1st Transnational Mobility

Dates: 1st- 4th of December
Place: Adana, Turkey

Participants:
Polish partner: Ewelina Firszt
Turkish partner: Gulen Emreun
Spanish partner: Elena Foscolo
Greeck parters: Fotis Fotiadis and Tania Vania

What we did:
On the first day of the visit we all went to the governorship building where the governors and the province directors offices are located. We first visited the director of the host organization (Adana Il Kultur ve Turism Directorate), Osman Arik. He gave the partners a presentation about Adana; he gave us information about the history of Adana and the towns of Adana. Many civilizations lived in Adana and its towns so there are a lot of historical, ancient ruins; castles, bridges, ruins of ancient towns, etc.
After our visit to the director, we went to visit the deputy governor Mustafa Yuksel Karadag who is responsible of Culture and Tourism Directorate in Adana. He welcome our project partners and told us how important the projects and project meetings are for the people living in different European countries to get to know each other and the culture of the project partners and break the prejudices.
Our last visit was to the Deputy governor Halis Arslan who was responsible of Culture and Tourism Directorate when we submitted our project in February 2010 and who had encouraged us to take part in this project. He told our project partners that he was very happy to have taken part in this project and very glad to be meeting and hosting our partners in Adana.
After we finished our visits in the governorship building, in the afternoon we attended a traditional Turkish art exhibition. That art is called ‘Ebru’ and it is the kind of art which is believed to be very therapeutic. The artist Miss Aysegul showed us her products and gave us very useful information about the art of Ebru and she helped us to try performing Ebru and our partners were very successful in doing that. She gave our partners the pieces that they produced together.
We finished the first part of our meeting in the evening and went to the art gallery of the host organization to attend the opening ceremony of an art exhibition. During the art exhibition the director gave information to the public about our project and our project partners. The exhibition was one of our activities to give information to the people living in Adana about our project. After a few speeches, the artists and the visitors of the exhibition started asking our partners questions and learn about the project and their country or culture or their organizations. This afternoon and the next day we had sessions to revise our project. We worked until the afternoon. In the afternoon, when we had time, we visited some of the historical and cultural places in Adana.

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