Honorable, Unique, Modern, Admirable Necessary to for a beatiful life; universal RIGHTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

Honorable, Unique, Modern, Admirable Necessary to for a beatiful life; universal RIGHTS

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Europe 2020 Strategy contains concepts such as social inclusion, equality in opportunity of full participation in social life,accessibility, active citizenship which is one of the goals determinated within the concept of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth priorities.Social exclusion which is one of the current problems of European social politics, is paired with powerty, disadvantageousness and discriminations.According to Eurostat datas,%16 of EU population face the risk of povertyand %17,2 of EU population face the risk of social exclusion.The students who will take part in our Project are young individuals in socioeconomically disadvantageous group and exposed to social exclusion.To encourage youth to be the architect of their own lives, gain life skills to cope with changing world,be active European citizens, create positive change inspired by EU values an European identity are youth strategy of EU.EU sees ‘education’ as a primary instrument to encourage them to join active social and democratic life as a part of creating European awareness.Democratic citizenship and civil rights are included in the curriculum of the countries which take part in our Project.European commission conducted Flash Eurobarometer survey to measure knowledge of member nation’s citizens on European citizenship and civil rights.According the datas,%42 of respondents who has no idea about the content of the term ‘European Union’ are the young individuals within 15-24 ages.%58 of the respondents gave the answer ‘I dont know my rights’ as a EU citizen.These datas Show that notification perceptions are substantially low regarding EU civil rights.Promoting active European citizenship;It has become one of the main objectives of education systems across Europe, as defined in the Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in Education and Training(ET 2020).Therefore, all the institutions in our project feel the need to develop strategic action plans in line with this objective, to integrate good practices in different European schools into curriculum programs, to ensure that students who are exposed to social exclusion in this direction acquire national effective citizen competencies and adopt the identity of Europeanism and grow as individuals who are aware of common responsibility for the future of Europe and to ensure full enjoyment of their citizenship rights.The goal in all institutions is that students will be able to add personal, social, communicational and cultural skills to European dimension which are necessary to be an active citizen.Thus, our Project will contribute to Europe’s goal of ‘creating integrated European Community.’4 students between 14-16 years of age who are exposed to social exclusion, are disadvantaged in terms of socio-economic aspects and therefore have no experience abroad, and 2 teachers accompanying them from each institution will participate in the mobility.Partner in Turkey;envıronmental citizenship, other partner in Turkey;Civil Citizenship, partner in Poland; Digital Citizenship, partner ın Greece; Social and Economic Citizenship, Coordinator; experience in Democratic Citizenship.They have carried out studies on these subjects in their schools.The project activities are planned to share the good practices that the partner schools have.In order to find solutions for the social problems of Europe(Poverty, Environmental Pollution, Immigrant Problem, Violence, Cybercrime, etc)group studies will be conducted using peer-mediated teaching method and brainstorming method.Young students who will take part in the project activities need to communicate and cooperate with their European peers prior to mobility for group activities in awareness activities on European social problems in mobility. For this purpose, our project will be carried out simultaneously with our eTwinning project.Project booklet ‘EUROPE WITH PERSPECTİVE OF YOUNG PEOPLE’ will be prepared.In the project booklet;project activities and results, project presentation, cultures of partner countries, studies on European citizenship of participating students, student interviews, research and information on European Human Rights. In order to ensure the sustainability of the project results, each partner school will establish the EUROPEAN YOUTH CLUB,where students will be actively involved.These clubs will work in cooperation with relevant NGOs.In all project activities;Participating students who are young citizens of Europe will actively take part.So; language and expression skills, the ability to communicate and collaborate with peers in different cultures,leadership skills,self-confidence will be developed in the participating students; by creating sensitivity towards social problems,it will be ensured that they gain analytical perspective and take responsibility.The Erasmus+ grant program will provide equal opportunities for disadvantaged students who will experience the European cultural heritage on site

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134060 Eur

Project Coordinator

Durham Community Business College & Country: UK

Project Partners

• 3rd Lyceum of Koropi
• SARAR KIZ ANADOLU IMAM HATIP LISESI
• Ozel Muratpasa Adalya Anadolu Lisesi
• Zespol Szkol Technicznych w Ostrowie Wielkopolskim