EUnite – promoting diversity in unity Erasmus Project

Project Title

EUnite – promoting diversity in unity

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The project is considering diversity as a chance to reunite European countries since today many of them are facing changes concerning cultural and political challenges which can and already have resulted into leaving the EU and will be coordinated by the Berufskolleg für Technik und Gestaltung in Germany, a vocational school providing full-time vocational training on levels EQ 2 to 4 and part-time education for students in apprenticeships. Vocational subjects include mechanical, electrical engineering, IT ,construction, graphics/design and media design.
This project is following another KA2 project concerning the UN 2030 Sustainability goals that also has been coordinated by Berufskolleg für Technik und Gestaltung.
The other participating organisations are Fundacion Instituto Técnico Industrial in Spain, who has been a partner in the previous project and Vallentuna Gymnasium in Sweden and IISS C. Battisti in Italy.
The Spanish school is an integral centre for vocational training which is placed in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos). Its activities are based around the three subsystems of Professional Training, that is to say, Initial Training (Formative cycles ofMiddle and Advanced Grade Training), Continued (Further) Training (for active employees and tailor made for companies) and Occupational Training.
The students in Sweden study in several different programs such as Economics and
Social Science preparing students for future university studies as well as vocational programs such as Trade and Administration, Building and Construction, Vehicle Engineering as well as Childcare and Leisure.
The Italian school is composed of a main plexus and a secondary plexus. The institute includes various addresses: – Technician for accountants – Professional school for trade; Agriculture, Surveyors and Artistic high school.

There will be five short term meetings including teachers as well as students. Every meeting will last for five workshop days plus two days for travelling.
Each workshop will be hosted by a different institution and will focus on another aspect of the EU Sustainability Goals 2030:
5 (gender equality), 10 (reduced inequalities), 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions), 17 (partnerships for the goals). Each country will host one workshop focusing on one topic: Germany (goal 17): The European Union: strong partnerships for sustainable Development; Spain (Goal 5): Male, female, diverse: Gender Equality; Sweden (goal 10): Living in the EU: reduced inequalities and no poverty; Italy (goal 16) United in democracy, equal rights promoting diversity: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Germany (final conference on all goals and workshops): International conference on project results.

The workshops are supposed to provide an insight into different ways that schools deal with diversity
and support it on the basis of a democratic understanding within Europe aiming at intercultural understanding,equality, becoming active citizens, learning about social responsibility and an understanding of the European Union. This way we will meet the project’s main objective: activating students to become active participating citizens who believe in themselves and who can actively play a role in society, not only on a regional but also international level.
The outcome of this project, a concept of teaching diversity on the basis of the UN sustainability agenda, which will also be a follow-up of the last KA2 project on these goals, will show the results of the workshops in which students will work on the material in international teams, talk to each other in English and improve their intercultural competencies due to giving feedback to each other.

There will also be an international conference taking place during the final workshop which is supposed to function as the students’ product of the project. There will be presentations to all participants and, if possible, political representatives , who we intend to invite. The presentations and outcomes will be used to work on an ebook that will be presented in the journal on eTwinning and could be added to the website students will prepare within the last project “Sustainability Empowered by Young Europeans” in April 2020. At the end of the project the team ofcoordinators will put together a reader on teaching diversity including lesson plans and material to work on, which can be used by other schools and will be uploaded in the project’s corresponding twinspace Journal.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78876 Eur

Project Coordinator

Berufskolleg für Technik und Gestaltung & Country: DE

Project Partners

• iis cesare battisti
• Vallentuna gymnasium