About the Project

The idea of the project “Tolerance in Everyday Life as a European Citizen” is that students in all the participating schools become aware of the diversity of the population in their immediate surroundings and learn to accept these differences. They learned about the partnerschools, their students and their environment and they realized that there are as many differences in their own area as within the European Union. They learn to treat other cultures with critical tolerance. Most of the work is done simultaneously at the participating schools, the exchange of information takes place by internet, email and web-meetings and is spread by “European fairs” or “European weeks” in the schools. In the second year a common logo for the project was developed by the students in an international classroom during a project meeting in Lithuania.

We are now working on a common charity project for which we have created a birthday calendar.

The results of the project are published on our project website which will be further expanded in the third year, during which we will focus on Human Rights and the idea of a European Union. During the final project meeting in Belgium the students will evaluate the project and complete the website. By learning about themselves, each other and about the European Union the students should find their own identity in a local and European context.

About Comenius

Since 1995 the Sokrates program of the European Union has promoted transnational cooperation and exchanges between schools. Our project matches some of the objectives of the program:
COMENIUS seeks to help those learning and teaching in schools to develop a sense of belonging to a broader and outward-looking European community - a community characterised by diverse traditions, cultures and regional identities, but rooted nevertheless in a common history of European development.

You can find more information on the program on the following websites:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/comenius/moreabou_en.html

http://comenius.eun.org/ww/en/pub/comenius/index.htm