Baltic Sea Forum – Integration through Core Values Erasmus Project

Project Title

Baltic Sea Forum – Integration through Core Values

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

“The Baltic Sea Forum – Integration through Core Values” offered students from five schools around the Baltic Sea (DE, EE, LV, PL, SE) a forum for the discussion of core values. The project addressed current issues which impact the way people have come to interact on different regional levels: The need to integrate people from abroad, growing nationalist tendencies and the uncritical over-consumption of online media paired with a lack of face to face discourse. Our project reacted to these developments by creating a safe environment for students from five countries around the Baltic Sea in which to meet and find out how students from other countries think about vital topics. The core values which we addressed were related to social and environmental issues which are widely discussed, namely gender equality, freedom of speech, migration and refugees, health and the protection of the environment. For some of these aspects, international cooperation is needed when it comes to problem-solving, e.g. environmental issues. Moreover, these topics turned out to be motivating for our students and encouraged engagement in democratic processes. In general, children are protected by the UN children’s rights, which is why we encorporated them in our project. In two annual international project meetings, the five student delegations came together to learn about their rights and discuss resulting responsibilities. They created motivating teaching material (2017: films, photo stories, role plays, 2018: films, drama, debates) which were collected in form of a resource pack for use in lessons. Back home, the students assumed the role of a teacher and conducted lessons, using the material that they had created. Hereby, the students took an active role in shaping the future in their (social) environment. The “Baltic Sea Forum – Integration through Core Values“ contributed to raising awareness for core values, important social issues and the children’s rights in our school communities because these topics were taught by the students and by teachers in different classes. The resource packs were published on a public twinspace and thereby made available for teachers and students in the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90820 Eur

Project Coordinator

Auguste-Viktoria-Schule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Tallinna 21. Kool
• Billeshave Efterskole
• Dundagas vidusskola
• Västra Stenhagenskolan
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych