Erasmus+ Sweden's Keychain Votes

Sweden's Erasmus+ group voted on the final Erasmus+ Toolerance Keychain today, on the 8th of January 2019.
Here are the results:

Last enrichment lesson for this term

We started up with some drama games in Ms. Anneli's drama studio. Then we were invited to two improvisations made by the students with the help of this stimuli.

Great entertaining! See you all next term. 

Poland 3

Lats night in Warsaw..... more to come

Poland 2

More to come

Poland 1

First evening in Poland

Key Chain suggestions from Sweden

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 Back side

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 3D- structure

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What is Erasmus+ and what is this project 2018-2020 all about?

Background of the programme

Erasmus+ is the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport.
It runs for seven years, from 2014 to 2020, with organisations invited to apply for funding
each year to undertake creative and worthwhile activities.

Erasmus+ aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe. It is open to education,
training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning, including school education,
further and higher education, adult education and the youth sector. It offers exciting opportunities for
participants to study, work, volunteer, teach and train abroad.

Stockholm international school have received funds for Erasmus+ twice. The first project was between
2014-2017 with 6 countries involved. And this current two year project  between 2018-2020 also involves
6 countries. The fundings are for Strategic Partnerships supporting organisations from across the fields
of education to develop partnerships, share best practice and work collaboratively to help improve
provision, boost growth and create jobs for the future. This Strategic Partnership activity is
Key Action 2 of the programme.

One of the goals of Erasmus+ is to improve the quality of services and human resources in the EU
and beyond through mutual learning, comparison and exchange of good practice.

This project ITOOLerance

it is crucial to develop the essential competences that young people need to have to be able to live and
co-exist without hate and violence. The idea of the project is to teach our students to use digital tools and
the virtual world to do something good and valuable for other people, to teach them sensitivity to the harm
and suffering of others, often the weaker members of the society, to shape positive attitudes of under-
standing differences, empathy and tolerance.

We assume that the fact that international cooperation makes that process more effective as the students
will consider the thematic scopes from culturally different perspectives and at the same time will have a
great opportunity to improve their language skills (not only English but other foreign languages as well).
For that reason it is inevitable to meet face to face, to get the real experience of other cultures, to feel the
atmosphere of international cooperation.

The way of reaching the goals is using modern digital tools like blogs, social media, interactive posters
and comics, multimedia presentations, films, 3D printers, elements of programming and coding in pre-
paring some project products as we chose achievement of relevant and high quality skills and com-
petences is the main priority of that project.

Another important reason of doing this project is mutual exploring the culture and tradition of partner
countries, exchanging of good practices in problem solving and cooperation keeping in mind our
diversity and differences.

Description of the first activity:

November 2018 - 5 -day meeting in Poland.

The following activities are planned:

Official meeting devoted to the cultural presentation of individual partner schools, official meeting the
representatives of local authorities.

Presenting the best project for a key ring from each school and the announcement of the results of the
competition for the best one.

Workshop - preparation of The code 'How to stop the peer violence

Studying about the geography, history and traditions, landscapes, culture and tourist attractions of
Poland.

Students will participate in the lessons at school and spend time with other students, teachers, parents f
rom Poland and other students and teachers from European countries.

The students will be hosted by Polish families or in the hotels.

Before the visit, during the normal activities of the involved schools the following tasks have to be done:

Each partner school will run the classes on the programming projects for 3D printer and the students will
create the project of the key ring.

The most interesting project will be chosen as a logo of the project (online voting) and taken to present
on the visit.

In each partner school the teachers will run classes on the peer violence and they will bring ideas to the
visit.

Those activities combine with selected content of the core curriculum.

How is participation in this activity going to benefit the involved participants?

The participants of that visit will enrich their knowledge about people, history, culture and geographic
curiosities of Poland. They will learn the specifics of the work, the successes and problems of the partner
school and the Polish educational system. The teachers and the students will exchange knowledge and
experiences. Participants will increase their knowledge and skills in 3D printing, exchange opinions and
experiences on tools and technologies for creating projects for 3D printing and their use and sharing.

As a result of the workshops The code 'How to stop the peer violence ' will be prepared and the code will
disseminated on the Internet.

The students will have the opportunity to present their schools (also educational systems), regions,
countries, (culture, history, traditions, geography).

The students will have the opportunity to present the results of their work with 3D printer.

Cooperation in international environment let them develop their language competences, and shape
attitudes of tolerance to cultural differences. The participants will sum up the knowledge how to react to
peer violence.

They will also learn cooperation in group via project method.

They got the knowledge about partner countries, local regions, schools, its history, traditions, geography
and historical places.

The students will feel more self-reliance about their language and social opinion and they will find new
friends among students form partners countries.

They will also experience the learning in international environments participating on the lessons in Polish
school.

The participants of the visit (local and from abroad) will learn from each other about their cultures and
traditions, history and geography.

Timeline for when to visit which country and the themes worked with at the time

The countries involved are except for Sweden: Portugal, Italy, Germany, Turkey andPoland. On each trip two teachers follow and five students.

The timetable is as follows:

October 2018, Poland

How to stop peer violence shown through creating a keychain of plastic using a 3D printer.

March 2019, Portugal

Interview series of people about what tolerance is for them.

June 2019, Germany

Different aspects of poverty.

October 2019, Turkey (North)

What are our differences? processed by creating a poster that is interactive.

February 2020, Italy

Disabled people - there needs and abilities viewed through an interactive comic strip with the theme "The Same". 

June 2020, Sweden

  "They were also children" short films about how elderly had it as a child as well as a visit an elderly home.

Motivation for the project from Stockholm International School

TOOLerance

Let’s use digital tools to talk about tolerance

KA2 Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices – School Exchange Partnerships

The motivation why we wanted to participate in the project:
The theme of the project is very important to us. Since we are a truly international school with a built in diversity we have foster our students to be global citizens and we would like to hold workshops in that. We also learned from the previous project that it is in the meeting that people handle situations differently, no matter what the theme is, it is the travelling and meeting that results in friend building and in the long run peace. We also think it is important at our school to make it possible for all students, not only those who can afford a school trip to participate. We also want to continue with Erasmus+ as a window towards Europe since we have students from all around the world and this is a great way of learning.

For the first time in a project are we open up students homes for other students which will be very interesting and a big experience for our students who only speaks English and will have to be hosting other students in Sweden, making them feel Swedish. That was our experience from earlier projects where we had students from Austria, Kenya, South Korea that were referred to as Swedish. It made us realize that we are all humans and the rest is just labels depending on context.