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Multilateral Comenius Project: Europe Without Prejudices at the Berlin College of Further Education for Information Technology and Medical Equipment Technology

In this multilateral Comenius project "Europe Without Prejudices", partner schools in Germany, Estonia, Poland, Greece and Turkey are intending to develop a mutual cultural knowledge and to reduce racism and xenophobia.

The students will be motivated to promote their ideas and their knowledge of the respective countries to exchange and to get a clear picture of each other's culture. In addition to that the possibility to improve their language skills, with regard to English as the project language, and the local languages, is given.

Through the mediation of specific national traditions, ideas, opinions, methods and cultures we also ensure that both the students and the teachers are motivated to see, to realize and accept everyday life in other countries, their cultures mutual understanding, because all people are equal regardless how they manage their lives and live their culture that can still be quite similar to the culture in other countries. The activities that are implemented in this project, make the students aware of their identity, because they will get to know better both their own culture and the others cultures. This is a natural way to overcome prejudice and ignorance. The students will gain a new and better self-esteem and they will start to see and accept each other as part of the same European community.

Estonia - Tartu KHK

The Tartu Kutsehariduskeskus is a vocational education center that has over 20 different professions. Carpenters, cooks, car mechanics, hairdressers, builders etc. The students who are going to participate in our project are about 17 to 19 years old.

Germany - OSZ IMT

The Oberstufenzentrum Informations- und Medizintechnik is a technical college, specialized in Information Technology and Medical Equipment Technology. It consists of six departments.

One of these departments includes the high school where we are going to implement the Comenius project. The students who are going to participate are in average 17 years old.

Greece - High School of Elefsina

The name of our school is 1st General Upper High School of Elefsina, titled Aristotelio from Aristotle (was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great).

There are 340 students and 35 teachers. In upper high school the students are aged 15-18. They get full-time education with general information and in the last two years they specialize in either literature, technology or science.

Poland - Powstancow Wielkopolskich

Our school is located in the west part of Poland, in the county called Great Poland. The name of our school is Powstancow Wielkopolskich (The insurgents of Great Poland) because people took part in an uprising to fight for freedom in this part of Poland and they won it. In this way our school community venerate to the insurgents of Great Poland.

Our school is a complex of Junior High School and Primary School in Przemet. Students who take part in the project attend junior high school. They are between 13 and 15/16 years old.

Turkey - Bafra Ticaret Meslek Lisesi

The Samsun-Bafra Sehit Erkut Yilmaz Ticaret Meslek Lisesi is a vocational high school of economics. It has two departments (accounting finance and information technology).

The school has got about 700 students and 45 teachers. Our students are between 15 and 18 years old. The students who are going to participate are about 15 to 18 years old.

Visit Report Berlin
The 1st meeting of our Comenius Project „Europe Without Prejudices" took place in Berlin from 9th of April until 16th of April 2011.
 
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