The Carousel of True Friendship Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Carousel of True Friendship

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: Health and wellbeing; Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our Project is related to 2015 Paris declaration, promoting tolerance and inclusion through education, equity, gender balance, nondiscrimination, inclusivity, diversity, and equality. It combats discrimination and segregation. Social inclusion became a priority for EU, as it is a complex issue that requires a comprehensive approach. Migration is one of the major social issues of the contemporary societies and the lack of information related to this matter is perpetuating related challenges both for migrants and the hosting societies.To further the integration of refugees, the Project partners from UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey aim at making use of the potential of schools as socially inclusive learning spaces, which provide ideal conditions for language acquisition as well as intercultural understanding.

Our main objective is to bring communities together, combine their needs and find solutions, accept one another and involve all parts in actively participating in society by engaging them in collaborative activities, non-formal education methods and by enhancing their ICT skills in communication and learning. Inclusive education is what we aim for, being aware that social inclusion differs from integration to the extent that inclusive processes aim at mixing and finally dissolving social group boundaries.
Our institutions come from different levels of the educational system, from primary to secondary. For us this is of utmost importance as our target groups are the students regardless of their level or age. They will be equally addressed by this Project, as the problems and difficulties they face are common. As in our schools we have pupils with diverse educational backgrounds Japanese, Greek, Spanish, Belgian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Roma, refugees from Iraq, Syria, immigrants, the need of our schools to be more inclusive is a concern and motivation, as to prevent early school leaving. Our Project will involve all pupils and teachers from the partner schools (more than 3000 pupils and 200 teachers), local communities and stakeholders.
Our pupils’ wellbeing is a priority for our institutions. All 6 partner schools need for an ameliorative educational intervention related to the social inclusion of pupils’ and local community needs. To keep up with the latest methods and best practices in European Education the Project will contribute to the development and internationalisation of the schools involved in the long term. During the 2 years, we will exchange good practice in order become adaptable and innovative in the internationalisation of our schools and to improve the quality and continuous training of teaching staff by organizing 2 short term joint staff training events.The 2 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils will ensure a better language competence and ICT competencies. They will gain socio-cultural knowledge of the partner countries. They will become more confident, self-esteem and self-reliance will be enhanced along with their emotional and interpersonal intelligence.

The goal of our project is to bring people together from different backgrounds in order to realise that we are all the same. Our objectives:
1.Using non-formal education will strengthen the social inclusion of disadvantaged pupils from 6 European countries by exchanging good practice during 6 transnational mobilities in UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey in 12.2020, 04.2021,06.2021,10.2021, 03.2022 and 06.2022
2.Using non-formal education methods we are going to improve language competences, emotional intelligence and ICT skills in 30 pupils from 6 partner schools from UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey during 2 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils in 04.2021 and 03.2022, and Project’s activities
3.Using structured courses we are going to teach 18 teachers from 6 partner schools from UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey with 10 innovative methods of interactive teaching based on web tools 2.0 during 1 short-term joint staff training event in 06.2021 and 18 teachers from the 6 partner schools with 10 effective methods on Boal’s Methodology-The Theatre of the Oppressed during 1 short-term joint staff training event in 10.2021
4.Using cooperation we will secure internationalisation in 6 schools from UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey by participating in this Project between 01.09.2020-31.08.2022.

We will use arts and web 2.0 tools in innovative ways to stimulate critical thinking, keeping central the migrants and refugees and inclusion of all. Drama and theatre methods to address insecurity, conflicts, and passivity in order to bring dialogue and well-being where only one way of communication exists. Pedagogical methodologies and techniques in classroom: IBL, GBL, PBL etc. Our results will be tangible, as intangibles: an optional joint curricula, training materials, a good practice guide, webinars,TwinSpace, website, knowledge sharing, better skills

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114531 Eur

Project Coordinator

Germoe Community Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ecole Bourgogne
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Barreiro
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR.1 BRANESTI
• Istituto Comprensivo “Via Boccioni”
• 23 NISAN ORTAOKULU