All Together for an Inclusive Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

All Together for an Inclusive Europe

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: Integration of refugees; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CONTEXT of the Project:
We consolidate that nobody should be shamed or feel inferior because of their differences.On the basis of the current migration and refugee movements in Europe, it became clear that most schools had not current concepts for intercultural education. The newcomers from other cultures were completely unprepared,met students whose intercultural competence was scarce and saw no possibility to be involved in the school community.Frustration, school refusal was the result and sometimes the school climate was severely impaired.
The project wants to encourage every student to express himself, his thoughts by giving everyone equal chances and overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping. There will be an occasion to understand different identities, be tolerant and to recognize the wide range of cultures that can cohabit.
Discovering diversity will enrich everyone’s education and play an essential part in understanding and accepting each other.
We want to achieve the reduction of prejudices, the awareness of one’s own cultural identity, the integration of children from other cultures into a new school environment and to teach local students the culture of their classmates without prejudice.
We aim also to raise our awareness of our own cultural identity, to bring together the common European cultural values as a basis for our coexistence, to feel culture as an enrichment of one’s own life and to improve existing intercultural teaching modules through innovative teaching modules on the basis of different teaching subjects of our curriculum for intercultural education. The 5 participating schools want to involve as many people as possible and also social organizations such as refugee initiatives, NGOs, cultural, political and religious representatives. It’s necessary to individuate how intercultural learning can be linked to different basic teaching subjects and focus on openness, empathy, respect for the fellow-pupils culture and the awareness of one’s own cultural roots.
The activities focus on:
– Language and literature
– Music and dance
– Arts
– Interreligious dialogue
– Politics and history.
We want to develop solid building blocks for intercultural education in all relevant disciplines in order to bring students from other cultures into our school community giving them the opportunity to contribute to the school life with their cultural background. Likewise, we want to develop teaching modules to help the integration of newcomers who will grow into our own cultural environments and raise the awareness of the cultural identity of the new classmates.

MAIN OBJECTIVES :
– to promote social,civic and intercultural competences,intercultural dialogue,democratic values and fundamental rights,social inclusion,non-discrimination and active citizenship;
– to point out approaches to facilitate the integration of children from other cultures into their new school community,to actively involve the new classmates in their new school environment,and to teach local students the culture of their classmates without prejudice and authenticity.

NUMBER and PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: 5 European secondary schools in Poland as a coordinator and Turkey,Spain,Romania and Greece all having curricular and/or extra-curricular programmes for inclusive education.

METHODOLOGY:
a) Project meetings: demonstrative lessons, presentations, workshops, lectures, discussions on the topic of the meeting, roundtables, studies, monitoring and evaluating activities, completing questionnaires;
b) Student exchanges: lessons, workshops, work in groups or pairs, presentations, lectures, discussions on the topic of the meeting, roundtables, visits, various artistic activities, studies, monitoring and evaluating activities, completing questionnaires;
c) After-school workshops for students, which will take place before and after student exchanges: learning about the host country, prepare presentations work, in groups or pairs, monitoring and evaluating activities, completing questionnaires.

MAIN PRODUCTS :
– a methodological resource book and video guide with the description of the good practices (uploaded to the website with free access for the public)
– project website – project materials – photos, videos, a detailed description of good practices (for the participant teachers)
– Facebook page/group – etwinning project space.

RESULTS and LONG TERM BENEFITS:
Through this project, we will overview various ways:
-to realize social inclusion in education and to manage diversity in an effective way;
-educate to solidarity;
-develop an understanding of the complexities of coexistence;
-allow students to explore issues about diversity in our society, preconceptions, stereotypes about gender, age, disability, religion and culture and promote a feeling of tolerance within the school and in society;
-make them aware of local and global issues and emphasize global responsibility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa w Gniazdowie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Valisoara
• Colegio Salesiano Santísima Trinidad
• Mehmetçik Anadolu Lisesi
• 1o Epagelmatiko Lykeio Geras