Multiculturality, diversity, integration – equal opportunities for everyone Erasmus Project

Project Title

Multiculturality, diversity, integration – equal opportunities for everyone

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

“Multiculturality, diversity, integration – equal opportunities for everyone” – these are the most important challenges for today’s Europe. In a more and more diverse and multicultural society people face with a dual situation: to be able for a deeply integration or to preserve their cultural/ethnic identity. Partners are Romania, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Estonia, Republic of North Macedonia
The problems are: difficulties to integrate students of minorities, refugees, with different backgrounds in every day school life; lack of competences and important skills for most of students from a risk situation– communication or intercultural skills, lack of self-confidence and support, problems of identit, the gap between majority and minorities students – they are not eager to better know the traditions or cultural values of the others; discrimination or marginalization of minorities, refugees or migrants; difficulties to learn the languages in their new countries (Italy, Germany, Turkey) or the language of majority (in Romania)
This project will help our students to come closer to different cultures and get familiar to different traditions and different ways of life.
The objectives are:
Promoting of equal right to education for 40% of our students
Increase the motivation for learning among students from vulnerable groups for the next years
Foster the integration process of people with different backgrounds in a multicultural area
Create links between all kind of students in our schools and facilitate everyone access to reciprocal knowledge through common activities
Improve skills and competences such as critical thinking, communication, creativity and team working for better scores in education
Promoting the innovative teaching methods and strategies to develop intercultural competences
Through this project we would like to encourage students to have a look into partners’ classrooms and culture to become open minded citizens, by promoting democratic values
The target groups: students of 15 to 18 years old, teachers, parents, local stakeholders. Students are from: ethnic minorities -Hungarians in Romania, migrants in Germany and Italy, different minorities in Estonia, Macedonia, refugees from Syria in Turkey, or from disadvantages backgrounds
In this project will take part pupils from 6 countries of Europe. There will be involved groups such as teachers and school staff – headmaster and deputy headmaster, parents, local authorities . We intend to involve :
– students from different backgrounds or in risk situation – from economical, social, cultural, points of view
-students from ethnic minorities in each country, because we will like to show how they are integrated in school communities and how they contribute to the cultural diversity
– students from refugees/migrants families
We will involve students with communication, social and creativity skills and competences.
Romania – there are students from ethnic minorities such as Hungarians
Turkey – students from rural areas who are facing cultural, ethnic, social, economical and educational challenges and also migrants/refugees from war zones
Macedonia – most of students are Macedonian, but there are few from other nationalities, Rroma, Turkish, too. We have students from different social levels, almost one third travel every day from rural places to school
Germany and Italy – a great number of students from migrants/refugees families with different cultural backgrounds
Estonia -students belong from rural area or from disadvantages families
1st meeting-Getting to know each other better
Organizing and planning all the mobilities and activities –
Distribution of tasks to the respective partner schools
Set up of a Twinspace
Creation and exchange of personality profiles
Students and teachers upload their profile on Twinspace
Creating a logo for the project
2nd meeting Multiculturalism and democratic values – tolerance, non- discrimination
Street survey about the relationship between people in our community
Creation of a questionnaire
Contest – poster about stereotypes and prejudices in our community
Students will create video /short movie – What it means to be a minority
Create a web page to be part of a final blog open to other communities
3rd meeting Democratic values in today’s Europe
From European to local level – The rights of minorities/disadvantages
All equals – all different good practices of integration in each school
Discrimination in our school – interviews with students from different backgrounds
4th meeting Helping students to develop a sense of identity
An album History of my family – Collecting pictures/stories – telling stories
Theater forum – Multiple layers of identity
5th meeting From tradition to modernity
Including the migrants/minorities/risk situation students in the school activities -making videos
Presentations about ‘’Folk songs and traditions ‘’of the partner countries

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187468 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIUL NATIONAL MIHAI VITEAZUL & Country: RO

Project Partners

• SOU Jane Sandanski Strumica
• Istituto d’Istruzione superiore Umberto Masotto
• ABBAS SIDIKA CALIK HIGH SCHOOL
• Viscardi-Gymnasium Fürstenfeldbruck
• Tallinna Kesklinna Vene Gümnaasium