Fostering Social Inclusion Through Artistic Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fostering Social Inclusion Through Artistic Skills

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Fostering Social Inclusion Through Artistic Skills project aims at reducing the risk of social exclusion which some of our students face, thus giving them the opportunity to reduce or eliminate the dangers associated with that risk (early school leaving, poor academic achievement, failure to continue studies). The means to achieve that result is with the promotion and fostering of artistic and sport skills, since we consider them to be excellent tools to improve cohesion and inclusion.
Our Learning, Teaching and Training activities have been designed to work a different skill each time (cartoons, music, storytelling, sport, photography and video). Therefore, participants will have the chance to experience a wide range of disciplines in order to fight exclusion and to sensitize other students and families about the problems that exclusion brings. According to questionnaires applied in all partner schools, students who are mostly exposed to these problems are students with fewer opportunities because they face exclusion factors like disabilities, health problems, educational difficulties (early school leavers, poor school performance), cultural differences (immigrants, ethnic minorities), economic obstacles (low standard of living, low income, unemployment), social obstacles (gender discrimination, ethnicity, religion, young/single parents) and geographic obstacles (remote or rural areas, poor facilities).
This project aims at:
– raising awareness on the consequences social exclusion can have for 300 students from partner schools, by the end of the project
– increasing the academic performance, class attendance and reducing the early school dropout rate for 300 students by August 2022
– increasing by 50%, during the project, the number of actions and educational activities which promote creativity
– providing 300 students, by the end of the project, some extra assistance and tools, which can range from more tuition, access to equipment they may not have at home, psychological help, and materials so that they can face their challenges they encounter in their school lives
The target group of this project will mainly consists of students who face social exclusion, aged 14-18. With the help of this project, these students will have the chance to pass over these barriers they have because of the exclusion factors, they will improve their school results, increase the academic performance, improve their general well-being, become active, responsible and socially integrated citizens. Each school, depending on the number of students and their skills, will select a number of at least 30 students.
TOPICS BY COUNTRIES:
TURKEY- Social Inclusion through Cartoons
POLAND- Social Inclusion through Music
ROMANIA- Social Inclusion through Storytelling
GERMANY- Social Inclusion through Sports
SLOVAKIA- Social Inclusion through Photography
SPAIN- Social Inclusion through Videos
COMMON TASKS:
– creating the project teams: students and teachers according to clear selecting criteria
– creating project national webpages as part of the common webpage
– organizing an Erasmus+ project corner
– creating Facebook and Instagram groups
– working on materials which have to be presented during each LTT
– taking part in the logo and slogan competition
– organizing meetings with various stakeholders
– taking part in LTTs activities
– preparation and proper realisation of assigned LTTs according to the timetable
– creating questionnaires – beginning, intermediate and final overall and internal evaluation
– disseminating activities and results after each LTT
– sharing the results and final products with the main coordinator
– write final reports
BY COUNTRIES:
SPAIN – a CD with videos focusing on problem students with fewer opportunities encounter
ROMANIA – a brochure which contains plays from all six school partners which illustrates various exclusion factors, groups on social media
TURKEY – an album with the most illustrative drawings on social inclusion, main site of the project
POLAND – a CD with songs which promote equality and diversity
GERMANY – a video with sports activities on social inclusion
SLOVAKIA – a photo album with the most suggestive photographs on exclusion factors
This project will foster students’ artistic skills and this will heavily contribute to the wellbeing of disadvantaged students. Project activities can be implemented every year to help students at risk of exclusion. Schools are the ones that work, on a daily basis, with the most vulnerable ones, the children. All partner schools can create a long-lasting program to carry out these activities all through the year and even celebrate video conferences with some of the other schools and share their final products. In order to assess the project’s success, we plan to analyze the achievement of academic performance of the participants before and after all the mobilities. A questionnaire will also be passed in order to gauge the level of social inclusion we have achieved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179532 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut Ermessenda de Girona & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Ems-Berufskolleg Rheda-Wiedenbrück
• Zespol Szkol Zawodowych im. sw. Jadwigi Krolowej w Bieczu
• haci hatice bayraktar anadolu lisesi
• Colegiul National de Informatica Spiru Haret
• Spojena skola Juraja Henischa