EVER SCHOOLS
EUROPEAN VALUES EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
The EVER 4 Schools (European Values Education Resources for Schools) Courses was created to support Primary/ Secondary/High School Teachers, School Administrators/Managers and Schools, in :
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- Increasing their capacity and skills to teach and promote positive values acquisition strengthened, as well as their educational approaches and methodologies in the fields of social, emotional and civic education improved.
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- Support the implementation of a more effective educational program, that will allow them to monitor, evaluate and apply strategic action for the creation of better and more inclusive and empowering learning environment, tackling effectively low academic performance, early school leaving and exclusion.
The EVER 4 Schools Courses are one of the intellectual outputs of the Project EVER SCHOOLS - European Values Education Resources for Schools, co-funded by the European Union Program ERASMUS+, Key Action 2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships for School Education, under the grant agreement nº 22018-1-FR01-KA201-048156.
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The Project EVER INTELECTUAL OUTPUT 1:
EVER IO1
Matrice d'Apprentissage Sensibilisation, Connaissance, Compétence
(Version Française)
1. EXPLAINING PROJECT EVER
Peace and Respect for Diversity are the core value of the European Union and are fundamental to the development of the individual and to ensure social cohesion and societal welfare.
The challenging political and social context in Europe highlights the necessity of placing greater emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life-affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as Respect for Human Rights, Tolerance, Active Non-Violence, Cooperation, and Social Responsibility.
The project’s main goal is to promote empowerment, participation, active citizenship, and social cohesion, through fostering specific individual attitudes and behaviours, such as trust, respect for others, confidence in the causal relationship of individual efforT – personal success and fulfilment – societal welfare, thus empowering young people and promoting inclusive education and tolerance.
Teaching transversal competencies, however, requires a cross-curricular approach, which in its turn requires, trainers and youth workers, not only to change the way they traditionally work but also demands increased cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration on developing appropriate training methodologies and agreeing with specific learning outcomes.
2. THE PROJECT EVER OUTPUTS:
A. The Learning matrix, representing the first phase of the project, where:
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- Was done an in-depth analysis of the current "state of the art" in partner countries focusing on the education system implemented and the status of education of Peace Education Values
- Executed a questionnaire to Students, Teachers, and School Administrators/Managers to understand their point of view on the issues subject to the project
- The construction of the methodological framework of the educational program, encompassing the Awareness - Knowledge - Skill Dimensions, as well as content, quality, and combination of approaches, tools, and media to be used in addressing each of the above-stated dimensions of learning.
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B. The Ever Training Course, the main output of the project, is composed of the following main modules:
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- Diversity and Migration
- Civic rights and the power of ordinary individuals to bring change
- Environment
- Society and politics
- Economics and Growth
- Technology, Innovation, and Globalization.
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C. A Multilingual Educational Web Platform, open for contributions from the public and with the following purposes:
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- A Training Kit containing two training resources, in both printed and electronic form, to allow large use of the training methodology and equip teachers and trainers with the necessary tools and approaches to implement it.
- Official web page for the project;
- Educational Resource, containing the guidelines to the approach implemented in the project’s training, the methodology, the training program, the results, and the analysis of the results achieved by the pieces of training.
- a Communication Platform, for intercultural communication and exchange of good practices
- an E-Library containing useful links and resources related to transversal skills, competencies, learning, and teaching
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EVER Kick-off Meeting
On November 28 – 29, 2018 representatives of five European organizations met in Charleville-Mezieres, France, for the start of the Erasmus+ KA2 project European Values Education Resource for Schools (EVER-Schools).
The event was organized by the project lead partner – Via Charlemagne, Cultural Route of the Council of Europe - and was attended by two participants from each of the 4 partner organizations. During the event, the representatives of the participating organizations finalized the consortium’s working schedules, management, evaluation and dissemination procedures, as well as the organizational, methodological, and pedagogical approaches for the development of the main outputs of the project.
The EVER Schools project main objective is to promote the acquisition of the positive, life-affirming values European citizenship encompasses, such as respect for human rights, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility. The project’s main goal is to promote empowerment, participation, active citizenship and social cohesion, with the main focus on disadvantaged youth and young people at risk of exclusion, as it places great emphasis on the acquisition of the positive, life-affirming values of European citizenship encompasses, such as respect, tolerance, active non-violence, cooperation and social responsibility.
The initiative focuses on fostering specific individual attitudes and behaviours, such as trust, respect for others, confidence in the causal relationship of individual effort - personal success and fulfilment – societal welfare, thus empowering young people and promoting inclusive education and social cohesion and tolerance.
