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Impact of project - GREECE (evaluation)

In the evaluation of our school 100% answered that the implementation of the project gave them the opportunity to feel they belong to the school more and to a bigger community, especially when the other countries visited ours. They all said that Erasmus project gave them inspiration to find out more about other countries. Teachers and students feel that the school benefited by the intercultural exchange, emphasizing values such as diversity, tolerance, and open-mindedness. The project helped students and teachers to develop a deeper understanding of European values and integrate them into their lives.
The project theme "Hand in Hand in Creating Social Responsibility" also had a profound impact on our school community. As we got engaged in activities related to social responsibility the students' awareness of societal issues and challenges increased. Students gained insights into the needs of the community and the world, which fostered empathy and a sense of responsibility. They had the opportunity to connect with individuals from various backgrounds such as elderly people and people of small villages with very little opportunities. This exposure fostered empathy, cultural understanding, and an appreciation of diversity. Engaging in social responsibility projects often leads to personal growth. Students developed critical skills like communication, problem-solving, and leadership. They also believe that they became more resilient and adaptable as they faced real-world challenges. Working on this Erasmus project that aimed to create social responsibility often involved teamwork and collaboration. Students learnt how to cooperate effectively, shared responsibilities, and leverage each other's strengths to achieve common goals with students from different countries that often did not speak the same language creating a stronger sense of inclusion. Participating in such a project that address social issues provided students with a sense of purpose. They saw how their actions made a positive impact, in the school and out in the real world, which boosted their self-esteem, their engagement and motivation to contribute to society. The majority felt that there is something that can be done even with their small power and said that they became more interested in political and community matters, contributing to informed and active citizenship in future. Thought the project we addressed more global issues like climate change, poverty, world famine and children's' rights. They learnt about the importance of ethical behavior and how it affects the well-being of communities and society as a whole. They realized how important is to volunteer, to support charitable causes,or may be to pursue careers in fields related to social change and community development. As a school, definitely built a valuable network with many contacts by collaborating with community organizations and individuals as a school community. Witnessing the positive impact of their actions and the changes they can bring about even with small actions all admitted to be inspired and motivated to take the initiative in other areas of their lives. Students saw the concrete, measurable results of their efforts in the activities we did in the school and out of it for the project related to social responsibility. In summary, the project "Hand in Hand in Creating Social Responsibility" helped our school community to grow and fostered our active engagement in society.
The biggest challenge, however, was the lack of travelling documents of our students. As they come from 25 different countries their participation in the nobilities meant issuing visas and residence permits. In the two years covid-19 period issuing a visa or renewing a residence permit cards seemed impossible to all of us, parents and teachers. All of our students come from disadvantaged background, families of one parent, economic immigrants of refugees, facing economic uncertainty and doing the "odd jobs". We are very proud to be able to work with all students organizing virtual events (4 in total) , online collaborations and e-twinning project with the other schools and with all the Erasmus team to participate. We also organized school trips inland to give everybody the opportunity to benefit in a way and to take active part in the project. We offered guidance, facilitating the application process, and organizing information sessions for both students and their families. We also gave a little push for the parents to see the residence permit cards of their children as very important to have. Unfortunately we did not succeed in all cases mainly due to delays caused by excess paperwork and covid-19. Also the lack of participation mainly due to parents not being convinced to allow their children to travel to Turkey made us not to participate in that mobility and to transfer the amount to the nobilities to the other countries. https://www.diapol.online/,https://dfngavrili.wixsite.com/hand-in-hand

The project has had a very positive impact on the school, not just for the students and staff who took part, but also the wider school community, who all wanted to get involved with volunteering and hosting our school to visiting countries. Erasmus project theme, "creating social responsibility" has been spoken about in assembl;ies and lessons and students have articulated the importance of being more socially responsible and more aware of what is happening in the local community. It has helped promote tolerance of each other and an appreciation of different cultures and backgrounds, and that diversity should be celebrated, not ignored.

We faced many challenges along the way, COVID, delays with mobilities, changes to events, trying to work out what to do next. But we learnt from each other and every school supported each other equally, so there was always comfort knowing that you would be helped out with any issue that you had with your mobility.

Volunteering has been a success, with the ongoing success of the Nearly New Uniform shop, and new members of the school community have signed up to continue volunteering to keep the shop going. This has introduced new students to volunteering and will help sustain the shop into the future.

We hope to have a volunteering club set up after winter, where students go out into the community and volunteer where they can. We are looking at maintenance of local parks and volunteering at food banks in Spring 2024.

Students who took direct part in the mobilities were asked to give feedback on how important it is to be more socially responsible and the impact of the mobilities. The response was overwhelmingly positive, with every child saying that there had been a positive impact from the project and that they were changed people because of it. They were able to learn about countries and cultures that they had never visited before, try new cuisine and make international friends, amongst many other things.

Being a part of the Erasmus project has definitely made us grow as a school and we have collaborated with more staff within the school on one project than ever before, and have made long lasting links with European schools, where we can continue to learn from each other and share resources from the project. It has been life changing for us all!!!!

Link to student comments from survey:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iBxmskV19sB7SRrBf09u2woQLEeqOGX8UtUjtWK8llU/edit?resourcekey#gid=1988888072

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Developing social responsibility is in a way challenging, as children have a tendency towards self-absorption. Their world revolves around them, their needs and their purposes. It is not something that they have to be blamed for, of course, as it is the attitude characteristic of their age and of our times. Unless we try to address this lack of involvement, they will most likely not change it on their own. Teaching social responsibility means not only making children aware of the world, but also helping

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The Erasmus+ project 2021-2023 has come to an end. On May 5, the last project meeting took place in Stanislaw Sychowski Elementary School in Skrzeszewo, Poland.

During the stay of our guests from England, Greece, Turkey and Romania, students worked on many tasks related to ecology, focusing primarily on the protection of the Baltic Sea. At the project work at the Institute of Oceanology in Sopot, students determined what each of the countries covered by the project could do to prevent pollution and protect the Baltic Sea. The end result of the above workshops were joint design posters brought to our school.

While visiting the Tricity, students were introduced to historical facilities related to building social responsibility, e.g. the Museum of Solidarity in Gdansk.

After the meeting at school, all participants from the project group visited the Church of St. WNMP in Zukowo and also went to the Spichlerz Cultural Center in Zukowo, where the certificates were ceremonially presented in the presence of Mayor Wojciech Kankowski.

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Posters created during the workshops at the Institute of Oceanology

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Almost finishing the Erasmus+ project "Hand in hand in building social responsibility" this school term, on March 27 - 31, participants met in Romania, where they worked together on volunteering, recycling and preventing littering. Each partner of the project presented the school's recent activities.

The theme was: Social responsibility in preserving nature.

During their stay in Romania, the participants visited Dracula's Castle and a nature reserve, as well as the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest - one of the greatest attractions in Europe.