Let the sun shine in our schools : connectivity and acceptance of pupils’ diversity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let the sun shine in our schools : connectivity and acceptance of pupils’ diversity

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: Romas and/or other minorities; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
The LSD20/22 KA2 project brings together four schools from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and France around two priorities of the Erasmus+ program : “Social inclusion” and “Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to increase pupils from minority backgrounds (Roma, migrants…) inclusion and achievement in four European schools with their specificities. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to a better living/working/succeeding together, a better understanding of ESL, a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship. The LSD20/22 project should be funded to finance both its management and implementation and secondly four Learning, Teaching,Training Activities respectively organized in each school.

OBJECTIVES
Pupils and teachers involved will follow three main goals : learning from our diversity and building an intercultural approach to European identity, improving teaching competences through learning from project partners and enabling success for all learners. It expects individual and collective results : a global result combining promoting inclusive schools and strengthening European citizenship. This global result should be achieved by working on it during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making several collective products (cultural boxes, Storytelling portraits, dance, escape game, sketches about school…).

ETWINNING
The already created Twinspace will be the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It will include tools devoted to online teaching, learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It will also be used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 Twinspace will allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information.

NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS
The LSD20/22 project provides that participants will be teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from eleven to fifteen years old from our four respective schools. Schools gather nearly 1,650 pupils and 180 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 150 students and nearly 30 teachers/non-teaching staff members will be involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them in each school 12 students and 6 teachers/non-teaching staff members will travel and discover a new European country during each of the four Learning/Teaching/Training activities. Traveling participants will be chosen in each school by a committee including teachers and administrative staff. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities by particularly enabling pupils with academic difficulties to be part as far as possible of each delegation participating in a mobility : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and to have a positive attitude in discovering different cultures.

ACTIVITIES
Each school will organize a five-day exchange of groups of pupils with partners’ delegations of four pupils and two adults : C1 France (March 2021), C2 Greece (May 2021), C3 Bulgaria (November 2021), C4 Serbia (April 2022).

METHODOLOGY
The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of at least one representative from each of the four partner schools. The school partners will be organized in school teams. Two partners (France and Greece) will both organize a three-day Project Management meeting with partners’ delegations of two adults (with Project Management and Implementation funds).

FOLLOW-UP
Assessments, questionnaires and evaluation of educational activities will allow to report on students long-lasting effects with lifelong learning skills. Not-so motivated students and students with learning disabilities will benefit from reflections, experiments and educational innovations. Our dissemination plan is built in two dimensions (horizontal with all activities to strengthen communication and dissemination between participants ; vertical with all activities designed to actually reach the target groups, stakeholders and final users) and will use two types of media (traditional media and media created specifically for the project like Erasmus corners in each school, an Etwinning Twinspace, a website, a Facebook page and an Instagram page).

Project Website

http://letthesunshine.weebly.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87102 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Albert Camus & Country: FR

Project Partners

• 1 Gymnasio Mytillinis
• Osnovna skola “Sveti Sava”
• “Dobri Zhelyazkov”Vocational High School of Textiles and Apparel