STANDING FOR OUR RIGHTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

STANDING FOR OUR 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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

Project Summary

The project of strategic partnership involves three secondary schools coming from Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic. In our project we focus on human rights issues and European values. We want to raise awareness of human rights and European values, develop key competences of the participants, learn and practise some methods how to promote active participation, raise awareness about problems we are facing and learn to stand for our and other people´s rights

By implementation of this project we want to achieve the following objectives and results:

1. Development of competences of the participants of the project (above all communication, language, civic, social, and digital)
2. Extending (or gaining) the knowledge about various historical events regarding human rights, increased awareness of the EU issues and European values
3. Increased cultural awareness and creative skills of the participants, increased active citizenship of the participants of the project
4. Development of international cooperation in the partner schools and fostering the cooperation of the schools with municipalities, libraries, NGOs, etc.
5. Extending the knowledge of the partner countries in the field of history, traditions, customs, ways of life, geography, human rights issues
6. Development of friendship among students and teachers from partner schools
7. Development of creativity through working out printed outputs as well as online outputs
8. Exchange of good practices and methods of work with young people regarding human rights issues.

The project expects involvement of the following groups:
– students: the age group of the participating students is 14-19 (secondary schools students). They will participate both in local activities and LTT activities (short exchanges of the groups of pupils) as well as in dissemination and evaluation activities. We expect involvement at least 20-30 students from each school in local activities or eTwinning cooperation, other students will participate in surveys, preparation of presentations, practical using the methods such as Photovoice or Living library and in other games and school activities focused on human rights issues. As for the LTT activities, 10 students from each partner school (5+5) will participate in mobilities.

– teachers: will participate in local activities, joint staff training events, LTT activities, dissemination and evaluation activities, cooperation with municipalities, libraries, NGOs etc. They will be involved in organising activities focused on human rights issues, in discussions with students on this topic, into organising activities such as Photovoice or Living library etc. As for the teachers participating in mobilities, 3 teachers from Spain and 3 teachers from Italy will participate in the joint staff training event together with the teachers from the hosting Czech school and 2 teachers from all participating countries will be involved into each mobility to the partner countries.

– other school staff: headmasters will be responsible for running the project together with the coordinator of the project. The accountants will cooperate with headmasters and will help the coordinators with financial matters. As for other members of staff, they will participate in local activities only and in organising the meeting in their country

– parents: will be involved in organising the meeting in their country together with their children, in some local and dissemination activities

– public: other people will also be involved into some project activities, responsible people from municipality, community centres, NGOs etc. will be involved into cooperation with the schools on local activities

The project includes 1 joint staff training event and 3 short-time exchanges of groups of pupils. The coordinating school will host the joint staff training event at the beginning of the project and then all 3 schools will host their partners once.

During the project we are going to use various methods of work: groupwork, workshops, discussions and debates, intreviews, excursions, seminars, presentations, roleplay activities etc. In our project we will use methods of both formal and informal education, we will also cooperate via eTwinning

Expected results and outputs:
– developed key competences (communication, language, civic, social, and IT) of the participants and their creative skills
– gained higher cultural awareness
– extended awareness of human rights issues
– increased motivation, self-esteem, active participation
– created outputs, e.g. newsletters, webpage, facebook page, photobook, e-magazine, presentations, interviews etc.
– implemented “My right, your right, human rights”, “Photovoice” and “Living library” activities

The project will help the participating schools to use the results of the project in a long-term perspective, include the methods used during the project into their activities. The project will also establish or foster their international cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 48828 Eur

Project Coordinator

Obchodní akademie s.r.o. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• LIzarra Ikastola Sociedad Cooperativa
• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE PALAZZOLO ACREIDE