The Art of Helping Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Art of Helping

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

In our society, we are separated from each other, indifferent to our neighbours, collegues, families, people in need. Cars and phones have taken most of us off the streets, where we used to greet each other and stop to chat.Television has planted us firmly in our living rooms, instead of out with other people. Even cinemas, where many people get together, cut us off from true conversation because we’re staring at a big screen. We tend to be focused on ourselves to the exclusion of our fellow human beings. There is tendency towards selfishness rather than giving, on helping ourselves rather than helping our brothers and sisters in humanity.
In our project we wanted to change that, change people attitudes to each other.
We needed this project “to melt young people hearts”, to include them fully into neighbourhoods and societies. We wanted to teach them to help, teach them to be involved.
We also wanted to attract the attention of the local and European society to the local and global problems and at the same time to find common solutions with the help of voluntary work in international cooperation. During the cooperation we got ideas mutually, which we made regular practice locally by preparing teaching materials, incorporating voluntary work into school curriculum. It ensured that the activities carried out during the project will also continue in the future. The participants of the project could experience the problems and dangers emerging in other countries. The common work carried out in several fields strengthened and will strengthen the European way of thinking and social sensitiveness.
The activities contributed to the development of transversal and personal competences and foreign language skills of the participants with the help of which they can establish their future success in the labour market. We regarded the students who took part in the project, the students and parents of the participating schools as the target groups-those who were the most influenced by the project, and also the local and European societies, whom we wanted to influence with our dissemination work and to affect them. We regarded involving students with disadvantaged background and low skills one of our main aims. By involving them into the common activities they were able and will be able to become the active members of the society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91271,11 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol w Karczmiskach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• COPEFAP – Cooperativa de Ensino CRL
• Széchenyi István Római Katolikus Technikum és Gimnázium
• ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE “Publio Virgilio Marone”