White Rose

Project summary

The project " White Rose" (WHIRO) aims at making the students aware of one of the biggest issues in Europe: Violence Against Women (VAW). It is a problem of pandemic proportions. Any moment, in any country of the world, a woman is victim of any kind of violence: rape, sexual assault, murder, stalking, genital mutilation and so on, being each form of abuse strictly related to the social and cultural context in which it is produced. We want to carry out transnationally such a project both for the overall scale of the phenomenon and for ceating a front unit in the prevention. We need that young people from each country involved in this partnership can learn to defend and respect human rights and gender balance because the silence is a guilt, it would be acceptation or resignation of daily crimes. The project would like to pursue the following objectives: to enhance the quality and European dimension of teaching/learning process; to promote language learning and linguistic diversity; to improve the competences in foreign language communication skills for both pupils and teachers; to explore new possibilities by the use of ICT in learning, developing innovation and creativity at school; to compare the different systems of education; to promote equity and active citizenship; to educate young people to respect themselves and the others; to improve the knowledge of international institutions aimed at defending human rights. All these objectives have been calibrated according to the target goups to be addressed (students from 14 to 19 years old) and their needs as well as the achievement of horizontal goals like developing appropriate assessment and certification methods and reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, there will be a solution of continuity with the eTwinning project "Stop violence against women", that will be done in parallel, involving all the members of this partnership. Symbolically, the white rose represents the woman and embodies her beauty and fragility at the same time. It will be the emblem of our awareness and prevention campaign. This partnership is composed by seven partner organisations, selected after a long search via e-twinning platform according to their background , experiences and deep interest towards the main topic because of the high level of violence/abuse of women in their own countries. The selection tried to respect also a proper distribution of European areas so that, as tiles of a mosaic, all the countries partecipating can compose a global vision of the problem in Europe . Project results and all outcomes / materials will be uploaded on the twinspace and the project website. All the tasks and responsibilities will be equally distributed among the partners in order to respect and value the potential of each one during the first transnational meeting (Croatia, September 2017). The following fourth LTTA, respectively in Italy (coordinator country, November 2017) , Spain (March 2017), , Belgium (November 2018), United Kingdom (March 2019), an intermediate transnational meeting in Norway ( May 2018) and the final TM in France (May 2019) will allow to enrich the partipants' background and to achieve the objectives panned. Participants will benefit from the project directly and indirectly. Approximately an average of 20 teachers and 100 students for each country will take part directly to the activities and workshops ; among them, only a selected group will be involved in the mobilities according to their merits (skills, competences, interest and creativity shown in the activities implementation but also cultural, social and educational obstacles). Beyond this direct participation, other people (hundreds for each country partner) will benefit from the programme indirectly. Specifically, in a systemic way, the results will affect not only the entire workforce of our schools, i.e. all students and the whole teachers and staff, but also will reach the wider local social context thanks to the dissemination of the outcomes. Consequently a strong impact will be expected at a local level but also at a regional, national and European one. The results will be visible both in learning new competences and in acquiring new attitudes (awareness and struggle for human rights). This impact will be emphasized by local press and schools websites, while the eTwinning network of ambassadors will amplify the effects of changes also at the regional level running meetings in the schools and regional events. The partecipation to seminars ,conferences or competions will ensure the effects nationally and some echoes internationally thanks to eTwinning platform, bolgs, websites, social networks. Dissemination and exploitation of results will provide an extension of the project beyond its lifetime.The sustainability will be guaranteed through long-term free open-access to the websites of participating organisations.