Get the violence and discrimination out of your life by sports Erasmus Project

Project Title

Get the violence and discrimination out of your life by sports

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Bullying, hate speech, and discrimination in various fields are still common in some schools, although the community makes high demands on schools and the existing legislation has been improved with updated new legislation created to secure student well-being. Because of this growing trend, schools need to develop prevention plans to address problems such as mobbing actions. It is necessary to focus on a fair and indistinguishable treatment plan. Thus, schools try to develop preventive measures that they can implement and students’ views on the subject are taken into account.
We hope that our efforts to prevent bullying will be an integral part of our school policy. Therefore, we believe this is possible thanks to the knowledge and experience gained in this project. We aim to partner with the local municipality and other stakeholders who can support school leaders in this regard.
The partner schools in the project are interested in investing in time, knowledge and human resources to deal with violence, bullying, and hate speech in school settings. The project will provide a range of opportunities to share training practices, teach experiences, analyze our prevention plans, and to what extent the authorities are involved in this prevention process.
Throughout the two project years, schools plan to organize five LTTAs hosted by each partner institution, so we get a first-hand experience of the current situation in each school.
Our main project goal is to enable young people to recognize discrimination in their daily lives and to reveal the causes that result in exclusionary thoughts and actions. Participants belong to different countries and cultures and approach these issues from different perspectives. They go out of their daily lives and familiar school settings: whether as a guest or host, they will work on a common subject and overcome linguistic barriers through English. In this unique learning environment that we want to provide thanks to this Erasmus + project, students learn the nature of prejudices, the obvious nature of privileges, the consequences of unfair treatment and how to question hate speech.
LTTA activities will mostly be organized by host schools and the student will work in multicultural groups. These cooperation activities are expected to increase team spirit, communication and interpersonal skills, presentation skills, and group harmony.
Titles for LTTAs:
C1 – Dealing with violence and discrimination problems in schools – comparative study
C2 – Stereotypical thinking at work
C3 – Strategies to address and prevent violence
C4 – Movement against bullying and hate speech (Re)
C5 – Promoting Equality
We aim to involve at least 100 teachers in the project activities. Members of the project teams will be assigned to approximately 30 teachers who have special tasks such as implementation, dissemination, monitoring, evaluation, communication, and budget management. Students will be the main actors and beneficiaries of the four LTTAs. It will be selected from the total number of students in partner schools. Participants aged 15-18 who fit into these categories. In addition, students outside this target group can apply to join LTTAs. The selection method covers the selection criteria, the content of the student portfolio to be given to the selection committee, the parents’ consent to participate in the stock exchanges, etc.
Partners share equal duties and responsibilities which have been distributed considering the institutional capacity to fulfill them. Project implementation, dissemination, monitoring, evaluation and creation of results will be the responsibility of project team members in each school. They will comply with these aspects at local level, following the guidelines specified by the European coordinator. Therefore, the coordinator’s duty is to foster coherence in the management of the project. Model documents will be created and distributed for the partners to follow: dissemination and monitoring plans, implementation timeline, evaluation plan.
Each school will be assigned extra tasks, so that the workload will be balanced.
Taking part in this Erasmus + project will provide various benefits for our partner institutions.
First, we will reduce the number of violent incidents among students, following project activities that focus on project issues that increase awareness and create a positive emotional impact on participants. Dissemination activities will be organized in a way to reach large masses, and we expect the impact of these activities on their behavior and attitudes to be increased and transferred from the participants to other categories of students.
Second, teachers will develop pedagogical approaches to project issues on local issues and will be able to implement new initiatives in collaboration with stakeholders.
For the partner institutions in the project, this Erasmus + opportunity will serve as a tool to strengthen cooperation with other European schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Johannes-de-la-Salle-Schule, Berufsschule z. sonderpäd. Förd., Förderschwerpunkt Lernen, Aschaffenburg, der Caritas-Schulen gGmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IST.D’ISTRUZ.SUPERIORE I.S. PROF.LE ANN. AL CONV. NAZ. BONGHI
• 125. YIL OZEL EGITIM MESLEK OKULU
• Escola Secundária com 3º Ciclo D. Dinis
• COMPLEXUL SCOLAR CRONOS