ProSocial Values Erasmus Project

Project Title

ProSocial Values

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

ProSocial Values project has been written to bring about a change in society through the promotion of values such as solidarity, inclusion, cooperation, empathy, multiculturalism, respect for the environment, etc. This project has addressed the social challenge of inclusion by helping children from 5 to 15 years old to learn prosocial values and develop positive interpersonal relationships. This social change has been pursued through the creation of an international community of educational institutions and schools cooperating in the promotion of activities at the national and international level. This prosocial community network has been called “Nobody Less” to express the ideal of inclusion and highlight the openness of the community.

The promotion of prosocial values in the classroom is facilitated by a non-formal educational approach and the use of game-based teaching strategies. Thus, the project partners have collected online digital games that can be used by the teachers to promote prosocial values. Free from charges games have been analysed and described considering the way they can be used in a lesson plan.
To increase the skills of the teachers, the partners have created a curriculum for teachers’ training, developing 8 modules on innovative and engaging methods to promote prosociality through game-based teaching or other non-formal activities. Furthermore, the partnership has set an online training platform, including an informal assessing tool for learning, based on gamification methodology. The online training platform has been accessed by about 11.000 users.
In the final part of the project, the partners have implemented a piloting phase to assess the impact of experimental educational activities on the student’s prosocial attitude. An evaluation tool based on self-reflection questionnaire has been developed to this scope. The piloting activities have involved a total of 620 students aged from 8 to 15 years old. The analysis of the data collected using the evaluation tool has demonstrated a positive increase in the average value of the students’ prosocial attitude.

ProSocial Values has aimed at having an important impact at the social level, to reach that goal several public events have been organized. 2 main multiplier events took place during the project involving a total of 985 participants: the first one in Skopje on May 2019, the second one online (due to COVID19 emergency) on September 2020. The partnership has also organized other public events at the national and regional level to involve institutions and schools in the “Nobody Less” community network. The most important public events organized in the framework of the project have been the “Prosocial Weeks”: moments in which teachers and children have implemented activities and events to promote the prosocial values in their schools and to the local community with the support of the project’s partners. More than 14.000 students have taken part in these events.
The main target groups of the project have been Teachers, school directors, children, parents, decision and policy-makers, researchers and university professors, professionals in the field of education and project managers.

Thanks to the commitment of the project partners, the community network “Nobody Less” includes members from 16 European and extra-European countries and new institutions are in the process of becoming members. The close collaboration that has been created between “Nobody Less” members has led to the writing of new projects inspired to the prosocial values.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 334095 Eur

Project Coordinator

Polo Europeo della Conoscenza – IC Bosco Chiesanuova & Country: IT

Project Partners

• TRAKIYSKI UNIVERSITET
• CONSEJERIA DE EDUCACION DE LA JUNTA DE CASTILLA Y LEON
• Zdruzenie za razvivanje i digitalizacija na obrazovanieto i kulturnoto nasledstvo Prijateli na obrazovanieto
• USAK IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• PANEVEZIO RAJONO SVIETIMO CENTRAS