Cultural Heritage: Antalya

Name: Cultural Heritage: Antalya
Price: 400 EUR

Why this is Erasmus+ eligible

Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.

Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.

Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.

Aligned with the Erasmus+ horizontal priority: Common Values, Civic Engagement & Cultural Heritage.

This mobility supports the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 School Education objective of "promoting knowledge about shared European heritage and diversity", and the horizontal priority on participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement, which highlights participants' understanding of "European social, cultural and historical heritage". Through structured sessions and guided visits to Antalya's Pamphylian, Seljuk and Ottoman heritage — including Perge, the Yivli Minaret and Kaleiçi — participants gain first-hand material to bring intercultural dialogue and Europe's layered cultural identity into their own classroom.

Source: Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Key Action 1 — School Education Mobility.

Overview

This course helps teachers build a deep appreciation of Europe’s shared cultural heritage — and turn that into practical teaching strategies for their own classroom, using digital tools and interactive learning.

In Antalya, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, participants explore real historical sites — from the ancient ruins of Perge to the Ottoman-era heart of Kaleiçi — experiencing first-hand the history, art and architecture they’ll bring back to their students.

Antalya’s heritage is unusually compact: a Hellenistic port traditionally associated with King Attalus II of Pergamon around 150 BCE grew, under Roman rule, into a fortified harbour town marked by Hadrian’s Gate and the Hıdırlık Tower — a 2nd-century Roman structure whose original function (tomb, lighthouse or watchtower — historians debate which) is still uncertain; Seljuk rulers built the Yivli Minaret in the early 13th century, under Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad, following their 1216 conquest; and Ottoman merchants filled the same walled quarter with the stone-and-timber houses that still line Kaleiçi’s streets today. Days 2 to 4 are honestly built around three separate parts of the city and its surroundings, rather than one continuous walking loop: Day 2 is a standalone excursion to Perge, a Pamphylian and Roman city around 18 km outside Antalya; Day 3 stays inside Kaleiçi’s own compact, walkable old town; Day 4 moves to the Antalya Archaeological Museum and the adjoining Konyaaltı seafront. Kaleiçi’s own 20th-century restoration, recognised internationally after decades of neglect, gives participants a close-up, real case study in what heritage preservation actually involves, not just what it produced. The course is built for teachers of any subject — history, art, citizenship, languages — who want a concrete European example to bring into cross-curricular teaching, rather than an abstract discussion of “heritage” in general.

Methodology

Pamphylia to Ottoman, Across Three Clusters

Days 2–4 move through three separate parts of Antalya and its surroundings, each a distinct era and a short transfer apart rather than one walking route — Day 2 is a standalone excursion to Roman/Hellenistic Perge, around 18 km outside the city; Day 3 stays inside the walkable Kaleiçi old town — Hadrian's Gate, the Hıdırlık Tower, the Seljuk-era Yivli Minaret, and Kaleiçi's mosques and bazaars; Day 4 moves to the Antalya Archaeological Museum and the adjoining Konyaaltı seafront. Participants see, honestly, how successive civilisations shaped the same Mediterranean coastline across three separate days, not one impossible loop.

Document-Then-Debrief, Across Three Field Days

participants log real heritage-education strategies on-site at Perge on Day 2, then test and refine them against Kaleiçi's own multi-era heritage on Day 3, and refine them once more at the Antalya Museum and Konyaaltı on Day 4 — leaving with strategies already tried against three different kinds of real material, not just a lesson-plan template.

Digital Tools Workshop, Built From What You've Seen

a hands-on session where participants turn photos and notes from Days 2–4 into a real digital output — a short digital storytelling piece, a simple interactive quiz, or a mini virtual exhibit — using straightforward tools they can realistically use with their own students.

Heritage in Context, Not Just in the Past

Kaleiçi's own 20th-century rescue — placed under formal protection in 1972 after decades of decay, then restored into the walkable old town participants explore on Day 3 — gives sessions a real, local case study in what heritage preservation involves in practice, not just in theory. Even the Antalya State Fine Arts Gallery, visited the same day, tells the same story in miniature: a 13th-century Seljuk building later reused as a Mevlevi lodge, now an art gallery. Conservation and adaptive reuse become things participants can observe and discuss on the street they're standing on, not concepts explained in the abstract.

What you'll take home

Explain how Antalya's Pamphylian, Seljuk and Ottoman heritage — from Perge to the Yivli Minaret — reflects layered Mediterranean history within a European framework.

Integrate cultural heritage topics into lesson plans, using digital tools and interactive resources built from a real multi-era case study.

Turn a heritage-site visit into a structured classroom task, using the same document-then-debrief method practised across Days 2–4.

Connect teaching to the EU's cultural-heritage priorities using a concrete European example rather than an abstract one.

Reflect on how Kaleiçi's preservation story can model heritage-conservation teaching for their own students, and plan how to transfer the Antalya experience into their own school context.