Teaching transversal competencies, however, requires a cross-curricular approach, which in its turn requires trainers and youth workers, not only to change the way they traditionally work but also demands increased cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration on developing appropriate training methodologies and agreeing on specific learning outcomes.
The project will develop a series of activities and tools, for the benefit of school teachers and students, with a special focus on learners coming from a disadvantaged background.
The tools and approaches that will be developed and used during the project will provide teachers with a coherent but multifaceted methodology of raising awareness on important issues, active learning and generation of new knowledge through the interactive exchange, and practical demonstration and application of the latter. Thus, the project will equip teachers with the competencies and methods needed for transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard-to-reach young people and to prevent social isolation.
The EVER SCHOOL PROJECT was developed by Association Redefine Team in cooperation with The Cultural Route of the Council of Europe "Via Charlemagne " and is funded by the European programme Erasmus+, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for School Education.
The initiative gathers partners from five European Countries:
- Cultural Route of the Council of Europe Via Charlemagne France.
- Association Redefine, Portugal
- Free Youth Center, Bulgaria
- I.I.S. 'E. Majorana - A. Cascino, Italy
- Fundacija Autokreacija, Poland
EVER 2nd PROJECT MEETING AND TRAINING ACTIVITY (C1)
The first week of December 2019 was an interesting and enriching one. We had the chance to welcome School Teachers, Non-Profit Organisations Representatives, Decision-Makers, Cultural and Remembrance Organisations Leaders for a full seven days of meetings, training activities and discussions
The occasion? Joining together to discuss and implement an innovative way in teaching European Values and the Heritage of 20th Century Wars to the Young Generations.
The series of events were organised with the financial support of the European Union through two funded projects:
- The Project EVER-Schools, financed by the "Erasmus Plus Programme" of the European Union, aiming to create innovative pedagogical tools in European values education for teachers to use in schools.
- The Project Revision, financed by the "Europe for Citizens Programme", aiming at raising awareness among Decision Makers and Local Authorities on the importance of values education and remembrance through a series of 6 international conferences.
Together, these events allowed us to gather together nearly 200 participants from 7 European countries.
The events week started with the EVER SCHOOLS SECOND PROJECT MEETING, where the managing staff for met to discuss and review the development of the project until this moment, as well as to review and update the management and working plan ahead. Right after the meeting, the TRAINING EVENT (C1) followed.
The first three days of the C1 training event was attended by the representatives of the partner organisations plus two school teachers from each partner country. During the training, we focused on two main subjects. The first three, days we worked first on the digital platform and its functionalities. We, the Portuguese partner provided training to all other partners teaching them how to use the pedagogical and administrative tools of the platform. We worked on managing subscriptions, inscribing students, managing courses, classes and assignments, we also worked on how to create courses, activities, tasks and assignments looking at different possibilities digital learning offers us. We uploaded together some content and experimented with improving changing and testing different formats. Then we discussed the contents of the course.
Also, as we already had the survey results from IO1, we discussed their findings and how to improve the courses that we were all working on, taking this data into consideration. We identified together where the knowledge gaps are and the difficulties faced, and we discussed how to adjust our courses according to where the weaknesses in educational outcomes were uncovered.
The last day of the training was open to the public, and we were joined by the international participants for the project Revision, as well as by representatives of the local institutions in Setubal, Portugal. Together we discussed the importance of transmitting the memory of the past to young people and how different stakeholders can cooperate in order to improve the quality of education in democratic values. We also demonstrated pedagogical activities, learning games, listened to personal stories of survivors of dictatorships from different countries, and to school students’ presentations of the stories of their families.
In order to reward all our guests for their wonderful participation and valuable contributions, we organised a surprise boat trip for all in the beautiful river Sado, where they were able to see the dolphin families inhabiting this area.
In the event took part representatives of :
- Cultural Route of the Council of Europe Via Charlemagne, France
- Association Redefine, Portugal
- Setúbal Academy, Portugal
- Universidade Sénior de Setúbal, Portugal
- Coral Infantil de Setúbal, Portugal
- Municipality of Setúbal, Portugal
- Escola Superior de Educação/ Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
- Free Youth Center, Bulgaria
- I.I.S. 'E. Majorana - A. Cascino, Italy
- Fundacija Autokreacija, Poland
- Municipality of Setubal, Portugal
- Municipality of Pollina, Italy
- Municipality of Starachowice, Poland
- Municipality of Librazhd, Albania
- Municipality of Haybes, France
- Association of Municipalities of Harghita Country, Romania.
3. THE EVER PROJECT CONSORTIUM
The Ever Consortium is composed of the following partners:
Project Coordinator:
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