Social inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

We have now almost completed two Erasmus+ project, one as a co-partner and our own as leadpartner. We have learned a lot about project management, and will be in a even better position to carry out a new project. We also know four of our five co-partners from this project, and we have developed tools, awareness and friendships that will give us a different starting point. The topic of the project is developed in cooperation with the other partners, and is a result of thoughts and ideas we would like to pursue further in a new project.
Europe faces major challenges in the years to come, economically, technologically and politically. The need to create social inclusion is therefor increasing. The project is about empowering the new generations to active citizenship to have an impact on their own future. The student meetings will explore different aspects of active citizenship and to give the students impulses to increased participation and engagement in society.

Based on our experiences from «Social inclusion», our methodology will be focused on interactive and creative activities, rather than in-put such as lectures and guiding. This will help to overcome the language barriers that we experienced in our last project. It is also in line with the new educational direction that aims towards competences rather that facts. Transnational dialog will be an important part of the meetings, and always lead to a concreate product that will be shared and published. In some of the meetings this is a film, podcast or a poster.
In general we will us different kinds of games, such as role-play and dramatization to increase their ability to take others perspectives and practice skills and competences in role. As mentioned, discussions and dialog will also be an important methodology in the project, and these will be prepared, facilitated and guided by the school. These methods will also be easier to measure when it comes two students learning, because they are possible to observe.
Before each meeting, the student will get a task that they will prepare before they go. This task will be related to the topic and give the student the possibility to start to explore and reflect on the topic before the actual meeting. This will be shared at the meeting, and will be the starting point for dialog and discussions.
In the meeting in Florence, about critical thinking, the students will participate in activities in the school paper.
In Poland the students will explore different communities and reflect on what makes a community healthy and sustainable, and make a film that dramatize some of these features.
In the meeting in Valladolid the students will perform a dramatization about active citizen, healthy life models and positive mind. Students will also create short movies, podcast or posters about the topic in transnational groups in a workshop.
In Riga, the students will participate in creative workshops and use an innovative step-by-step methodology that allows young people to work together in groups to highlight current issues in Latvia and Europe.
In the meeting in Moss, each country will share a presentation about the limits of the freedom of expression that will be used as an introduction to a guided discussion about the freedom of expression. The students will also participate in a role-play about the parliament and how to promote new laws, and make a short film in transnational groups about the democratic values.
All together there will be 125 students and between 12 and 30 teachers / staff depending if the participating school choose to send the same teachers to the meetings, or if they recruit a small group of teachers that go to different meetings. The students involved are between 16 and 18, and students with less opportunities are prioritized.
We hope to contribute to empower the involved students to participate in society. This will benefit the students both in the short and the long run. We hope to give them competences and self-esteem that makes them believe in the future and that they can have an impact. We also hope to spread awareness and methodology that promote active citizenship to our local schools. Through this transnational cooperation we also hope for friendship, empathy and understanding across borders. This will be an important benefit for the students who are and will be global citizens and will deal with global issues. It is also an important benefit for society that the future generation is able to take other nations and persons perspectives in politics.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 199592 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kirkeparken videregående skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO TECNICO PER IL TURISMO MARCO POLO
• Tampereen lyseon lukio
• IES LA MERCED
• XXVI Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace
• Agenskalna Valsts gimnazija