring them together with art, sports and music in social life as well as social activities in school.
It is an important step to reach the knowledge and to use social activities in the educational process frequently so that the acquired knowledge can be transformed into a skill and used in daily life.
Through social activities, students are able to acquire qualifications beyond their achievements in curriculum development and skills development.
In our project, social activities are seen as an important step in preventing school dropout. For this reason various social activities are planned. One of the social activities was arts workshops. The Citizenship and arts workshops activity was held in Cyprus with the participation of 32 students from ten countries and took place at the Lyceum and Technical School of Polis Chrysochous.
The concept was intended to allow students to express their interpretation of ‘dropping-out’ of education. Each country then portrayed their own perception of the concept through their photographic displays.
Preparatory Phase
Particularly attention has been given to the participation of students who are under risk groups for this activity. Some schools do not have adequate facilities for activities and for the success of the activity, photography education was given to the students.
Working Session in Cyprus
The activity was held at Lyceum and Technical School of Polis Chrysochous. 32 students from 10 countries participated in the Learning teaching and training activity in Polis Chrysochous / Cyprus. Participants and countries are as follows:
Participants in Cyprus
| Countries |
Number of Teachers |
Number of Students |
| Greece |
2 |
3 |
| Turkey |
2 |
3 |
| Latvia |
1 |
4 |
| Lithuania |
1 |
3 |
| Cyprus |
3 |
3 |
| Portugal |
1 |
3 |
| UK |
2 |
4 |
| Bulgaria |
2 |
3 |
| Norway |
2 |
3 |
| Italy |
3 |
3 |
Students presented their creative process and ideas on videos and curated their own photographic display. Students voted for the best photo from each country and then the best overall photo of the day. There was a committee who administered the voting and prizes were awarded at the end. All photographs were shared amongst the contributing teams – some taking the exhibition back as a display to their home country.
Evaluation of the Activity
After all countries turned back into their country surveys had been conducted to students in order to evaluate the mobility. The results are the following:
- 100% liked very much being involved in this project
- 100% of participants answered that working in a team with students from different countries was good to feel more involved in the project
- 98% of participants knew a little about the countries involved in this project
- 60 % of participants knew enough about Cyprus before their arrival in Lecce
- 81% of participants Accommodation in hotel good.
- 83% of participants considered Meals: excellent
- 96% of participants considered Cultural programme excellent
- 93% of participants considered Social programme good
- 98% of participants considered Project activities excellent
- 82% of participants considered Prizes good.
- 98% of participants thought that sport activities were good.
- 100% of participants felt they were democratically involved in the voting of the best photos
Winner photo from England
