Inclusive Responsible Responsive Teachers (IRRT) – European Training Course for school teachers (and students) on emergency management and first aid through civic engagement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive Responsible Responsive Teachers (IRRT) – European Training Course for school teachers (and students) on emergency management and first aid through civic engagement

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

This project will provide training scheme and will create an awareness among schools from Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey about the risks caused by emergency situations and environmental disasters. A dedicated training material will be provided to school principals and teachers which will further extend their qualification to react in such situations. Students/children are one of the most vulnerable target groups, especially children with disadvantages (people with disabilities) and for those from underprivileged backgrounds (refugees, roma, immigrants, socio-economic problems, etc). Activities will include the running of a training course, a school project competition, activities conducted by experts from the fire brigades, hospitals, scientists, etc. The participation of the parents, families, school staff and the local communities will also be promoted. At the end of the project the children would not only have gained a better understanding about preventing and reacting in case of a emergency, but will have also improved their social and civic skills. They will feel more confident and responsible towards the society that they live in. By participating in this project, the school establishments will open themselves to new teaching and learning actors and to the local community. They will provide the students a nice, fun and welcoming environment.

As such, the project objectives are, among others:
– Improve the skills of students/young children, their teachers and their families in:
o Recognize risk situations
o Transform a risk situation into a safe situation
o Identify sources of danger
o How to act, evacuate and leave in a fast manner
o Provide good advice in case of accidents
– Provide opportunities for schools to open up to their local community, its local organisations (NGOs, fire brigades, hospitals, public authorities, police forces, etc)
– Bring those external stakeholders to the school establishments so that they also contribute to bringing up the future generation of responsible Europeans.
– Empower young children so that they feel more confident and responsible towards the society where they live.
– Facilitate the integration of students from communities at risk of exclusion by providing them with the skills and tools that they need to live in a secured environment.
– Make the school environment more attractive and avoid early school drop outs.
– Promote school visits from one partner country to another and though confronting the students with a different language and cultural environment.
– Create an informal network of schools that will exchange experiences, teaching and learning methods and good practices that will continue to exist once the EU funding is over.
– Indirectly, students will also receive employment and career advice from the experts that will participate in the SOS Fire! Week (doctors, nurses, policemen, fire brigades, counselors, consultants, social workers, etc)

Target groups:
– Students from primary and secondary schools
– School staff: teachers, head teachers, administrative staff, pedagogues, etc.
– Parents and families
– Local communities: local authorities, fire brigades, hospitals, social workers, NGOs working with deprived communities, etc
– European community

Project Duration: 24 months. The calendar of activities takes into account the school academic year.

Expected outputs:
IO1: SOS SCHOOL Training programme for teachers, children and school personnel
IO2: A mobile and online wizard training application for emergency response training in various situations (incl. videos), and a self-assessment stress test (level of preparedness)

Partnership:
P1: Leading educational directorate from Greece (project coordinator)
P2: Voluntary unit 112 – a municipality founded NGO who is responsible to support in cases of environmental disasters
P3: Ecology driven SME who is developing ICT-based solutions towards ecology training realisation
P4: Ecology consultancy body providing local non-formal courses
P5: The biggest educational directorate from Istanbul, Turkey

Project Website

http://sosschool.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143762 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIEYFTHYNSI DEYTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEYSIS N. KARDITSAS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• EKOLOGIJAKM OOD
• ISTANBUL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• EUFORA PERIVALONTIKI CHIOU MELETONKAI IPIRESION MONOPROSOPI ETERIA IDIOTIKI KEFALEOUXIKIS ETERIAS
• Voluntary unit Plovdiv 112