Stick together – Stand Against Discrimination in the EU Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stick together – Stand Against Discrimination in the EU

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: Access for disadvantaged; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

A. Context and background of the project:

In the strategy paper EUROPE 2020 the EU members set the goal to achieve an INCLUSIVE EDUCATION in our countries, that is to say an education of equal opportunities. According to this priority, we carried out in the last 36 months an ambitious Erasmus+ KA2 School Partnership, which focused on the topic of discrimination. More precisely, we approached this issue by working on four sub-topics:

Subtopic N° 1: No barriers for handicapped – Ways of better integrating disabled persons.
Subtopic N° 2: Stop the exclusion of ethnic minorities – Protection and integration of those who are a minority in their own country because of language or culture.
Subtopic N° 3: Stop gender discrimination – Ways of fighting sexism and standing for equal opportunities.
Subtopic N° 4: Stop racism – Breaking down prejudices and stopping discrimination of immigrants.

Our network of four partner schools (from Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain) tackled the topic of discrimination by various activities. The reason for this is as simple as significant: Unfortunately, even in the united Europe of the 21st century we are still confronted with EXCLUSION. It does not matter whether it is psychological, mental or physical, whether the reason for discrimination is religious, racial or sexual – it is generally to be opposed. This project’s main priority was therefore to stand up against discrimination and fight it.

B. Main objectives and main activities of the project:
The main goal of this Erasmus+ KA2 partnership was to make visible to our students the different types of discrimination existing in our society and to raise awareness among the students so that they can remove the barriers which make fully inclusion not possible. This goal has been developed through different learning and teaching activities related to the four subtopics and through particular core themes in each of the four International Student Meetings (ISM): About disabled in Elda (April 2017), about ethnic minorities in Debrecen (October 2017), about gender equality in Marsala (March 2018) and about racism and migration in Fürth (December 2018). We dealt with these themes through a full range of varied activities, which have been carried out by our students. In total, more than 60 students participated in ISM and more than 150 students created exhibitions, videos, interviews, informative panels, dramatizations, comics, story boards and so on.
Moreover, these results of tasks carried out by our students were not only presented in the four ISM (see above), but also in plenary sessions in front of some classes or even in front of the whole educational community of each participating school, so that a larger audience was reached.

C. Results and impact attained by the project:
Today, we can proudly declare that the stated goals have been achieved:
First, because we’ve managed to make visible particular groups that suffer the impacts of discrimination in all the educational communities of the participating schools.
Second, because we raised awareness among all members of the educational community about the fact that we can eliminate discrimination and that is why we should take measures.

We have achieved that actions against discrimination have started beyond our educational community by means of wide dissemination of the results in the locality and in the particular region. This has been succeeded thanks to the involvement of external agents (local authorities, education administration, mass media, other educational institutions, cultural institutions and non-profit organisations)
These multiple effects have been reached thanks to the great quality of the products produced (some of them being very professional), which constitute a corpus of didactic-cultural materials of great value, like Samuel´s video (whose main character is a disabled student from IES Monastil) and which was presented in different forums about disability.

D. Long-term benefits of the project
Some of the produced didactic materials had a great acceptance and they were disseminated in other education centres, like e.g. the “Cinderello” comic, which was edited by the Government Department of Education of Elda. Likewise, it has been of great importance the dissemination of these cultural products through social media and the websites of the four schools.
Last but not least, the final achievement was the creation of a BOARD GAME. Similar to Trivial Pursuit, the main topic of the Stick Together Game is discrimination. It has been written in English and materialized in a pack (box, board, instructions and tokens) and professionally produced by an enterprise of graphic arts. 500 copies of this game have been edited and distributed among the members of the project and at the same time these ones will distribute them among different institutions, cultural and educational associations in their own cities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80406 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliche Fachoberschule Fürth & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IES MONASTIL
• Istituto Tecnico Statale “G. Garibaldi”
• Debreceni SZC Bethlen Gábor Közgazdasági Szakgimnáziuma
• Ozel Sehzade Mehmet Anadolu Lisesi