More tolerance, less ignorance. Erasmus Project

Project Title

More tolerance, less ignorance.

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The Project “More tolerance, less ignorance” is aimed at students of European schools aged 13-15 years. Its main purpose is to develop social, civic and intercultural competences of students. Today’s everyday life in the schools and the environment of teenagers carries many manifestation of intolerance, where students are discriminated against different reasons: educational difficulties, economic obstacles, cultural differences, religious, social, health, and geographical obstacles, as well as different opinions. Intolerance is, unfortunately, a timeless problem, caused by failure or fear of knowing someone’s culture, customs and traditions. The consequences of intolerance are: violence, hostility or injustice, and quite often depression or migration. Therefore, we will take action to tackle the problem of discrimination and segregation in our local environment, to combat aggression and cyber bulling, and to reduce disparities in the learning outcomes of people from disadvantaged backgrounds. As part of the project, students will learn and think about Human Rights and ways to combat stereotypes. In particular, we will work on discrimination and opportunities to cease such attitudes as racism, bulling, psychological and physical violence at school and in the network, persecution on grounds of religion, disability, poverty. Direct participants of the project will be 120 students from Primary School No. 3 in Zamość and from 5 partner schools in Europe: Portugal, Italy, Germany, Spain and Cyprus. We have planned 6 students short term mobilities, which will take of 4 students from each institution, which will give a total of 20 pupils per school attending in international meetings. The main language of communication will be English, which naturally develops linguistic competences and the ability to collaborate in a culturally diverse group. The project is planned for 2 years and the main planned activities are: scheduling activities, participants recruitment, local activities, international student short term group mobility, creating project’s results, evaluation and monitoring activities, disseminating the outcomes of the project. International cooperation will not only teach tolerance and mutual respect, but the common actions of the pupils contribute to the awareness of the cultural characteristics of the nationalities involved, indicate timeless values, strengthen the key skills and enable the acquisition of new competences necessary for personal development and functioning in European society. Through the town activities, pupils will know the history and culture of the countries, they will use different information sources, prepare the materials needed for the project: presentations, films, interviews , folders, graffiti and leaflets promoting tolerance and anti-prejudice. In this way they will learn how to work with the project method, expand competences in the field of English, history, art and the wider culture. First of all, however, they will acquire the skills of cooperation in the international group, learn openness and tolerance, recognize the destructive impact of discriminatory behavior, develop social competences and improve skills in the field of Information and communication technologies. The results of our work will not only be developing the attitudes of the project participants and strengthen their competences, but also creating the website of the project, folders, posters, classes scenarios and designed and edited by the students Digital newspaper, presenting the effects of our actions and local activities of all schools. Working on the newspaper will continue even after the project will have been completed, and access to it will be possible for all Internet users, by posting a corresponding link on the websites of the schools.The cyber newspaper will include information on further actions undertaken by partner schools in the topic of popularizing attitudes of tolerance and openness to other cultures. This will allow schools, local and international communities to get known the results of the project and can inspire them to take similar activities in the daily school life. The coordinating team from each of the schools will be working on the implementation and monitoring of all activities. Teachers responsible for th the project will prepare the pupils to participation in it, they will organize appropriate trainings, meetings , workshops and visits. By disseminating the project results in the Inernet and on the Platform of Results we will give the opportunity to all interested in using the effects of our work. This will encourage other students, teachers and local environments to take similar challenges and establish international cooperation with other European institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197644 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 3 im. Elizy Orzeszkowej w Zamosciu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Fundació Vedruna Catalunya Educació
• Escola Professor Alberto Nery Capucho
• Pestalozzischule Radeberg Oberschule
• Scuola Secondaria di I grado “C. COLOMBO”
• Agios Athanasios Gymnasium