MAGIC VALUES Erasmus Project

Project Title

MAGIC VALUES

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The project “Magical Values” was born with the idea of offering and training members of the project of cooperative work experiences between family and school and the development of social values. Four partners from Spain, Croatia, Italy and England. Each one with elements for the development of the project: -Spain: with experience in projects of integration of the family in the school through the means to promote solidarity with several awards and recognitions at regional and national level -England: School that promotes cooperative work with families in different experiences to share. Rural, family environment -Italy: urban center established in an area with social difficulties, very dynamic and creative for the establishment of measures to promote solidarity and social social values -Croatia: School that promotes very important labor values for the development tool personal. Together they developed this project establishing new working methods based on cooperative work, creating, through public and open broadcasting channels, new resources in other European schools in the field of education in values, the driving force of this project. Thanks to this work and way of work that was proven to improve the statistics of school success and the environment in our schools.
The objectives of the project are:
1. Promote, share and participate in work experiences that promote social values in school
2. Promote the exchange and knowledge of the realities of other educational work in Europe.
3. Foster the family-school relationship through collaborative projects and activities.
4. Make conscious and aware of the need of the educational communities together against social inequalities.

– SPECIFIC AND SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
5. Promote the development of the foreign language
6. Promote the use of ICT among students and teachers
7. Promote in the school the European dimension of shared work Structure the activities in quarters based on a specific social value and on international or European days that develop them: – “UNITED NATIONS DAY” – “WORLD PEACE DAY” – “EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY DAY” – “INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE” EDUCATION DAY”-” INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WOMAN “-” EUROPEAN DAY “…

The contact and dissemination of the results was fundamental, using the following channels of communication and dissemination: -Email -Mobile application – Blog – Youtube channel – WEB of different schools- Informative portals of the different national agencies. All these channels will continue open available to anyone who wants materials and experiences about social values.
The activities that were developed were for the most part digital, developed together: manifestos on education, decalogue for peace, work about the united nations, videos of experiences in education for peace, examples of experiences about solidarity. All of them with results published in the results platform and in the diffusion channels.
The social values worked on in all of them are; peace, solidarity, non-racism, tolerance, respect, European union, no sexual discrimination, collaboration …

This project has met all our expectations and has involved a methodological change and educational project that has left a mark on students and teachers.
The project has helped them to be convinced of wanting to improve European society, help schools to find new forms of collaborative work and educate their students “ON A MAGIC WAY” A shared work experience that lasted two years but will remain in time

“The objective of education is knowledge, not of facts, but of VALUES” -William S. Burroughs

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 76990 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro de Educación Infantil y Primaria Gran Canaria & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Brin
• Crowhurst Church of England Primary School
• Osnovna Skola Lapad