Human Rights Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Human Rights Education

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project labelled Human Rights Education is an international partnership of 6 schools with the main aim to improve the level of innovative pedagogical practices in education with special emphasis on the education in the field of human rights, which will be firstly transformed into the relationships between students, their teachers and consequently in local communities. The partnership includes the following countries: Croatia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Slovakia, which is aslo the coordinator of the project. With the exception of Croatian school, all other partner schools have been previously involved in other Erasmus+ projects.
Although we, humans, have moved to the 21st century and our educational systems are based on using modern methodologies and progressive ICT tools, practical implementation and following human rights is still a problem present in schools and socieities across Europe.
What is more important is the fact that thanks to the availibility of modern technology the misuse of human rights has acquired new forms, like plagiarism, copyright infringement or more and more common cyber bullying, e.g.
Having debated these issues on eTwinning, we have come to the conclusion that each one of these 6 project partners has some knowledge about at least one particular innovative pedagogical practice that all the others want to acquire in order to improve the practices at their schools. At the same time, we hope that by doing so we will be able to promote collaborative learning and enhance critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving skills among our students and to get them actively engaged in their learning process and take responsibility for it.
The motivation for the project is based on the UN Declaration on HRE and Training, prepared for the Human Rights Council in 2010 as well as The 2015 ‘Paris Declaration’, ensuring that children acquire social, civic and intercultural competences, by promoting democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and non-discrimination.
By doing this project we want to increas empathy, tolerance and respect, and increased student confidence to address bullying. Moreover, we believe that implementing HRE we can decrease cases with disciplinary problems, contribute to positive school attendance, and improved classroom, home and playground relationships.
The main goal of this project is to support human rights education by taking it into agenda with its all aspects. We have experienced the topic scientifically, discussed the best and simply applicable solution in the schools and selected the methodology to be applied in our schools. We aim to provide an activity for every single student in school and peer environment apart from ordinary school programme. Academic success, school sport facilities or other artistic and musical facilities only include very less number of students. We have to include everyone in a way that everybody will be able to show an ability to improve his/her self-esteem, self-confidence so feel acceptance in social life.
The students will work, guided by their teachers, on subjects as: history of HRE, cyberbullying, school HR policies, creating tools for prevention of misusing HR, peer learning/peer teaching.
Familiarizing students with the issue of HRE means that the students will get to know the needs and the fears of a rapidly changing society.
Seminars and meetings will be organized for teachers and parents for improving the motivation on the topic and the ways to support the issue of HRE theoretically. The target groups of our project are made up of all the students (respectively 2500 students) and teachers from partner schools, other topically
related institutions, trainers and members, and parents of the studetns.
By working in mixed international workshops, the students will get a first-hand experience of ‘Europe growing together’. They will be led to greater tolerance and acceptance. The concept of sustainability is the most important component in all stages of activities during the project. This means that students acquire skills to take part in social process. It is more about the qualification of students to realize their strengths and weaknesses. By strengthening personal skills (e.g. learning and social skills), through self–assessment and external assessment, students are able to achieve the optimal level in every type of school training and the secured future of young people in today’s Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195630 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cirkevna spojena skola & Country: SK

Project Partners

• II. osnovna skola Varazdin
• Escola Básica e Secundária Gonçalves Zarco
• Polinas Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• IES Macià Abela
• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC “SFANTUL PANTELIMON”