INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES: HORISONS APPLIED TO NEW GENERATION’S EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES: HORISONS APPLIED TO NEW GENERATION’S EDUCATION

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Migrants’ issues; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The main aim of the project is to increase the awareness of cultural diversity to enhance the level of understanding and tolerance towards people of different nationalities and ethnic origins in contemporary Europe. We want to overcome stereotypes, improve communication with one another across all kinds of cultural divisions and contribute to sustainability in multicultural Europe. These objectives can only be achieved by transnational cooperation. Poland, France, Spain and Turkey make a perfect match for the project main aim as they are culturally distinctive. They will share cultural experiences, history and heritage in order to get to know and understand one another’s religion, customs, language and traditions. The partners will discuss the issues concerning the recent migration flow and assimilation of no nationals and ethnic groups. Another aim of the project is to develop the key competences of students such as language, ICT and entrepreneurial skills, which are inevitable abilities on today’s European job market. In order to enable development of each young person we address our project to students of different social backgrounds and learning abilities. The project also aims at strengthening teachers’ knowledge and skills to make teachers qualified enough to contribute to a balanced development in Europe.Having considerable experience in carrying out various projects, the partner schools’ teachers have all the necessary skills to run the project. The project’s stakeholders will be students and teachers but also students’ families, local communities, local authorities and institutions who will establish constructive relationships among one another. One of the tools for dissemination will be a free accessible website containing all the activities and outputs of the project and a detailed analysis on how to develop the project itself beyond the end of the funding period. The project’s outcomes will be disseminated over a wider community and become a long life learning experience. The expected overall number of people embraced by the project outcomes will be around 6000 people.The project involves four short-term student exchanges, two short-term joint staff training events and three transnational meetings, held during the two-year project. During the short-term student exchanges the students will take part in a wide range of activities: seminars and workshops, tangible and intangible historical heritage activities and historical visits. They will be working out two outputs. The Comic Book , being a compilation of everyday life situations, will be a rich source of information of cultural differences in the project countries. The LLTT Brochure will contain practical information for settlers in Europe who want to assimilate in a new environment. The students will act as ‘performers’ while preparing and presenting reports, interviews or videos. They will also act as ‘researchers’ while investigating history, traditions and culture of their own countries and the partner countries so that they could become more aware of cultural diversity. While carrying out learning activities for students, the teachers will apply a Dynamic Approach, which allows students’ active engagement. The teachers will be using a wide range of well- chosen teaching methods, both traditional and innovative ones. The short-term joint staff training events, attended by teachers, will have a theoretical aspect as the participants will be discussing the key issues of the project. They will also be working on one of the project output, The Curriculum Proposal, which will be an innovative methodical tool for teaching students in a multicultural classroom. By exchanging good practices, the teachers will improve their professional competences. The purpose of the transnational meetings is to assign tasks to the project participants, to arrange, monitor and evaluate the project activities as well as anticipate and solve problems. During the whole project the teachers, students and other stakeholders will communicate by e-mails, video conferencing, e-Twinning and social networks. The project will be constantly monitored through questionnaires and other evaluation tools in order to introduce any necessary adjustments in the course of the events. The evaluation of the project will be obtained from tools such as questionnaires, testing of final outputs and other methods so as to have current feedback and to measure the quality of activities and project outcomes.The partner schools lay emphasis on understanding one another across cultural barriers as it is a fundamental prerequisite for making our diverse democratic societies work. Our schools want to involve young people in the celebration of diversity as it is one of the founding principles of the European Union. We intend to promote human rights and equality among young people as it is crucial if we want to achieve an open, tolerant and equal European society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115500 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Tuchowie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• N. Serap Ulusoy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• IES Mercedes Labrador
• Lycée Marie Joseph