“EQUALITY – The CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION confirms: “Everyone is equal before the law.” (Article 20) – ambition and reality in Germany, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and Estonia “ Erasmus Project

Project Title

“EQUALITY – The CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION confirms: “Everyone is equal before the law.” (Article 20) – ambition and reality in Germany, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and Estonia “

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: Inclusion – equity; Disabilities – special needs; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

The aim of the project is to learn more about the culture and real-life situations in the participating countries in connection with their views and regulations on various forms of equality as well as the character of fundamental rights of the European Union. The project involves five mobility meetings which mean that each partner will have to travel four times. The transnational meetings will be held approximately 5 months apart, depending on holidays and school brakes. The partners will be in contact before each meeting and discuss if any issues might come up. Each partner will announce a certain date at least two months in advance so the partners are able to secure flights to the destination. Each mobility meeting will last for five days, from Monday until Friday. Sunday and Saturday will be used for travel. The students will also be paired up and begin their communication via Facebook before each transnational mobility meeting.
Four out of the five mobility meetings will be dedicated to one issue regarding equality. The final mobility meeting will be dedicated to the evaluation and the final product of the project. These issues will be divided into five phases one for each mobility meeting.
Phase 1: Gender equality
Phase 2: Equality in relation to the disabled and the elderly
Phase 3: Equality in relation to sexual identities and sexual orientation
Phase 4: Equality in relation to national, ethnic and religious minorities
Phase 5: Evaluation and final product of the project
At the first four phases of the project, the planned activities are designed with that in mind that the participants will have to familiarize themselves with the issue at hand at each given phase of the project, along with preparing to present their country and its history and their school, they will have to seek out information on how things are in their own country concerning equality but also in connection with the character of fundamental rights of the European Union. The students will have to prepare themselves to present their findings to the whole group at the mobility meetings. At the mobility meetings, the participants will also have to listen, be open-minded and reflect upon what the other countries have to present. At the final phase of the project, we will evaluate and prepare and gather the material for the final product, the learning material.
At each phase, students and teachers will answer questionnaires regarding their project and their expectations which will be used when evaluating the project as a whole.
Our goal is to
– Improve and increase the mobility of students and educational staff across the EU
– Encourage better learning techniques
– Enhance the quality of teacher training
– Improve pedagogical approaches and school management
– Increase the number of experienced students for having knowledge about the EU
– Create a platform designed for students to feel free to express themselves without being judged and in doing so empowering them and increasing their self-confidence
– Increase the participants’ language skills
– Provide students and the educational staff with a safe place to explore, discuss, challenge and form their own opinions and values not only based on their own experiences but also by learning from those who have a different cultural background.
– Increase the number of students that have explored and experienced different cultures and gained some knowledge regarding the EU, the focal point being the character of fundamental rights of the European Union
From the material, gathered by the students, teaching/learning material will be produced in the form of a workbook and a textbook. When the project has finished this output may be used for years to come in the schools, ideally in connection with English classes, history classes and/or life skill classes. It will also be empowering and rewarding for the students involved to see their work being a part of something concrete and relevant in today’s society. The outcomes of our project as well as our final product will be published on the project´s website, as well as being linked to the participating schools’ websites. As such, it will not only be available during the project but also after the project´s end in August 2022. After the project is completed, dissemination and the sustainability of the project will be maintained by using our output “textbook and workbook” as well as in sharing the ideas with our colleagues, students and community e.g. at joint staff meetings, at class or through the media, written or broadcasted. As a result, we estimate that approximately 5000 people will benefit from the project, not only participating teachers and students and their families but also non-participating students and teachers, colleagues, parents, local and regional authorities, and other schools. These groups will be impacted by the material, some by teaching it at class and others by reading through it and learning from it or hearing about it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tækniskólinn – skóli atvinnulífsins & Country: IS

Project Partners

• Hans-Boeckler-Schule
• Technikum nr 2
• VÕRUMAA KUTSEHARIDUSKESKUS
• MANISA MESLEKI ve TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI