Be cool stay at school Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be cool stay at school

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: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation

Project Summary

Young people live in increasingly disconnected societies, with often far less family and community support than they need to be their best. Educators face the consequences of this situation in their classrooms every day for example a lot of problems in relationships that developed in school among students and lead to disciplinary problems and bullying situations. In BE.COSTAS project we adopt the philosophy of approaches that emphasize the belief that humans are ‘profoundly relational’ and set as a goal to replace punitive, managerial structures of schooling with those that emphasize the building and repairing of relationships. The aim of the project is to develop policies and strategies that create inclusive and positive climate in our schools through raising the student’s awareness of the peaceful resolution of conflicts and create the conditions for the restoration of relations rather than punishment. Also we intend to help the members of the project spread these ideas in their schools creating a guide for each school, detailing the steps to implement the practices to be adopted and a portfolio with tools such as activities, posters, slogan, films, songs. The project involves four countries and five schools (Grece, Portugal, Italy, Belgium) who aim to exchange their practices through five transnational meetings where will be applied seminars, workshops and activities. Also we will use eTwinning platform as a virtual space (TwinSpace) for our student’s interaction and collaboration, as a virtual store for the activities carried out during the project and also as a dissemination space (twinning live).
Each school will be the host organization once and all the other four partner countries will be accommodated. Twelve students from each school will take part in total with two teachers or the accompanying school principal every time. All students will be between 14-17 years of age in order to organize activities more easily with respect to their interests. All the countries together during the mobility will carry out common activities, between the mobility each of them will hold more or less the same workshops but from a specific point of view depending on their human resources – combination of students and teachers. In addition to all activities, there are also shared ones among the partners in accordance with their competences shown during the past project. The Greek school of Valtino, in which belongs a teacher of greek language who is specialized in counseling and is also psychologist with a large work experience in prevention, non violence conflict management and teacher trainer for the above topics, will be responsible especially for the methods which will be used and the type of the results which will be produced. Portugal will base its activities on the former experience (as a school and as persons) and will be in charge of the dissemination and evaluation, will take care of blogging and creating a Facebook, make evaluation sheets and questionnaires for evaluating the results of the activities. Italy will be in charge of the guide for each school, detailing the steps to implement the practices to be adopted. Belgium, will be the one who will act as an example “a good practice” lightening our path to create a positive clime in our schools and will be responsible for the portfolio with tools such as activities, posters, slogan, films, songs, that will be created. The Greek school in Munich has no experience in Erasmus + projects but its teachers have a lot. It will be responsible for the e-twining platform (the TwinSpace, e-twining live) and create knowledge quizzes and the website.
The results of the activities after the two-year project implementation will be the creation of a guide for each school, detailing the steps to implement the practices to be adopted and a portfolio with tools such as activities, posters, slogan, films, songs. These material will be placed on the TwinSpace and all new practices and methods will enrich school environment and climate.
And in this healthy school environment with a positive and peaceful climate students will be able to develop their cognitive abilities and achieve their academic goals. Also such an environment is what will contain and include pupils who have difficulty adjusting or threatened to be rejected. Awareness and education in life skills will help them not only adapt to the school but also to their later life. All mobility participants will improve their key competences, primarily in the field of ICT and communication in English. Dissemination of project activities will be carried out regularly at all stages of the project with the aim of informing the public and motivating the teaching staff at the local and national level to adopt new way of interaction in school community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

GENIKO LYKEIO VALTINOY & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “G.LA PIRA”
• Escola Secundária de São Pedro da Cova, Gondomar
• Elliniko Lykeio Monaxou
• academie provinciale des metiers