The project “Inclusion gets viral”

The project envisions the necessity of integrating students from all social fields in a cultural environment with the purpose of integrating them in the European patrimony by reaching their origins and by creating their own identity in innovative ways by using modern means of communication such as films, videos etc. In this way, the project will help us discover our origins in new inventive ways and it will stimulate participants creativity. The partner countries involved in the project will be Romania (it will be the coordinator), Portugal, Italy, Spain, Croatia. The project comprises 5 mobilities that gather 5 students (14 to 18 years old), accompanied by 2 teachers, during the next two years, to share experiences and to create innovative works after having observed the other’s culture in Romania, Portugal, Spain, Croatia and Italy. The needs that all the partners had identified are: promoting the cultural growth of students in order to develop a positive attitude towards national and European values, developing a European awareness of belonging through significant initiatives of a cultural and educational point of view, identifying common instruments for the search for common origins – history, culture; promoting the cultural heritage of European values; create an antidiscriminatory attitude towards race , sex, age, ability, class, sexuality, language, religion; developing the feeling of belonging to an open, democratic and sustainable society; promoting the social inclusion of disadvantaged social groups (in all the stages of the project, in order to ensure the participation of 50% of the students in this category); strengthening the key competences of citizenship, in particular learning to learn, to design, to collaborate; improving language skills and use foreign languages as languages of communication (English, Romanian, Spanish, Croatian, Portuguese); developing social skills: teamwork, respect, tolerance, adaptability, which will be possible thanks to the tasks they have to accomplish in multicultural groups; building a stronger bond between young people of different nationalities; expanding cultural horizons and educating in multiculturalism; preventing the violence or dropout and save the teenagers from harms of modern times by making them discover the cultural background of the 5 partner countries.