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Young Europeans in Action: Helping you, helping me out!
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main objective of this project is to give a leading role to students of all schools involved. In our teaching practice, we have seen as conflicts in our schools have grown due to several reasons; economic depression, social inequalities, lack of perspectives in life, etc. Many of these are reflected in our institutes, and we think that we can provide valid solutions to these issues in an imaginative and innovative way. All members of this team have had experiences in the past with other European projects where different topics were successfully tackled: environment, cultural understanding, healthy habits... We want to keep on growing on our practices so that the whole educative family of our schools can get a benefit. And we are ready to do it with "Young Europeans in Action! Helping you, helping me out”. The main motivation for our project is to improve and complement each partner’s experience concerning coexistence at schools and give responsibilities to students in the coordination and organization of activities that will take place at school breaks to improve peaceful and collaborative attitudes. We want our students to become active leading characters in our schools. To get this, we have,among others,the following objectives: -Inculcate the importance of school mediation to solve problems in school and life -Improve coexistence at schools reducing tensions and disputes. -Awake in our students their role of main characters of our schools’ life as well as their compromise and responsibility in social issues -Give responsibilities to students in the organization of activities at school breaks or special days -Create channels of communication between teachers and students of different European cultures -Increase awareness of diversities as a cultural value -Integrate disabled students and raise their self-esteem by organizing guided activities, being able to travel abroad and sharing new experiences for them. -Improve communication in the mother tongue and foreign languages, motivating students and teachers to speak English and learn other European languages. -Increase collaboration between educational institutions, leading to improvement of teaching methodologies through the exchange of ideas, reinforcing creativity and innovation This partnership is formed by 6 Secondary Schools from Lithuania,Hungary,Poland,Italy,Denmark and Spain. With this representation, we reach a wide range of European diversities, in which we will achieve one of our aims: to develop and enhance a European dimension to our curricula. We all share a common wish to collaborate and work hard as a team for our objectives. Besides, all of us have already worked school mediation and organization of activities by students. On the other hand, we want to integrate students with disabilities in our project by organizing guided activities, raising their self-esteem and by travelling abroad and sharing new experiences for them. In relation to activities, our students will mediate in conflicts and we intend them to offer training in mediation to others in their own or in other schools. They will work out strategies to solve problems and foster a better coexistence by organizing activities which will bring about a fall in number of conflicts. They will carry out different activities in the visits, show results and products, evaluate the impact of the project, participate in different workshops and discussion boards about mediation and conflicts at school, share solutions and put others' experiences into practice. We would like that the results of this project could have a positive impact on various levels: firstly, on our schools, where we want levels of conflict to descend by the application of activities. Also on a local level, the schools that are situated in our district can benefit from the direct contact of our students and also from the materials we want to develop, as the Best Practice Guide we intend to issue; on national and international levels, we would like to be known in other forums about education thanks to the promotion of the results of our efforts, publication of materials and articles where we will show the positive aspects of this collaboration among different schools from distant countries, which can bring upon a feeling of belonging to a common European identity. This is a project for the future. All experiences and results that we are going to carry out will let us go forward in our essential goals of making our students actors in the our schools daily life, either in mediation, organization of activities or full responsibility of their actions, reinforcing the role of our students as democratic and supportive individuals. Therefore, what we are going to develop in this project will be valid once the last activity of the program is over. Thanks to this European funded grant, we will see that with our efforts we have turned our schools into better, democratic places to work, to study and to live.
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