New Life New Hope Erasmus Project

Project Title

New Life New Hope

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: Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

This project dealt with the problems recognized by all the partner schools involved,which were treated in the international surroundings,through the exchange of good practice and experience. Those problems were related to the poor levelsome pupils were exposed to the various forms of discrimination, peer pressure or bullying,prejudice of the ambience,which made them to stop participating actively in the school and social life,even to achieve poor results in school.
The purpose of this project was to provide the conditions for quality education for all pupils. The theme of the project presented in all project activities which we wanted the all participants to become encouraging tolerance,suppression of discrimination, prejudice and bullying, as well as the civic rights, including migrant crisis. The aim of the project was to upgrade the development of the awareness of the tolerance,respecting diversity,importance of suppressing the discrimination and prejudice.
The metodology improvement was conducted through the experience and good practice exchange between the international partners, and also through firm bonding of the educational and pedagogical component,as well as through focusing on pupils and encouraging them on solving problems,argumentative dialogue within school,local communitiy, even in multicultural surroundings.
The target groups were : project activities,aged 10-18,whose learning results were average or below,72 teachers participated in project activities and conducted the designed teaching methods,all the pupils and teachers of partner, schools who were informed ;early school leaving encouraged to more tolerance, suppression of discrimination and prejudice,at the same time were aware of the importance of education in this process.
The mobility activities were organized.The participants were the pupils, teachers accompanying pupils as well as the teachers who participated in the educational process of the hosting school.This direct cooperation between the pupils from the different countries represented very encouraging educational and pedagogical method and environment in which the literacy level was raised far above the basic reading and writing skills due to the boosting of communication skills,the use of foreign language, recognising the differences.This cooperation also enabled participants to perceive the problems of discrimination or bullying in other countries,and the ways of dealing with them.Teachers developed and improved their skills and their working methods.
We summarized the content of our project in this way ;
Changing country of world people because of the reasons such as war, disaster , political , social , economic and education especially children who need to go to school. (At the age of school). Our aim was to reduce bad effect to minimum.
We aimed to increase common values such as (tolerance , human and children rights , democracy , ethnic and universal values) among world people at back plan.
1. Our aim was to make their integration easier to host country’s culture , country they immigrated to live
2. To solve adaptation problem so that they can go on their education
3. To decrease the number of students who leave school.

With the help of questionaries, we understood the values that were beginning point between countries and people and we defined common fields. We worked together at education and added universal values to education and also social life. For that reason giving suggestions to shareholders and people, presentation activities and creating distinguishably were base of our project.
It was mentioned about people who were unjustly treated- their pole and life stories.
1. To define problems between host country’s people and source country.
2. Individual integration problems.
3. Point of view host country’s people.
4. Increasing ways of dialogues among people.
We thought these works were useful in a long term work.
1. Due increased between settled and migratory and they began to adapt each other with understanding.
2. Common worth/ common values which everybody accepted between people were defined.
3. Appearing ethnic values in universal values increased.
4. For people who migrated to host country it was source in order to form education modal at adaptation and support to country’s culture and economy.
5. Preparing ground for education of settled and migratory about adaptation, language and common values.
At the end of this project, the disagreement among people and countries decreased and a healthy, habitable, permanence dialogue began.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123845 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vali Erol Çakir Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Selcuk Yasar Alaybey Ortaokulu
• Scoala Gimnaziala Ion Heliade Radulescu
• SEPUGS “Vasil Antevski Dren”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eanes
• KARSIYAKA ORTAOKULU
• Colegio Cristo Crucificado