By implementing our project activities and getting positive results, we aimed to achieve the following: -Increase awareness of equal opportunities in education: Ensuring the full participation of disadvantaged students in educational processes. -Develop tolerance and empathy: Supporting students' social-emotional development by promoting respect for differences. -Increasing interaction through art and culture: To enable students to gain different perspectives through art exhibitions, theatre and multilingual joint singing activities. -Using digital tools consciously: To enable students to collaborate while developing their digital skills through game design activities. Developing respect awareness through cyberbullying activities. -Creating a sustainable impact: Creating awareness for students and teachers and disseminating the achievements gained within the scope of the project in the long term. With our project, we aimed to increase inclusiveness in education and make the awareness of equal opportunities in education permanent by supporting the development of our students not only academically but also socially and emotionally.
At the beginning , we conducted a need analysis with our partners and concluded that we needed improvement on inclusion. In the survey we conducted: ‘Do we respect our differences and does everyone have the same educational conditions?’ the response rates were: 69.3% no (Italy), 76.1% no (Poland), 82.2% no (Turkey). We found that differences are not respected and that all individuals do not have equal opportunities . We took action to change for the better the attainment of equality of opportunities and respect for differences in education. We planned activities to meet the needs of disadvantaged students in our institutions (migrants through war, lower-upper intelligence group, broken families, etc.) to be educated under equal conditions and to feel belonging to the community they are in, to gain self-confidence, to accept their differences and to realise their strengths; to meet the needs of all students and teachers to respect differences. These needs: We planned activities with the themes of tolerance, empathy, respect and equality and made the results sustainable by supporting our children psychologically. Our activities: Art: painting exhibition, Culture: theatre, Multilingualism: common song Digital tools: game design.