Equal Rights Great Opportunities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Equal Rights Great Opportunities

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Disabilities – special needs; Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

Project Summary

The project ERGO promotes the message of “Equal Rights, Great Opportunities” where it highlights the need for a community of equals with the potential to lead to great opportunities for human development taking steps to put it into action.
This project allows for a better Europe, where European countries can assimilate more easily rejecting discrimination related to the personal identity of individuals. The principle of social equality suggests that the gender, age, color, financial status, origin, language, religion, health, personal beliefs and ideas of individuals should not result in unequal treatment and should not unduly reduce opportunities to improve their lives.
Objectives
Interculturalism and to inform participants about the language differences, and by learning everyday phrases in the languages of the participating countries to project.
Cultural exchange on the delivery, linguistic, geographical and historical experiences.
Enhancing critical thinking about the “-isms” (e.g. nationalism, racism, sexism)
Overcoming language barriers in the European Union through the common, neutral language.
Contributing to the spirit of European citizenship.
Development of personal potential of students, such as the ability for teamwork and the desire for cooperation, skill for solving nature of communication problems.
Improve the adaptability and practical use of new technology in communications.
Promote the woman’s role and status in society
To teach our students to respect and accept disable people and provided to them the same opportunities in their lives.
Promote the message that all human-beings are entitled to have equal opportunities in their lives without being discriminated or rejected based on their gender, sex, color, religion, origin and any disability.

Number and profile of participant organizations

The participant organizations involved in the process are professional training centre and schools of secondary education. There are six in the project:
Techniki Scholi Larnakas (Cyprus)
2nd Lykeo of Kalamata (Greece)
Ogrenciden Armagan Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey)
Colegiul Energetic (Romania)
Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla (Lithuania)
Höhere Technische Bunderslehr – und Versuchsanstalt Wiener Neustadt (Austria)

Description of main activities undertaken

In each meeting, teachers will be informed about the main education strategy and privilege of the visited country by experts and representatives from the local ministry of education.
Teachers will develop:
good examples of strategies of how to transmit the basic humanitarian values (mainly increasing tolerance, non discrimination and non prejudicement) in education of social sciences like history art, and sport,
curriculum materials, learning and
teaching resources and different survey types.
The results will be written in the Euro-human project booklet.
Equality, equal rights, human rights are all concepts that are difficult to interpret and apply. We will try through seminars, workshops, local organizations, media and guest speakers to explain these concepts and expand people’s perception and feelings. Students will have interactive workshops on the aforementioned topics with the guidance of their teachers and have multinational experiences to feel and take the responsibility of being humanistic individuals in the society. Brain storming, on line communication, student centered and interactive methods will be used during the workshops.
Teachers and students will visit some art, history museums and see some examples of humanitarian displays. The project photos and other documents will be downloaded in e twinning platform and web site.
Seminars will be organized for the dissemination of the project in each country .The booklets and brochures will be delivered and the project impacts, results, recommendations to the other schools will be declared by press.
We will involve different students paying special attention to those disadvantaged for socio-economic reasons. We will involve pupils in the evaluation process, with questionnaires, focus groups, feedbacks on activities carried on.

Long-term benefits
“ERGO” will promote intercultural education, and/or help combat racism/xenophobia: it will reveal students’ diversity and richness of the European civilization and prevent possible stereotypes and xenophobia existing in our nations.
We strongly believe that “ERGO” will encourage young Europeans to understand someone of different nationality, race, religion, gender, sex which is the evidence of acceptance and respect for diversity. Additionally will enhance students’ self confidence and other personal qualities regardless of their differences of any kind as they will learn no to judge the physical but instead trying to understand the deeper roots of their psyche and the hardships a person may face.
The project will disseminate the message: “The effort for equal rights and opportunities is lasting, timeless and everyday”.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNIKI SCHOLI LARNAKAS & Country: CY

Project Partners

• Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla
• Ogrenciden Armagan Anadolu Lisesi
• 2nd Lykeo of Kalamata
• Colegiul Energetic
• Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt Wiener Neustadt