We are proud of being European citizen Erasmus Project

Project Title

We are proud of being European citizen

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

According to the researches, the rate of active participation of citizens is very low and nearly half of the citizens are grouped as passive or timid. Also, according to the research of European Comission, 2017, Europe faces important challenges today. In 2015, the Paris Declaration signed bu EU Education Ministers and the European Comission called for action at European, national, regional and local levels to reinforce the role of education in promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination. There is a strong relation between citizenship and democracy. If we want a democracy which functions well, we must have citizens with the necessary competences to think and act in a democratic way.

Our objectives are; – effective ways of communication – to behave more responsibly- to be informed and to participate in democratic events actively- to contribute to the political process.- to enhance their media literacy- to respect and compare different beliefs and ideas they encounter- to be more creative and innovative- to be a good neighbour and volunteer to help the others- to be enthusiastic and ready to take responsibilities individually for themselves and for for their public.- to realise that they are an important part of community ranging from the local level to global level- to be more effective internet users- to be a part of digital society- to protect and to be protected digitaly- to be active and proactive digital citizens.
In addition, another aim of our project is to target a school where is diversity in all contexts during school days. Thus, to provide all students with opportunities to participate in the context of knowledge development and social contexts.

We are planning to have local activities and international LTTs in order to improve their understanding of the diversity of European cultures and languages and to help them acquire the necessary social, civic and intercultural competences for their personal development. The activities we have planned will help us achieve transnational and other related aims. our activities are;
C-1 Democracy Workshop; C2- Clean Environment Clean Society; C-3 A Short Film (Shoot Your Film); C-4 Safe and Protected; C-5 e-Twinning and Media Literacy;

The participants in the project will be students, teachers, other school staff, families, public and public authorities. Students will have an important role not only in the activities at schools but also at
transnational meetings. The students who will take part in our project will be between 12-15 years old. They will be choosen from volunteers. By checking their personal files and by interviewing with
them, the ones who have leadership skills will have priorities to participate in the project. The students in the risk group (early school leaving, missing classes, academic failure, divorced, separated or having low income families) will also be given priority because they are very important for our project and they must be re-gained to school and a new and planned and healthy life should be offered to them. These students will be given opportunity to reach the level of education they desire. We will also arrange some contests like material designing and video contests for the implementation of our project. Every three months, they will take part in social meetings and share their experiences with families. The teachers who like volunteering in these kind of activities will also be encouraged to take part.

Assessment will be done using questioannaires by the participants and project team. When there is a problem, the needed precautions will be taken. When the activities are completed, we will check what point we have reached and what more things to do to reach our goals. We will check this with the number of people visiting our website and have meetings to evaluate them whether we have reached the target group or not. We will also take into consideration the number of essays, about the project, press reports, interviews and bulletins. Frequency of visibility on social media will also be our other measurement. According to our plans for dissemination, first of all, we will raise awareness of public, encourage people to increase the number of involvement, define the exact participants, place and date of the events and prepare a budget for them. Students, teachers, parents, all the school staff, inspectors of national education, education authorities, local authorities, oragnizations and national agencies are the target groups of our project. We will use posters, blogs, brochures, press brifings, e-mails, online newspapers, videos about project. We will use e-Twinning website, town hall for the events including crowded people, exhibitions at partner schools, forum discussions, European Commission disseminination platform, presantations on completed LTTs, local media in partner countries, social networks, seminars hosted by the partners countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sveku pamatskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Centrul Scolar pentru Educatie Incluziva Targu Jiu
• HAYME ANA KIZ ANADOLU IMAM HATIP LISESI
• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “R. PIRIA”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Vale d´Este – Viatodos – Barcelos