TOGETHER: EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

TOGETHER: EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND 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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

“Together: equal in dignity and rights” was a two year project (September 2018- August 2020) focused on migration issue and global refugees emergency. It involved three High Schools ( IIS Tartaglia Olivieri, Brescia, Italy; Lycéè Des Metiers Du Tourisme Cordouan, Royan, France; Geniko Lykeio Moudrou, Limnos, Greece) based in three different social contexts: the first one on the west French Atlantic coast, away from the immigration emergency, the second one in Northern Italy, where there is a high percentage of foreign workers and students, the third one in the forefront, in the centre of the Aegean Sea. Thanks to a two year extracurricular course, students (aged 15-19 years) examined in depth the identity/diversity topic, focusing first on the National and then on the European and Global situation. By sharing on the Twinspace their works and meeting face to face during mobilities, students experienced the difficulties and the attractiveness of meeting people with different cultures. Through meeting experts and volunteers from NGOs that fight against intolerance and discrimination, students found inspiration and courage to become responsible and socially active citizens, able to affect the people responsible of human rights violations both inside and outside the school.
Through workshops, role playing and group work students felt protagonists of the educational activity and engaged both on the rational and the emotional level.
The students involved in the three schools:
– got aware about their and others’ rights
– identified the causes of violations of rights (in particular migrants’ rights) and learnt how to deal with them
– thought about concrete actions in order to prevent violation of human rights at school
– supported fight against discrimination and promoted equality
– improved their citizenship skills and ability to take part to democratic national and European decision making process
– improved English skills
– understood how European identity is based on the principles stated by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
With the help of teachers, experts and local Associations committed in the field of social inclusion, students did concrete actions to promote tolerance on a local level and they helped other students and citizens to understand that all the cultures in the world have value .
Thanks to a cautious management, we could involve in mobilities and all project activities students and teachers in addition to the number planned and financed. Two of the three planned mobilities were realized (to France and to Greece). The last one, that had to be held in Italy in April 2020, was cancelled because of the pandemic. In order to complete all the project activities and let students share the material they had prepared before the last mobility, the coordinating school replaced this activity with a virtual mobility, that took place in June 2020. Because of the Covid emergency the final event, an art exposition that had to be held in the Brescia’s MO.CA museum, was transformed into a video-exhibition showing all the works made by student attending classes involved in project activity by peer-to-peer actions.
All the project activities and products have been illustrated by open source presentations and videos now published in the project web site (https://sites.google.com/tartaglia-olivieri.eu/erasmus-togheter/home?authuser=0 ), including descriptions of activities organized by Ms Masserdotti, the psychologist who worked with the Italian group of students. We wish it will allow other teachers to be inspired, to renew their teaching methods and to share our effort to build a peaceful and inclusive society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66301,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS “Tartaglia-Olivieri” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• LYCEE DES METIERS DU TOURISME CORDOUAN ROYAN
• Geniko Lykeio Moudrou