On The Move For Social Inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

On The Move For Social Inclusion

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

On the Move for Social Inclusion carried out by five Mediterranean countries with the common need of promoting a more Inclusive education offer at school
Thanks to this project a big number of students lived an otherwise unreachable experience
Students and families were given great opportunities:a deeper awareness of the European dimension, greater education environment, the experience of European identity and citizenship.
The pupils, their families, school communities and teacher staff experienced the opportunity to meet the”other” to exchange ideas and create lasting bonds. First curiosity,then motivation raised by feeling part of a “whole”, gave birth to welcoming attitudes and critical thinking that finally swept away the old prejudices and wrong attitudes developping adaptability, openness, mutual understanding.
The students of the five countries became main actors of their change of mind. The schools of the partnership shared the common need of helping students to overcome wrong feelings like social prejudice, fear of the others, discrimination. We all needed to promote identity through European citizenship, to improve linguistic and digital skills that would make our pupils “more equal”. Month after month, mobility after mobility, through inspiring activities, wonderful travels, landscapes, new families, experiencing different traditions, customs, foods and points of view our partnership got the goals that we planned for the project: social inclusion, a more inclusive education
We started aTwinning project to have a safe platform where our students could meet and know each other, introduce themeselves, their country,school life.The Twinspace of the project provided the students with a safe space to work together,exchange ideas and improve their English and ICT skills. Then we introduced new platforms to make our students working together before mobilities,keeping them cooperating when creating Padlets, webMagazines, Smore flyers, google drive shared files. Cooperative learning,peer learning, learning by doing and learning by challenge were the methods we used to offer a more inclusive and catchy way of learning.
Before each mobility we held meetings and communicated steadly in order to ensure good quality of the LTTA and providing students with safe travels, accomodation and journey.
During the mobilities we visited the local institutions and the schools of the hosting countries,places of historical interest, museums, ancient historical buildings and then workshops thanks to the involvement of expert English guides when in Pompei, Vitorìa Gasteiz, Cappadokia,Edessa. Hosting students acted as guides for their foreign schoolmates at school,during spare time and at home with their hosting families.could raise We could rise the European dimension of our school communities, foster integration:during each mobility we planned to spend most of the time at the hosting school not only to learn about other school systems but to live some days as if we were part of that school community,to learn the culture,customs and habits of the Neapolitans, Spanish, Turkish, Greeks. In that way students, families and teachers realised to be more European, more “equal in our diversity”.Hosting revealed to be a strong point to highlight the impact of the activities and of the project.
This Erasmus+ project revealed to be a greater experience than we could imagine. For the italian country as “new comer” the project had the power to show another face of Europe,that face that in our disadvantaged southern part of italy we weren’t able to see yet. The new strong feelings of solidariety, friendship, equality, amazement of the participant students are reflected in all the activities and products they created from the Logo,the twinspaceto the online magazines, the videos..
Unfortunately pandemics of Covid19 spread out at the end of our fourth mobility to Greece.It was a shock in our lives and the life of the project. Nonetheless our Erasmus+ experience and the special bonds we created worked like a stimolous to go on and not be overwhelmed by the difficulty of the situation. We felt the need of sharing our experience even more than before,even if just online.Students and teachers shared their thoughts and feeling about ordinary life during covid time.Students needed to exchange their feeling with their Erasmus friends so we implemented online meetings and cooperation We asked for the extension of the project , first we asked for six months extension and then we asked for further six months, but performing the physical mobility still appeared too optimistic so we decided to perform our last mobility to Portugal onlibe, we held our first virtual mobility. It was another kind of meeting, we could not experience the strong feelings and happiness of the previous mobilites, not even we could perform the same kind of activities, nonetheless we tried to take the best out of the situation and we enjoyed all the same.

Project Website

http://liceourbanierasmus.altervista.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131602,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceo Statale “Carlo Urbani” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CIFP HOSTELERIA LHII
• 3 Geniko Likio Evosmou
• Escola Secundaria Penafiel
• Yildirim Beyazit Anadolu Lisesi