No Enemies Violence – Equal Rights Erasmus Project

Project Title

No Enemies Violence – Equal Rights

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The European Union has more than 70 years of peace guarantee. Peaceful coexistence of European nations is the result of mutual dialogue and cooperation. One of the main features of European culture is pluralism, which otherwise might be called – the multiplicity in unity. With the aim of keeping all the valuable traditions, we need a common concern for the opposition to the problem of intolerance and social exclusion. Our goal was to develop activities, working methods that have built in young people the attitude of openness and tolerance to wide-range differences resulting from culture, religion, financial status, disability and older age to counteract prejudices, xenophobia. We have built a social dialogue between different groups to prevent early school leaving, we have developed intercultural competences, we have increased motivation to learn, especially foreign languages, motivation to self-realization, improvement of ICT skills in creating the products of our project. The project was aimed at a community of partner school students who were threatened by social exclusion for various reasons (racial, religious, physical, cultural, health disability) as well as the others whose attitude could lead to their exclusion. Participation in the project was also important for teachers to acquire new skills, develop working methods that would prevent social exclusion in the school environment. The project activities have been attended by 1000 students and 70 teachers. We have also involved representatives of organizations in the project that have cooperated in various activities: immigrants from Africa with whom we met with Italy, elderly people who participated in Polish music and vocal workshops, students from Africa, with whom we discussed in Portugal, representatives of the Roma minority with whom we met in Slovakia, people with disabilities. The project included two types of educational activities: 1) activities pointing to the sources and consequences of intolerance, prejudice and lack of understanding; 2) activities aimed at preventing intolerance, social exclusion and building a cooperative attitude. The participants of the project have co-developed within the community the position of tolerance, respect for all cultures, have increased awareness of the diversity of European culture, have discussed and exchanged views with people of other worldview. They have improved their communication skills in English, which will be useful for their application on the labour market and in lifelong learning, as well as everyday communication with foreigners and ICT skills (by creating presentations, websites, Skype conferencing, eTwinning, film / video production). They have learned to cooperate in a multicultural, multilingual environment ( being prepared for future work in such an environment) and will be able to work in the future with people from different backgrounds, the elderly, people with disabilities. We have used various methods to implement activities: brainstorming, metaplan, lectures, problem-solving methods in finding solutions to project tasks; methods of exposure (film, exposure, demonstration in combination with experience); discussion (the aim was to encourage children to have a deeper understanding of the problems, to teach them communication skills and decision-making); educational games: simulation, decision making, psychological; practical courses and sports activities. The materials developed within the project have been provided to teachers of partner schools and used in these schools. The project outputs have been made available to local and regional community organizations and schools that have worked with us or have been interested in the issue of our project. Teachers, students and representatives of civil society organizations were invited to take part in workshops where they learned how to use the materials prepared during the project. At our schools we have created a tradition of Friendship Days – a feast of tolerance and the opportunity to learn about other cultures. Activities initiated during international cooperation continued during the implementation of projects on similar topics at the local level. Our schools regularly conducted various activities where we used materials that were NEVER project outputs. Throughout the project, we have cooperated with social organizations that have participated in project activities at the local level. We have established contact and cooperation with other organizations interested in the project and we have also prepared common participation in local and international projects for the future. We have worked with representatives of local, regional and educational institutions and provided them with information on the project, its objectives and results. During the meetings, these institutions supported the idea of our project, paying attention to the need to involve governmental organizations in promoting tolerance and preventing social exclusion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 201755 Eur

Project Coordinator

Spojena skola Martin & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Lokman Hekim Anadolu Lisesi
• Gimnazjum nr 2 w Zespole Szkol im. Prymasa Stefana Kardynala Wyszynskiego
• ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL AMAR TERRA VERDE, LDA.
• Stredni prumyslova skola Chrudim
• Istituto di Istruzione superiore Francesco Degni