ContextIt cannot be denied that all the subjects at school are equally important. One of the tasks of teachers and syllabuses alike is to find ways to avoid any kind of discrimination among students. This can be achieved by offering them behavior role models, that is to say, teachers capable of instructing and guiding their students into the benefits of group cohesion and harmony in order to develop personalities that can fit, be adapted and accepted in today’s demanding society. It is also of paramount importance to encourage students to improve attitudes and acceptance among their peers. One of the subjects that can really help improve positive attitudes among peers is Physical Education. This subject and its teachers take care of the students’ fitness and health. It also trains them in different sports and athletics events to become familiar with their rules. Team work is extremely important so that individual tasks within the team may encourage team success by respecting the other members’ tasks and skills. It is in this environment in which the idea of respect flourishes and strengthens the bonds among peers as well as teaching them to be more sensible towards issues related to bullying and any other kind of discrimination. Physical Educations is, somehow, a landmark in the training of students to avoid harassment.ObjectivesOur aims are:1. To allow teachers to deal with the problem of violence, bullying and discrimination at an institutional level2. To unfold a common strategy of prevention of violence3. To foster a culture of care, mutual respect and tolerance4. To foster the acceptance of weaker students5. To ease communication of participants' interpersonal and intercultural skills6. To build up the environment for students' learning7. To spread self-expression and creativity8. To encourage disinhibition and trustfulness among students with a fragile background.9. To encourage students to boost their personal interaction10. To invite teachers to give students a balanced education and equality of opportunities11. To encourage students to increase their self-esteem by offering them they right tasks and activities.ParticipantsThis project is addressed to teachers. They are the ones who experience and know about violence and bullying at schools. They will exchange experiences and will identify the good practices. However, a second target of the project is that of students, mostly when considering those students whose attitude is negative and has to be changed. They should learn about the causes and consequences of violence and discrimination. Instead, they should learn values such as tolerance, respect, approval and acceptance to let everyone be at ease at school.ActivitiesC1 – Violence and discrimination in schools – aspects to be dealt with (short term joint staff)C3 – Stop violence (student exchange)C4 – Reject bullying (student exchange)C5 – Embrace equality (student exchange)ResultsThe concrete results. A step-by-step report on ways to address violence and discrimination at the school level. A student magazine, a calendar of the most important moments in the project, a website that will contain all the activities developed, information about the project and its objectives, students’ works during LTTAs, a collection of CDs with stories form photographic reports, movies. We also plan another set of results: the participants will increase their awareness of the importance of the concept of equality and, therefore, they will be more open to differences. They will also increase their respect and tolerance towards other people, develop their communication skills in English, their interpersonal skills and social skills as a result of working directly with multinational teams and living with host families. The project will result in a better intercultural awareness, a reduction in the number of cases of bullying and a better atmosphere of work.ImpactThere is no doubt that participation in the project will be highly beneficial for our institutions. The number of violent incidents among students will certainly be reduced as a result of activities focused on the topic basically designed to improve their awareness and will also have a positive emotional effect on them. Dissemination after exchanges is intended to target as many students as possible, the project impact on their behaviour and attitude will be increased and passed on from participants to other students. In the long term, educators will be able to manage these issues much better at local level and also carry out initiatives together with authorities. The ideas and practices exchanged with their European peers will allow them to unfold their methods. Attending regular classes during LTTAs, watching presentations of partner countries educational systems and attending talks with peers, teachers will be able to detect good practices and adapt them to their own schools.

The project “We Debate like MEPs” will promote debating but will also draw the attention of our students to present-day social issues because they are the future builders of United Europe. Our project aims at encouraging young people to lead a dialogue, listen to each other and be tolerant while communicating. The key objective of the project, which unites five schools from five different countries, is to help build a well-informed, capable, searching and active civil society. Project participants will learn to openly express their standpoint, convincingly and sensibly defend their own position and be tolerant to those, who don’t share their point of view. With the aid of practical lessons they will develop their oratory skills, critical thinking, master presentation and communication skills, which in turn will help them present better at a job interview. We will bring together people with different interests, views and life experience, and we will provoke them to think. When you are put in an environment, which is filled with bright young people who want to know, speak and be heard, it is something contagious. There is a place for everyone. They will challenge you to get out of your comfort zone and will set you in an environment, which will make you want to speak, be part of your society and change something. Debates are a really good environment for the development of personal qualities and communicating skills. What is more, competitive atmosphere inspires all people to want to be better than they have been the day before. At the same time it is a friendly environment, too. As a whole, it is a valuable and useful experience. But the essence of the whole project is a person to learn how to defend his/her own thesis, commit himself/herself to other people’s thesis and prove to the listeners that he/she is right. We will prepare “A Handbook How to Create a Debating Club and Debate at School”, which will help those who want to debate, without being trained to. During training meetings, we will clear up the methods and admissible means while debating, present meetings and discussions with MEPs from partner countries and share impressions from the work of local Parliaments. This will help form a citizenship and a desire for coping with social apathy. In addition, we will take care of the students with special educational needs to find their place in the project, so that they won’t feel isolated, unworthy and a burden to society. We will train teachers for mediators for conflict solving, trainers and mentors because the aim of the debate is to find information independently, systematize it and devise arguments from it. By implementing project activities, participants will learn how to be tolerant, accept different points of view; will be acquainted with ethics and culture of communication. And this is extremely important in a time, when we observe aggression and lack of tolerance among youths. We will cooperate with NGOs, local students’ parliaments,formal and informal institutions and schools in the region for dissemination of project’s products and results. One of the best activities will be students writing essays on “I- Citizen of United Europe and a Future MEP”.The best essays will be awarded and a long-term distribution will be ensured by publishing them in a project collection. We will enclose a certification program in our project to motivate students, make them more responsible citizens and help their self-confidence. Students will be able to work in 2030 when we take into account project’s results. These certificates will be evidence for employers on labor market for the knowledge and skills the students in the mobility have acquired, and will also enrich beneficiaries’ portfolio. During project activities, students will apply their knowledge in the sphere of ICT, English language since this will be project’s main working language, History, Philosophy, Business education, Geography, Ecology, Psychology and they will make products, which will be a symbol of cross-border cooperation.Project’s voluntary initiatives “Good Deeds of Young Debaters” will support socially disadvantaged families, organize collecting food packages and necessities, which will help the work of dog shelters. Debaters will also visit homes for the elderly.Project’s sustainability will be ensured by making films, which will be shot during debates, and will be given in the form of a CD to each participant. We will use the opportunities of the cinema as the best means for communication and presentation of values.