Together We Learn Better. Inclusive Schools for Quality Education in European Context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Together We Learn Better. Inclusive Schools for Quality Education in European Context

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Romas and/or other minorities; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The current project is the initiative of 6 countries (Romania, Italy, The Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey) to create a good practice model including students with social-economic, cultural and ethnic integration difficulties. The approach corresponds to the European Union’s objectives regarding the social integration of disadvantaged groups and plays an active role in combating discrimination, racism, xenophobia and promoting social values and intercultural dialogue. The theme of this partnership is of great relevance, due to the migration phenomenon and to the changes that the contemporary society imposes. Taking into consideration the current social-economic and cultural context, a strategic and curricular rethinking of education is required, depending on the students’ needs and in accordance with the European quality standards. The need for this partnership meets the common needs identified in each partner country: students with marginalization and social exclusion risk due to their families’ knowledge and culture level (Italy), due to the standard of living and the high degree of poverty (Bulgaria, Macedonia), institutionalized students (Bulgaria), Roma students (Romania, Macedonia), national minorities (North Macedonia), students with low levels of school performance due to their parents having left for work abroad (ROMANIA), physical/mental disabilities (Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey), Syrian refugees, discrimination problems on cultural and religious issues (Turkey). The partnership ensures an efficient intervention to reduce the negative effects of these problems on the school process.
The project’s general objective aims to integrate into the educational act the students with malfunctions of adaptation to the learning conditions due to the psychological, social-cultural, economic factors in order to diminish discrimination and social, cultural, ethnic, religious segregation, to improve the didactic approach and to fight school failure.
The specific objectives of the project are: developing creativity and artistic skills for at least 120 students and 60 teachers from the 6 partner countries, involved in mobilities, by the end of the school year 2022-2023, in order to reduce the early school leaving phenomenon and achieve school performance, creating a friendly atmosphere within the partner school environments in order to ensure quality education by promoting European values (respect, responsibility, equality) and developing specific competences in order to implement sustainable activities in preventing, combating discrimination and social, ethnic and religious segregation, optimizing self-esteem of students being at risk, from the partner countries, and encouraging them to create democratic attitudes in a Europe without borders and prejudices; enriching the cultural knowledge of at least 120 students and 60 teachers from the 6 countries participating in this partnership in order to develop the European dimension and promote intercultural dialogue, the use of new digital technologies as a method of integration and motivation of the students to complete their studies, in order to make the educational process more efficient, to increase the school graduation rate and access to the labor market, the integration of students with learning problems in the educational process by generating creative, non-formal contexts at European level.
Sharing new experiences, transferring good practices through interaction with European educational environments will contribute to promoting an instructional-educational process including meeting the needs of students, creating appropriate learning programs, innovative teaching strategies to ensure the provision of effective education for all educable youth, which will facilitate the development of the entire educational system. The partnership proposes 6 learning activities (short-term exchanges of students groups), 3 online competitions, 3 online meetings with partners, activities that will contribute to achieving the proposed objectives. Expected results are aimed at: providing integrated educational services to reduce discrimination and to reintegrate students at risk into the educational process, increasing the community’s level of understanding inclusive education, creating innovative educational contexts for improving interpersonal relationships, developing a new vision on education, better integration into the labor market of future graduates.The sustainability of the project consists in continuing the partner schools’ cooperation for achieving social cohesion and reintegrating the students into the educational process, but also in implementing creative, innovative activities as a result of applying the examples of good practice achieved as acquisitions, competencies during the partnership’s implementation period.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183600 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Petru Rares & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Ali Kuşçu İmam Hatip Ortaokulu
• 149th School Sofia
• Istituto Comprensivo San Giovanni Bosco
• 56th Primary School of Heraklion
• OOU “Dimkata Angelov Gaberot”