"This project has brought together 1000s of young people from across four nations to learn about the impact of prejudice and discrimination and how to challenge it. From open and frank conversations about life as an LGBTQ+ young person in the UK to the pain faced by young people living with body dysmorphia in Norway we have faced up to big issues head on. It was clear from our first planning meeting in Turkey that we had a lot of diversity in the group of staff that would go on to learn alot from and about each other. We were called More Powerful Together because it might be easier to work alone but far more is achieved when working together. As one wise young person told me in Norway ""little streams are nice but when they come together to make a river they can change a landscape"". Our first transnational meeting in the UK saw student from three non english speaking nations speak in english to 1400 young people about the challenges their nation faced around the issue of prejudice and discrimination. It was a powerful moment as a 13 year old Kurdish refugees spoke quietly yet clearly about her dreams of a united world were all got on with each other. In France the visit to the slave quarantine museum followed by the sugar cane plantation gave a living history to the impact of slavery on present day prejudice. Being apart of such a multicultural community helped bring the hope and the truth that we can be More Powerfull Together. To then speak on behalf of Erasmus to hundreds of young people at European Commision Conference in Reunion was a great honor.Context and background of the project:Discrimination is a process related to all negative attitudes and behaviors that are prejudiced against individuals or members of a group. Prejudice, can lead to negative attitudes that range from dislike, contempt, avoidance and hate. These need to be challenged and education is the best place, out side of the home, to start. That is why we choose the name ""More Powerful Together"". Today we know that there are ""people"" in the world; different, black and white, male and female, sexual orientations, races, religions and abilities. The person/student who was exposed to discrimination or social exclusion, unfortunately may tend towards low self esteem, mental health issues and social isolation. The partners in this project want to highlight equality between different people, the concept of justice and the power of education to change understanding. In Turkey the school works supporting and teaching Syrian refugee and Kurdish students. They have first hand knowledge of what if feels like to discriminated against as a refugee. In the UK a lot of work has been done in challenging homophobic abuse to the LGBTQ+ community. Again schools play a key role in informing and inspiring young people to have greater understanding of the history and challenges this community has experienced. In Norway body image and self esteem are seen as one of the greatest challenges faced by young people today. Social media, cyber bullying and negative peer pressure have see a rise in mental health issues including self harm. The slave history and cultural mix of the French Reunion Island teaches us the part that many colonial powers had to play in using people from a different race to make money for counties 1000s of miles away. As part of present day France they have a ongoing challenge to speak out against the rise of the Far Right agenda across mainland Europe and beyond.As a result of this project the students and staff have... - a greater understanding of discrimination and prejudice and know their rights about being a 'human'. - the confidence to work together in their area of interest without discrimination of race, gender, age, sexualty, religion disability. - developed their ICT skills enabling them to adapt and raise awareness and campaign in the digital era. - witnessed first hand good examples of equality and diversity among European countries. - been able to experience and increase skills in foreign language - learnt how to effectively collaborate across nations and exchange ideas and learning. This had been passed on to parents, families and the wider community via events, exhibitions and presentations. - be able to support other students who have a negative attitude against school and lessons because of social exclusion. This has encouraged them to continue their education life. -learnt the skills to be global citizens in an ever shrinking world."

"‘Absorbing culture is not enough, one must produce it. Enjoying the arts is not enough, one must be an artist. To be a citizen doesn’t mean to live in society, but to transform it. With your head held high, your feet on the ground and hands at work’.With ""Cartoons For Active Citizens"" project, regardless of their socio-cultural background, future generations, It is aimed that organizations operating in the field of education and an NGO in the field of visual arts; making cartoons co for teachers and students operate in order to strengthen and raise European awareness.As the project school partners; Norway, Turkey, France, Portugal, Italy and an NGO from Turkey; The Cartoon Mill, which aims to teach to use dijital tools effectively for making cartoons and animations to the youth, children and teachers will be a supportive contribution to foster social inclusion, active citizenship issues. There will be 6 LTT activities and 2 TPMeeting during the project implementation. The first two of the LTT activities will be for teachers/stuff of the partner schools and the rest of the LTTs (4) are for the sudents of the partner schools.The students will bring and work together to identfy and foster European Active citizenship during Learning-Teaching-Training activities and to create their short cartoons for the issues of active citizenship and social inclusion. With the both online and face-to-face workshops, the students will get;-new digital skills-a strong sense of local culture, identity and their heritage-intercultural dialogue-an established local network (e.g. social, professional, religious)-interest in learning and broadening horizons-good communication skills-a value for fairness and social justice.The project will support teachers/educators' profiles with innovative approaches during LTT activities for school stuff;-a training about making cartoons as an educational tool to improve creativity-a training about aware of the subtle influence of active citizenship both on classroom atmosphere and distance learning, activity and learning preferences.There will be an e-book and a book called ""Cartoons for Education"" including educational modules; intellectual output of the project for teachers, educators, young people and adults who want to improve themselves about animated cartoon film making in order to share their own products by larger masses with a kind of information dissemination system that saves less cost or time in terms of use.The teachers will be able to use this methodology as an innovative approach for their education process and the students will be able to use this skill in order to share their own products by larger masses with a kind of information dissemination system that saves less cost or time in terms of use.This e-book/book as education modules will be shared and printed in 6 different languages including each partner’s native language and English. To introduce the book to (educational environment, the world of educations, the education field ) an introduction meeting will be held. The meeting will take place in Kaş, Antalya, Turkey. The Cartoon Mill, NGO, has organized 3 International Animation Festivals and invited international animation artists to Kaş/Antalya. Teachers, animators, trainers and the youth and the youth workers from all over the country have joined these festivals. They meet the world wide known animation artists and took the classes of them. That's why the reason for holding this meeting in Kaş, Antalya, Turkey.With this project, the students with fewer opportunities will be included in all the activities: LTTs and the local activities. All of them will take part in the groups to produce the outputs of the project and they will also attend to the LTT activities in which students’ participation is essential. The participation of these students in the project will be equal because all activities are developed with social inclusion for both face-to-face and distance learning.Thus, with this project plan, we will be able to support the ET 2020 pursues the following four common EU objectives:-Make lifelong learning and mobility a reality-Improve the quality and efficiency of education and training-Promote equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship-Enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training."