The main objectives of the MOVE project - Mundos: Olhar|Ver a Escola / Worlds: Look|See the School - are: a) To improve the skills of teaching and non-teaching staff in terms of adopting an intercultural educational approach to respond better the differentiated needs of the intercultural educational community; b) Improve sociocultural adaptation and promote positive academic and psychosocial growth in students through the recognition and appreciation of diversity as an opportunity and source of learning for all; c) To improve students' intercultural knowledge, encouraging respect for the cultural specificities and interculturality of today's societies; d) Contribute to an "Inclusive School", planning the effective integration of each and every one of the students, through new methods, instruments and pedagogical techniques; e) Foster new practices of inclusion and equity in intercultural educational contexts; f) To promote contact with other forms of teaching and learning organization with a view to educational success, focusing on their applicability to our educational context; g) Develop intercultural and linguistic communication skills.
Agrupamento de Escolas Patrício Prazeres, in accordance with its educational project, and also given the fact that it is a TEIP School - Educational Territory of Priority Intervention and welcomes students from migrant communities (about a third of the total number of students in the grouping), considered of great importance the need for training in the area of interculturality and the resulting problems (inclusion, reception practices, inclusion of all), that is, we sought to train teaching and non-teaching staff in the field of inclusion and equity, intercultural education and communities migrants, project methodology, collaborative work in a similar European context, cultural diversity and its management in the classroom, European citizenship - awareness and democracy and improvement of intercultural and linguistic skills.