Love Is For Everyone Erasmus Project

Project Title

Love Is For Everyone

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: Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

Living in a society that is continually changing, we are in the position of facing difficult situations when it comes to mixing different people and different cultures. Nowadays society has to adapt and learn how to live in harmony.Unfortunately, most people lack empathy and understanding towards different cultures/people/beliefs. Six countries will be involved in this partnership namely: Romania, Spain, FYROM, Croatia, Italy and Cyprus. They are from that part of Europe where the migration phenomenon is present.
G.O.
– to promote the cultural values that encourage the cooperation between the students from different countries in order to improve the general attitude in what concerns social inclusion, diversity, gender equality and non-discrimination in order to lower the
level of non-tolerant attitude by 15%.
C.O.
O1.to develop a strategy to reinforce the mutual respect and understanding for the less privileged, tolerance towards disadvantaged groups and people with special needs;
O2.to reinforce the self confidence in female students to pursue their professional goals to attain gender quality in all professional fields;
O3.for students, teachers, emigrants, immigrants to acquire, share knowledge about and accept the difference between cultures;
O4.for teachers to learn how to adapt the teaching materials and work with individuals, and not only groups of students, according to their needs;
O5.to increase our students’ motivation to learn and use foreign languages and ICT;

Our objectives derive from the horizontal priorities of the ERASMUS+ Programme Guide which refer to inclusion, diversity, equality, gender equality, nondiscrimination in the field of education and not only.
The participants worked on the following activities and obtained the next results:
•spreading 1200 flyers
•making 6 Interviews – with migrants about their difficulties
•creating a video to promote tolerance as a general attitude
•making a documentary about the migration process illustrating real cases
• writing a magazine “My LIFE experience” with 2 numbers (in English) containing articles on traditions, great personalities from each partner country, a traditional recipe from each country, charity events organized in the benefit of the needy people (activities with the special needed children), “Our students, our pride”, Interviews, Crossword puzzle with specific vocabulary, jokes.
•organise a Virtual Classroom for English classes
•creating and interpreting of questionnaires “How tolerant are you”
•cooking workshops-traditional recipes from each partner country
•making a photo album
•creating and managing a website
•taking part in a literary circle “Women – the power of gentleness” to inspire the girl students, to motivate them to aim high and then try to achieve their goals and not settle for the role housewives
•writing a CD with lesson plans, handouts, evaluation questionnaires, tests etc (for English and sciences classes) specially tailored for the needs of each student in the classroom
•present a school play”Love Is For Everyone”
•set up an eTwinning project that twins this project
•”Big Brother-Big Sister” activity where older students embark on fun activities with the youngest ones
•setting an Erasmus+ corner
•ERASMUS+ Club

The tasks and responsibilities were assigned according to the possibilities and experience of each school.The tasks were equally distributed.There was set a yahoogroup as a private tool for teachers to organize the activities and a Facebook group for all the participants to communicate and upload pictures.
All the partner schools carried on all the activities mentioned above and the results were uploaded on the website and/ or the Facebook page. At the end of each work meeting, the teachers discussed about the progress of activities and meeting the deadlines.

The impact of the project was be measured by questionnaires, which showed the influence of the project activities on the students who were identified as non-tolerant and our expection that the level of non-tolerant attitude to decrease by at least 15% was met.
The participants: improved their language proficiency, developed a sense of European citizenship education in respect and tolerance for others, how much they have in common with the rest of Europe, Improved ICT skills, team work skills and attitudes, had great interest in promoting the process of building a Europe of the young, improved their inter cultural competence.
The eTwinning projects gave the project an European dimension and will continue the topic of LIFE project to other countries for a better awareness of students in what concerns the change of nowadays society and the need to adapt to a new Europe with it social challenges after the completion of this project.
For the future, immigrants will find a better place to live in and will meet more welcoming people and will also learn how to respect the people

Project Website

https://loveisforeveyone.weebly.com/?fbclid=IwAR3gRyAxzN_QCmkcIyFi2oidX_a8L7gtICJkpx52511bB2yLMp0mSeja7zw

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118435 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul de Industrie Alimentara “Elena Doamna” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Leonardo da Vinci
• IMS Private School
• Primary School “Goce Delchev”
• I.E.S. PEDRO SALINAS
• Privatna varazdinska gimnazija s pravom javnosti