CONTEXT Recent years have shown a constantly growing need for governments to protect human rights and this came along with a growing acceptance of the need for human rights education. Human rights education is now recognised worl wide as fundamental component of education. However, not all the European educational systems have paid attention to this topic, so that schools must take the initiative in creating their own materials and including Human Rights elements in curricular and extracurricular activities. Through this project, the partners wish to learn one FRom another and analyse HR education in different European countries. OBJECTIVES The project aims to achieve the following objectives: 1. Enable practice exchange between European teachers, so that they collaborate in the design of common teaching materials 2. Improve students’ and teachers’ knowledge regarding human rights; related documents; children’s rights; rights prob-lems; means of defending one’s rights 3. Strengthen communication and cooperation between students, teachers and students-teachers 4. Expand cultural awareness and social, ethnic and cultural diversity acceptance 5. Enable students to accept and adopt the tolerance, non-discrimination, alterity, equality 6. Support a culture for active citizenship regarding human rights 7. Increase the learning motivation of the pupils 8. Improve transferrable skills – such as analytical and critical thinking, planning, argumentation 9. Improve language competence, mainly in English ACTIVITIES We intend to organize preparatory, dissemination and application activities in all partner schools. The local activities will occur before and after every LTTA, thus ensuring the flow and cohesion of the 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 – Greece - Celebrating diversity PARTICIPANTS Our target audience consists of students from 5 to 14 years old. All schools we will choose 20 or above this number of students FRom the same class and with these they will work during the entire period of the project. The group selection is based on criteria mutually agreed upon by school partners. The class is recommended to have students with a wide range/mixed abilities, also have special educational needs students and / or even have a combination of diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. At C1 will participate 3 teachers per country, that will contribute to the common resources’ development and to the publica-tion of the Human Rights course for students between 5 to 14 year olds. RESULTS Our main result will be represented by a collaborative HR course. The student exchanges and all the local activities will have the following outcomes : worksheets, lesson plans, resources, students’ work, pictures, movies, website materials, Twinspace dissemination, dissemination made on Fb pages. The management activity of the project will have the following results: initial/final evaluation papers, progress/final reports, various dissemination materials, attendance certificates. IMPACT All partner schools will know an improvement regarding their human resources’ expertise and experience, regarding human rights education and Erasmus+ projects. Teachers stablish new connections with the local community members, NGOs, au-thorities, thus strenghtening the cooperation between the school and the community. Also, the schools will enrich their mate-rial basis with the course published within this project. They will be promoted in their local area, among other schools and institutions.
Recent years and some events have shown a growing need to raise the issue of the protection of human rights.Respecting the rights is now recognized around the world as one of the main issues of education. However, not all European education systems have paid attention to this topic, so schools must take the lead in creating their own materials and integrating human rights elements into curricular and extra-curricular activities.Through this project, partners learned from each other and analyzed HR education in different European countries. The main goals of the project are: - disseminating knowledge about human rights, in particular in the context of the rights of children and pupils, - increasing the awareness of the legal subjectivity of a human being as a citizen, - developing communication skills in students' English, - development of digital education, - learning about the traditions and lifestyle of young people in different countries. The project was aimed at primary school students, their teachers, parents and the local community. Over 3500 students and teachers were introduced to the results, a group of over 100 people directly participated in project meetings. We started working on the project by creating a team consisting of teachers and willing students. As a coordinator, we created a closed group on Facebook for teachers from partner countries. All this to improve the flow of information. Moreover, each school created Erasmus corners, special places in the school where students and teachers could follow the stages of the project implementation. The next step was to set up the project's website, which we updated on a regular basis. An equally important goal for us was to create opportunities for our students to communicate in English, to test and use their skills. Tasks such as introducing yourself to an open Facebook group, preparing a logo proposal were to be motivating, and were also to be a milestone towards breaking the language barrier. Working on the project was conducive to getting to know new cultures, the diversity of other nations, taught respect and tolerance for others, and allowed to present the beauty of partner countries. In order to achieve this goal, the students prepared presentations for which they took photos and created descriptions and even poems that were presented at the meeting in Turkey. During the visit, seminars were also held on the main substantive aspects of the project, including training on the rights of people, citizens, discussion with experts on this topic. However, the main emphasis was placed on discussing the rights of the child, the student. Each of the partners presented in the form of a presentation how these rights are implemented in individual schools. In addition to working meetings, the delegations participated in the daily life of the facility, watched lessons in various subjects, which allowed to feel the atmosphere of teaching in the Istanbul school. Deepening the subject of human rights, while implementing the project meeting in Poland, we put emphasis on the presentation and analysis of basic documents, declarations and treaties related to this topic. Students and teachers participated in workshops that presented the essence of these documents in an interesting way. Students got to know the education system in Poland, during geography lessons they had the opportunity to present their countries and learn interesting information about other nations. The multimedia English lesson was an example of how to talk about your appearance, describe yourself and others in an interesting way. At the next project meeting, we focused on children's rights (the Convention on the Rights of the Child). During the workshop, we focused on the issues of equality, diversity and social justice in the context of children and their rights. As a result of these activities, posters promoting children's rights were created, an international Olympics and art classes were held. The last meeting due to the epidemic was held with the use of IT resources. The main topic was to draw attention to which human rights are not respected in individual countries and how to prevent it. Each country made a presentation on the subject. Attention was also paid to the diversity of each person. The students recorded interviews with their friends who came to school from other countries. The students in the films commented on the difficulties they faced in their new home, school, but also what they liked and how they settled in.The online workshop: "Associations that defend human and children's rights" was a summary of this topic. Each meeting is not only HR workshops, but also English and geography lessons, which means creating a bank of scenarios for interesting activities that teachers can use in the following years. We strongly believe that another long-term benefit will be the attitude of our students full of respect for others and the ability to build proper relationships with people.