CONTEXT Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the need for governments to protect people’s human rights and this has been accompanied by an increasing acceptance of the need for human rights education. Education for human rights is now recognised internationally as an important component of school based education, higher education and community based education. Unfortunately, however, not all the systems of education throughout Europe have placed importance or given special attention to this topic area, so schools sometimes have to take the initiative in designing their own materials and including elements of Human Rights education in curricular and extracurricular activities. Through this project, all partners want to learn from each other and analyse the state of things related to HR education in different countries of Europe. OBJECTIVES The project intends to achieve the following objectives: 1. Enable European teachers to exchange practices and work collaboratively for the creation of common teaching materials 2. Improve students’ and teachers’ knowledge about the nature of human rights; human rights documents; children’s rights; rights issues; means of defending one’s rights 3. Improve communication and collaboration student-student, teacher-teacher, teacher-student 4. Develop cultural awareness and acceptance of social, ethnic and cultural diversity 5. Enable students to embrace the shared values of tolerance, non-discrimination, acceptance of alterity, equality at all levels 6. Create a culture for active citizenship in matters of human rights 7. Increase students’ learning motivation 8. Improve transferrable skills – analytical and critical thinking, planning, prioritizing, argumentation 9. Improve language competence (English and other languages) ACTIVITIES We are planning to organize preparatory and dissemination and application activities in each of the five partner schools. The local activities will take place before and after each LTTA, in order to ensure the flow and cohesion of all project activities. The Learning/Teaching/Training activities are scheduled in this order: C1 – Turkey - Human Rights Education in Europe (short-term training event) C2 – Poland - Human Rights Documents for use with students C3 – Romania - Children’s rights C4 – Italy - Taking action to defend human rights C5 – France - Celebrating diversity PARTICIPANTS Our target audience is made up of students 11-14. Each school will select a number of 20 or more students in the same class with whom they will work from the beginning of the project until the end. The selection of this group will be based on criteria agreed upon by partners. That is, as much as possible, the class should be mixed ability, have SEN students and / or have a mixture of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. C1 will be attended by 3 teachers from each country, teachers who will contribute to the development of the common resources and the publication of the final product of the project – Human Rights course for 11-14 year olds. RESULTS Our main result will consist of a collaborative HR course, which will be initiated at the beginning of the project and finalized after the last student exchange. The student exchanges and local activities will produce the following results: worksheets, lesson plans, lesson resources, students’ work, photos, videos, website dissemination materials, Twinspace dissemination and interaction evidence, FB page. The project management activity will have the following outputs: initial and final evaluation documents, progress and final reports, dissemination materials, certificates of attendance. IMPACT All partner schools will improve the expertise and experience of their human resources, both in terms of human rights education and Erasmus+ projects. Teachers create new connections with members of the local communities, NGOs, authorities, which can strengthern the cooperation between the school and the local community. The schools will also improve their material basis with the course materials produced collaboratively. They will become more visible in their areas, both in the school and the non-school communities.
CONTEXT Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the need for governments to protect people’s human rights and this has been accompanied by an increasing acceptance of the need for human rights education. Education for human rights is now recognised internationally as an important component of school based education, higher education and community based education. Unfortunately, however, not all the systems of education throughout Europe have placed importance or given special attention to this topic area, so schools sometimes have to take the initiative in designing their own materials and including elements of Human Rights education in curricular and extracurricular activities. Through this project, all partners want to learn from each other and analyse the state of things related to HR education in different countries of Europe. OBJECTIVES The project intends to achieve the following objectives: 1. Enable European teachers to exchange practices and work collaboratively for the creation of common teaching materials 2. Improve students’ and teachers’ knowledge about the nature of human rights; human rights documents; children’s rights; rights issues; means of defending one’s rights 3. Improve communication and collaboration student-student, teacher-teacher, teacher-student 4. Develop cultural awareness and acceptance of social, ethnic and cultural diversity 5. Enable students to embrace the shared values of tolerance, non-discrimination, acceptance of alterity, equality at all levels 6. Create a culture for active citizenship in matters of human rights 7. Increase students’ learning motivation 8. Improve transferrable skills – analytical and critical thinking, planning, prioritizing, argumentation 9. Improve language competence (English and other languages) ACTIVITIES We are planning to organize preparatory and dissemination and application activities in each of the five partner schools. The local activities will take place before and after each LTTA, in order to ensure the flow and cohesion of all project activities. The Learning/Teaching/Training activities are scheduled in this order: C1 – Turkey - Human Rights Education in Europe (short-term training event) C2 – Poland - Human Rights Documents for use with students C3 – Romania - Children’s rights C4 – Italy - Taking action to defend human rights C5 – France - Celebrating diversity PARTICIPANTS Our target audience is made up of students 11-14. Each school will select a number of 20 or more students in the same class with whom they will work from the beginning of the project until the end. The selection of this group will be based on criteria agreed upon by partners. That is, as much as possible, the class should be mixed ability, have SEN students and / or have a mixture of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. C1 will be attended by 3 teachers from each country, teachers who will contribute to the development of the common resources and the publication of the final product of the project – Human Rights course for 11-14 year olds. RESULTS Our main result will consist of a collaborative HR course, which will be initiated at the beginning of the project and finalized after the last student exchange. The student exchanges and local activities will produce the following results: worksheets, lesson plans, lesson resources, students’ work, photos, videos, website dissemination materials, Twinspace dissemination and interaction evidence, FB page. The project management activity will have the following outputs: initial and final evaluation documents, progress and final reports, dissemination materials, certificates of attendance. IMPACT All partner schools will improve the expertise and experience of their human resources, both in terms of human rights education and Erasmus+ projects. Teachers create new connections with members of the local communities, NGOs, authorities, which can strengthern the cooperation between the school and the local community. The schools will also improve their material basis with the course materials produced collaboratively. They will become more visible in their areas, both in the school and the non-school communities.