The SchoolWebRadio project also called SWR, is a cooperation and networking between European school organizations that describes our commitment to using creativity, innovation and artistic expression in a way that contributes to: • Opposition to racism and fanaticism, shielding democratic nature of society, understanding social, ethnic, linguistic religious and cultural diversity, preventing students from adopting discriminatory attitudes, intolerant, bullying, social exclusion and generally contribute to the cultivation of a culture of peace, non-violence and social justice. • Creating a healthy and sustainable community by raising awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. Students are encouraged to better understand the world in which they live, realizing the complexity and the systemic nature of both sustainable development and environmental issues. We are determined to help protecting the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations. The SchoolWebRadio Project will take the form of an attractive and modern Web Radio with Portal aiming at making learning more challenging. It will be on air 24 hours 365 days a year with scheduled music and broadcasts. The production of the broadcasted programmes will be created by the school communities and within the limits of school procedures and will be based on volunteerism. It will serve educational and entertainment targets for students aged 13 to 18. The project aims in engaging students in activities/results/broadcasts that directly related with European values, so as to acquire necessary social and intercultural competencies, skills and abilities associated with citizenship, through the promotion of democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and anti-discrimination, as well as active participation in society. Through the activities of the project we want to create socially balanced people, who dedicate themselves to persons or a purpose, people who take responsibilities, feel comfortable and show a positive attitude towards themselves and others. Their emotional world is an essential director and shaper of their personality after exercising great power and influence on their activities, strengthening the qualities that make them better completed persons. The SchoolWebRadio project mainly aims to develop the above skills, into students, who could not perhaps be distinguished into a conventional intelligence test (cognitive intelligence). Our goal is to support our schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) by offering alternative quality education, enabling success for all students, from the lowest to the highest end of the academic spectrum, including children with a migrant background who might face specific (e.g. linguistic) challenges. Disadvantaged students, even early leavers will find this very attractive and alluring. Taking into consideration that the radio as a medium helps students to express themselves and socialize, the Web Radio Portal will be designed friendlier for such target groups; The radio production broadcasts will be addressed to students without discriminations, while no strict assessment within the project is required; this explains the reason why it will be a successful method to motivate all students to learn. The project will show the ideas, the creations, the concerns of the school community and it will answer to the school community for a more dynamic and direct way of contact and education of children with the wider environment, taking into consideration students’ great interests towards new technologies.
The SchoolWebRadio project also called SWR, is a cooperation and networking between three European school organizations that describes our commitment to using creativity, innovation and artistic expression in a way that contributes to: • Opposition to racism and fanaticism, shielding democratic nature of society, understanding social, ethnic, linguistic religious and cultural diversity, preventing students from adopting discriminatory attitudes, intolerant, bullying, social exclusion and generally contribute to the cultivation of a culture of peace, non-violence and social justice. • Creating a healthy and sustainable community by raising awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. The main idea was to develop a Networked European School Web Radio (SWR) which can deliver an attractive, challenging, creative environment for learning and communication. Eventually, the (SWR) project became a ‘learning community’ because it: • inspired various kind of learning and recreational activities around a web radio. • promoted collaboration especially between students and students and educators. • made schools come closer among them but also with the local and wider community. • developed of critical thinking and speech, democratic ideas. The SchoolWebRadio Project took the form of an attractive and modern Web Radio with Portal aiming at making learning more challenging. It is on air 24 hours 365 days a year with scheduled music and broadcasts. The production of the broadcasted programmes has been created by the school communities and within the limits of school procedures and was based on volunteerism. It serves educational and entertainment targets for students aged 13 to 18. The project engageded students in activities/results/broadcasts that directly related with European values, so as to acquire necessary social and intercultural competencies, skills and abilities associated with citizenship, through the promotion of democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and anti-discrimination, as well as active participation in society. Through the activities of the project we wanted to create socially balanced people, who dedicate themselves to persons or a purpose, people who take responsibilities, feel comfortable and show a positive attitude towards themselves and others. Their emotional world was an essential director and shaper of their personality after exercising great power and influence on their activities, strengthening the qualities that make them better completed persons. The Project provided the necessary tools and skills in order to successfully incorporate web-based radio activities into the school's educational settings in an innovative way. The project seeked action by student themselves on preventing and dealing with racist incidents and promote change in the environment for the cultivation of values, such as equality and respect for the rights of all. Our basic goal and vision was to build on solid bases for our common future. We strongly believe that this could be achieved through education and radio voice for peace, to highlight the broader values that should distinguish our youth, values such as tolerance, respect, acceptance of diversity, equity and opposition to the rhetoric of hate. Within Partners schools a number of teachers from different subjects like Art, Design and Technology, Home economics, Geography , Music etc., will fill a range of permanent and long term roles in our project. As a general rule the associate teachers were selected in order to maximize the impact of the expected results of the project. We estimate that around 200 students (age 13 to 16) participated in the project by creating or taking part in radio products with the guidance of their teachers, and by participating as users of the Web Radio Platform. Generally, the involvement of students was spread to all the stages of the project activities having roles from preparation stage to dissemination of the project results. As well as during development of the Radio as they participated in groups either of technical support or production of a broadcasting programmes. School students renew the Radio Website with news and issues, they produced music playlists with their own voices included, they took interviews and they told various news that concerns students. The impact of the project was not only measured in terms of the quality of the projects results but also in terms of results visibility and their use outside the project. The project addressedd its results to: • Pupils ; • School Teachers ; • Educational community; • Pupils’ parents ; • Entire school staff ; • Local and National education authorities; • Teaching associations; • Teaching reviews; • Regional/national events for teachers; • Educational multipliers and policy makers ; • Local and national authorities ; • Erasmus+ agency ; • NGOs ;