Developing European Values in the Primary School Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing European Values in the Primary School

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 school education

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; Integration of refugees; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

This two-year project, which was led by an outstanding UK Primary School, addressed the problem of integrating migrant children in the Primary sector into their local communities. It built a partnership of six organisations from five countries, who brought complementary expertise and experience in dealing with issues relating to the integration of migrants, citizenship education and Primary practice.

The focus of this Strategic Partnership was to innovate through cooperative practice with the aim of developing a package of Values Education at a European level in order to:

• foster social inclusion, mutual understanding and respect among young people and communities
• accelerate the integration of children of newly arrived migrants into the learning environment
• minimize the risk of disengagement, marginalisation and even violent radicalisation.
• address the objectives of the Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education
• develop networking to increase transnational working and sharing of ideas.

The starting point was a study visit for to analyse best practice of the UK schools and develop a scheme of work, a training package and set of resources which were trialled in five countries before being made freely available across the EU. The training and methodology was trialled in 2 schools in the UK, 3 in Italy, 3 in Belgium, 3 in Greece and a Youth organisation in Germany. The partners and schools involved represented particularly vulnerable regions, such as the Mediterranean, or challenging urban quarters.

The outputs of the project are:

• An online platform hosting the project website, downloadable resources and case studies
• A set of training modules and case studies and an online guide to support the training
• An impact report incorporating policy recommendations
• A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries
• A final international conference which promoted the curriculum, training resources and impact report

Although the lingua franca was English, resources have been developed in Greek, Italian, French and German.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 251640 Eur

Project Coordinator

Parkinson Lane Community Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Sicilia
• GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER
• DIRECTORATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION OF WESTERN THESSALONIKI
• edEUcation ltd
• Ecole du Dialogue