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THE MAINLAND OF TOLERANCE - EUROPE

2019-1-DE03-KA229-0596332019School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: DE|RO|IT|TR|PL · Grant: €109,073.1
Inclusion - equitySocial/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project summary

The project involves 5 schools from 4 European and a candidate country : IT,PL,DE,RO and TR. According to the SWOT analysis done by each partner in their institution, the partners identified a series of common needs that lead to the decision to implement a project about tolerance. Violence, aggression, intolerance, racism, ethnic discrimination are tendencies that can be observed in the behavior of the students from all the partner countries. The World Values Survey shows that Poland, Turkey and Italy are the least racially tolerant countries, while Romania and Germany seem to be the most tolerant countries. This result along with the diverse educational and cultural background of the partners will facilitate the implementation of a successful project. The project objectives are: -to develop civic competences and increase self-esteem of students from 5 countries -to facilitate understanding the concepts “tolerance” and “mutual understanding” at a personal level and in the European context -to equip participants with practical examples for acting as civic-minded citizens -to raise awareness about diversity and cultural identities promoting social cohesion -to boost the feeling of belonging to the EU community As per the Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union, we visualize that this worldwide collaboration will set up our understudies for living in a multicultural society monitoring the EU esteems, acknowledging decent variety. Understudies will scatter resistance and common understanding as dynamic metro states of mind. For achieving the general point of widening the municipal mindedness stressing the significance of resilience and common understanding effect in day by day life, we chose to utilize an imaginative approach. To achieve the undertaking targets an inventive approach will be utilized. Joining the upsides of utilizing ICT in training with the Five Factor Model hypothesis will handle the 4 identity measurements: - receptiveness to understanding: understudies will be urged to express their feelings and thoughts utilizing Art. They will make together the motion picture "Resilience through my eyes", situations for the Forum theater, computerized photographs, will plan masterful minutes for the Festival of resistance and shared comprehension. -extraversion: team building activities, sports competitions and board games are going to stimulate students’ assertiveness, sociability and personality. -agreeableness: working in international teams and creating products together will develop students’ cooperation skills. The tangible products they will create together are flashcards about the topic, the dictionary of the project, handmade bookmarks and thematic puzzles. -neuroticism: students will experience (un)pleasant emotions, anger, depression, anxiety and vulnerability during the Forum theater/ theater activity. They will become aware of how intolerance is perceived by others, develop empathy and they will see how important is to be an active citizen. The use of ICT during the activities, supported by internal cognitive aspects of learning will lead to innovative outcomes results tackling learning abilities. The exercises are intended to build up the resistance, common comprehension, intercultural abilities, social and urban soul. The global participation will expand the culturally diverse information and comprehension about the nations, societies and qualities fortifying the sentiment having a place with a unified Europe. Various 25 students from each accomplice (matured in the vicinity of 14 and 17 years of age) will go to the transnational gatherings. Understudies will be chosen before the mobilities, utilizing straightforward criteria chose by each venture accomplice mulled over: English aptitudes, ICT abilities, inspiration and contribution in the school-based exercises. Various 10 instructors will be specifically engaged with the task mobilities, yet groups will be framed at the school level to encourage a superior execution of the undertaking. Roughly 2700 understudies and 120 instructors/grown-ups will by implication be associated with the task. Different members who will appreciate the advantages offered by this Erasmus+ venture are the regulatory staff, understudies' families, instructive staff, instructive guides, strategy producers and agents of the nearby experts. The substantial results of the venture are a sound word reference, photography presentation, timetable of the task, basic film, digital book, cheat sheets, topical riddles, carefully assembled bookmarks, venture website pages, venture logo, flyers, DVD of the undertaking, pamphlet. The impalpable outcomes are the improvement of fundamental abilities, key capabilities, social skyline, entomb social comprehension, group working aptitudes and learning about the subject. All the venture results will be made accessible on the task site.

Final report summary

The project involved 5 schools from 4 Member States of the European Union and one candidate country. : IT, PL, DE, RO and TR. Based on the SWOT analysis that each partner carried out in their institution, the partners identified a number of common needs that led to the decision to carry out a project on tolerance. Violence, aggression, intolerance, racism and ethnic discrimination are tendencies that can be observed in the behaviour of pupils from all partner countries. The World Values Survey shows that Poland, Turkey and Italy are the least racially tolerant countries, while Romania and Germany seem to be the most tolerant countries. The project objectives were: - Develop civic competences and increase self-esteem of students from 5 countries. - Facilitate understanding of the concepts of "tolerance" and "mutual understanding" on a personal level and in a European context. - Equip participants with practical examples of civic engagement - Raise awareness of diversity and cultural identities to promote social cohesion - Strengthen the sense of belonging to the EU community. To achieve the objectives of the project, a creative approach was used. By combining the benefits of using ICT in education with the hypothesis of the five-factor model, the 4 identity measures are addressed: - Open-mindedness to understanding: Students were encouraged to express their feelings and thoughts through the arts. They worked together to create the film "Resilience through my eyes", situations for forum theatre and computerised photographs. - Extraversion: Team-building activities and games promoted the students' assertiveness, sociability and personality. -Collaboration: By working in international teams and making products together, the students developed their collaboration skills. This resulted in products such as handmade bookmarks, puzzles and light graphittis. -Neuroticism: Students experienced (un)pleasant feelings, anger, depression, fear and vulnerability during the forum theatre/theatre activity. They became aware of how intolerance is perceived by others, developed empathy and realised the importance of being an active citizen. The exercises were designed to strengthen resilience, general understanding, intercultural skills and social and urban spirit. The five transnational meetings, two of which were conducted virtually, each involved 25 to 30 students aged between 12 and 22. The students were selected before the mobilities based on simple criteria set by each partner school: English proficiency, inspiration and contribution to school tasks. Different 12 teachers dealt specifically with the task mobilities, but groups were formed at school level to promote better implementation of the project. The main outputs of the project are a photo presentation, a timetable for the project, short video clips on the theme of tolerance and on each meeting, a digital book, jigsaw puzzles, handmade bookmarks, a project logo, a game.

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