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.ERASMUS+KA229: Multiculturality, diversity, integration - equal opportunities for everyone (2019-2022)

Multiculturality, diversity, integration - equal opportunities for everyone" – these are the most important challenges for today’s Europe. In a more and more diverse and multicultural society people face with a dual situation: to be able for a deeply integration or to preserve their cultural/ethnic identity. Partners are Romania, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Estonia, Republic of North Macedonia
The problems are: difficulties to integrate students of minorities, refugees, with different backgrounds in every day school life; lack of competences and important skills for most of students from a risk situation– communication or intercultural skills, lack of self-confidence and support, problems of identity, the gap between majority and minorities students – they are not eager to better know the traditions or cultural values of the others; discrimination or marginalization of minorities, refugees or migrants; difficulties to learn the languages in their new countries.

1st mobility was on november 2019. It has been extended until the end of 2022.

AIMS

This project will help our students to come closer to different cultures and get familiar to different
traditions and different ways of life.
The objectives are:
Promoting of equal right to education for 40% of our students
Increase the motivation for learning among students from vulnerable groups for the next years
Foster the integration process of people with different backgrounds in a multicultural area
Create links between all kind of students in our schools and facilitate everyone access to reciprocal
knowledge through common activities
Improve skills and competences such as critical thinking, communication, creativity and team
working for better scores in education
Promoting the innovative teaching methods and strategies to develop intercultural competences
Through this project we would like to encourage students to have a look into partners’ classrooms
and culture to become open minded citizens, by promoting democratic values

WORK PROCESS

The project will be planned via etwinning groups with at least one regular online meetings (chatroom) to manage the project from October 2019 to June 2021.
timetable of activities:
Students
- create a logo for the project
- create and send winter postcards to partner schools
- work on the topic "Multiculturality, diversity"; results of interviews, visits to archives and research published and shared on Twinspace
- all the mobility activities
a) Perception of the multiculturality, diversity, integration , equal opportunities (students research how migrants are presented in the media to find out what is fake and what is real)
b) What doea it mean to be a migrant ; students interview local communities and pupils at their schools)
- topics "What can we learn from migrants or multuculturality " and "Equal opporunities and integration and diversity.
-questionnaire (evaluation)

EXPECTED RESULTS

Students
• will develop personal skills such as presentation skills, team-work, intercultural communication and competences, and public speaking.
• will learn more about multicultural values, and diversity, migration and cultural heritage in partnercountries.
• get an insight into European culture and identity, including the similarities and differences
• can breakdown prejudices about migrants and refugees
• can develop a political perspective of migration.

The final result is to be published on Twinspace and via presentations and exhibitions at the five partner schools. Whether we will creat a public Twinspace or even a website/homepage is still being discussed by the 6 partner schools taking part in the Erasmus Plus project.

2.ERASMUS+KA229: Migration: Past, Present and Future (2019-2021)

About the project

This project therefore brings together 5 schools (with about15-25 students per class, aged 15-18) from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and Turkey, to enable students to learn about migration in their communities and across Europe including its history and present day, whilst promoting social cohesion, inclusion and diversity. Students will also learn about migration policy and political debates, to help them to envision what migration could look like in their countries and in Europe in the future.

1st mobility was on January 2020. The activities are being organized on digital program. Another online mobility will be realized on 15 June 2021.

AIMS

Students will:
- Learn to research including interviews, historic archives, public sites and surveys
- Actively engage in political discussions
- Learn how to promote social inclusion and cultural heritage
- Learn to identify fake news and misrepresentation of immigration
- Develop personal skills including intercultural competencies and communication, teamwork, independence and public speaking
- Develop IT Skills

- Engage in debate and discussions
- Learn to present findings using a range of mediums including video, photography, posters, essays and blog posts.
- Develop language skills particularly English language skills for the students currently undertaking English lessons
- Develop creative skills
- Actively engage in their schools and communities

WORK PROCESS

The project will be planned via etwinning groups with at least one regular online meetings (chatroom) to manage the project from October 2019 to June 2020.
timetable of activities:
Period 9/2019- 12/2019:
Students
- create a logo for the project
- create and send winter postcards to partner schools
- work on the topic "MIGRATION HISTORIES"; results of interviews, visits to archives and research published and shared on Twinspace
- first mobility

Period 1/2020- 3/2020:
a) PERCEPTION OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES (students research how migrants are presented in the media to find out what is fake and what is real)
b) WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MIGRANT OR REFUGEE?; students interview local communities and pupils at their schools)
- second mobility

Period 5/2020 - 7/2020
- topics "WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM MIGRANTS" and "MIGRATION TO EUROPE IN THE FUTURE"
- third mobility
-questionnaire (evaluation)

EXPECTED RESULTS

Students
• will develop personal skills such as presentation skills, team-work, intercultural communication and competences, and public speaking.
• will learn more about migration and cultural heritage in partner countries.
• get an insight into European culture and identity, including the similarities and differences
• can breakdown prejudices about migrants and refugees
• can develop a political perspective of migration.

The final result is to be published on Twinspace and via presentations and exhibitions at the five partner schools. Whether we will creat a public Twinspace or even a website/homepage is still being discussed by the 5 partner schools taking part in the Erasmus Plus project.

3.eTwinning Project: Reveal the folk meteorology

Registered on 10.09.2020

About the project

Modern age presumes life in a highly digital and technologically advanced world full of challenges, just like the science of meteorology itself. And often we tend to forget the tradition and we look suspiciously on what is old. The aim of the project is to combine the tradition and contemporary, elderly and the young ones, we would like to resurface folk beliefs and meteorology from the abyss of oblivion and reimagine them in digital comics and books that will appeal to future generations. We would like to get to know the folk meteorology of other countries and cultures and thus united in diversity to build a world based upon a sustainable development and respect for each other.

AIMS

- Observing the climate changes through interviews with the elderly population
- Development of respect for the folk tradition of monitoring and weather forecasting
- Development of critical thinking, tolerance, and mutual respect
- Development of a culture of work in the library and working with historical sources
Strengthening the language competences of students
- Development of empathy towards elderly population
- Development multiculturalism and respect for different cultures
- Strengthening of digital competences of students and teachers through cross-correspondence, creating digital comics, surveys, and e-books

WORK PROCESS

Communication among partners will take place trough different platforms which partners will agree upon, considering the safety of students online. The coordinator will oversee the communication between partners and control the implementation of all the planned activities. Partners will share responsibilities for individual activities. Students from each partner school will make surveys, conduct interviews with elderly population and create digital comics. Selected students will present the best works of their part of the project to other partners and the international team of students (one student from each partner school) will create a unique e-book containing selected works of each partner schools.
The duration of the project is six months (from 1st October until 1st April).

EXPECTED RESULTS

Each step of project activities will be updated onto Twinspace web page of the project. The final product of the project, digital book containg comics and surveys about folk meteorology will be published on Twinspace, other educational web sites (e.g. Edutorij), and web pages of every partner school for general purpose and use. Also, the digital book will be a part of the curriculum of the geography, history, and other social studies subjects.

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