Standing Against Violence and Discrimination Erasmus Project

Project Title

Standing Against Violence and Discrimination

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Context
Schools are common workplaces for both teachers and students and it is really important for them to feel comfortable in order to do their best. There are a lot of demands which society is placing on schools nowadays and existing legislations are constantly being improved with the idea of students’ well-being but, as a matter of fact, the phenomena of bullying , harassment and in addition – discrimination of various types which are still pressing. It becomes more and more obvious lately that a good prevention plan and a fair treatment plan to deal with discrimination. Schools are in constant search of ways and paths to involve students in the process.
It is essential to make sure that bullying prevention activities will not be limited to “a theme week” which is to be held annually – in fact it must be an inseparable part of our daily routine. We need a rich experience and knowledge to achieve it. It is largely possible to encounter some problems such as not sufficient resources – meaning finances or time, or – in rare cases – unwilling staff. Completion of the task will require a massive support by the side of the local authorities, agencies and privateorganizations – their help will be precious.
Objectives
Our aims are:
-To give motivation and strength to teachers to overcome violence and bullying cases at school.
– To build a common strategy of bullying and violence prevention.
-To present a new culture of tolerance, care and mutual respect.
-To promote the idea of disadvantaged students` inclusion.
– To bring about to participants` language knowledge and to develop their communicative and intercultural skills.
-To create the context for peer learning.
-To encourage self-expression and creativity
Participants
To achieve the goals of the project two large groups of participants should be involved – that of the teachers on one side and that of the students by the other side. Teachers are important as the leaders of the process of dealing with aggression and discrimination – at least they have theoretical knowledge and experience to deal with the problems. They are going not only to analyze the situation but will also try to change it every single day and meanwhile they will take and pass information and ideas from their partners.
By the other side there is the students group – teachers have to convince them to be more tolerant, patient and relative. Some of them need help in order to change their opinion and begin to accept the differences between people in various aspects thus making the school environment better and friendlier in the name of their own wellbeing and higher life quality.
We will organize 5 LTTAs in which an overall number of 80 students and 48 teachers participate.
Activities
C1 – Violence and discrimination in schools – common and different aspects (short-term joint staff training event) – 12 teachers
C2 – Say NO to stereotypical thinking (student exchange) – 24 students and 8 teachers
C3 – Say NO to violence (student exchange) – 24 students and 8 teachers
C4 – Say NO to bullying (student exchange) – 24 students and 8 teachers
C5 – Say YES to equality (student exchange) – 24 students and 8 teachers
Results
Concrete results – A student magazine, a calendar of the most important moments in the project, a website which will contain all the activities developed, information about the project and its objectives, students’ works during LTTAs, CDs with photo stories, films, pictures, video diaries. A series of outcomes are also planned – All the participants will become aware of the concept of equality – this way they will be ready to celebrate diversity. They will develop a new feeling of respect and tolerance of other people. And because English is the language of the project, they will improve their communicative skills and also their interpersonal competences –a result of their work in multinational groups. These things will be supported and insured by the time spent with host families. Better cultural understanding and personal awareness will lead them straight to the desire to lessen the aggression and bullying. Working atmosphere will become more pleasant and school results – higher.
Impact
Our institutions respectively will be highly benefitted – it will be achieved after a number of project activities completed to influence people understanding, targeting their wellbeing and happiness. Due to the dissemination plan, more and more students and teachers will become aware of the importance of reducing the acts of bullying and violence.
Teachers will become wiser in a way – by having the synthesized experience of their peers, by having watched presentations, analyzed reports, different cases and by working together in multinational groups. They will be able to manage the problematic situations in a new and more effective way.
The cooperation between partners will never end – they will celebrate important anti-discrimination dates together in online projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145539 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pumpenu gimnazija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Adana Ticaret Borsasi Anadolu Lisesi
• Istituti Paritari Plateja Maritain ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE SCUOLA 3.0
• Gimnaziya s prepodavane na tchuzhdi ezitsi Yordan Radichkov
• COLEGIUL NATIONAL “MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU”