In this project, our objectives were; • to realize diversity and develop a sense of empathy and creating a culture of inclusion through raising awareness on different backgrounds • to support our teachers’ professional developments by promoting the use of inclusive teaching methods and technologies, so that to increase the quality of teaching and learning in our school • to promote daily living skills of students • to raise awareness on digital literacy and esafety • to enhance participants’ teamwork competence besides improving language and communication skills We wanted our members broaden their horizon by meeting new people from different backgrounds together with realising the diversity and developing a sense of empathy, promoting acceptance and inclusion of differences to achieve cultural awareness and expression competence. We wanted our students to understand the linguistic variety in Europe and to become aware of the need to learn foreign languages to achieve multilingual competence. We wanted to develop their critical thinking and teamwork abilities besides developing daily livingabilities, a life-long necessity for every person
We designed this project to address disabilities, social, economic and geographical barriers that students face in accessing national and international opportunities. As the partners from different social and cultural backgrounds but experiencing similar difficulties with our members, we associated with each other to produce solutions and to create a new dimension for each of us. We set the goal of inclusive school environment, including active participation, more communication, more tolerance and respect for every member of our organizations to open new doors to our members, to see different perspectives,to gain more transnational experience and to join European Education Area. We needed to widen our teachers’ perspective on diversity and inclusion and how to produce or transform accessible educational materials for an inclusive school environment. Moreover, we needed our students to learn about diversity and understand the importance of an inclusive environment besides learning basic digital skills and digital safety in addition to overcoming the difficulties of daily life skills such as cooking, sewing, time management.