During the two years of the project, we would like to create the Schools of Success in our institutions. The acronym of the project is S.O.S., since in our era lacking emotions, we are constantly in need for the small successes of everyday life, taking place mainly at school. Discrimination, the social-cultural background determines the quality of education and life. Lacking goals for life, failures in life style lead to drop out, students become unmotivated. They long for success, a better life, but they cannot find their way to get there. Our task with the seven international partners, involving approximately 3000 students, is to make changes! They have similar problems, too. They can help in this process based on their situation, traditions, life-styles, living standards, good educational system and dominant state impact. We will share good practices; we will try them constantly measuring the results, and evaluate the data to increase effectiveness. The activities will be grouped around the six transnational meetings, where every partner introduces its own project task on programs for the students, parents and the community of the town. We will map conflict situations by involving students, teachers and parents into the survey implemented by the measurement-assessment team. On the Topic Days and Days of Success we will fight against drop out with effective learning methods involving on-line learning as well. We will reassure self-esteem, so they will be able to choose the right profession for themselves and live a happy life by presenting interesting professions and successful careers. We will organize a Festival of Success, where personal stories of success will be shared, and Succes Award will be presented based on nomination, entry and voting for successful students, teachers and parents. All of our results will be presented to the community to make the project popular and traceable. As the result of the common work with our international partners, we will learn how to turn failure into success for a better life!
The background of the Schools of Success project is the social problem of growing number of dropouts at school, increasing xenophobia and discrimination is society. The objective of the project is to make changes in the lives of families, to provide students with success, to introduce life strategies, to help profession orientation, to change the way of how people see the world. The main aspect of selecting our partners was facing similar problems. Out of the 6 applying partners the Romanian, the Turkish and the Italian partners have carried out the project with the coordination of the Hungarian school, involving about 4000 students, indirectly involving their families as well. The Romanian school faces the problems of the high number of students coming from low income families, the single parent families partly due to having the bread winner parent working in one of the countries of the European Union. The Italian partner has to deal with the integration of immigrant families, bullying and cyber-bullying. In the Turkish high school there is a high number of students from low income families, they work on the integration of the Syrian refugees. We have carried out several project products together: the Calendar of Professions, The Album of People and Emotions, the Methodology Booklet, the international webpage: http://www.schoolsofsuccess.com, and the Schools of Success Project profile on Facebook. Our results: Success Days, Success Festivals, competitions and plays. We have integrated KIVA, TABBY Crocoos, Europass and e-twinning in our everyday school life. As a result of the project has enriched the school life, the students were involved in many interesting and useful programs, our methodology was developed. In the long term the project will provide new perspectives for the problems, will help the teacher-student-parent cooperation to educate for life, so the efficiency of schools will improve in the countries of the European Union.