More Peaceful Schools ; Stop violence and provide safety in School Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

More Peaceful Schools ; Stop violence and provide safety in School Education

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

More Peaceful Schools; Stop violence and provide safety in School Education is a 2016 24 month Erasmus + K219 project, involving only schools. The exchange of good practices is the main objective of this project of the “Strategic Partnerships” action coordinated by the Bezmiliana IES (Rincón de la Victoria).
The main horizontal priority of the project is performance and efficiency in learning, for which non-formal methods will be used and emphasis will be placed on the use of new technologies as a learning tool.
It is intended that the students of the participating centers participate in the creation of a communication network, which will allow to acquire new linguistic and technological competences. At the same time, it is also intended that students become aware of the meaning of European citizenship and the globalized environment in which they will develop their professional careers.
Respect for other nationalities, other cultures and other religions is another priority of the project, hence the diversity of participating schools.
Other priorities of the project are to offer a quality education and strengthen the profile of the teacher, this is achieved by improving skills in the resolution of different types of conflicts and the acquisition of digital skills in both teachers and students.
Six educational schools from 5 countries (Turkey, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland) participate in the project. The election of the participants ensures diversity in terms of students and faculty; thus we can find confessional centers (Catholic and Muslim), non-denominational, public, private.

IES Bezmiliana, Spain: Center with 1500 students of secondary education and vocational training
Mehmetçik Anadolu Lisesi, Corum (Turkey): It has 1000 students in secondary education and has an internship
Istituto Comprensivo Corrado Melone, Italy: Secondary education school for 1000 students
XIV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland: 450 students receive vocational training classes
Oaklands Catholic School, United Kingdom: Secondary education school with 1400 students
Yenimahalle Ataturk Ortaokulu Ankara (Turkey): Provides secondary education to 1400 students

It is a project that has a large number of activities, highlighting those aimed at the control of anger by students and teachers, activities on road safety, safety in the event of an incident or catastrophe and safety in the use of new technologies. Workshops of mindfulness and informal seminars; these last ones also destined to the tutors of the students.
Interactive games have been developed for the knowledge of road signs, as a way to ensure safe access to / from a school. This activity has been accompanied by seminars (given by experts) about road safety.
The students have prepared brochures that cover all the objectives included in the project.
The celebration of the international day of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia has been organized.
Music therapy workshops have been developed to improve socialization and reduce the stress of students and teachers.
They have organized informal seminars aimed at students and their legal guardians in which they show how they should act in situations that can occur in the school (evacuations, bullying, bullying on the network).
The results obtained from the project are available on the website created specifically for the project, https://sites.google.com/view/morepeacefulschools/, where it is possible to see videos of the activities carried out, results of the surveys, brochures and in general all the materials produced during the project, and publicly. A private learning platform has been created, https://www.ies-bezmiliana.org/mps/, where it is possible to access courses on security on the internet.
As a long-term benefit we can highlight the use by teachers of new tools, moodle online teaching platform, google tools, forms, video channel. This knowledge will result in the quality of the teaching that it will offer to its future students.
The use of outputs produced will help schools with the development of a comprehensive plan that allows the creation of a safe school.
The material outputs of the project, such as brochures, videos and presentations, will be used in the educational schools later. The moodle platform created for this purpose will continue to function and its contents can be used later.
The acquired experience by the students will allow them to work in groups, develop personal and social skills, improve their linguistic skills, have a European conscience.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99240 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES BEZMILIANA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• mehmetçik anadolu lisesi
• YENIMAHALLE ATATURK ORTAOKULU
• XIV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. mjr H. Sucharskiego w Katowicach
• Edith Stein Catholic Academy Trust
• Istituto Comprensivo Corrado Melone