Be Child – For an inclusive school Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be Child – For an inclusive school

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture; Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

Project Summary

“Be Child – For an inclusive school” Project originates from the willingness of “Pascoli-Alvaro” Comprehensive School to enhance the started action with a project carried out in 2019 with the Primary classes using the drawing’s methodology on the rights of Children, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of ONU Conventionon the Rights of Children and Adolescents. Hence, the desire to examine themes in depth such as ‘right to a name’, right to a family, right of participation and right for leisure and play, more than ever important in contemporary society, by comparing with the European realities. In particular, a dialogue was initiated with “Petar Pop Arsov” Macedonian School, “Balvuprofesionālā un vispārizglītojošā vidusskola” Latvian school and “Agrupamento de Escolas de Oliveirinha” Portuguese one, bonded by the need to increase key competences of their own students that come from similar socio-economic backgrounds (immigration, cultural disparities) and at the same time, to make them more aware of being the youngest citizens in the world, bearers of rights and needs.
The project, developed on a time frame of 24 months, aims at achieving following goals:
– to increase the europeancitizenship key competences, in particulardigital skills, linguistic, social and civic ones working on international cooperation and comparison among cultures;
– to promote the awareness on the rights of Children and Adolescents, spotlighting complicated subjects/themes and increasing knowledge and observation capacity of the outside World on these rights;
– to increase the use of participative didactic and laboratory methodologies, developing the cooperation and improving teamworking capabilities and the emotional and relational competences of young people with an important positive repercussion on self-esteem.
This will be possible throught the use of tools such as photography, storytelling, music and educational game in a laboratory, cooperative and international context, that will lead to the achievement of a final output in the form of a multimedia interactive kit that will gather all the materials used and created by the participants during the activities, downloadable and available online through platforms and web-sites. With this output, the participants will tell their rights and violations that, in the World, are more frequent than it can be imagined, to raise awareness among Schools, families and territory on the need to defend the rights of children and adolescents in every context. The activities will be destined to a total of 96 students of the lower secondary school of the 4 partner schools (in an age range between 12 and 14 years). Each transnational exchange (Macedonia, Latvia, Portugal and Italy) will involve, from time to time, 6 students per school that will experience a direct comparison and the participationin lab activities that will be developed. In addition to the constant virtual comparison through eTwinning and through the discussions on the TwinSpace project, the participants will be able to experiment didactic participative and cooperative methodologies that will aim at increasing the awareness concerning the rights at hand.
“Be Child” activities are based on a constant communication among the project teams of the 4 patner schools to grant an harmonic development in the expected several steps and to obtain a large cooperation for the management of timing, logistics and potential problems that may arise in the time-frame of 24 months. The project foresees the organization of 6 meetings (via Skype or Hangout): one at the beginning of the activities, one before each transnational exchange and one at the closureof the project.
The warranty of the achievement of the project goals, finally, is determined by an appropriate procedure of ex-ante, in itinere and ex-post monitoring and evaluation of the actuated activities. This procedure creates the possibility for a stronger role for the accompanying teachers that,with ad-hoc assessment grids, will be able to observe and value participants’ quality improvements. In particular, the grid will assess: tolerance, civic sense, relational capacities, involvement level, linguistic competences (in terms of speed for wording the sentences and comprehension). In order to value quantity impact, Self-Assessment Report (RAV) of each school will be used as tools of control and comparison, the analysis of which expects an increase of the participation for students in school life, school results and capacity of integration and inclusion.
In quantitative terms it is expected for the participants:
– increase by 2 points of the language school results;
– increase by 1 point of the othersubjects;
– number of kit’s download;
– Erasmus+ Projects Request’s increase by households;
– number of Erasmus+ Projects and eTwinning submitted by the teachers of each school.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 104880 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo Statale Pascoli Alvaro & Country: IT

Project Partners

• OOU Petar Pop Arsov
• Balvu profesionala un visparizglitojosa vidusskola
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Oliveirinha