Multiplier events Bulgaria

In Bulgaria there were held 2 multiplier events. The first one was meant to share project findings with teachers and educators from the northern part of the country. The event took place in the beautiful village of Arbanasi near the city of Veliko Tarnovo in the period 8-9 July, 2021. The participants, teachers and heads of schools from 12 schools attended the event. They learned about the training resources created by the project and participated in simulations of training activities in the following topics:

• Human rights 22: Duties and limitations of our human rights
• Diversity and social inclusion 22: What is it like to be hunted?
• Identity and Active Citizenship 8: Save the Earth (Organizing campaigns for environment protection)

The second multiplier event was organized in Bansko in the period 16-17 July, 2021. It involved 47 participants, teachers and representatives of the school management teams, from the towns of Blagoevgrad, Sandanski, Gotse Delchev, Kresna, Mosomishte, Dolno Dryanovo, Karnalovo, Petrich, Belasitsa, Belitsa, Razlog, the villages of Kochan, Osina, Dagonovo, Gorno Kraishte. The evnt was attended by four people from the Republic of Serbia – representatives of a primary school and a non-government organization “Organization for friendship with children”.

The participants were presented to project findings and the resource pack, as well to the benefits of using non-formal educational methods in the teaching and learning process. The participated in numerous practical activities as examples of how to use the resource pack with their students.

Final transnational meeting

Madrid, Spain, 13.07.2021

Prosveta-Sofia Foundation, in partnership with Instituto Politecnico de Santarem, Center for non-formal education (Thessaloniki), Altius Foundation, University of Social Sciences (Lodz), the school inspectorate in Dolj county and 17 secondary school (Sofia), Bratya Miladinovi School (Burgas) and 54 secondary school (Sofia), have been working hard for 3 years to produce the ME-YOU-US project intellectual outputs, to organize schools and teachers in Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain to pilot the training resources in the classroom, suggest changes considering the opinion of students and teachers, upgrade the resources pack and validate the results.

We aimed at supporting students and teachers in becoming more open-minded and accepting the diversity of the surrounding world; at understanding and respecting differences among people and at valuing diversity of today’s Europe as an advantage, we aimed at bringing up a generation of students who have acquired active citizenship skills and know how to make use of them in everyday life.

Project partners met in July (12.07 – 13.07.2021) in Madrid, Spain to formally finalize the project, to discuss some organizational aspects of the work we have done, and to present the results we have achieved.

Fourth short-term joint staff training event

June 28 – July 2, 2021, Santarem – Portugal

We are really happy that we managed to organize the last short-term joint staff training event as a face-to-face meeting! After the long period of lockdown and the restrictions all schools had to deal with, at the very end of the project we succeeded in holding a physical mobility in Santarem, Portugal.  33 foreign participants from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Spain and Greece, as well as representatives of the host organization, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, joined the trainings and shared experience about the implementation process in the participating countries. The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants took part in practical activities. So many splendid ideas about delivering the training activities! Well done guys! You have done a great job!

Instituto Politecnico de Santarem made us feel at home in Santarem, helped us see the most interesting sites in the city, and get to know and feel the way the Portuguese people live.

Last, but not least, on our way to Lisbon, we visited the amazing town of Sintra and Quinta da Regaleira.

The way back home was a real challenge for some of us – especially the ones who had connecting flights through Germany. Due to the complicated situation with the Delta variant in Portugal Germany cancelled flights from Portugal, so we had to fly to Zurich and Vienna and this took us a couple of days longer. But, finally, we all arrived back home, a bit tired, but full of wonderful memories from the great time we had in Portugal!

Third short-term joint staff training event – Online Training (Moodle Course)

November, 2 – 6, 2020

“My Europe – Your Europe – Your Say” project has launched a 5-day online joint staff training event which will empower the participants with the skills and knowledge how to organize relevant training sessions for their students so that they become more open-minded and accepting differences.

Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART I
Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART II
Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART III

Second short-term joint staff training event

February 3 – 7, 2020, Madrid, Spain

The second short-term joint staff training event was hosted by the Spanish partners. 35 foreign participants from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Portugal and Greece and 9 Spanish teachers and staff of Altius Foundation joined the trainings and shared ideas about the teaching and learning process in the participating countries. The meeting was held in Salesianos Estrecho school.

The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants were split in two groups who worked simultaneously.

Agendas of the two group – can be downloaded here.

The training sessions were highly interactive and practical. The participants stepped in the shoes of students, which they enjoyed a lot, and participated in the planned activities – creating drama sketches, artistic work, discussions, organized events, etc. Each training session was followed, and sometimes interrupted by discussions when they commented the proposed activities from the perspective of teachers, suggested adaptations of the lessons considering the specifics of their students and countries, shared cases from their school life, etc.

Altius Foundation made us feel at home in Madrid, helped us see the most interesting sites in the city, and get to know and feel the way local people live.

First short-term joint staff training event

2-6 September, Craiova, Romania

The first short-term joint staff training event was hosted by the Romanian partners. The participants comprised 28 foreign participants and 8 Romanian teachers and staff of the school inspectorate of Dolj county.

The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants were split in two groups because of the group dynamics – working is such a big group wouldn’t ne efficient.

Agendas for the 3 groups who held training sessions simultaneously
Group 1 – agenda
Group 2 – agenda

The training sessions were highly interactive and practical. The participants stepped in the shoes of students, which they enjoyed a lot, and participated in the planned activities – creating sketches, artistic work, discussions, etc. After each training session, they returned to their personality as teachers, and discussed the training, the way they might possibly adapt it with their students considering the local context, discussed case studies from their school life, etc.

After the end of event, all participants filled in an evaluation form (available below).

Evaluation Form

Kick-off meeting

Sofia, Bulgaria – 07.12.2018

Prosveta-Sofia Foundation, in partnership with Instituto Politecnico de Santarem, Center for non-formal education (Thessaloniki), Altius Foundation, University of Social Sciences (Lodz), the school inspectorate in Dolj county and 17 secondary school (Sofia), Bratya Miladinovi School (Burgas) and 54 secondary school (Sofia), have launched a new Erasmus+ project in school education. All participating organizations from Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain have broad experience in creating teaching resources for school education and delivering trainings to students and teachers. You can read more about the expertise and experience each partner brings to the project on the Project Partners page.

The project aims at supporting students and teachers in becoming more open-minded and accepting the diversity of the surrounding world; at understanding and respecting differences among people and at valuing diversity of today’s Europe as an advantage.

To do so, the project will upgrade the existing Resource Pack for teachers created within the Erasmus+ KA2 “Otherness” project which finished in 2018 and will disseminate it in new countries (Spain, Romania and Poland). The teachers will have an easy-to-use Resource pack with detailed instructions and numerous e-resources so that they could deliver trainings to their students on topics related to human rights, diversity and active citizenship. The teachers will be trained on how to use the Resource Pack and it will be used on a regular basis during school years 2019/20 and 2020/21 in some 280 classrooms in Europe.

Project partners met on December 7, 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria to formally launch the project, to discuss some organizational and methodological aspects of prospective work and agreed on a detailed plan for the first year of the project.

During the following months the partners will revise the existing teaching resources in the Resource Pack, edit them, is needed, will translate them in the languages of the new partners (Spanish, Romanian and Polish) and will start creating new ones in the three modules.

The first joint-staff training event will be held in Romania before the beginning of the new school year in September, 2019. Some 40 teachers and trainers will take part in it and will subsequently deliver trainings with their students during the school year.

As a whole, some 280 teachers and more than 4000 students will be involved in project activities during the 3-year implementation of the project.