Die Erziehung des Herzens Erasmus Project

Project Title

Die Erziehung des Herzens

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Project “Educating hearts” aims to highten social inclusion in participating schools and their local communities. To achieve project objectives, we’ve build a partnership on the eTwinning platform, with a goal of resolving the issues that we’ve faced in our regular work, that we’ve found ourself insuficiently equipped to deal with. With this project we will be able to bring the subject of social inclusion to our students and classrooms, and we’ll also do it by showcasing how the transnational cooperation looks like in practice, by setting up multiple short-term pupils exchages.
Our main goal in the project is to teach participants about gender equality, social, racial, cultural and religious tolerance, as well as various other forms of social inclusion, like inclusion of people with disabilities or people of old age. We want our participants to understand our shared values, which will also allow us to teach them more about the importance of cherishing our shared European heritage. While doing that, our participants will also improve their more tangible skills: english language and ICT.
With that in mind, our methodology for the project is simple: we want our participants to learn various aspects of tolerance in the process known as “learning by doing”. That’s why mobilities and their workshops are so crucial to the project: they are the only option we have for showing our students how true multinational cooperation looks like.
Project mobilities include 5 short-term mobilities of pupils and 1 mobility for joint staff.
Staff mobility revolves around preparation for project activities and aims to boost both creative methods fo participating staff and their evaluation methods regarding informal education, in essence equipping them with more educational methods for both project use and regular school work.
Pupils mobilities will be proceeded by preparation by all participating organiations: sending organisations will create extracurricular classes for the pupils participating in the mobility (boosting their language skills), while hosting organisation will involve their local participants in creation of activity program.
Main criteria of participating in short term mobilities as a pupil will depend on three factors:
1. Fluency in english language;
2. Emotional development (judged by school staff: teachers, councelors and psychologists);
3. Level of engagement in the activities taking place on the eTwinning platform. With those criteria in mind, we plan our participants to be between 10 to 14 years old, with english

language fluency ranging from levels A1 to A2. Of course pupils that won’t be able to participate in short term mobilities won’t be excluded from the project, quite the opposite: they will be more heavily involved in project activities taking place at their local schools. During mobilities, every participating school will present slightly different set of activities, every one revolving around subject matter. However, all participants are bound by the General Policy – set of mandatory activities, that they have to include in their program. General Policy consists of 4 sections: 1. “Life where I’m from” Opens the context of cultural differences and similarities 2. What we share > what makes us different. Understanding that we all share common goals and dreams, and have the same daily and social needs. 3. What makes us equal? Learning importance of seing “another” as different form of “self”. 4. Shared European values: cornerstone of our future. Deepening understanding of European values, benefits of extended dialogue, importance of shared ideas and multinational communities.
With that in mind, every participating organisation took upon itself expanding upon subject matter by embracing different topics and methods: Portugal – Social Inclusion Turkey – Gender equality Lithuania – Inclusion of people with disabilities Croatia – Cultural tolerance Poland – European values Thanks to this and General Policy, we can ensure that all mobilities can stay equally educative, while beoing slightly different in execution.
As a result of our project, we expect to: – increase social skills, language skills and ICT skills of our pupils; – deepen the understanding of different points of view among pupils and those that surround them; – strengthen the sense of shared, common purpose of peaceful coexistence; – improve understanding of goals that drive modern European thought; – stimulate creativity of our pupils; – increase competences (skills and knowledge) of participating school staff (teachers, school councelors and school psychologists) in regards to informal education, incentivising creativity and laying foundation for more active and well-informed participation in Erasmus+ projects in the future; – decrease

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 188260 Eur

Project Coordinator

Comenius-Schule Städt. Gem. Hauptschule Dohler Straße & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Zespol Placowek Oswiatowych w Winnicy
• INSTITUT VACARISSES
• Anamur Vakifbank Ataturk Ortaokulu
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedrouços
• OS Vransko-Tabor Vransko 23 3305 Vransko