DESCRIPTION

This project has been designed thinking of our students’ social awareness. With the project, we would like to give them the opportunity to feel, notice, accept, create dialogue and live together in today’s mixture of cultures. It will also enable their communicative and cultural skills while they work with pupils from different backgrounds and learn from them.

It will be implemented in a context where pupils from different countries, cultures, nationalities and ages will be working together with the objective of creating photographs, comics, poems, stories, a film and a boardgame, all of which could be used in schools around Europe.

The objectives are to foster team working; to help pupils improve their communicative and cultural competences, social skills, emotional and social awareness, personal enrichment and to apply everything they learn in class to their real life.

The project is targeted to students aged 10 to 14. Some of our students show low tolerance towards those that come from different backgrounds, immigrants or refugees. This is why we would like to show them we are all the same and teach them how to cope with their emotions, communicate in a positive manner and become a responsible citizen of Europe.

In order to fulfill the objectives, students will carry out these activities:

– Social and sports games – in order to accept and learn about differences among us;

– Different workshops (situational role play, emotions, making comics and other literary works, photographs, debate workshops);

– Talking circles;

– Making a board game;

– International exhibition of comics, literary works and photographs;

– Recital of poems and stories.

We all believe that the topic of our project is an essential one to be taken into consideration when thinking about how we want to raise our children and students and what we want them to be in the future. Most importantly – we want them to be aware and sensitive to fellow men and to be personally rich so as to become responsible and sensible citizens of modern Europe.