Different Yet The Same Erasmus Project

Project Title

Different Yet The Same

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Romas and/or other minorities; Access for disadvantaged; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

This was the project “Different Yet the Same” which was in a collaboration with four schools from four different countries (Turkey – Mersin, Italy – Lodi, Spain – Malaga and Czech Republic – Sumperk) to improve the academic success and motivation of migrant students and minorities, to encourage them to continue education until the end, to provide identification, to adapt them by enabling quicker adaptation and to include children from low social – culture environment and to include minorities. Czech Republic was the coordinator country and the language of communication in the project was English. The Czech school integrated children from Roma ethnic, teachers understood they feelings now and parents of children understood that education is important for their children, The Turkish school included many children from Syria and Kurdish and Arab ethnic. Italian school integrated disable children to sociaty. Spanish school included children from Africa and children from excluded area. We increased their education potential, raised their motivation, improved their intercultural skills,merged with their peers,facilitated their adaptation, recognized and promoted cultural values, helped them to explore their identity, encouraged them to continue their education until the end of life as smootly by preparing for the future. The objective of this project was to find and test various ways how to help minority/refugee/handicapped children or students with fewer opportunities or poor/outstanding school performance integrate in the mainstream educational process and be respected and help other members of the school community to open their minds and be tolerant and cooperative and not to look for simple solutions. We used various activities and methodology to achieve the desired objective and would like most of them to become an integral part of our school curricula. Those activities included the creation of teaching/study material to be used with students with fewer opportunities, students with poor/outstanding school performance or students whose mother tongue is different from the national language. These materials (worksheets, presentations) were created, tested and reviewed during the two years of the project duration and should become a common aid now, after the project is completed.
Hundreds of migrant children, children of minorities and from excluded areas in the 8-14 age range were benefit from the project. Children explored and introduced their own cultural values, made handmade products by using old techniques and traditional tools, learnt and tough traditional games, draw the map of ethnic and cultural diversity, made presentation of early human migration, listened presentations of foreign students about their countries, drew pictures describing their lives and exhibit them, prepared the compliance programs and logo with their teachers. Through partnership, teachers prepared best practices compliance program for migrant students and lesson plans that explored birthday and identity, gender and identity, migration and identity, values and identity, teachers prepared e-learning platform, where were e-learning presentations for easy teaching of minorities, the integration plan. As teachers we visited classes in each school during these events, saw good examples, recognized the curriculum and education system. Students participated in the activities planned in conjuction with students from other partner schools. Teachers developped lesson plans and programs together. In this project, the methodologies such as brainstorming, teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, workshops, e-learning were used mostly. We used e-twinning platform, where we uploaded our activities in each country. With the help of this project the migrant (minorities) students increased their tolerance, self confidence, motivation, gained the recognition of cultural value of different identities and students had the opportunity to promote their cultural values, different religions, languages and discovered the richness of having race; they improved ICT, communication in foreign languages and intercultural skills and their training potential increased, they wanteed to continue their education until the end of their lives. The participating teachers are aware of the educational functioning of different countries by making international cooperation, had the team spirit, problem solving and they grew their ICT skills, had the opportunity to learn about different cultures and they developped new methods and programms. During and at the end of the project we had outputs such as, e-learning platform on Internet with many teaching presentation, best practices compliance program booklet, e-book with our activities, photos and videos, e-twinning project, project website.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109170 Eur

Project Coordinator

Základni skola Sumperk, Vrchlickeho 22 & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• C.E.I.P. Antonio Machado
• ICLODITERZO
• Inonu Ilkokulu