Daily programme

Ice-breaking and trust-building activities for effective and positive interaction throughout the course
Introducing participants' schools and the course
The EU's role in and commitment to cultural heritage
Europe's cultural diversity and shared identity, and the place of art within it
Educational strategies: integrating cultural heritage into lesson plans
Digital tools workshop: interactive materials and virtual tours, and building sensitivity and responsibility around cultural heritage

Perge's Hellenistic city gate and round towers: the fortified entrance to a Pamphylian city later absorbed into Rome's empire
The colonnaded main street and its central water channel: Roman urban engineering and public life
Perge's Roman theatre and stadium: entertainment architecture and civic identity in a provincial Roman city
Field reflection: document initial heritage-education strategies observed today, to test against tomorrow's sites

Hadrian's Gate and the Hıdırlık Tower: a Roman-era harbour gateway and a 2nd-century tower whose original purpose — tomb, lighthouse or watchtower — is still debated by historians
Yivli Minaret: Seljuk religious and architectural heritage
Kaleiçi's mosques: Ottoman-era spiritual heritage
Antalya State Fine Arts Gallery: a 13th-century Seljuk building, later a Mevlevi lodge, now an art gallery, at the edge of the old town
Local bazaars and Antalya Marina: ancient and modern life side by side
Field reflection: test and refine yesterday's strategies against Kaleiçi's own multi-era heritage

Antalya Archaeological Museum: art and historical treasures spanning Antalya's Pamphylian, Roman and Byzantine layers
Konyaaltı seafront, immediately by the museum: Antalya's modern coastal life and public space
Field reflection: connecting today's sites to the lesson-plan strategies developed across Days 2–3

Designing a digital heritage-based classroom activity — a digital trail, quiz or mini virtual exhibit — using material gathered during the Antalya site visits
Peer feedback and discussion
Course evaluation and reflection
Sharing course documents and records
Awarding the Certificate

Please note: the course fee covers all training sessions and the guided visits to heritage sites in the daily programme. Entrance tickets to museums, archaeological sites and monuments — where a site charges admission — are not included and are paid directly by each participant, based on what they choose to visit. Ask us for an estimated on-site budget when you apply.

Please note: classes run in the morning or afternoon at the trainer's discretion, and daily timings can shift depending on the trainer's plan and the group's needs. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.

Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).

Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.

Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.

Materials & tools

Virtual-tour and interactive-map tools for exploring Perge, Kaleiçi and Antalya's other heritage sites beyond a single visit

Digital image and archive resources for building heritage-based lesson materials

A printed and digital course pack covering Antalya's Pamphylian, Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman heritage

A simple template for turning a heritage-site visit into a classroom-ready lesson plan

A heritage-based classroom activity template, completed using material gathered during the Antalya site visits and finalised on Day 5

Certificate & assessment

This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.

Erasmus Mobility Academy

Certificate of Attendance

Cultural Heritage: Antalya · 5 days · 25 hrs

+ Europass Mobility document

Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.

The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.

Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.

Attendance

Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)

Output

Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).

Feedback

An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.

Your paperwork

Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.

How to prepare

A tablet or smartphone is useful for the Day 1 digital-tools workshop.

Comfortable walking shoes are recommended for the Perge, Kaleiçi and Antalya Museum site visits on Days 2–4.

Practical information

Registration & documents

Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.

Invitation letter

Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).

Learning Agreement

Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).

Billing & invoicing

We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).

Airport transfer

Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.

Accommodation

We can recommend partner hotels close to the venue in the host city — ask us when you apply.

For your school / proposal

School impact

After completing this Cultural Heritage course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's European Development Plan. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.

Prefer a blank, course-independent version of this template? Get it here →

After the course

Participants will receive their certificates (Certificate of Attendance + Europass).

Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.

Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.

Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months to discuss progress on bringing Antalya's cultural heritage into their teaching.

Use the digital heritage activity developed on Day 5 as the basis for a short staff-room briefing, sharing how Antalya's layered Mediterranean heritage can support cross-curricular teaching in history, art and citizenship — and provide a concrete input for the school's European Development Plan.

Frequently asked

This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.

B1 or above is comfortable. Trainers speak clearly, materials are written in plain English, and mixed-nationality teams support each other.

Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.

This course runs only in Antalya — the daily programme is built around that city's own heritage sites, so it is not offered in our other centres.

Tuition, all materials, certificates (attendance + Europass) and the guided cultural programme. Flights and accommodation are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.

You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.

This mobility supports the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 School Education objective of "promoting knowledge about shared European heritage and diversity", and the horizontal priority on participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement, which highlights participants' understanding of "European social, cultural and historical heritage". Through structured sessions and guided visits to Antalya's Pamphylian, Seljuk and Ottoman heritage — including Perge, the Yivli Minaret and Kaleiçi — participants gain first-hand material to bring intercultural dialogue and Europe's layered cultural identity into their own classroom. Frame it in your own project's terms — your National Agency's current call will confirm exactly how it applies.

Perge, visited on Day 2, is an open-air archaeological site with little shade — during the warmer months (roughly June–September) we recommend sun protection, water and a hat. Kaleiçi's old town, on Day 3, is compact and easy to explore on foot, with some cobblestone streets. Moving between Perge, Kaleiçi and the Antalya Museum on different days is by a short transfer, not on foot. The pace and stops on each day can be adjusted to your group's needs — please let us know in advance if any participants have mobility considerations.