The main purpose of our project is to enable students to take every opportunity to blossom by preventing social exclusion, peer bullying, violence and hate speech, to ensure social integration of these students, to urge students to debate and make them tolerant . Feeling insecure with their own abilities, the students and youth interact less and less among each other, less accepting other people’s consideration. A lot of students find it difficult to speak in front of others and rarely involve themselves in active social thinking and public speaking on recent society issues. Failure to school, peer tyranny and lack of social integration force these students to leave school early. Overcoming the negative effects of peer tyranny and self-confidence, self-esteem, social acceptance, tolerance is the basic need of all our partners to help them gain all basic skills. All the schools of the partnership recognized this as a big problem in their communities. Today's world map shows us an increasing intermingling of various cultures that have to or want to live together. More often than not, these colourful maps are often clouded by inherent conflicts and threats of imminent war. It is why we believe that the sooner we act, the better chance we will stand to prevent such conflicts from breaking out. The reason why we chose to make this a priority of our project is the fact that this entire phenomenon is also visible from early stages of life, at ages when children should try to see the beauty of life, should learn acceptance and tolerance and should be free from prejudices. Unfortunately, children are often shaped by the narrow-mindedness of adults in the spirit of intolerance, meanness and hatred against other people, which only ensures the preservations of such unsound attitudes and behaviours that have already caused problems in the past. The basic behaviour that students generally resort to at their age to show disrespect and lack of tolerance is bullying, a phenomenon which has increased steadily and affected an increasingly worrying number of students in the past years. Main project objective is creating a well-informed, competent, inquiring and active civil society. Participating in this project the students will be introduced how to present their consideration and opinion, to protect their status with confidence and rationality, and to make them tolerant to others contradictory viewpoints. Participating in practical lectures they will improve their oratorical skills and critical thinking, communication and presentation skills for better presenting themselves in a job interview. With this project the students will be taught how to inquire a problem from various viewpoints and taking the role of every affected side. We will set our project plot as 3 main stages contained in the students mobility and 3 substages with three Transnational meetings. These include activities such as: - CREATIVE DRAMA, DON’T BE A BULLY - NO HATE SPEECH, STOP CYBER BULLYING , -THE ART OF DEBATING, NO VIOLENCE WITH ART AND SPORT Products of the project: -E-Safety plan for schools -Handbook ‘The Art of Debating” -Materials for Short films and Sketches - Digital materials for blog, web-page -Materials for the yearly brochure -Newsletters translated into the language of all partners after each mobility and many other durable products . Main target group: students aged 12-18. Other beneficiaries of the project: teachers of the school, school staff, parents, local communities, local and national authorities, trainers. Duration of the project: 2 years.
Our detailed objectives were : 1. promote inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories 2. reduce violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance and acceptance 4. discourage the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice 5. enhance the quality of the relationship among students of different cultural backgrounds and develop their social and communication skills 6. teach social responsibility by not only helping children become more conscious of the world around them, but also making them better understand themselves and people around them. 7. participate in debates which helped them develop skills, – articulation, expression, freedom of thought, holding their ground. 8. increase pupils' ability to deal with negative online issues including cyber bullying and grooming by adults; 9. increase parents'/carers' ability to ensure online safety of children; 10. increase teachers' ability to provide support and guidance to pupils experiencing online issues; 11. develop pupils' wellbeing, emotional literacy and social skills; 12. Develop teachers' understanding and experience of different education systems, integrate specific UNICEF Rights of the Child articles.
We applied for this project mainly to reduce social exclusion by preventing peer bullying, violence and hate speech, to ensure social integration of students, to encourage students to debate, make them tolerant and respectful of others’ differences. Overcoming the negative effects of peer tyranny and self-confidence, self-esteem, social acceptance, tolerance was and still is the basic need of all our partners to help them gain all basic skills. All the schools of the partnership recognized this as a big problem in their communities. . The main project objective, was to contribute to the creation of well-informed, competent, inquiring and active civil society. Participating in this project, students were taught how to present their consideration and opinion, to protect their status with confidence and rationality, and to make them tolerant to others' contradictory viewpoints. Participating in practical lectures, they improved their oratorical skills and critical thinking, communication and presentation skills for better presenting themselves in a job interview. The students were also taught how to envision a problem from various viewpoints and taking the role of every affected side.