Tolerance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tolerance

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The project includes 5 schools from 5 European countries: EE,PT,LT,RO,TR. The SWOT analysis done by each partner at their institution, identified the partners common needs and it led to the decision to implement a project about tolerance. Violence, aggression, intolerance, racism, ethnic discrimination are tendencies that can be observed in the behavior of the students from all the partner countries.

According to The World Values Survey, Turkey and Romania are the least racially tolerant countries, while Lithuania, Estonia and Portugal tend to be the most tolerant ones. This result along with the different educational and cultural backgrounds of the partners will contribute to the successful implementation of the project.

The project aims include:
– developing civic competences and increasing self-esteem of students from 5 EU countries
-facilitating understanding the concepts “tolerance” and “mutual understanding” at a personal level and in the European context
-providing participants with practical examples for acting as civic-minded citizens
-raising awareness about diversity and cultural identities promoting social cohesion
-boosting the feeling of belonging to the EU community.
According to the Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union, we predict that this international cooperation will prepare our students for living in a multiethnic world being aware of the EU values and respecting diversity. Students will distribute the notion of tolerance and mutual understanding as active civic approaches. For accomplishment the general goal of lengthening the civic mindedness emphasizing the importance of tolerance and mutual understanding impact in everyday life, we decided to apply a new attitude.

To achieve the project goals, an innovative attitude will be applied. Linking the benefits of using ICT in education with the Five Factor Model theory will tackle the 5 personality dimensions:
-openness to experience: students will be motivated to express their emotions and opinions using Art. They will produce together the movie “Tolerance through my eyes”, scenarios for the Forum theater, digital photos, will make artistic moments for the Festival of tolerance and mutual understanding.
-extraversion: team building activities, sports competitions and board games will stimulate students’ assertiveness and sociability.
-amicability: working in transnational groups and making products together will develop students’ cooperation skills. The flashcards about the topic, the dictionary of the project, handmade bookmarks and thematic puzzles will be tangible products they will together create.
-neuroticism: students will experience (un)pleasant emotions, irritation, sadness, nervousness and vulnerability during the Forum theater/ theater activity. They will become aware of how intolerance is perceived by others, they will develop empathy and they will see how important is to be an active citizen.

The use of ICT during the activities together with internal cognitive aspects of learning will bring innovative outcomes tackling learning abilities.
The activities are designed to develop the tolerance, mutual understanding, intercultural competences, social and civic spirit. The international cooperation will broaden the cross-cultural knowledge and understanding about the countries, cultures and values strengthening the feeling of belonging to a united Europe.

Various 21/24 students from each accomplice (matured in the vicinity of 13 and 18 years of age) will go to the transnational gatherings. Understudies will be chosen before the mobilities, utilizing straightforward criteria chose by each venture accomplice mulled over: English aptitudes, ICT abilities, inspiration and contribution in the school-based exercises. Various 10 instructors will be specifically engaged with the task mobilities, yet groups will be framed at the school level to encourage a superior execution of the undertaking. Roughly 2700 understudies and 120 instructors/grown-ups will by implication be associated with the task. Different members who will appreciate the advantages offered by this Erasmus+ venture are the regulatory staff, understudies’ families, instructive staff, instructive guides, strategy producers and agents of the nearby experts.

The substantial results of the venture are a sound word reference, photography presentation, timetable of the task, basic film, digital book, cheat sheets, topical riddles, carefully assembled bookmarks, venture website pages, venture logo, flyers, DVD of the undertaking, pamphlet.
The impalpable outcomes are the improvement of fundamental abilities, key capabilities, social skyline, entomb social comprehension, group working aptitudes and learning about the subject.
All the venture results will be made accessible on the task site. The spread arrangement will contact an extensive group of onlookers and have an effect at neighborhood, territorial, national and universal levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144275 Eur

Project Coordinator

Saaremaa Ühisgümnaasium & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Jono Pauliaus II gimnazija
• Konsza Samu General School
• TEZER TASKIRAN ORTAOKULU
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I