Know your rights to defend yourself Erasmus Project

Project Title

Know your rights to defend yourself

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Social dialogue; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Recent years have shown a constantly growing need for governments to protect human rights and this came along with a growing acceptance of the need for human rights education.
Human rights education is now recognised world-wide as fundamental component of education. However, not all the European educational systems have paid attention to this topic, so that schools must take the initiative in creating their own materials and including Human Rights elements in curricular and extracurricular activities.
Through this project, the partners wish to learn one from another and analyse HR education in different European countries.

OBJECTIVES
The project aims to achieve the following objectives:
1. Enable practice exchange between European teachers, so that they collaborate in the design of common teaching materials.
2. Improve students’ and teachers’ knowledge regarding human rights; related documents; children’s rights; rights problems; means of defending one’s rights.
3. Strengthen communication and cooperation between students, teachers and students-teachers.
4. Expand cultural awareness and social, ethnic and cultural diversity acceptance.
5. Enable students to accept and adopt the tolerance, non-discrimination, alterity, equality,…
6. Support a culture for active citizenship regarding human rights.
7. Increase the learning motivation of the pupils.
8. Improve transferable skills – such as analytical and critical thinking, planning, argumentation,…
9. Improve language competence, mainly in English.

ACTIVITIES
We intended to organize preparatory, dissemination and application activities in all partner schools. The local activities occured before and after every LTTA, thus ensuring the flow and cohesion of the activities. The Learning/Teaching/Training activities were scheduled in this order:
C1 – Romania – Children’s rights and Human Rights Education in Europe (short-term training event)
C2 – Poland – Human Rights Documents for use with students.
C3 – Spain – Celebrating diversity.
C4 – Italy – Taking action to defend human rights.

PARTICIPANTS
Our target audience consisted of students from 11 to 14 years old. All schools we chose 20 or above this number of students from the same class and with these they worked during the entire period of the project. The group selection was based on criteria mutually agreed upon by school partners. The class was recommended to have students with a wide range/mixed abilities, also have special educational needs students and/or even have a combination of diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
At C1, 3 teachers per country participated and this contributed to the common resources’ development and to the publication of the Human Rights course for students between 11 to 14 year olds.

RESULTS
Our main result was represented by a collaborative HR course. The student exchanges and all the local activities had the following outcomes: worksheets, lesson plans, resources, students’ work, pictures, movies, website materials, Twinspace dissemination, dissemination made on Fb pages. The management activity of the project had the following results: initial/final evaluation papers, progress/final reports, various dissemination materials, attendance certificates.

IMPACT
All partner schools knew an improvement regarding their human resources’ expertise and experience, regarding human rights education and Erasmus+ projects. Teachers established new connections with the local community members, NGOs, authorities, thus strengthening the cooperation between the school and the community. Also, the schools enriched their material basis with the course published within this project. They will be promoted in their local area, among other schools and institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 92932 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundación Educarte-Colegio Nuestra Señora del Carmen & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Alexandru Roman Auseu
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 18 w Rzeszowie
• ÖZEL KOSUYOLU EGITIM KURUMLARI A.S.
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Molise Altissimo”