OUR EUROPE – A MELTING POT OF NOWADAYS Erasmus Project

Project Title

OUR EUROPE – A MELTING POT OF NOWADAYS

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: Social dialogue; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

This project has been designed thinking of our pupils’ social awareness. With the project, we would like to give them the opportunity to feel, notice, accept, create dialogue and live together in today’s mixture of cultures. It will also enable their communicative and cultural skills while they work with pupils from different backgrounds and learn from them.
It will be implemented in a context where pupils from different countries, cultures, nationalities and ages will be working together with the objective of creating photographs, comics, poems, stories, a film and a boardgame, all of which could be used in schools around Europe.
The objectives are to foster team working; to help pupils improve their communicative and cultural competences, social skills, emotional and social awareness, personal enrichment and to apply everything they learn in class to their real life.
The project is targeted to pupils aged 10 to 14. Some of our pupils show low tolerance towards pupils from different backgrounds, immigrants or refugees. This is why we would like to show them we are all the same and teach them how to cope with their emotions, communicate in a positive manner and become a responsible citizen of Europe.
In order to fulfill the objectives, pupils will carry out these activities:
– Social and sports games – in order to accept and learn about differences among us;
– Different workshops (situational role play, emotions, making comics and other literary works, photographs, debate workshops);
– Talking circles;
– Making a board game;
– International exhibition of comics, literary works and photographs;
– Recital of poems and stories.
At the end of the project we expect these final products:
1 – Teacher’s book (our plan is to produce lesson plans with instructions related to the activities of the project),
2 – film on accepting and living with people from different backgrounds.
The methodology we intend to apply is clearly related to Project Based Learning in the sense that our project develops meaningful contents and includes collaboration, communication, critical thinking, public presentation of our final work and usage of ICT. Our method is also based on cross-curricular approach where pupils learn and practice contents from various subjects.
Apart from the concrete results obtained through the activities mentioned, we expect different long-term results from this project. Amongst them, the most important for us is pupils’ awareness and sensibility to fellow men and their personal enrichment as citizens of modern Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90336 Eur

Project Coordinator

OSNOVNA SOLA FRANA ROSA & Country: SI

Project Partners

• OS Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic
• Hasköy Ortaokulu
• Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 3