Jump On-board Your Fully Unprejudiced Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Jump On-board Your Fully Unprejudiced Life

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: Social dialogue; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Education is like white-water rafting. Students, teachers, parents and community members are all in the boat and navigate it together. It’s a team work and everybody makes a huge difference. If the balance is ruined, the chance to go overboard is getting high, especially for the students.The mission of everyone else in the boat is to protect, guide, encourage and support their children in every possible way. JOYFUL is a two-year project with schools from Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Poland and Slovakia who will join efforts not only to ensure students’ safety, but more importantly to boost their social acceptance, self-esteem, self-confidence and help them jump on board their unprejudiced and unique lives.
Very often the lack of tolerance, fear and ignorance lead to miscommunication and imbalance in school life. Our ambition is to find a solution to different problems of cultural, ethnic, economic, social and educational level, which our 6 schools face on a daily basis. In BG there is a need of integration of ethnic minorities, in TR and SK students from economically weak families and lack of parental support need to be socially included, in GR and PL migrants and students from low-educated families need to break various barriers and feel accepted, in RO the SEN students and children without parents have to be taken out of their isolation. Coping with those common and yet very specific problems is crucial for turning these students into harmonious and successful individuals.
The main objective of the project is to bring together 13-18 years old students from around EU and give them the chance to work successfully by using the 21st Century Skills and sharing common democratic values. Our aim is to ensure equal rights,integrate all vulnerable groups of students,increase their motivation for learning, avoid early school leaving, stimulate positive relationships and help them develop tolerance through communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.
The target groups will be students, teachers, parents and community members. Around 200 students will take direct part in the activities but almost 1200 will be affected indirectly.The teachers to benefit from the project will be 125 directly and around 100 indirectly.
Through applying the following innovative strategies: project-based learning, team learning, cooperative learning, peer-to-peer-teaching, interactive teaching and drama, we will promote better understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity.This will lead to reducing the tension between students from different backgrounds not only locally, but also across borders.
Using non-formal methods, CLIL lessons, drama, dual coding and research (analysis and synthesis), students will acquire the key competences: initiative, active citizenship, tolerance, cultural awareness, ability to work with information, computer skills and use of English.Teachers will provide a dynamic professional environment by integrating good practices and sharing experiences.
All partners are united around the idea of building bridges among our nations, promoting understanding of different cultures and being unique in the diversity we represent.These priorities will be the leading ideas in all our activities: workshops, seminars, discussions, lessons, sketches and cultural programmes.
All our products (calendar, travel guide, e-book, magazine, “My future job profile” application, sketches, postcards, exhibitions, video presentations) will be available on: TwinSpace platform, the website and blogs of the project and the YouTube channel.
The project will have the following impact on the students:
– use of the 21st century skills
– improved digital and language key competences
– improved social skills and behavior, self-esteem, self-confidence, multiculturalism, openness to new experiences
– cultural awareness and intercultural competences
Since our project deals with promotion of the democratic ideas of justice, equality and freedom, the transmission of values such as fairness and equal opportunities to all is the long-term effect to be achieved, as well as noticeable changes in the mentality and attitude of the students who will be open to the ideas of integration, inclusion and long-lasting friendships.
By the end of this 2-year project we will have teachers with motivation and strategies to include all students in and outside of the classroom and practical solutions to the cooperation. All the participants in the project will have the awareness of belonging to the big European family which ensures a positive attitude and a firm belief that they are not alone in their endeavors.
To sum up, as Benjamin Franklin said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”, with this project we will involve our students and help them stay involved not only at school but in all spheres of European life where we are all different but united in
diversity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153640 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vasil Levski High School & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 47 im. J.K. Branickiego w Bialymstoku
• Selma Yigitalp Anadolu Lisesi
• Spojena skola
• CENTRUL SCOLAR DE EDUCATIE INCLUZIVA TURNU ROSU
• FIRST GYMNASIUM OF MELISSIA