EVA (equality, variety, acceptance) – Schools in a changing world finding common values for living together in peace Erasmus Project

Project Title

EVA (equality, variety, acceptance) – Schools in a changing world finding common values for living together in peace

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: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue); Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

In European societies we nowadays experience a complex situation: on the one hand we are living in multi-ethnic societies, and on the other hand there are new nationalistic tendencies. A school is a microcosm of society. We teach students from different countries of origin, refugees as well as third-generation migrants, and we are confronted with the various values that different students have taken over from their parents. At the same time schools have the chance and the obligation to educate our future citizens. We can help them to become tolerant and open-minded adults.
Our project´s name is EVA, which stands for “equality, variety and acceptance”. It focusses on the idea that every human being has equal rights. Nobody should feel superior because of his or her heritage, religion, sexual orientation, or skin colour – to name only a few examples. We have equal rights, but we are not all the same! Our school (as well as our society) comprises a great variety of individuals. No-one should feel the need to hide who they are from other people. This is why we need tolerance and acceptance. We must respect each other as we are – and we must also make sure that everyone respects these values.
The participants in the EVA-projects will be schools from Estonia, Portugal, Turkey, Bulgaria, France and Germany. All of these schools have experiences when it comes to teaching students from different countries of origin, minorities or refugees.
In the project we will first introduce our schools and towns to each other in short films. Our various cultures will be represented by performances of traditional music and dance. In a workshop on tolerance we will discuss our different attitudes with regard to “variety”. This will finally result in a set of rules and values that we can all agree upon, and that will become the preamble to our respective school regulations. At the same time, we will be working on developing and staging a play on the topic “equality, variety and acceptance”, which will be performed on our final meeting.
The preamble to the school regulations has to be approved of by students, teachers and parents alike. The performance of the play will be a public performance to which representatives of the press will be invited. Thus, our ideas will be spread in the school and the community.
The long-term effects that we are aiming at, are an increased awareness and a heightened sense of tolerance that will make living together much easier – at school as well as everywhere.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 185111 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gesamtschule Volksgarten & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Pärnu Ühisgümnaasium
• Sredno uchiliste “Hristo Botev”
• ASS GESTION COLL LYC CATHOLIQUE PRIVE AGCLCP
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Resende
• GAZIANTEP -SEHITKAMIL-AKTOPRAK ANADOLU LISESI