This project involves 5 schools from: France, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain (coordinating). The working language will be Spanish because four of the schools are under bilingual education programs. According to the GENERAL CONTEXT the schools are characterized by: -Students with different social backgrounds, ethnic groups and religions. Having to face the challenge to avoid the cliches and discriminatory attitudes related with migrants integration and other ethnic groups (specially Romany), gender equality, LGTB rights or students with special needs. -Not developing media literacy in the curriculum of secondary education and not using innovative methodologies. -Low level in communicative competence in foreign languages. Taking these needs into account we have set the following objectives: -Promoting social inclusion, rejecting any type of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, class, disabilities, sexual orientation, religion. This program aims to facilitate the incorporation and social and educational inclusion of all students, to foster a climate of co-existence and respect. -Integrating media literacy in the curriculum, developing digital skills and critical spirit. -Promoting intercultural communication via global experiences and using different languages, supporting social inclusion. The project will involve 350 students (14-17 years) and their teachers. Students will develop podcasts, short videos and theatre plays about social themes. Dinamics and examples will encourage the contact with the realities of young Europeans in different contexts, forming attitudes of respect and overcoming prejudices related with others cultures and realities. Teachers will join training activities and for students. We have scheduled long and short international journeys in order to promote language and cultural learning. Etwinning platform will serve as a “meeting point” for all the persons involved on the project. RESULTS Students: Improvement of the key competences for lifelong learning, especially those related with cultural awareness, learning to learn, digital, social and linguistic. Teachers: Acquisition of the ability to integrate ICTs and cooperative learning. Families: Active involvement in their children’s learning and collaboration with people from different countries. Local community: Comparison of its particular social and economic model with other valid models, comunication of their cultural identity. Collaboration with organisations such Spanish Embassies, Instituto Cervantes and Universities will bear a significant impact. Disseminating our project among university teachers and students (future teachers) will help them to realise about knew learning and teaching experiences among countries.
In this Project have been involved 5 high schools of different European countries: France, Romania, Bulgary, Hungary and Spain (coordinator). Spanish has been the chosen language to develop the activities around the Project, though the language of every country has been taken into account. Just the Spanish partner had experience in this kind of projects and in the ETwinning platform. Every secondary school worked in an eTwinning Project during a year defining the main goals and objectives of this Project. Taking into consideration de context of every school and its needs, we formulated the following OBJECTIVES: -Encouraging the social inclusion and the rejection of any discrimination related to gender, ethnics, disability, sexual orientation, religion or any other given reason; including all participants in the project, especially the student body, trying to avoid school dropout - Integrating the media education and literacy in the curriculum of every high school involved, developing digital skills and the critical thinking among the students - Promoting intercultural communication through different languages trying to focus or aiming to social inclusion Around 350 people have been involved in this project with students between 14 and 18 years old. THE GENERAL CONTEXT regarding each educative center has been characterized by different aspects: -Diversity among the students regarding ethnics, religions or social status. The challenge in this sense has been to actively work towards the overcoming of stereotypes or discriminatory attitudes against “the others” in certain ambits like the integration of immigrants and other ethnics (especially gypsies), the equality of rights related to gender, the rights of LGTBIQ+ community, or also the inclusion of students with special educative needs. -The lack of media literacy specialization in the curriculum of each center or the low use of innovative methodologies in the process of teaching-learning. -Low development of the linguistic and communicative competences in foreign languages To overcome these difficulties derived from this context, and with the main goal of fulfilling the objectives mentioned above, we have developed the following ACTIVITIES: - Students have developed radio programs (podcasts), videos and social-themed plays. The dynamics generated from these products have fostered contact with the reality of young Europeans, helping them to develop attitudes of respect and overcome prejudice. -Training activities have been carried out for teachers related to eTwinning, with theatrical participatory dynamics and educational inclusion. Long-term and short-lived teaching and learning activities have also been carried out for students, which have enabled a real cultural immersion, the development of their language skills and a positive attitude towards different cultures. -Active methodologies based on an inclusive, participatory and active model have been used through dialogical and cooperative learning. Successful educational actions (SEAs) have been implemented with interactive groups and dialogical talks as a common form of work, as well as innovative methodologies where students have been the protagonist of the learning process. -The eTwinning platform has been fostered as a space for interaction between teachers and students. - Important coordination and evaluation work has been carried out with numerous and varied tools. -A Plan to disseminate the results has been developed. The following RESULTS are highlighted: Students: improvement of key competencies, especially those related to cultural awareness, Learn to Learn, Digital, Social and Linguistics. Teachers: integration of ICT and collaborative learning into teaching. Families: learning in common with their children conducive to intercultural openness/competence through contact with people from different countries. Local community: Knowledge of other models of social and economic development, making it possible to disseminate its own cultural identity. Other institutions: Collaboration with bodies such as the Embassies of Spain, the Instituto Cervantes and different European universities has had an important reciprocal impact. Longer Term BENEFITS: -Free access to processed materials guarantees their possible use by other persons and institutions. -The Educational Units developed on inclusion are an excellent way of working for those centers that intend to work on aspects related to inclusion and a very valuable material for ELE classes. -4 schools have had sufficient experience and training to develop other Erasmus+ projects. - An E+ Project derived from the inclusive work of this project is currently being developed. - In the Spanish center has opened a school radio "Radio Sácilis" thanks to this project. - Commitment to continue collaboration agreements, with Institutes Cervantes, Universities, European institutions in Strasbourg, radio stations and with teaching centers in Spain and Romania.