The Project
The project "No stereotypes!" is a bilateral project of a school partnership, the participating schools are secondary schools from the Czech Republic (Karviná) and Turkey (Antalya). The project focuses on similarities and differences between our cultures, our traditions, customs, ways of life and on social inclusion. The project aims at giving the students and teachers an opportunity to deal with similarities and differences of cultures, with intercultural dialogue, human rights issues, and form and develop common European values and good life attitudes. The project aims at improving and developing key competences of the students and teachers, particularly those coming from disadvantageous groups. We are focusing particularly on communication, language, social, creative and IT competences.
The motivation of the project is to support intercultural dialogue between students and teachers from two secondary schools from totally different cultural environment (Christian and Muslim country), support tolerance, respect towards human rights and freedoms of people as well as rise awareness about ther cultures and traditions.
The project includes both local activities and mobilities learning/teaching/training activities).
The participants of the project will develop particularly the following competences:
a) Communication and language - workshops and groupwork will be organised in mixed Czech-Turkish groups so that the students could develop their communication skills in the English language. During mobilities we presume accommodation of the students in host families which will also help to develop their communication and language competence, together with the social ones. Students and teachers will also develop their communication skills in native language during local activities, preparing presentations about their school, town, country, traditions etc. The participants will also extend their vocabulary with words connected with culture, history, European issues etc.
b) social - students and teachers come from different economic, geographical and social background which will allow them better realise and understand conditions and problems of their partners and will make them more aware of similarities and differences of cutures, traditions, customs or religion in both countries. Among the students there will also be those who come from disadvantageous groups so participants will develop their social competences by cooperation in a team with members from different background. Some of the activities will be also focused on the topics of intolerance and radicalisation of young people which will allow the students and teachers to exchange their ideas about solutions of this situation.
c) digital - participants will also develop their digital competences using various IT tools. They will communicate via emails, messenger, Skype etc., participate in video-conferences on eTwinning portal and will work out the results of the project using IT tools (webpage, online dissemination materials, common magazines on eTwinning etc.). For our project we will also open a closed facebook group and a public facebook page where we will share some results. During local activities they will shoot interviews with local people about stereotypes towards other cultures so they will use their mobile phones and video-cameras and will use movie maker or other programs to create a video-document from the activity.
d) Increasing cultural awareness - participants will improve their cultural competences during activities and workshops focused on similarities and differences, on traditions and feasts in both countries etc. held during mobilities, during cultural excursions both locally and during mobilities etc. They will also work on cultural presentations and will learn about traditions, feasts, typical meals and dances of the partner country.
We will also produce concrete results during our project:
- project posters (How we see our partners, Similarities and differences, Traditions and feasts ec.)
- powerpoint presentations
- photobook
- video-document from interviews with local people
- newsletters
Our project will last one year and during the year we are going to organise 2 short-term joint staff training events and 2 learning, teaching and training activities (LLT activities), each school will organise one short-term joint staff training events and one learning, teaching and training activity. The short-term joint staff training events will last 4 days excluding travel, LTT activities will last 6 days excluding travel. Each short-term joint staff training event will be attended by 3 teachers and each LTT activity will be attended by 9 students + 3 teachers from each partner school.