The aim of our project, the participants of which come from various parts and regions of Europe, is to prevent the omnipresent intolerance. By instilling the attitude of empathy, tolerance and respect towards other people into young people’s minds, we wish to motivate them to participate in social life more, to be active citizens, to promote the increase of tolerance towards other cultures, ideas and world outlook, and to enhance the international dialogue. The thoroughly planned activities will allow the students to be acquainted with the “otherness” of people, see how it feels to be in their place, and to implement the acquired knowledge and use it to create the educational tools in the struggle against intolerance. The motivation for this project arises from the observation of young people’s behavior towards others who may look different, have different religious beliefs or who may be refugees or emigrants. Students’ opinions are mostly based on stereotypes existing in our societies. Through our project we would like our students to become acquainted with another – the proper - way of thinking, and to show them the lifestyles of people living in remote parts of the world. The cooperation among the students from various countries based on common workshops, lectures, debates and teamwork will help in breaking the stereotypes. During discussions, games and activities the cosmopolitan aspect of our learners will be strengthened. The participants of the project should realize that despite the different lifestyles, we all understand the idea of tolerance in the same way. In the long term, such experiences ought to be practiced by the participants in order to promote mutual respect and to avoid discrimination. During the project, the students will be encouraged to look for places or people who have experienced some kind of intolerance or discrimination in their life. We wish to show young people, who live in peace and democracy now, how thin the line is between human rights and freedom or nationalism, between xenophobia and war. Not only will the participants acquire skills and abilities from this project but also will raise their awareness that tolerance and freedom are not always natural things and that we often have to nurture and care for them. The project will focus on young people at the age of 14-18 years old. Participant students will be enthusiastic, friendly ,creative, be eager and outgoing. They can be boys or girls. They should have at least A2 level English. Totally there are 64 students who will join the international activities but the project wants other students at school to play a more active role in national activities. There are 32 accompanying person. The accompanying persons should have English speaking competence. Our transnational activities are; Cooking (Demonstration and teaching host countries common food), each country will prepare one traditional food, Food festival,Traditional Dance(Demonstration and teaching), Language application, duolingo Teaching common words and phrases: 30 survival phrases in host countries language), walking exhibition-Graffiti related to tolerance,• Presentation about examples of extreme intolerance , Quiz "What do you know about ....?" - it refers to other countries,• A discussion about stereotypes, Traditional Games(Demonstration and teaching host countries ), Playing and learning street games, hand Craft(Demonstration and teaching host countries art),art festival ( Every countries will show one traditional art), Theatre performance related to the topic of tolerance and intolerance - workshops, Presentation and demonstration host countries music, Introducing a traditional instrument from every country, music quizzes, recreational activity preparing play list or jingle or karaoke, Preparing and conducting Oxford Debates about the issue of tolerance and discrimination, the presentations of HIP HOP songs. Besides this transnational activities we have also national activities such as organizing seminars about the "Learning from the Past" , museum visiting, Preparation traditional recipes book, preparing leaflet. The following methods will be used: research, case study, evaluation method, debates, questionnaire, portfolio, teamwork,brainstorming, mind maps, discussions, decision tree, role play, drama,analysis method,interview,exhibition(drawing graffiti about tolerance) The transnational meetings and short term students exchange will provide us some advantages such as improving the language skills, learning different ways of living and thinking in different cultures, and being more tolerant towards differences, traditions and values of other societies. Students will learn accept criticism and recognize their strengths and weaknesses.
The aim of our project, the participants of which come from various parts and regions of Europe, is to prevent the omnipresent intolerance. By instilling the attitude of empathy, tolerance and respect towards other people into young people’s minds, we wish to motivate them to participate in social life more, to be active citizens, to promote the increase of tolerance towards other cultures, ideas and world outlook, and to enhance the international dialogue. The thoroughly planned activities will allow the students to be acquainted with the “otherness” of people, see how it feels to be in their place, and to implement the acquired knowledge and use it to create the educational tools in the struggle against intolerance. The motivation for this project arises from the observation of young people’s behavior towards others who may look different, have different religious beliefs or who may be refugees or emigrants. Students’ opinions are mostly based on stereotypes existing in our societies. Through our project we would like our students to become acquainted with another – the proper - way of thinking, and to show them the lifestyles of people living in remote parts of the world. The cooperation among the students from various countries based on common workshops, lectures, debates and teamwork will help in breaking the stereotypes. During discussions, games and activities the cosmopolitan aspect of our learners will be strengthened. The participants of the project should realize that despite the different lifestyles, we all understand the idea of tolerance in the same way. In the long term, such experiences ought to be practiced by the participants in order to promote mutual respect and to avoid discrimination. During the project, the students will be encouraged to look for places or people who have experienced some kind of intolerance or discrimination in their life. We wish to show young people, who live in peace and democracy now, how thin the line is between human rights and freedom or nationalism, between xenophobia and war. Not only will the participants acquire skills and abilities from this project but also will raise their awareness that tolerance and freedom are not always natural things and that we often have to nurture and care for them. The project will focus on young people at the age of 14-18 years old. Participant students will be enthusiastic, friendly ,creative, be eager and outgoing. They can be boys or girls. They should have at least A2 level English. Totally there are 64 students who will join the international activities but the project wants other students at school to play a more active role in national activities. There are 32 accompanying person. The accompanying persons should have English speaking competence. Our transnational activities are; Cooking (Demonstration and teaching host countries common food), each country will prepare one traditional food, Food festival,Traditional Dance(Demonstration and teaching), Language application, duolingo Teaching common words and phrases: 30 survival phrases in host countries language), walking exhibition-Graffiti related to tolerance,• Presentation about examples of extreme intolerance , Quiz "What do you know about ....?" - it refers to other countries,• A discussion about stereotypes, Traditional Games(Demonstration and teaching host countries ), Playing and learning street games, hand Craft(Demonstration and teaching host countries art),art festival ( Every countries will show one traditional art), Theatre performance related to the topic of tolerance and intolerance - workshops, Presentation and demonstration host countries music, Introducing a traditional instrument from every country, music quizzes, recreational activity preparing play list or jingle or karaoke, Preparing and conducting Oxford Debates about the issue of tolerance and discrimination, the presentations of HIP HOP songs. Besides this transnational activities we have also national activities such as organizing seminars about the "Learning from the Past" , museum visiting, Preparation traditional recipes book, preparing leaflet. The following methods will be used: research, case study, evaluation method, debates, questionnaire, portfolio, teamwork,brainstorming, mind maps, discussions, decision tree, role play, drama,analysis method,interview,exhibition(drawing graffiti about tolerance) The transnational meetings and short term students exchange will provide us some advantages such as improving the language skills, learning different ways of living and thinking in different cultures, and being more tolerant towards differences, traditions and values of other societies. Students will learn accept criticism and recognize their strengths and weaknesses.