Art for inclusion’s sake Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art for inclusion’s sake

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; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The rising number of disadvantaged students has been an issue concerning many European schools for years. Many students still fail or drop out of school early especially in culturally, socially and economically deprived contexts. Fortunately, the power of art is so strong that it can help overcome the problem and we will use art as a tool to discover, appreciate and enhance the values of diversity and inclusion, which are the basis of our project.

The project mainly aims at using the power of arts to break prejudices; encouraging the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups; tackling early school leaving; discovering the richness of the European cultures; raising awareness of the value of European Cultural Heritage; boosting creativity and empowering skills of language, ICT, and communication; improving the abilities to work in transnational teams and establishing the project management skills.

The specific objectives of the project:
● To present cultural elements by means of visual aids: drama activities, exhibitions, photographs, folk art, catalogues, and brochures.
● To find a common language by means of art.
● To share and integrate different ways of thinking and common feelings through art.
● To inform the students about the cultural, artistic and spiritual values of other countries and to determine them to be individually and collectively active.
● To prove to the students that the artists and creators in general, have been inspired by nature and life itself, thus making them aware that the environment in which we live is very important and that the community should be very responsive to this subject.
● Students will develop artistic abilities, will learn to use IT means in order to create the necessary materials for the project.

The general objectives of the project:
● To encourage the participant schools to share the culture of their countries.
● To encourage the students and the teachers to create and develop their abilities for planning and initiating the activities of the project and using the informational and communicative technologies.
● To promote a modern national and European line and to offer authentic cultural values.
● To increase the interest for culture, for the national specific.
● To encourage the students to communicate in English and to develop their linguistic abilities by interacting with other students of different nationalities and cultures.

During the exchanges, students will discuss about and make suggestions to break the prejudices. With an aim to learn more about each other’s’ cultures, the participants will organize in transnational teams contests on music, dancing, sport, acting, photography and painting. Moreover, we will give students competences in journalism, ICT and languages. In each meeting students will actively discuss the topic of diversities/inclusion, and try to find solutions in order to make our societies a better and happier place to live in. We will use young people languages like rap or graffiti to approach very serious problems, in this way they will feel more confident and motivated.

The forms of discrimination we want to focus on are racial, social, gender, religious, cultural discrimination. Students will be also encouraged to take part to international contests for schools like: ‘Yo! Fest’, ‘World nomads directors on the go’ and ‘I am European’. There will also be project contests like: ‘Stop Racism’ video competition, ‘Be diverse, be unique’ graffiti logo contest, ‘Did you know?’ music contest and ‘Shoot the difference’ photo contest which will contribute to reach project objectives and the dissemination of the project results. The preparation of video presentations will improve the ICT skills, the communication skills, the language skills as well as increasing the sense of curiosity about other cultures and new learning strategies. We think that these activities will all motivate students to stay at school and prevent the risk of early school drop out.

The most important aspect of our methodology is that all activities and project steps are students centered through activities like role-plays, problem solving activities, teamwork, cooperative activities and project works, this will enable active participation and rise motivation levels.

The project activities will contribute to its results and impact. Each meeting will have a public happening where meeting products will be shown to families, other schools, stakeholders.
This will bring the project visibility together with the other project activities devoted to the dissemination of project results: project web page, etwinning project page, report on the schools web site, web magazine, broadcast on local tvs and newspapers of project activities and results. The project website will continue to be available to everyone after the project period is over. The project activities will continue in the eTwinning platform with more partners and more students.

Project Website

https://www.art-for-inclusion.eu/index.php

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195379 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS “S.Pertini” – Alatri & Country: IT

Project Partners

• BAYRAMPASA TUNA ANADOLU LISESI
• Cartesius Lyceum, Onderwijsstichting Esprit
• I.E.S. LA LABORAL DE LA LAGUNA
• Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule
• Agrupamento de Escolas Abade de Baçal