Under The Same Sky Erasmus Project

Project Title

Under The Same Sky

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: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

Project Summary

Our project was created as a response to worries that we share about the weaknesses of traditional system of education. Our intention is to combine the elements that children love, like playing group games, computer games, hearing and making comics and stories and use them as learning tools through very creative cross-curricular ,non formal and innovative teaching methods and strategies as this is an effective way to strengthen and enrich children’s abilities.Moreover, our interest about different European cultures moves to a deeper level of understanding that respects the diversity of cultures and use each one’s cultural heritage as a great opportunity for children to learn easily, creatively and effectively.At the same time,we intend to raise awareness of children’s own cultural identity in order to become more familiar with their language, history, geography, music and art.Our activities are carefully designed to fulfill this demand. We want children to develop an European spirit while learning, to be more tolerant and respectful towards others. Children will feel very activated. They will be creators, problem solvers, self motivators and will develop positive attitude in all situations. These activities will also help them to increase their self confidence and motivation for learning that is the first step in fighting school drop. At the same time ,they will become more sensitive to those who are different from them or come from different surroundings , especially with those who come from countries backdrop of war and deprivation of human rights. They will learn to cooperate and make new friendships, overcome language barriers, adopt themselves for team work, communicate and exchange ideas by using new technologies, improve their speaking and listening skills through CLIL method. Finally they will manage to evaluate the outcomes of their cooperation.The project will also help teachers to exchange good pedagogical practices and information with the other participants, develop their own teaching expertise and become more open- minded. They will develop cross- curricular work in classroom that provides a real life context and motivate children to learn. The project is a great chance for them to learn about other educational systems around Europe, see good and weak elements in them and have the opportunity to make suggestions for improvement and structural changes.Our project will finally create closer relationships among schools, parents and community members, make a move for opening school to the society by organising community events like dissemination meetings where all the people involved will interact, exchange ideas and make suggestions about the results of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89685 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ysgol Llwyn yr Eos & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Huseyin Cahit Yalcin Ilkokulu
• Paidos
• Turkan Sabanci Gorme Engelliler Ilkokulu
• Istituto Comprensivo Le Cure
• PROTO DIMOTIKO SXOLEIO MELISSION
• General Secondary School “Nikolay Katranov”