I AM A EUROPEAN CITIZEN Erasmus Project

Project Title

I AM A EUROPEAN CITIZEN

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Inclusion – equity; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

CONTEXT/METHODOLOGY OF THE PROJECT
A necessary project
Our project aims to encourage young people to develop a European civic awareness through the formation of collective initiative groups in each partner country.
The European exchange framework is essential so that young people become aware that this problem is shared in different countries wherever they live. Each country has its own reflection on this subject, but we share common values and it is a force to fight against injustice and respect the other, to defend our environment, to be more tolerant, to make the best use of modern communication tools such as digital technology, to be curious towards a different culture. The goal is to evolve humanely in a way for each student to say: I AM A EUROPEAN CITIZEN
In societies where young people are increasingly confronted with multiple forms of violence, we have thought that school should be the place to educate them on better ways to prevent such violence, in order to prepare them to face the world with humanity and conscience. On a planet where the question of the environment is becoming a matter of human survival, it is essential that young people position themselves as responsible citizens, in order to participate in the creation of a better world that believes in its future.
On the other hand, knowledge of the values that European citizenship represents is a crucial issue for being with the other. When we know the limits and think about them, when we realize the violence of certain words towards one being or the selfishness of certain actions towards our daily environment, we think better and we care more about the other. In the face of unacceptable behaviour, the method must be constructive, ambitious and creative educational; its sustainability depends on it. That is the ambition of this project.

A project and collaborative pedagogy
In an educational context where it is increasingly necessary to refer to reality in order to better understand human issues, it seemed essential to us to implement a project pedagogy in which the young person is an actor in the objectives of the process, which is why the evaluation must be developed with him/her so that he/she can understand both the successes and the remediation to be provided. This pedagogy is therefore based on a collaborative diagnosis between young people, teachers and local and educational partners. The creation of an initiative group, a pilot group, also makes it possible to perpetuate this project. Bring together students with different skills (the student profile focuses on early school leavers and students with learning difficulties. They are associated with students who are more academically comfortable) helps to create a constructive and balanced heterogeneity. Group work must allow the open circulation of speech by giving value to the lexicon, a fundamental fact in a world where young people’s vocabulary is getting poorer.
Finally, the activities imagined make it possible to create new spaces in the school by implementing fun and effective workshops that give pride of place to knowledge and know-how.

An obvious project
In this way, we want to give meaning to learning by disseminating the actions to the students of each school for all partners. Exchanging, sharing, modifying, re-evaluating, optimizing are the axes of this project.
Because we believe in the transmission of values by the students themselves, because it seems essential to us to communicate differently and to use knowledge, this project is for us a matter of course.
In the long term, this project could also be extended to other European countries through publication on the Erasmus platform.

Number and profile of participants
The total number of participants is about 5000 people.
The profile of the participants is varied: students, teachers, parents, head teachers, educational staff, business leaders, cultural guides, legal representatives, journalists, community workers, etc.

Activities / Results / Impacts
The results are three ORDERS / Knowledge, Know-how, know-how, interpersonal skills:
1. create simple and universal communication tools (logo, posters, leaflets, presentations)
2. use demanding forms of writing (interview, summary, synthesis) about civic values
3. create an objective communication tool: a panel for disseminating information and creating a citizen notebook
4. create sketches in English on the theme of school violence
5. create the front page of the newspaper
6. work in a team and enhance your skills
7. enrich / use his/her knowledge of citizenship and the culture of other countries
8. fight against inclusion to make the young citizen an actor and make him want to mobilize.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148272 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC COURS SAINTE THERESE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Liceo Linguistico Statale Ninni Cassarà
• High School of Itea Karditsas
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “ANDREI SAGUNA” DEVA
• Osnovna skola Blaz Tadijanovic