The Chair, in partnership with entities from Spain, UK, Finland and Turkey, presented a Strategic Partnerships project in the last Erasmus+ call, which has been approved.
In the Chair for Cooperation and Sustainable Development of the UV we are in luck. The last Erasmus+ project submission round, KA201 - Strategic Partnerships in the field of school and adult education, in April 2020, we submitted a project in partnership with Change-makers Unltd (UK coordinating organisation of the project), Hanko High School (Finland), CIPFP La Misericordia (Valencia) and Youth Association (Turkey).
The name of the project is “Hope&Act. Towards a Pedagogy of Hope, Resilience & Action: Innovating Curricula for inclusive & active global citizenship through the framework of the UN Global Goals (SDGs)” and last Monday 30th November, we had our first online kick-off meeting.
The project is based on the need for society to move towards finding solutions to current problems in a collective way and to support this change through the education provided in schools even impacting their curriculum: we want to promote empowerment, participation and active citizenship of young people in order to contribute to the creation of a democratic society from out filed of action, education.
The project activities are carefully designed to develop an innovative teaching method that enables educators to support students to develop critical thinking to take on active global citizenship as a responsibility, in order to create a more right, equitable and sustainable world for future generations through the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
We will address the inclusion of global issues across the curriculum such as sustainability, poverty and development, understanding, mutual respect, justice, equity and interdependence, the great challenges of humanity. Thinking together about how these themes apply to local contexts, the European context and the global context will encourage the social inclusion of young people in schools and higher education.
This project will provide professional and high quality resources that will be particularly appropriate and useful to support teachers in dealing with diversity in education.
