RAINBOW – Right Attitude IN Building Our World Erasmus Project

Project Title

RAINBOW – Right Attitude IN Building Our World

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: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

RAINBOW – Right Attitude IN Building Our World was a strategic partnership Erasmus+ project between schools, applied by the Pedagogical Highschool “Nicolae Iorga” from Botosani, Romania, in collaboration with IES BEZMILIANA, Malaga, Spain, LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE “MICHELE GUERRISI”, Cittanova, Italy, VILNIUS SANTARISKES KONSULTACINIS MOKYMO CENTRAS, Vilnius, Lithuania, SOU Dobri Daskalov – Kavadarci, Macedonia, KAHRAMANMARAS SOSYAL BILIMLER LISESI, Onikisubat, Turkey, High School of Economics and Finance “Vasil Levski”, Dobrich, Bulgaria.
All of these schools work with students between 14-19 years old and were interested in increasing the quality of the offered education and of the managerial competences via getting involved in European projects. The majority of these schools are experienced with the implementation of such projects.
Through the needs analysis completed within the partnership, we observed that the main issue that the partners encounter was the insufficient experience in integrated approaches of the curriculum, both in the case of teachers and students; the lack of open-mindedness (in the case of some) for international collaboration, given the need of adapting school activities to the reality of socio-economic issues, health problems or age-specific difficulties.
In this context, the main goal of our project was ensuring the right to quality education for all the children in the partner schools, including the disadvantaged ones, through an appealing curriculum and innovative strategies which merge together formal and non-formal methods, applied by well-trained, team-spirited teachers, in a non-discriminatory educational environment, which allowed students to develop their social, civil, intercultural skills and encouraged open-mindedness regarding European and international collaboration.
In order to achieve this goal, we organized a series of activities that represented the piloting of a training program with integrated, interdisciplinary and cross-curricular contents, realised via merging together formal and non-formal methods. Among these activities we organized three Learning, Teaching and Training Activities that had as main objective the training of both the teachers and the students in pursuance of implementing the training program. Also, in the interest of a quality project management, we organized 3 Transnational Project Meeting.
Furthermore, the means of IT was heavily used in order to grant each and every single one of the participants the opportunity of getting involved in all of the project’s activities and to make the final results accessible to everybody.
The direct beneficiaries of the RAINBOW project are 50 teachers and 53 students and the target group contained the teachers and students of the partner school, 15 teachers and 447 students were directly involved in the project’s activities. Among the involved students, 50 of them faced extreme health problems (disabilities, chronical diseases, cancer etc.), and 50 others came from socio-economically disadvantaged families.
The final products represented the materials for a potential follow-up of the training program and they were uploaded on the project’s site. Among these products we mention: the program handbook-didactic projecting and necessary support, a literary magazine – compositions, researches and literary translations made by the students on the project themes, a plastic album and exhibition with the students’ works, the project’s anthem, history- geography researches on the themes, collected in PPT presentations, a virtual tourism agency – blog, an E-learning platform with experiments and scientific research on the themes, a traditions album – e-book, the Photo album and the video album of the project, four eTwinning projects.
In regards to the impact of the project, we got a richer curriculum offers from the partner schools that proposed a more appealing training program for the students, adapted not only to the needs of disadvantaged groups, but also to the needs of the students with disabilities, a non-discriminatory, more dynamic, school environment that is more open-minded to collaborating on a school level as well as on a European level. We got to a school environment that is ready to implement methods, strategies and new content, adapted to the students’ needs, a more quality education and a more performing management, adapted to the European and international strategies. All of these led not only to the training of the competences necessary for the students and teachers, but also to increasing their self-esteem and confidence in their own power.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125085 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul Pedagogic Nicolae Iorga Botosani & Country: RO

Project Partners

• SOU Dobri Daskalov – Kavadarci
• Diamantopoulos School
• VILNIUS SANTARISKES KONSULTACINIS MOKYMO CENTRAS
• High School of Economics and Finance Vasil Levski
• KAHRAMANMARAS SOSYAL BILIMLER LISESI
• LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE “MICHELE GUERRISI”
• IES BEZMILIANA