The main objective of this project is to give a leading role to students of all schools involved. In our teaching practice, we have seen as conflicts in our schools have grown due to several reasons; economic depression, social inequalities, lack of perspectives in life, etc. Many of these are reflected in our institutes, and we think that we can provide valid solutions to these issues in an imaginative and innovative way. All members of this team have had experiences in the past with other European projects where different topics were successfully tackled: environment, cultural understanding, healthy habits... We want to keep on growing on our practices so that the whole educative family of our schools can get a benefit. And we are ready to do it with "THE FUTURE IS AT SCHOOL”. The main motivation for our project is to improve and complement each partner’s experience concerning coexistence at schools and give responsibilities to students and and arrange for them activities that will take place at school breaks to improve peaceful and collaborative attitudes. We want our students to become active leading characters in our schools. To get this, we have,among others,the following objectives: -Inculcate the importance of school mediation to solve problems in school and life -Improve coexistence at schools reducing tensions and disputes. -Awake in our students their role of main characters of our schools’ life as well as their compromise and responsibility in social issues -Create channels of communication between teachers and students of different European cultures -Increase awareness of diversities as a cultural value -Integrate disadvantage and/or disabled students and raise their self-esteem by organizing guided activities, being able to travel abroad and sharing new experiences for them. -Improve communication in the mother tongue and foreign languages, motivating students and teachers to speak English and learn other European languages. -Increase collaboration between educational institutions, leading to improvement of teaching methodologies through the exchange of ideas, reinforcing creativity and innovation This partnership is formed by 5 Primary Schools from Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Spain and Turkey. With this representation, we reach a wide range of European diversities, in which we will achieve one of our aims: to develop and enhance a European dimension to our curricula. We all share a common wish to collaborate and work hard as a team for our objectives. Besides, all of us have already worked school mediation and organization of activities by students. On the other hand, we want to integrate students disadvantage in our project by organizing guided activities, raising their self-esteem and by travelling abroad and sharing new experiences for them. In relation to activities, our students will mediate in conflicts and we intend them to offer training in mediation to others in their own or in other schools. They will work out strategies to solve problems and foster a better coexistence by organizing activities which will bring about a fall in number of conflicts. We would like that the results of this project could have a positive impact on various levels: firstly, on our schools, where we want levels of conflict to descend by the application of activities. Also on a local level, the schools that are situated in our district can benefit from the direct contact of our students and also from the materials we want to develop, as the Best Practice Guide we intend to issue; on national and international levels, we would like to be known in other forums about education thanks to the promotion of the results of our efforts, publication of materials and articles where we will show the positive aspects of this collaboration among different schools from distant countries, which can bring upon a feeling of belonging to a common European identity. This is a project for the future. All experiences and results that we are going to carry out will let us go forward in our essential goals of making our students actors in the our schools daily life, either in mediation, organization of activities or full responsibility of their actions, reinforcing the role of our students as democratic and supportive individuals. Therefore, what we are going to develop in this project will be valid once the last activity of the program is over. Thanks to this European funded grant, we will see that with our efforts we have turned our schools into better, democratic places to work, to study and to live.
The main objective of this project is that of inclusion. In our teaching practice, we have seen that conflicts in our schools have grown for several reasons: economic depression, social inequalities, lack of future prospects, etc. To many of these we wanted to try to give valid solutions in an effective and creative way. The activities organized during the whole project were aimed at improving the prosocial behavior of the students: the feeling of "empathy" to get closer to others; the "sharing", to teach to become generous adults; "helping" which includes acts of kindness that make oneself and others feel good. Therefore improving cohabitation in schools, giving more responsibility to students, organizing extracurricular activities. To achieve this macro objective, we have the following objectives: - Inculcate the importance of school mediation to solve problems at school and in life - Improve coexistence in schools by reducing tensions and disputes. - To awaken in our students their role as main characters in the life of our schools, as well as their compromise and responsibility in social issues - Create communication channels between teachers and students from different European cultures - Increase awareness of diversity as a cultural value - Integrate disadvantaged and / or disabled students and increase their self-esteem by organizing guided activities, being able to travel abroad and share new experiences for them. -Improving communication in mother tongue and foreign languages, motivating students and teachers to speak English and learn other European languages. - Increase collaboration between educational institutions, leading to improved teaching methods through the exchange of ideas, strengthening creativity and innovation This partnership is made up of 4 primary cycle schools from Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and Turkey. We reach a range of European diversity that has enabled us to develop and strengthen the European dimension in our curricula. This is also a project for the future. The experiences and results achieved will allow us to move forward in our goals in order to make our students actors in the daily life of our schools, both in mediation, in the organization of activities, in taking responsibility for their actions, thus strengthening in the our students the conviction of being democratic and supportive individuals. Thanks to this EU-funded grant and with our efforts we have turned our schools into better and more democratic places in which to work, study and live.