Let’s S.E.E.: Social Emotional Education for cultural understanding and gender equity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s S.E.E.: Social Emotional Education for cultural understanding and gender equity

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: Migrants’ issues; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

“Let’s S.E.E.: Social Emotional Education for understanding cultural and gender equity” is a 3-year project which works on students’ self-management of emotions and social awareness to engage them in civic actions to promote inclusion and fight sexism, which are challenges schools in the partnership face due to cultural heterogeneity and toxical relationships among students. The project looks for tools to enhance students’ well-being and moral development, which will be applied to help students in becoming aware of the value of cultural diversity, while avoiding sexism and genre discrimination in relationships.

SEE wants students to experience ways to better understand the world around them, so as to be able to transfer their ideas and eventually experience some small social changes. Each school has already worked on emotions, gender equality and migration but, by developing actions in collaboration with different learning realities at European level, we expect this project to become a way to improve and systematise them and to create spin-off effects like curriculum development and research collaboration in order to establish a framework of best sustainable practices. Each school will sign an agreement to include some principles and activities in their Educational Project: measures for students’ well-being, for integrating students from migrant backgrounds, for enhancing coeducation, avoiding sexism in language and school resources. SEE obeys the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals i.e. 3/well-being, 4/quality education, 5/gender equality and 10/reduced inequalities and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000), which aims to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex and ethnicity.

Student-centred approaches and significant learning will be used, encouraging teens to share their own concerns, to develop empathic qualities and social committment, which are not always included in curricula. Intercultural communication and experience lived among peers will make students more flexible and responsive (long-term mobilities, promotion of delegates’ meetings and peer tutoring). SEE includes multiple learning environments, from the school, to the family and the community, promoting students’ involvement in positive activities in and out classrooms. Digital culture is promoted too, by allowing students’ social initiatives about gender and refugees to exceed the geographical scope, and amplify the effects of their activities. eTwinning, Mobile History Map, web platforms such as Change.org will be used by students to share information, express discontent, organize social activities and raise peers’ awareness on project topics.
Both teachers and pupils will strengthen their professional and educational profile acquiring strategies to make each school more cooperative to face key challenges of EU society.

16 students will join each mobility, but SEE opens ways for a much wider participation, mainly through eTwinning, being the main digital tool for the project (ID 217848). If the measures agreed by partnership in case of participants’ safety cannot be guaranteed (i.e. Covid-19), eTwinning will take on even a more fundamental role. The unpredictability of the present situation obliges us to be flexible, therefore our ideal planification may have to change according to reality’s check.

All activities and mobilities have been accurately planned and balanced:
– Preliminary activities for teachers’ training to uncover assumptions that can interfere with students’ needs; research and assessment tools to promote students’ decision-making approach.
– One set of activities and mobilities to dig into domestic and international migration issues, leading to a social campaign for refugees.
– One set of activities and mobilities to research on gender equality from multiple perspectives, leading to the creation of a Common Reference Frame for Gender Equity, to be disseminated via a Press Conference and a public event.
– Final public debate to simulate a European Parliamentary Session, supported by a mobility to EU Parliament.
– Two long-term exchange mobilities to support intercultural and entrepreneurship competences of participant students.

SEE defends the vision of an EU society characterised by pluralism, justice and gender equality, by promoting intercultural dialogue, democratic values, active citizenship, critical thinking and media literacy. By transnational work and intercultural cooperation, participants will recognize the significance of the common values of the EU and will understand the different approaches in each country. This will improve strategies for internationalization and promote intercultural awareness as well as the recognition of similarities and differences amongst EU cultural areas. Simultaneously, a European dimension of education will be promoted within and beyond our classroom borders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187052 Eur

Project Coordinator

INS Montserrat Colomer & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ENSINUS – Estudos Técnicos e Profissionais SA
• I.I.S. “Falcone-Righi”
• OULUN YLIOPISTO
• LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL ALBERT THOMAS