About the project "peaceambassadors@school"

Schools Business Academy Levice, Slovakia - Colegiul National Pedagogic Constantin BratescuConstanta, Rumunsko
This project aims to promote the concept of peace from three perspectives: * The world perspective * Role - models for peace * Individual perspective The project will try to teach students about necessity to keep peace in the world and lead the students to such activities which will form and make students be ambassadors of peace. Students will organize mutual activities to support world peace, they will listen to peace songs, plant peace trees and organize the activities for their schoolmates, write articles, poems, ... with peace ideas. The students will cooperate with UN, EP and other organizations in their peace activities
The project will enhance the European dimension of the school curriculum. The European co-operation will help us to share different approaches and methods of teaching and learning and students will profit from other European countries. The ambition of the project is to make students think of the most important values in the world like peace, tolerance and cooperation. Other aims of the project: To reflect upon the barriers to peace. - To appreciate wider points of views regarding peace. - To encourage tolerance towards others. - To oppose against racism and xenophobia - To increase the pupils' knowledge of the differences between countries, race, religion and culture. - To engage the pupils in co-operative activities to achieve better understanding so that we can exist in a peaceful way.The project will broaden also English language, ICT skills.
Students and teachers will discuss the topics of the project and coordinate the activities of the project, plan work on the project. They will introduce schools, towns where they live, countries and themselves and then discuss planned topics and organize mutual activities in their schools, communities and countries. They will have a video conference andchats every month. Finally they will evaluate the project and make outputs of the project - CDs, DVDs, web sites, blogs,...
The co-operation shall enhance the motivation of learning from and sharing with others and intensify the work across national and cultural boundaries. - The partnership will broaden one’s minds and widen tolerance and curiosity to international experiences in future. - Children will develop linguistic awareness through their dialogue with partners, learning from first-hand experience. - The communication with their partners will improve technology skills as well as language skills.