Sharing traditions - a way to inclusion

During the five days, from Monday to Friday, Voltaire High School hosted the first LTTA of this project, receiving with specific Romanian hospitality the representatives of the partners (8 teachers and 15 students). The objectives: - Awareness of one's own culture and customs as a way to inclusion; - Prevention of school dropout through creativity; - Promoting and consolidating the cultural and unique parameters of each country; - Promoting active citizenship and intercultural dialogue. Every partner country prepared TikTok videos for every project reunion on the topic. The activities for the five days: - visit of school next to Romanian students and teachers, presentations of customs and traditions specific to every country such as gastronomy, celebrations, childhood/traditional games, folk dances, traditional music, craft workshops (weaving, glass painting, pottery, sewing), ice breaking activities. - Video time - Romanian traditional gastronomy: in Oltenia, traditional food is based on meat, onion and garlic, some with Oltenian sausages (finely chopped beef and pork meat mixed with garlic, pepper and salt, stuffed into sheep guts and then smoked). The beef ragout, the lamb stew with chives or dried plums, and meat stew are also among the region’s specialities; fish dishes; as dessert, the traditional sweet cheese or pumpkin pie. Students will prepare one dish before the venue and they will share with the others short videos of their activity. - Artistical moments: Students worked in teams during the week to one tradition: The asking in marriage, the engagement customs, the understanding over the dowry and the leaving of the dowry chests from the bride's house, as well as the calling for the wedding and the feast are all elements of the ancient weddings in the old villages of Oltenia, The Dodola or The Fairies (Sânzienele), a traditional dance from Oltenia - the Calus dance ritual, an emblem of cultural identity of the Romanians, being declared by UNESCO as Universal Cultural Heritage. All these rituals presented to participants by groups of students, during the reunion in Craiova and they reproduced and presented by the end of the week and they made TikTok videos. - presentation of "ia", traditional Romanian clothing. Hand embroidered on white cotton fabric, with hand made ornaments, the traditional blouse has geometric pattern - horizontal rows embroidered on the shoulders and vertical lines on the sleeves. - Treasure hunt in the city -trip to Horezu, an archeological site where we can delight in the fine pottery, the Horezu Ceramics, included on UNESCO’s intangible heritage list. - Cultural evening - Evaluation and certificates award