Code of Youth : Shield of Human Rights Erasmus Project

Project Title

Code of Youth : Shield of Human Rights

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: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our main objective is to put human rights at the heart of the learning experience and make them an integral part of our everyday school life and also contribute to form democratic EU citizens who are conscious about how they should be treated and how they should treat others, and support, defend, promote human rights in all respect of life in long term.
We have decided to carry out human rights based project because of the fact that human rights are part of each student’s everyday life and schools have responsibility to enable students to make sense of the world around them. We believe that through our project and activities to be done,we will create more inclusive,safer and tolerant school climate in which all the students will be encouraged to take active part in school life,regardless of status,role,and where diversity is an advantage not weakness.
Our project will be complementary to a previous eTwinning project.As we obtained satisfying results,we decided to expand the project through Erasmus+ opportunities.The students aged 15 to 18 will be involved in the project.The students in the risk group who are indifferent to school, don’t attend school regularly, tend to drop out , and the ones with fewer opportunities will be also included in the project.Thus,we will contribute to reduce the rates of early school leaving and absenteeism at partner schools.
The methodology of the project is activity-based and solution oriented. Approximately,200 students and 50 teachers will take part in the project.Different student groups will be created for each activity.Thus,more students will participate in the project.A common five-episode story will be created via a web2 tool. Each episode that will be converted into series will be shot in each LTTA.
The series will enable us to attract the attention of the students and to make them experince the impact of human rights violation on people by living and internalizing.The other project activities are writting essays on role models, creating a project song,2 e-magazines,logo,poster,Erasmus corner,e-book,project dissemination tools,visual presentations,surveys, carrying out eTwinning project, writing evaluation report. We will not consider human rights superficially,but we will raise awareness about all the articles in declaration of human rights on the school communities as any kinds of human rights violation may emerge at schools. Therefore, we’ve divided 30 articles into 5 parts as we will organize 5 LTTAs. In each LTTA, determined articles will be processed. We believe that through the activites,the students will not only internalize the articles, take responsibility to foster them, but also develop their communicating and writing skills in English,improve their ICT,collaboration, creativity and critical thinking skills.Thus, our methodology is solution oriented.
The teachers will become methodologically updated, develop their skills in terms of integrating project based learning into their teaching methodology, be capable of instilling in students a sense of respect toward other human beings and inspire them to become educators and activists who will assist in defense of human rights. The partner schools will become a member of EU community that share a language of equality,non-discrimination,inclusion, respect, dignity, and participation that is crucialto the goal of achieving a more peaceful and just global society.
The dissemination plan has been created in the dimension of national and international. Three informative meetings will be organized with the participation of school staff,students, parents, civic and formal organizations, press nad media. All the project activities,documents, news, objectives and results will be shared in the project dissemination tools that are project website, Youtube channel, Facebook, and eTwinning portal. In addition, eTwinning project will be carried out and other teachers in the portal will be invited to carry out the project, so more teachers and students will be included in the project. All the project results,news, documents,presentations will be shared in the project dissemination tools. Project e-magazine and e-book will be shared in the internet network and they will be free downloadable.A webinar which will be organized in eTwinning portal will be recorded and shared in the project dissemination tools. The series will be presented as a proposal to directorate of education in the region of partner schools to have the series shared in the official websites of the other schools, civic nad formal organizations.
The project will be completed in two years. However; we will continue cooperating with the partner schools via human rights clubs that will be established. We will carry on sharing the news, activities and results in the project dissemination tools.The cooperation with the youth centres will be continued.Partner schools will organize a common event for the anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Visitation-La Berlière & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Albufeira Poente
• Srednja skola Mate Blazine Labin
• ISTITUTO TECNICO COMMERCIALE E PER GEOMETRI MARIO RAPISARDI