Effective Communication – The Way to Tolerance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Effective Communication – The Way to Tolerance

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The nowadays society requires more focus upon effective communication and tolerance in elementary schools. Instituting school programs that teach students how to relate to others from different backgrounds and cultures helps students learn early in life how to appreciate diversity and relate peaceably. Some school systems recognize the need to teach tolerance, soliciting outside resources to conduct educational programs. What students learn in the classroom needs to be reinforced in other aspects of their lives, which requires parents involvement. Educating students about other cultures, races, religions and gender helps them understand people different from themselves. Thus, among the most important project objectives, are: finding ways of improving communication between students and adults ( teachers and parents), raising awareness of the need of becoming tolerant, both teachers and students in schools, learning how to communicate non-violently, involving the adults in the project in order to make them aware of the needs of their children, promoting the equality of chances, the inclusive education, the active citizenship, the intercultural dialogue and tolerance and involving a large number of students ( from 12 to 17 years old) in the project activities, especially those who have social and economic problems, or who are exposed to a defective communication or to the risk of school leaving.
Throughout the project, the participants ( students, parents, teachers, psychologists, representatives of the Local Authorities and other institutions) will be involved in various activities, both in short-term exchanges of groups of pupils, but also in learning to work as a team and in creating the final products of the project (a project web page; a common project logo, a calendar containing students’ drawings about defective communication and non- tolerance in schools, questionnaires for the participants, the tolerance box, drama plays on the topic of effective communication and a common survey, using conclusions on the questionnaires). By working on the project as a team and by creating the final products, the participants will diminish the consequences of the lack of communication and non- tolerance , of early school leaving and non-inclusion.
As to the impact of the project, all the participants, both students and adults, will have shared ideas about instituting programs about effective communication and tolerance in schools, about early school leaving, will have got in touch with different educational systems, will have improved their knowledge of English, IT, psychology, History, Drama, Drawing, will have become more creative, will have got the feeling of belonging to the European Union.
Since the project topic deals with a very important issue, the final products are useful for all the teenagers and computer users. Students of other European schools will also be able to use the materials of this project, for instance, the common calendar, The Tolerance Box, the common survey (“Effective communication- the way to tolerance;”) using the conclusions on the questionnaires for both years and involving parents.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 8276 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Mihail Sadoveanu Bacau Romania & Country: RO

Project Partners

• XXIII Circolo Didattico
• Zakladni skola Pacov
• Gymnasium Nordenham
• Gröndalsskolan
• 1st Junior High School Of Voula