BORN EQUAL, LIVE DIFFERENT Erasmus Project

Project Title

BORN EQUAL, LIVE DIFFERENT

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Young people, wherever they live, face similar problems such as environmental disruption or pollution, globalization, land immigration, economic crisis and the crisis of moral values. We believe that education has a crucial role in allowing them to sharpen their senses through a critical thinking and a sense of responsibility for an involvement in the democratic process. Education equips our young learners with the skills and values needed to be responsible global citizens, such as respect for human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability. Investing in and strengthening a country’s education sector is key to the development of any country and its people. We want to build a project on Human Rights Education to make students aware of global issues (European citizenship, xenophobia, racism, gender equality, peace, violence against women) through the study of international celebrations and commemorations. Every culture has their own way to celebrate and commemorate which offers an insight to the unique values and beliefs of that particular culture. Its singularity will be shown to the rest of countries involved in the project in order to discover how local communities perform or react towards these dates. Through the two-year partnership, we are looking forward to sharing good practices and develop our learning about each other, about different countries’approaches to education and values, and develop pupil and teachers activities linked with the international celebrations theme. Partnerships are proven to be a most effective way to achieve strong development outcomes.
To achieve one of the goals of the project – inclusion and equity – we propose sports as a vehicle for social inclusion due to its characteristics, its impact on people and its beneficial effects on individuals as well as on society. The monthly “Tolerance Cup” aimes to empower the students living with disabilities to recognise their own potential, and also to encourage all students to be more inclusive of all people in their community. For students who are in school failure or who tend to leave school we are going to provide an extensive pedagogical care. A substantial part of the project consists of practical and non-academical activities which makes it easier to engage these students into them : create a the Europe’s Garden, “Carry on !” inform campaigns on preservation of the ozone layer or “Love your heart and share your heart” campaign of solidarity with people suffering from incurable diseases, debates against the violence; cooking workshops or fruits/vegetable carving art; create posters and to directly involve in organizing of exhibitions. Such students will be involved in group work, and the tasks assigned to them will be chosen taking into account their abilities and skills, and conducted under a supervision of peer group leaders and teachers. At last but not at least we want to form digital competences to our students. We embrace the concept of “digital citizen” that is taught to our students: a citizen who uses new technologies in a responsible manner, worthy of his century. Our students will enhance their ICT competences by creating digital products: create films or numerical presentations about national sportsmen and sportswomen, medalists at the Olympic/Paralympic games; series of videos or numerical presentations, create a poem in 5 mother tongues and a video on the European anthem music,“Women who have changed the world”, “What EU does for my country ?”, “My family, my first school”(family is the first school in which a child receives the basic values of life).
Connections during student mobilities in order to follow the activities will be organized thanks to on line eTwinning tools.
Number of beneficiaries : directly about 100 persons per institution, so about 500 in total, indirectly beneficiaries (other institutions, parents, migrants, etc) 300. Students will improve communication skills, linguistic and IT abilities, cultural exchange that contributes to understanding of the European values. Teachers will able to use new teaching methods to fight against early school leaving by providing attractive and interactive activities. The results of the project will be disseminated by using national and European platforms and also on the project websites, which will ensure an international visibility of the project and it will remain available even after the full implementation of our project tasks.
During the project the members involved -families, school staff, teachers and principals- will have opportunities to come in contact with five European countries (Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece and Spain): different cultures, religions, languages, economic markets, all European citizens BORN EQUAL, but they LIVE DIFFERENT (that is why our project is named BELIVE), but all having a single aim –to nurture the values and attitudes of young people to lead them to a better consciousness of human rights.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139703 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC des écoles du Bon Sauveur & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Realschule Heepen
• El Divino Pastor
• Paralimni Lyceum
• Gymnasio Gastounis