“Bricks of Peace” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Bricks of 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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our project consists of five educational institutions from the Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Germany. More than 50 teachers and about 200 students are directly involved in this project. The project will be implemented during two years 2020 – 2022. As partners, we agreed that it is very important to develop the respect of dignity, human rights, culture and religion among young people. The main task of the project activities is to make students and the local societies more aware of the problem of discrimination, violence, aggression and the lack tolerance in our communities. Presently we can see that our world and our way of life is threatened by different developments, for example the attacks on democracy, the destruction of our living conditions and negative aspects of globalisation. We want to analyse the situation in our communities according to these aspects and try to find solutions, methods and strategies to improve the present day conditions. The rise of nationalism, egoism and disrespect of nature is a phenomen we all suffer from. This project ensures that everyone involved realizes that the solution can only lie in multilateralism and not in unilateralism. Moreover, we believe that due to the project it will be much easier to level all the misconceptions and stereotypes. Sharing our experiences, our skills and visions will benefit and promote empowerment at various levels and thus stimulate active participation in social and political life.
Other aims are:
– to help participants to develop a brighter and international perspective on education
– to provide opportunities to gain experience, knowledge and improving approaches to teaching and school management practices
– to improve efficiency and effectiveness in developing EU Projects
– to enhance and increase school partnerships across the EU and
– to enhance the quality and European dimension of teachers training
To realize these aims we use different forms of cooperation. Altogether we have six meetings, each one with a special topic:
– in Germany “Different ways – one aim” – mutual interchange of learning methods (Short-term joint staff training events)
– in the Czech Republic “Family- life’s greatest gift” and “Environmental perspective” (Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils)
– in Portugal “The importance of being a European citizen since the discoveries”
– in Spain “Identity and Community”
– in Germany “Young people – working and living in a rural area, political participation of young people”
– in Poland “People in need”
The meetings will enable students to meet and work on these different topics in international mixed groups, comparing and evaluating their work from the stages between the meetings, learning and practising the language at the same time.
To achieve the goals of the project, we decided to focus our activities on sharing opinions, experiences and values. The topics are compatible with students’ interests: getting to know each other, understanding the different educational systems, understanding and realizing the common situation, analysing the similar problems we have in our countries. The idea is that we all understand that we have different citizenships but our reality in our different countries is not as different as we might think.
Moreover, by working on values like tolerance, solidarity, equality… we will help to make responsible, respectful European citizens, ready to work and travel anywhere in Europe. We will carry on the following activities: students and teachers communication in order to get information, experience and learn; exchange of the good practice, also with local institutions (meetings, exhibitions, show-off lessons, events etc.); creating the digital and educational materials (videos. posters, slideshows, etc.); experiencing different lessons in the partner schools (attending various subjects like PE, geography, maths, music etc); peerlearning – children will teach and instruct each other; and various joint activities.
The project is divided into six stages according to the number of the meetings. That does not mean that we focus intirely on meetings, equally important is the work between the meetings. Here the “real” work is done, project work is not only preparing and executing the meetings. During these six stages we will plan, work on and finish tasks like:
– creating videos (e.g. language course, introducing the school and town, bullying and discrimination)
– making, presenting and analysing surveys (relevance of organic food, importance of environment-friendly measures and agriculture, activities and strategies against climate change, influence of nationalistic parties/groups in our area/country
– Reader/booklet (compilation of six stages)
In order to give a long term effect to our results, we decided to develop a website, facebook page and start a two-year etwinning project. It gives us the opportunity to reach the wider public and make it stay available for a long time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131318 Eur

Project Coordinator

Europaschule Gymnasium Teterow & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Abrigada
• Zakladni skola a materska skola Hovorcovice prispevkova organizace
• San Fidel Ikastola
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 23 im. Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego we Wloclawku