White Rose

ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE LICEO MEDI BARCELLONA P.G. (MESSINA) ITALY

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

The project aims at making the students aware of one of the biggest issues in Europe: Violence Against Women (VAW).
It is a problem of pandemic proportions. All over the world, women are victims of different kinds of violence: rape, sexual assault, murder, stalking, genital mutilation, domestic violence, each form of abuse related to the social and cultural context in which it is produced.
Gender-based violence is a brutal form of discrimination and a violation of the victim’s fundamental rights. It is both a cause and a consequence of inequalities between women and men. It unfortunately happens in every society and all EU countries, regardless of social background, whether at home, at work, at school, in the streets and online as well.
We need young people will learn to defend and respect their own and others' human rights and learn how to acquire gender balance because remaining silent is not an option, it would be acceptation or resignation of daily crimes.

The eTwinning Project

A preliminary activity was the creation of the parallel etwinning project "Violence against women".
It was to become the most important tool inside the partnership in order to plan all together, upload materials, document every activity, disseminate every event...

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INFORMATION

After the project approval, the first steps were the communication to the school community during the teachers meeting at the beginning of the school year (September 2017), the creation of an Erasmus+ Team and the information by means of the school website to inform also parents and other teachers and students (direct and indirect participants):

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The initial monitoring

The first online questionnaire was built in a collaborative way and given to all the students directly involved in the participating schools.

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RESULTS:
The majority of the students had already heard about "gender based violence" and were aware that women victimes of violence need some help. But they didn't know almost anything about the national or international laws that should protect women rights in case of violence or to prevent it nor the existence of anti-violence centres in their towns/cities.

THE KNOWLEDGE PHASE
1." The brainstorming day" : warming up activity; in the same day, at the same slot time, all the classes involved in the project saw a movie ("Sleeping with the enemy") ; then a discussion/debating took place.

2. Analysis of articles and statistics about VAW:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/34873/pages/page/419479

Divided in groups, students analysed some articles, news, statistics about violence against women during lessons time or at home.
Also flipped classroom technique was used.

First Transnational Meeting.
Coordinators met each other for the first time in Croatia ( 4th-6th October 2017) at Velika Gorica Gimnazija. They discussed about the planning of the activities, the distributions of roles and tasks inside the partnership, deadlines, calendar of events, criteria for monitoring and evaluation, the management of the website, eTwinning live, TwinSpace and Mobility Tool platform.
The receiving school planned interesting workshops and cultural visits.

Preparation for C1 (First Learning Teaching Training Activity) to ITALY.

Italian students from the different courses (Scientific, Linguistic, Human Sciences Lyceum) prepared some issues:
1. Stories of violence: analysing newspapers and magazines, the students summarized some of them in digital products;
2. Videos about VAW: spots and short videos;
3. Role plays , poems and performances;
4. A rap song about VAW .

Links to these results:
https://youtu.be/a4mxrbckhCw
https://youtu.be/4Qh0g9eMc2E
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/34873/pages/page/419480

To watch the rap song video press here

https://youtu.be/a4mxrbckhCw

ITALY 20th-26th November 2017

Visits to Cefalù, Castelbuono, Tyndaris, Taormina, Jalari Park, Castroreale.
Activities: digital albums about VAW, guided tours, multicultural festival, the non-violence tree, performance about VAW, roleplays, songs, celebration of November 25th.

LOGO COMPETITION
It took place in Italy. There were more than 50 logo proposals: the Jury, composed by teachers and students from the different countries, voted as best logo that one created by an Italian student: Enrico Barbin.
It was to become the ufficial logo project. Here is the motivation explained by the student:
"A flowerpot with some white roses embodies the serenity that every woman would have right. A woman in her shoulders whose nudity (classically referred to as a symbol of purity) highlights a dull tattoo of real blood, a manifestation of the violence she is subjected to. The upright posture is indicative of the firm will not to succumb to this oppression but to react."