Cultural Heritage: İzmir

Days 3–4 trace İzmir's heritage across three layers in one itinerary — Hellenistic and Roman Smyrna (the Agora, Kadifekale's ancient acropolis), Ottoman İzmir (Kemeraltı Bazaar, the Clock Tower) and the 19th-century Levantine port city (Karataş, Alsancak) — so participants can teach continuity and layered diversity, not a single frozen period. The Agora and Kemeraltı are the same thing twice, one dead and one still running — the course's central comparison, transferable to any classroom without needing İzmir at all: what does it take for a place to keep going?

a hands-on session where participants turn photos and notes from Days 3–4 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.

strategies for teaching a multi-layered, multi-ethnic heritage city, ready to adapt to participants' own students and curriculum.

sessions connect what participants see in Karataş and Alsancak — Levantine, Greek and Jewish traces in a city whose 19th-century population was Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Muslim Turkish and Levantine together, before the 1922 fire and the 1923 population exchange — directly with the Erasmus+ priority on common values, civic engagement and cultural diversity, giving participants a concrete, historically documented case study of both shared heritage and its loss, rather than an abstract discussion of "diversity".