FRİENDSHİP DAYS Erasmus Project

Project Title

FRİENDSHİP DAYS

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: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our aim with this Project is to provide awareness in our students to the subject of peer bullying by values education and by the improvement of emotional intelligence and communication skills; to get a humanist point of view towards bullying through sport and art activities-the universal language of friendship.

As a result of the survey and analysis studies conducted in our school, we concluded that the most basic problem among students is the lack of communication skills. This miscommunication causes different problems in the school environment. The most important problem is peer pressure and violence. Students make physical, verbal, sexual and cyber bullying. Students exposed to bullying by their peers feel fear, anxiety and helplessness. In some cases, even serious psychological problems may occur. Students in this situation are also seen as hopelessness, failure, loneliness. Even early school dropouts are experienced
Bullying and violence also negatively affect the school atmosphere, reduce the quality of education, and even cause security problems within the institution.

The impact of communication skills and emotional intelligence on personal and social development is known. In recent years, it has been recognized that these skills also play a significant role in the fight against peer bullying. As a result of our research, we have learned that similar problems are experienced in schools in European countries and studies have been carried out.
With this project, we would like to benefit from the experiences of European countries and to examine the best practices on site and share knowledge and experience.

Our project partners are public schools from Lithuania, Poland and Macedonia. 5 LTT will be arranged according to our project calendar. 2 teachers and 5 students will participate in the mobility. Training activities will be carried out in partner countries and educational environments and practices will be observed.
Project coordination and planning will be carried out by cooperation between our project management team and partner institutions.

‘ Friendship Days’ will be organized with the training activities, students will perform activities in the fields of drama, music, painting, dance and sports. They will be able to express their problems and feelings with the constructive and unifying effects of sports and art.
As a result of the activities, students:
– Will be able to develop competency in effective listening, empathy, self-expression, emotion, thought and behavior.
– Be aware of social values and human relations,
– Develop strategies to deal with bullying.
– The unifying force of sports and art against violence and bullying will once again be emphasized.
– Participants will recognize a different culture and develop their foreign language proficiency.

As a result of our project, the violence and discipline incidents caused by peer pressure in the partner schools will decrease, the rates of absenteeism and early school drop will also decrease.
Participants will see the examples of good practices on site with the project activities and gain experience. By transferring these experiences to their institutions and relevant stakeholders, they will develop unique and innovative methods to combat bullying.
In addition, participating teachers and students will have the opportunity to recognize different cultures and to introduce their own culture. Participants who will improve their foreign language competence will also gain significant gains in terms of their personal and social development.
At the end of the project, students and teachers who do not participate in mobility will have a motivation for participation in EU and international projects. Furthermore, the cooperation between partners will contribute to develop new projects in the future.
As a result, the education quality of the partner schools will increase and they will be recognized and preferred institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100098 Eur

Project Coordinator

TVF SPOR LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Elektronicznych i Informatycznych
• Siauliu Juliaus Janonio gimnazija
• SUGS Gimnazija Orce Nikolov