JOURNEY TO HOPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

JOURNEY TO HOPE

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

Our school , Çavuşlu Secondary School,is in a district in which mostly refugees and immigrants live.In our school, there are more than 30 refugee students and besides this,there are more than 50 refugee students in Çavuşlu Primary School,a school we share the same garden.It means that refugee student population in our school will increase in next years. Refugee students enter the same classes with their fellows without any language practise that’s why they can’t speak common languge with their fellows.We have prepared “JOURNEY to HOPE” project with Germany,Italia Greece and schools from Turkey ;because they have the similar problems about entegrating refugee students into education systems and increasing their adaptation to the society. We aim to present a project process that tries to solve refugee students’ problems after school to integrate them into the society and education system,that applies supportive programs to make refugees learn the languge of the country they live ,that gives them opportunities to introduce their own cultures and maybe this is the most important point. Most of the project activities that will be practised in participant schools during the project time can be maintained without an additional fund; so participant schools will always help refugee students. These mentioned activities;
“A LANGUAGE A LIFE”: This activity aims to provide supportive services after school for 8 hours in a week to make refugee students learn the languge of the country they live in
“HERE IS THE SOLUTION” : With this programme, a supportive service for 3 hours in a week will be given to the refugee students who needs help and have difficulties in problem solving.
With “ I AM LEARNING WITH MY FRIEND” programme ,we aim to shorten refugee students’ language learning processes in the country they live , support their academical success and constitute cooperation instead of competition among our students
With “CULTURAL HARMONY”,our goal is to make a festival in which refugee students of our participant schools introduce their cultures in a frame of dances,costumes,dishes of their own countries.
With”I AM FREE” activity ,we aim to give each refugee student a chance to make a speech to his/her friends and teachers about any topic he/she wants at a particular time by giving them a speech corner; so we aim to create a sense of democratic society..
In project process ; there will be 2 LTT activities to increase teacher qualities . At the end of LTT activities ; we aim that our teachers will gain qualities about:
-teaching under hard circumstances,
-creating a democratic,multicultural and an inclusive sense of education ,
– having an awareness about traumatic children’s teaching and learning processes,
-how to plan refugee students’ teaching and learning processes.
When the staff ,who gains these qualities with LTT activites , shares his/her experiences with his/her colleguages in the school ,the quality of entegration processes in participant schools will increase..
With LTT activities for students; we aim to strenghten mutual tolerance between countries ,to make cultures mutually known and to create an awarenesses about refugee students’ problems.
In project process ,There will be 3 management meeting as : opening meeting,in terim meeting and final meeting .It is planned that 3 LTT activities will be made during the project. One of them is for students and the others are for the teachers..In project mobilities;
a)32 teachers,24 students and 8 accompanying persons will attend to LTT activities.
b) 36 personnel will attend to transnational meetings.
Within the scope of ERASMUS + programme’s aim of cooperating with different countries that have same problems ,we will entegrate refugee students into participant schools’ education systems and increase their social adaptation.We believe that project’s viable outputs will be a source of inspiration for different cultures and schools that have the same problems.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 76285 Eur

Project Coordinator

CAVUSLU ORTAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• KARAMAN LISESI
• I.I.S.S. “Carlo Maria Carafa” Mazzarino
• 2nd HIGH SCHOOL OF SERRES
• Mittelschule Parsberg