Everybody matters Erasmus Project

Project Title

Everybody matters

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Health and wellbeing; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage

The project “Everybody matters” and the participating schools are aiming to try to tackle together early school leaving and disadvantage by promoting the acquisition of the following skills and competences for our pupils, school staff and inside our school environments:

Social skills
Well being at school
European collaboration

The participating schools of the project:
Oriveden yhteiskoulu, Orivesi (Finland)
Gimnazija i strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile, Pazin (Croatia)
Liceo Classico Statale Pilo Albertelli, Rome (Italy)
Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere, Alvaiázere (Portugal)

We strongly believe that by improving the social skills of our pupils and school staff we are able to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage. We also can tackle these problems by developing our school environments to more caring and safer places to learn. In all partner schools we have our own ways to help our pupils, but together we are more: By exchanging the best practices for helping our pupils we can increase the quality of our schools and we can do much more for our pupils and for their future.

We have produced and published an online handbook for schools: “Everybody matters. What you do makes a difference. A handbook on how to be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody” . This way we are able offer other schools effective tools and good ideas how to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage. The pupils and school staff have worked on the project utilizing eTwinning, Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and social media channels. There have been project workshops inside the partner schools and three international project workshops (short-term exchanges of groups of pupils) in Croatia, Italy and Portugal. In the beginning of the project we also had a short-term joint staff training addressed for the teachers of partner schools in Finland. Altogether we had planned to organize 100 project mobilities – 25 mobilities per partner school – during the project period.

In today’s working life the competence of international communication is crucial. We wanted to offer our pupils the possibility to get to know pupils from other European countries, the possibility to use English as a working language and to learn about intercultural communication. It’s important for young people to learn to respect the diversity of European languages and cultures. Through the project work and short-term exchanges we have been able offer our pupils and school staff the possibility to start creating their European network for the future. Working with people from other European countries is a very effective way to get to know our own home countries, their culture, languages and cultural expressions. This has helped us to grow world open, open minded young people who respect the diversity and the differences of people without prejudices.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 74912 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oriveden yhteiskoulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Liceo Classico statale Pilo Albertelli
• Gimnazija i strukovna skola Jurja Dobrile Pazin
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere