OBJECTIVES: 1. promoting inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories 2. reducing violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance and acceptance 3. actively involving students in activities that presuppose working in multicultural teams. 4. discouraging the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice based on isolated cases of misbehaviour. 5. enhancing the quality of the relationship among students of different cultural backgrounds and develop their social and communication skills 6. teaching social responsibility, which implies not only helping children become more conscious of the world around them, but also making them better understand themselves and people around them. If this is achieved, schools will evolve and become a place in which mutual support and inclusion are not an exception, but rather the norm. 7. participating in debates which help them developing skills, less represented in schools and formal education, – articulation, way of expression, freedom of thought, holding their ground. 8.Increasing pupils' ability to deal with negative online issues including cyber bullying and grooming by adults.
The main purpose of our project was to prevent social exclusion by preventing peer bullying, violence and hate speech, to ensure social integration of these students, to encourage 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.