The "My Europe - Your Europe - Your Say" project (ME-YOU-US) aims at teaching students age 11 to 14 to be more open-minded, more tolerant and empathic, learn about the universal human rights and get skills and habits of living and acting in communities in which community member feel valued and accepted, know their rights and obligations as citizens. The second major target group are the teachers who will get a tool and will be trained to acquire the skills of delivering trainings to students making use of the project outputs. The project makes use of the training programme of the "Otherness" Erasmus+ strategic partnership project (2015-2018) but takes it a step further both regarding contents and geographical spread. The ME-YOU-US project involves 3 new partners who will contribute with their expertise, experience and potential to deliver trainings to large numbers of teachers: a University of Social Sciences from Poland, a foundation working with vulnerable groups from Spain and a regional inspectorate of education from Romania. The new partners, together with the old partners from the "Otherness" project, will create 18 new teaching resources and the final edition of the Teacher's Manual (one of the project outputs) will comprise 66 teaching resources which will be used by teachers in the implementation phase. The second intellectual output is a collection of e-resources created with cutting edge technologies, which primarily are meant to be used as complimentary to the activities described in the Teacher's Manual, but could also be used independently by students as food for thought or tutorials for acquiring new skills. The final collection of the Digital Tool (intellectual output 2) will comprise 134 multimedia objects. A project website will be designed and regularly updates in 7 languages (English, and the partners' mother tongues). Both intellectual outputs will be freely available on the project website in the respective language version. The implementation phase of the project will involve some 7200 students in trainings making use of the training programme. The project will be implemented in 3 new countries (Poland, Spain and Romania) as well as in the old partner countries: Bulgaria, Portugal and Greece. The students in the ME-YOU-US project will take part in regular training activities during the two school years (2019/20 and 2020/21) on a weekly basis. Two opinion polls will be carried out to measure the changes in students' attitude to people, concepts and ideas which differ from the mainstream ones, their skills as active citizens and members of communities which care about and value all people regardless of their social status and cultural background.
The "My Europe - Your Europe - Your Say" project (ME-YOU-US) aimed at teaching students age 11 to 15 to be more open-minded, more tolerant and empathic, learn about the universal human rights and get skills and competences of living and acting in communities in which community member feels valued and accepted, know their rights and obligations as citizens. The second major target group were the teachers who got a tool and were trained so that they acquired the skills of delivering trainings to students making use of project outputs. The project used as a basis the manual of the "Otherness" Erasmus+ strategic partnership project (2015-2018) but took it a step further both regarding contents and geographical spread. The ME-YOU-US project involved some of the founding partner from Portugal and Greece, but also 3 new partners who contributed with their expertise, experience and potential to deliver trainings to larger numbers of numbers of teachers. The new partners were representatives of different stakeholders involved in school education - a representative of tertiary education, of regional authorities in school education and a nongovernmental organization working with vulnerable groups. The partners revised and upgraded the training resources from the "Otherness" project, created 18 new teaching resources (lesson plans and accompanying digital resources) and the final edition of the Resource Pack finally comprises 66 teaching resources which were used by teachers in the implementation phase. The collection of e-resources was created with cutting edge technologies. They are primarily meant to be used as complimentary to the activities described in the Teacher's Manual, but could also can be used independently by students as food for thought or tutorials for acquiring new skills. A project website was designed in 7 languages (English, and the partners' mother tongues - Bulgarian, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish). Both intellectual outputs are freely available on the project website in the respective language version. The implementation phase of the project involved some 5200 students in training activities making use of the Resource Pack created within the project. The project was implemented in 3 new countries (Poland, Spain and Romania) as well as in the old partner countries: Bulgaria, Portugal and Greece. The students in the ME-YOU-US project took part in regular training activities during two school years (2019/20 and 2020/21) on a monthly basis. Two opinion polls were carried out to analyse what we have achieved by designing the Resource pack and organizing training activities with it. We evaluated the changes in students' attitude to people, the new concepts and ideas they learned about and embraced, their skills as active citizens and members of communities, as citizens who care about and value all people regardless of their social status or cultural background. The poll questions can be grouped in several categories: Differences between people, Tolerance – Diversity – Mistreatment, Traditions– Culture – Refugees/Migrants, Socioeconomic Status, Disabilities, Aggressive Behaviour and Human Rights. There are positive changes in all categories, especially concerning the percentage of students who initially indicated they had no opinion, were not sure in their understanding of the poll questions or stated that they were neither for nor against the statements. Project results and findings were disseminated through the partner websites and internal networks, through the project Facebook page, through the multiplier events organized as face-to-face events in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece, and through the project web site. According to Google analytics, which was activated in December 2019, the monthly average of visitors is 131 sessions, corresponding to 715 page views; the ratio of new to returning visitors is 53% to 47% for the project duration; the vast majority of visitors to the website come from the countries of the partner institutions in the project, but access from other countries in the EU, the USA and China is also relevant.