United Colors of Fine Arts Erasmus Project

Project Title

United Colors of Fine Arts

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: Integration of refugees; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

It’s inevitable that in classroom athmosphere there’ll be problems between foreign and domestic students since they come from different cultural backgrounds. While one group have to adapt to the conditions of a new country the other group have difficulty in understanding the traumas in the lives of newcomers. To learn the level of harmony between native and foreign students at high school level, we conducted a survey for both of them in our school and province. As the result, foreign students stated that they were discriminated against, had difficulty in communicating with their peers, faced racism and bullying. Most of the native students also felt uncomfortable living together with their foreign friends and had a negative point of view towards them. It’s clear that these problems affect classroom athmosphere, interrupt teaching, distract students and affect learning process.
Therefore, we intend to decrease the problems of socially excluded refugees and prevent their intention to early school leaving. We will also create an awareness about diversity and non-discrimination and tackle discrimination, segregation and racism by including refugee and native students together to the mobilities and project activities at school.
We especially have established a partnership countries which host refugees and they have the similar problems.
We will arrange activities to promote the integration of refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived migrants and raise awareness about the refugee crisis in our partner countries.
Our main objective in this project is to contribute to finding solutions to adaptation problems between domestic and immgirant/refugee high school students. We offer the unifying power of fine arts to dissolve differences in a common pot. We all know that art doesn’t have any specific religion, language or race. It doesn’t belong to any class or country but to the humanity. Thus we will organize art events where native and foreign students will spend time, work and enjoy themselves together . What they produce in the end will be all of theirs, of migrant backgrounds and native ones.
We are planning to engage in immigrant/refugee and local students by using the unifying power of fine arts. In this way, we want to contribute to raising a youth that is free from prejudices, conscious about discrimination, has a sense of empathy and sees solidarity between cultures and races as wealth. While carrying out cultural interaction, we aim to increase school attendance and success and improve foreign language and communication skills of all our students by benefiting from the opportunities of technology . Our planned activities will help us achieve all these goals. Each participating country will have an important share in achieving the goals we want to reach by planning local and international events . Each partner country will play a role in the realization of our goals by using the most appropriate art branch for its culture and experience. Domestic and foreign students will take part together in all activities.
Most of the participants in our project come fromlow income families and they have not been abroad before. They are all eager to take part in activities and we are planning to include about 250 students in this category to local and internatonal activities.
There will be 2 mobilities in the 1st year and 3 mobilities in the 2nd year. Our planned activities are;
DRAMA PLAYS
Stone Workshop
Pandomim&Masquarade
Funny School Play
Different Colours at Classroom
MUSIC
Choir of United Colours
‘Different Colours same rhythm
PAINTING&PHOTOGRAPHY&CINEMA
If I were in your shoes
Stand Against Segregation
United Digital World
E-Magazine:
Raising National and International Awareness
It will be the coordinator’s responsibility to check that all the partners can receive and respond the messages on time. Each school’s project team will be responsible for all activites and preparations. There will be presentations about the host country’s culture, traditions, life styles, language, food, currency, etc. before the mobilities and the students and teachers will be informed about them. The English teachers will also suggest some websites for them to develop their English.
The coordinator will be responsible to check how our project is performing in relation to its aims and the workplan and allow partners to form their own judgements which can then be used as the basis for discussion. Specific examples an evaluation report will be prepared. We will take steps towards addressing any areas of weakness.
We strongly believe that our project will contribute added-value to general education in locally and nationally in all countries. According to our plan, the project results will be sustainable after the end of project. For long-term benefits, other schools will directly and indirectly benefit from our project results. Our project website will be stay open when we finish the activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 133902 Eur

Project Coordinator

Işıkkent Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Isparta Anadolu Lisesi
• Secondary School “Sveti Paisii Hilendarski
• Liceo Classico Garibaldi Palermo
• 1st GYMNASIO RAFINAS