CONTEXT El ceip La Marina is located in the neighborhood of the port of Castellón where the fisheries, port economy and large chemical plants have favored a strong immigration since 1950. The majority of immigrants come from the Andalusia, Basque Country and Maghreb as well as Eastern Europe and South America. Most families within the community come from the lower-middle class. Many face problems presented by unemployment, single-parent families, orphanage and migration. Our project aims to be a common thread among all three countries at a formative and informative level throughout all sectors to promote a more tolerant, participatory, equitable and equal way of thinking. ANTECEDENTS Our center has participated in European projects from 2000-2011 through Comenius and from 2012-present through Erasmus+. OBJECTIVES This new project addresses the social and educational reality within our school: being that more than 50% of students require special attention due to compensatory needs, special learning needs and challenges presented from immigration. This is precisely why the transnational nature of the project is so important. Dance, language, culture and technology are a critical part of the educational program that work to maintain a communicative, peaceful and inclusive Europe. These objectives stem from the needs of the previously stated context and are adjusted to those needs of our partner countries. We intend to use dance as a form of unity and social integration, promoting co-existence, inclusion and digital equality by conceiving dance as tissue of intercultural articulation. We will also consider the technological reality present for European communication and relation. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS -Students- With more than 3150 students from different countries and social classes between the ages of 3-12. -Professors-Who teach pre-school and primary school and belong to Spain (the coordinating center), Romania, Italy and Slovakia -AMPA and the parents of the students -Cultural and Institutional Associations All of the the above are a part of our project and require a participatory and integrative sentiment that is open to current needs. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES The project is intended for pre-school and primary school students from all participating schools and will stem from the needs and wants of the teaching cycles of those participating in the development of the project and from the coordination between the three schools. They will have playful, attractive and appropriate behavior according to their different educational level or grade. According to their implementation, they will be Nationals and Transnationals including all the educational population. They will vary according to profile: formation, participation and performance METHODOLOGY TO BE IMPLEMENTED The method of the project will be based on: THE PARTICIPATION: All sectors will participate in the preparation OPENNESS AND FLEXIBILITY: To promote inclusion and address the modifications necessary to obtain this INTERRELATION: of both the different countries and of the different areas of knowledge involved ACTIVE AND HOLISTIC EDUCATION: The parts of an integrative, motivating and practical education for everyday life DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS, IMPACTS AND LONG TERM BENEFITS The project intends to ensure that our students learn to live their lives with tolerance and respect within a motivating framework and to generate new knowledge that will help them to achieve their goals on an emotional, cognitive and personal level. It will also promote the development of a resolutive capacity in order to face professional challenges. This knowledge of cultural diversity through ICT and its collective digital competence will prepare students for the current reality, while also promoting activities related to art and communication within social networks. This will assist with professional preparation at a national and international level. New technologies will provide access to blogs, platforms, web pages, chats, video conferences, recordings, digital tutorials, short films etc. In addition, it is expected to improve educational preparation, formation and philosophy in search of a more open and enriching society. The impact of this project will affect all educational and social sectors by improving living conditions and knowledge (the webpage already has 31,000 visitors). It will also improve the relationship and proximity with partner countries, as well as improve the cultural environment (conservatory of dance, music school, cultural entities, universities, theater groups and film groups). The inclusive, open and informative nature of this project will allow the expansion of information to many different population groups that access the website: students, educational professionals, families, universities, training centers and other interested users. CEIP La Marina has 6 pre-school units, 12 primary, 29 teachers and 11 non-teaching employees.
1.Context CEIP La Marina has students from different backgrounds and is located in a fishing area with families with a medium-low socioeconomic level. In addition, the project coincided with the period of total lockdown and the suspension of scheduled activities, as well as their replacement by online classes. Finally, it is worth mentioning the arrival of Ukrainian students due to the war, which highlighted the need for an inclusive and integrating, tolerant and participatory school. 2. Background La Marina school, as well as its partners, participated in European projects during the years 2000-2011 (COMENIUS) and from 2012 to 2022 (ERASMUS+). 3.Objectives The project "Europe united by dancing" gave social and educational response in the center, due to its high percentage of students with SEN (Specific Educational Support Needs) and migrants. Framed in the use of dance, languages, culture and technology as the backbone of all the activities that surrounded it, this project achieved the goal of creating a communicated, peaceful and inclusive Europe. Participants Both the students of the different countries (3-5 years), as well as the teachers, some cultural and institutional groups, associations and individuals and other external people with passive participation through access to the website, social networks and Results Platform, have been participants of the Project. All of them have been part of our project that required a participatory, inclusive and open to current needs feeling. It is important to highlight the participation of groups and people working for others who have been incorporated as the project progressed thanks to the optimal management of the budget. Description of activities The activities, aimed at the preprimary and primary school students of all the participating centers, were based on their needs and were intended to be attractive and with didactic-pedagogical significance, always adapting to the school levels and above all to the circumstances experienced (confinement and sanitary measures). This means that instead of attending some of the programmed activities in spaces outside the center, they were adapted to inside the center to avoid transfers and comply with the measures. They were also classified into national or transnational and according to their nature, into training, participation and exhibition activities (as can be seen on the project website). Methodology All sectors were involved in its preparation (teachers, families, pupils, local sectors such as associations, cultural organizations, individuals, local sites, etc.). Flexibility and adaptation have been fundamental aspects during the time allotted for the execution of the project due to the different situations experienced, such as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The pandemic forced us to paralyze the whole project for a year and a half and led us to confirm the need to use ICT and to modify and replace some of the activities initially proposed. The arrival of Ukrainian students helped us to include activities that invited them to become part of our community through the project and dance. 7.Long-term results and benefits. With all of the above we managed to get our students to learn to relate and live together in an inclusive, tolerant and respectful way, within a motivating and generating framework of new knowledge that would promote cognitive, emotional and social development. The use of ICT as the main element to carry out collaborative activities and the knowledge of cultural diversity, thanks to the work of dance and music, as well as the different languages and customs, promoted the improvement of digital and cultural competences of the participants, necessary for a professional and personal orientation as individuals in a multicultural and globalized society. With this project "Europe united by dancing" it has been achieved that all members who have participated in it and, especially, the students, have been introduced in a guided way in technological learning and learned some of the basic principles of coexistence, such as tolerance, equity or peace that contribute to a more open and plural society. On the other hand, the impact of the project will have repercussions not only at the center level but also at the social level, since the final task (a musical film whose story is set at the time of the pandemic) will remain as a sample of a historical fact that can be accessed in the future. Likewise, the project has had and will continue to have an impact on all educational and social sectors, showing good practices that will serve as an example for others, strengthening the relationship and cultural proximity.