With the implementation of the projects, there were goals to achieve. Parents: - are better involved in school and community life (priority: civic engagement and participation), - understand and integrate into the local school system, thus feeling included in the decision-making processes (priority: inclusion and diversity), - know how to support and to understand their child at home (priority: common values), - cooperate with the teachers and school staff to support their child, thus ensuring a more positive and supportive working environment for the teachers and staff and contributing to their physical and mental well-being (priority: supporting teachers and school staff), - cooperate with other parents and benefit from an intercultural learning activity, by sharing their culture and civic society experiences (priority: inclusion and diversity, civic engagement). As a result of the project a support material containing workshop guidelines and video situations will be elaborated for other organisations to use.
The number and the diversity of the international families was growing in all partner schools in Estonia, France and Germany. On the bright side, international families brough their culture and brightness to the school. At the same time , the new stage brought challenges for the partner schools. The communication with international parents and building trust with them was not easy due to language and cultural difference. Furthermore, it was difficult to provide the information to parents and make it easy for them to understand how the school systems worked. Different cultural backgrounds resulted in various expectations from parents regarding how school works, communication manners and times with teachers, school visiting hours, school life, methods of supporting child at home, etc. The need for all the partner schools were to establish common grounds with parents and teachers to support better to the children, help them understand school reality.