R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Respectful European Schools Pursue Equality & Cultural Tolerance) Erasmus Project

Project Title

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Respectful European Schools Pursue Equality & Cultural Tolerance)

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Our Erasmus+ project is based on the comparative analysis among Germany, Iceland, Spain, Greece, Poland and Finland having as horizontal priority Inclusive education, training and youth and as specific priority supporting schools to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of the academic spectrum. All the institutions involved will work on the following difficulties : Students who leave school early due to different reasons, with low academic performance, and poor economic resources. Immigrant students or refugees with problems to integrate. Social difficulties such as discrimination for genre, age, sexual orientation. Geographic obstacles: students from areas (rural or small peripheral islands) where the public transport is really limited.Our objectives are: To research and compare ways for avoiding early school leaving, absenteeism, bullying. To foster school nets and collaborative atmospheres. To prevent early school leaving and favouring the inclusion of students in disadvantaged conditions. To research and compare more efficient ways in the organization of resources to meet the needs of disadvantaged situations students. To carry out activities which reinforce the cooperation among the six countries for the exchange of good practices. To find and share effective ways for the inclusion of immigrants or refugees. To design a Do’s and Don’ts Decalogue on ethical habits. To create a planning to be presented at schools to show how to act ethically. To create cooperative workshops, along with the town council and psychologists. To held open doors meetings. To get to know different cultures and traditions. To develop the linguistic and digital communicative competence. To update and reinforce teachers’ competences for detecting and solving situations of discrimination. To disseminate the results of the project in Europe. To verify, check and assess the results of the project by comparing the initial point and the last point of itself. The number of participants is around 7000 taking into account students, teachers, families and stakeholders and the profiles of participant students range from refugees and/or immigrants, those with cultural, social and economic obstacles, cultural differences, to educational difficulties. The activities to carry out are questionnaires to analyse the issue in the six countries at the beginning and at the end of the project, to state the situation before the creation of the storage of resources which benefit and help students, to check that students and families can have access to the nets and collaborative atmospheres, to assess the benefit of exchanges of good practices. Refugees’ and immigrants’ parents’ interviews to check their children’s inclusion. A Do’s and Don’ts Decalogue on ethical habits to be presented to parents, local authorities and other schools. A workshop presented at schools to show how to act ethically. Cooperative workshops, along with the town council and psychologists . Open doors meetings for parents to present the students’ work. Videos at the end of both years. The e-twinning platform to assess the students’ performance. The committee of Kiva students will give speeches. The upload of outcomes on the National Agencies blogs, on e-twinning, radio programs and articles for the schools webpages, local authority’s webpages and newspapers.The methodology we intend to carry out is a cooperative research on how to integrate disadvantaged students due to different reasons such as absenteeism, early school leaving, poor economic backgrounds, geographical obstacles, immigration, refugees, bullying, among others, by means of virtual and physical contact through the exchange of good practices and by experimenting the methods the different countries are putting into practice to try to give solution to these problems. We will have three transnational meetings and three training ones with students. The impact will be at the local level where local authorities will be encouraged to have more workshops related to how to help families in disadvantaged situations. Final product containing all the reaches and results will be published at schools blogs or webpages, local press and radios, nearby schools and open doors activities. At the regional level: workshops, interchanges with other schools. At the national level: to spread all the results by means of online spaces. At the international level: Final products will be published at the website of e-twinning and on the Erasmus+ platform.For sustainability, we will continue sharing educational experiences and resources created once the project has finished with the aim of enrichening the strategies related to the objectives. For this purpose, we will settle a calendar of work with the compromise of having virtual coordination meetings at least twice a year during the next five years.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129505 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES VALSEQUILLO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Mittelschule Wörth
• Helsingin Uusi Yhteiskoulu
• Vikurskoli
• GENIKO LYKEIO KATO ACHAIAS
• Zespol Szkol im. ks. pralata plk. T. Dlubacza w Birczy