My Nationality is HUMAN Erasmus Project

Project Title

My Nationality is HUMAN

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

“My Nationality is Human” is a project for involves pupils aged 6 to 14 years old and their teachers. Five different countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Latvia and Romania) and five different schools participate in it. The duration of the project is 24 months and it involves transnational meetings of both the teachers and the students, as well as the organization of several intellectual and other types of outputs.
By promoting Humanity and Tolerance our project aims to make pupils be aware of social problems in their lives, family, neighborhood, school, the environment and get them prepared to change them and overcome them. It helped the children become caring, concerned citizens and it gave them the skills and confidence to make a positive contribution to their communities. They widened their understanding of having a European and global identity, understanding their role, rights and responsibility as European and world citizens.
Through all this they developed insight, understanding and an early sense of personal efficacy as social contributors, focusing on how people support each other. The project helped them to act like a grown-up citizen, formed through good practices, developed from transnational collaboration and realized through active learning process. We worked on the following fields of interest: peace, environment and long-lasting development, equality between men and women, cultural and religious similarities and differences, relations between the generations, rights of children, democratic decision-making, meaning and use of new technologies.‘Learning by doing’, our students will develop their social skills: good cooperation strategies, mutual respect, overcoming conflicts positively. Developing positive attitudes, children,became aware of what respecting legality and the rights of others means and they will acquire a common European identity. This project also improved the education of disabled students, as they participated in equal terms in all the activities. Furthermore, the use of foreign languages and ICT skills was improved by exploiting experiences in new, fun and intriguing ways. The project offered many different types of working such as: working on projects, controlling conflicts, developing group skills, becoming responsible, using playful and creative elements, by means of music, dance, theatre, drawing, artistic recycling, the use of new technologies and other innovative tools. We expected only positive results to come out of this project. Our school communities experienced positive changes in the school context, curriculum and actions and in the relation with parents, local community and people from other cultures/countries. We believe that a school needs to be open to society, easily adaptable to changes, sensitive to the problems not only of the local community but of the whole European Community. In this way, the citizens that are educated in these schools are ready to contribute to a diverse and dynamic society, in Europe and throughout the World.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93752 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovno Uchilishte Hristo Smirnenski & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol w Miedznej
• I.C. 1Mazza-Colamarino
• Sehit Sait Erturk Ortaokulu
• 3rd Gymnasium of Trikala
• Ceres pamatskola
• Scoala Gimnaziala Deleni, Iasi