Creating, Communicating, our Diversity we are Celebrating! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creating, Communicating, our Diversity we are Celebrating!

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

This project focuses on creativity and creative writing within the context of seven primary schools n Europe. Creative writing activities, combined with appropriate teaching methods and techniques for supporting young learners will be applied and are expected to have positive effects on the atmosphere of the class and enhance creativity to young learners. Through sharing and interaction, common products will be created and there will be an intercultural dialogue, with the children changing attitudes, learning to respect diversity.
Nowadays, in multicultural Europe, we have to combat racism and xenophobia and at the same time boost the self-esteem of all children, especially those who are at risk to experience failure at school. Through this project we will tackle the aforementioned issues enhancing the European dimension of the school curriculum. Through this partnership, our pupils will engage in cross-curricular projects incorporating Language, ICT, Art, Music, History, Religion and Geography. In this way, they will improve their research, communication and presentation skills and realize the common mutual tradition with the other European partners. The activities will be structured to accommodate pupils of all ages, abilities, multiple intelligences and ethnic backgrounds.
This will happen through various techniques:
– Reading and listening to texts;
– Dramatizing;
– Analyzing the main elements of stories;
– Thinking of characteristics of main heroes and villains;
– Creating new stories, poems and works of art using motives for inspiration from literature, famous paintings, traditional tales.
Pupils will find out the importance of creativity in the life of people around Europe and simultaneously they will discover issues about the mentality of these people living in our multicultural Europe.
Therefore, an awareness of the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity within Europe will be promoted and as a result, this awareness will strengthen the values towards combating racism, prejudice and xenophobia. Also, the engagement of all students in meaningful activities according to their unique potentials, will boost their self-esteem towards the prevention of early leaving from school.
Throughout the two years, common products will be created, such as poems about European values, fairy tales, songs, digital stories using a common wiki. This web2 tool has been chosen as it is considered very effective for interactive writing.
This project will use the eTwinning platform for communication and publishing of the final products and as this partnership started as an eTwinning project, we will continue and develop this communication.
Three short-term teaching and training activities are planned to be organized in this project:
-In March 2018 in Greece, In October 2018 in Spain and in April 2019 in Lithuania. During these meetings, three students from each school with two teachers accompanying them will take part in creative writing workshops towards the creation of common products, such as digital stories, songs, poems, fairy tales.
The transnational meetings will be planned according to the needs of the participants and the issues that come up during the implementation.
The planned meetings will be the following:
– In October 2017 in Poland where issues of evaluation, dissemination and communication will be clarified and a concrete plan of the meetings of the year will be designed. Representative teachers will be engaged in workshops in the use of Web 2 tools and the methodologies and approaches to be followed for the project.
In May 2018 in Portugal, where evaluation of the activities of the first year and planning of the activities of the second year will take place.
In May 2019 there will be the last transnational meeting in Romania where the material of the two years will be put together and a book of the partnership will be published with the most representative products and ideas. Also, the final data concerning evaluation and dissemination will be discussed.
The whole project has a specific plan for evaluation and dissemination with questionnaires, meetings, seminars, publishing and using educational Web tools in order to boost the project’s impact on teachers, parents, students and communities at local, regional, national and European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132980 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol w Pobiedziskach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Marco de Canaveses
• Hasköy Ortaokulu
• 1 DIMOTIKO SXOLEIO TRIANDRIAS
• Greek School of Bucharest “Athena”
• Prienu ,,Revuonos” pagrindine mokykla
• CEIP DE CERVO