MASTER KEY: OPENING DOORS, KNOCKING DOWN WALLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

MASTER KEY: OPENING DOORS, KNOCKING DOWN WALLS

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; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

“MASTER KEY: OPENING DOORS, KNOCKING DOWN WALLS”

In the school contexts for all partners of this project there have been students that needed encouragement and opportunities in order to knock down cultural and social obstacles such as stereotypes or prejudices. We believe that as educators, we have the opportunity to foster the development of social, civil and citizenship key competences (skills) by planning educational activities aimed at fighting discrimination and exclusion.
The project has been aimed at 60 students from 5 different countries, aged between 15 and 17, that needed to strengthen their social, civil and citizenship key competences in order to promote social inclusion.
General Objective of the Project have been:
To promote European values of Peace, Inclusion, Equality between men and women, Sustainability and Social justice. We have chosen 5 values using the Spanish initials of each country to give a clear visible identity to the project.
Specific Objectives have been:
*To promote equality, social cohesion and inclusive education. The most difficult barriers to break down are the ones related to social behaviour and relationships
*To stimulate creativity and innovation.
*To foster intercultural competences to perceive differences as a source of wealth and to learn to live together without prejudices or mutual distrust.
*To improve communication in a foreign language (Spanish and English) and the use of digital devices to achieve better reciprocal understanding, To help understand the world in order to better understand oneself.
*To raise students’ awareness of the importance of social and environmental sustainability.
*To promote physical exercise to contribute to general well-being and lifestyle improvement.

The project has been structured as follows:
*5 partner countries: Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain and Sweden
*5 central themes: Peace, Inclusion, Gender, Social justice and Sustainability
*5 topics involved: History and Philosophy, Languages and Literature, Art, Science and Physical Education

5 objectives connected to each topic:
• To use audiovisual tools, being critical and open to debate
• To reflect on our history, learning from our prominent citizens
• To look at our heritage, having fun with art
• To solve problems with creativity, becoming active protagonists of the changes
• To look around and begin from the local, moving on to the global, improving sustainable consumption and doing physical activity

5 laboratory activities for each theme:
• Visit to a modern or contemporary art museum
• Presentation of a famous person
• Viewing of a film with critical analysis and debate
• Realization of a graphic product
• Presentation of locally sourced products and good practice of physical exercise

5 social actors
• School community: head teachers, teachers, pupils.
• Families and associations of mothers and fathers.
• Local community: the world of associations and representatives of cultural and economic life
• Public authorities
• International community
A multidimensional approach has been employed in which teachers have worked as organizers of multiple learning opportunities, promoting reciprocity of learning and teaching and permanent exchanges of teachers’ and students’ roles.
The most important result has been that the students involved in the project have become spokespeople for the values they have acquired. They transformed themselves into ambassadors of European citizenship and committed to spreading their experience of personal and civic growth.
At the end of the project a Power Point Presentation has been realized, with the hope it will be the master key of global citizenship in order to open doors and knock down walls.
This project can also be followed by other countries choosing different European values (eg. Turkey/Tolerance, Denmark/Democracy etc. )

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121335 Eur

Project Coordinator

LICEO SCIENTIFICO LINGUISTICO STATALE “A. M. DE CARLO” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 1o Geniko Lykeio Thessalonikis
• IES ZAIDIN-VERGELES
• Agrupamento de Escolas de José Relvas Alpiarça
• afChapmangymnasiet