CONTEXT/BACKGROUND The LSD20/22 KA2 project brings together four schools from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and France around two priorities of the Erasmus+ program : “Social inclusion” and “Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to increase pupils from minority backgrounds (Roma, migrants...) inclusion and achievement in four European schools with their specificities. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to a better living/working/succeeding together, a better understanding of ESL, a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship. The LSD20/22 project should be funded to finance both its management and implementation and secondly four Learning, Teaching,Training Activities respectively organized in each school. OBJECTIVES Pupils and teachers involved will follow three main goals : learning from our diversity and building an intercultural approach to European identity, improving teaching competences through learning from project partners and enabling success for all learners. It expects individual and collective results : a global result combining promoting inclusive schools and strengthening European citizenship. This global result should be achieved by working on it during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making several collective products (cultural boxes, Storytelling portraits, dance, escape game, sketches about school…). ETWINNING The already created Twinspace will be the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It will include tools devoted to online teaching, learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It will also be used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 Twinspace will allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information. NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS The LSD20/22 project provides that participants will be teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from eleven to fifteen years old from our four respective schools. Schools gather nearly 1,650 pupils and 180 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 150 students and nearly 30 teachers/non-teaching staff members will be involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them in each school 12 students and 6 teachers/non-teaching staff members will travel and discover a new European country during each of the four Learning/Teaching/Training activities. Traveling participants will be chosen in each school by a committee including teachers and administrative staff. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities by particularly enabling pupils with academic difficulties to be part as far as possible of each delegation participating in a mobility : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and to have a positive attitude in discovering different cultures. ACTIVITIES Each school will organize a five-day exchange of groups of pupils with partners' delegations of four pupils and two adults : C1 France (March 2021), C2 Greece (May 2021), C3 Bulgaria (November 2021), C4 Serbia (April 2022). METHODOLOGY The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of at least one representative from each of the four partner schools. The school partners will be organized in school teams. Two partners (France and Greece) will both organize a three-day Project Management meeting with partners' delegations of two adults (with Project Management and Implementation funds). FOLLOW-UP Assessments, questionnaires and evaluation of educational activities will allow to report on students long-lasting effects with lifelong learning skills. Not-so motivated students and students with learning disabilities will benefit from reflections, experiments and educational innovations. Our dissemination plan is built in two dimensions (horizontal with all activities to strengthen communication and dissemination between participants ; vertical with all activities designed to actually reach the target groups, stakeholders and final users) and will use two types of media (traditional media and media created specifically for the project like Erasmus corners in each school, an Etwinning Twinspace, a website, a Facebook page and an Instagram page).
CONTEXT/BACKGROUND The LSD20/22 KA2 project brings together four schools from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and France around two priorities of the Erasmus+ program : “Social inclusion” and “Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to increase pupils from minority backgrounds (Roma, migrants...) inclusion and achievement in four European schools with their specificities. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to a better living/working/succeeding together, a better understanding of ESL, a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship. The project changed from KA1 to KA2 in 2019 when Serbia and Greece joined the project in 2019. France contacted the new teams on School Getaway and eTwinning to invite them to join the initial project. During the project, the Greek school changed. It used to be inclusive for refugee-immigrant students but then changed to a Model School, which means that students need to pass a written exam in the Greek language and in Mathematics to be accepted, thus becoming impossible for immigrant children to enter. OBJECTIVES Pupils and teachers involved follow three main goals : learning from our diversity and building an intercultural approach to European identity, improving teaching competences through learning from project partners and enabling success for all learners. It expects individual and collective results : a global result combining promoting inclusive schools and strengthening European citizenship. This global result should be achieved by working on it during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making several collective products (Storytelling portraits, dance, vidéo, interviews, European anthem). Improve English-speaking skills for students and teachers. Improve the school climate in our school through different activities. ETWINNING The already created Twinspace is the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It include tools devoted to online teaching, learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It is also used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 Twinspace allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information. It was used during different phases of the project: to vote for the logo, send Christmas cards, post interviews NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS The LSD20/22 project provides that participants are teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from eleven to nineteen years old from our four respective schools. Schools gather nearly 1,650 pupils and 180 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 150 students and nearly 30 teachers/non-teaching staff members are involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them in each school 12 students and 6 teachers/non-teaching staff members travel and discover a new European country during each of the four Learning/Teaching/Training activities. Traveling participants are chosen in each school by a committee including teachers and administrative staff. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities by particularly enabling pupils with academic difficulties to be part as far as possible of each delegation participating in a mobility : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and to have a positive attitude in discovering different cultures. For the recruitment, no student was excluded from the selection. They wrote a letter to express their motivation and why they wanted to participate in a mobility. For the first mobility to France, only the students who had a sanitary pass could travel so it made the selection easier (or more difficult since few students had been vaccinated). ACTIVITIES Because of Covid, the dates had to be changed. C1: France in March 2022 C2: Bulgaria in May 2022 C3: Serbia in September 2022 C4: Greece in May 2023 METHODOLOGY The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of at least one representative from each of the four partner schools. Two partners (France and Greece) organized a three-day Project Management meeting with partners' delegations of two adults. WhatsApp, emails, and Google Drive were used to exchange, as well as Zoom for online meetings. Facebook and Instagram were used to communicate about the project and expose what had been done. FOLLOW-UP During each mobility, activities were organized to work on and reflect on school climate, improve psychosocial skills, the integration of migrant children, children from the Rom community or children in difficulty. Questionnaires were given to students after each mobility to find out if the trip corresponded to what they had expected, if their English level had improved, if they managed to link up with the other students they had met, if they enjoyed the activities proposed, how to improve future mobilities... As a result, it was made clear that our project improved the English speaking and communication skills of children and adults, a better understanding of what it is to be a European citizen.