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“Equality and human rights”

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-UK01-KA219-024382
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 145,990 EUR

“Equality and human rights”

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Schools have a critical role to play in our lives and in the life of the community. As a reflection of wider society, schools are key to socializing younger generations, preparing learners to become active and engaged members of society. In an interconnected and globalized 21st century, young people are being exposed to a diverse and changing world around them, a world in which poverty, inequality and other injustices are still very much a part of the lives of millions.Human rights can give schools around the world a shared language of equality, non-discrimination, inclusion, respect, dignity and participation that is crucial to the goal of achieving a more peaceful and just global society.Our goal is to develop activities, working methods that will build the attitude of openness and tolerance to wide-range differences to counteract prejudices, xenophobia. Human rights education is a critical means of instilling the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that can foster a culture of human rights.The project objectives are to sensitize young people on their human rights and the rights of others, increase active participation of young people in society, enhance civic commitment of young people towards human rights protection and promote positive attitudes to the EU vales of human rights and fundamental freedoms thereby fostering a culture where human rights are understood, respected and promoted.Each one of us must educate ourselves about our rights and take responsibility for respecting others’ rights. This is the reason why the partner schools became interested in how human rights are taught to people.The Partner schools will use the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child to help students to understand and appreciate common human values. And our project will be guided by the general objectives of the Human Right Convention.A very important another aspect of the project is preparing a pedagogical base including reflections and proposals of active methods invaluable to improve the Lisbon Key Competences such as: learning to learn, interpersonal, intercultural and social competences, civic competence, cultural expression and communication in the mother tongue. The main target group of this action is students that are the owners of future. That is why all our activities are student oriented and can be only accomplished with their participation. The aim of the these activities is to enable the students gain knowledge and abilities that they can use in future.Our partners represent contrasting social and economic backgrounds, and a diverse collection of communities from across Europe. By working together to deliver our aims about human rights we will be successful in showing our students, parents, staff and others, how people from different parts of Europe can work together in order to improve relations and create a more cohesive European citizenship. This two year project (2016-2018) outlines key areas of the basic rights and freedoms of all men, women and children. The activities of the project will focus on the following topics: 1-Equality & Discrimination (Social exclusion) 2-Cultural and social rights (Women Rights)3-Democratic Education (Children rights)4-Right to social security(Immigrant Rights)Through the involvement of volunteer teachers, community resource people, lawyers, the program encourages students to create and implement projects that foster respect for human rights.It is expected to be a strong cooperation among institutions, municipalities, district governorships, district national education directorates, NGOs during the preparation, implementation and sustainability of our project.They will be invited to join events and discussion forums. The project methodolgy is based on the concept of interdisciplinary teaching as a means to enhance the quality of education. We aim at approaching key issues from the perspective of different subjects, cultures and languages, thus providing a more comprehensive understanding of civic issues in a European context. So with 6 partner schools taking part in the project and spreading the knowledge gained and involving people actively with the measures on integration put into practice an estimated number of 100 people will directly benefit from the activities.As this project deals with human rights in the school community, teachers,pupils,their parents and local community,other schools in the community who will be involved in the project an exact number is difficult to state.We hope there will be many more involved.We believe that our world's chance is human rights education for the today pupils who will be the tomorrow adults. Small steps made by pupils and their families in some European countries will lead for sure to a better future for the whole world.

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