The ESN Anadolu Projects organization runs several cultural awareness projects pairing international Erasmus students with local Turkish students. The projects aim to break down prejudices by having international students visit villages and local schools to share their cultures. They introduce their home countries and participate in activities with the local students like games and singing. Some of the villages they visited included Saricakaya, Inegol, and Seyitgazi in Eskisehir and Bursa. Other projects included planting trees to create an "Erasmus Forest", volunteering at a social services agency, and a workshop teaching Erasmus students the Turkish art of meerschaum carving.

1. ESN ANADOLU
PROJECTS

2. CULTURAL AWARENESS
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3. PROJECT AİM
We want to show diferent cultural of Erasmus
Student.
We carry them to small village,so break down
prejudices for erasmus student and for turkish
people.
We want to make a contribution to vision of junior
high school of students.
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4. HOW WE DO?
We paired our international students as one from
each country and put them into classes of a local
school.
They introduced their countries, languages, customs
and cultures, shared their ideas about the
students, our country and the local community.
They asked questions to the kids and also answered
their questions.
They played games with them and sung their national
and endemic songs.
Basically, our international students are at the centre
of the project.
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5. We organized three different small village; two of
them were in village of Eskişehir,one of them was
in village of Bursa.
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6. THE FİRST ONE WAS İN
SARICAKAYA
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8. THE SECOND ONE WAS İN
İNEGÖL
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10. THE THİRD ONE WAS İN
SEYİTGAZİ
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12. ERASMUS FOREST
The Erasmus Forest Project has come on the scene
to integrate incoming Erasmus students with the
local people and let them add something to this
city and leave something permanent behind.
The project consists of 2 phases and will have
continuity; and is a project that large forests can
be formed by planting every year. The aim of the
project is to forest locally in the very first phase
(first year), and to attempt forestation across the
whole country in the second phase.
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13. We have successfully accomplished the first phase
of the project in the 24th of April, 2011.
The second phase of the project in the 22th of
April 2012
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17. SOCİAL RESPONSİBİLİTY
We carried Erasmus student to Social Services and
Child Protection Agency.İn this way, we do
responsive to problems of Erasmus Student of
Turkey and World.
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19. A CULTURAL BRİDGE
MEERSCHAUM
A Cultural Bridge Meerschaum activity is a project
that has been carrying out for two years with Erasmus
exchange students.
The aim of this activity is in short, gathering students
from different cultures and nations with masters
of meerschaum in a workshop in order to get more
familiar with this culture and accomplish their own
souvenirs by their own imaginations. Meanwhile
participants get more familiar with meerschaum
which is the symbol of the city and they also get an
opportunity to try out their imagination with their
own meerschaum works in this 2 days workshop.
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20. In addition to the brief story of
workshop, meerschaum works made by
participants and photos taken in the workshop will
be shown in an exhibition with all the participants’
attendance and those who contributed too.
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