Rationale

Europe has always been a meeting place for different cultures and civilizations. The history shows us how different cultures met, lived and fought with each other. Our schools partners are endowed with a vast repertoire of skills, experiences and needs (geographic location, immigrant pupils with a migratory background, with disability...). This diversity, allied with the individual and social differences evident in the our student population, enables and requires a pedagogy based on respect for and the celebration of difference.

The children are easily influenced by the culture, opinions, and attitudes of their caregivers. Caregivers' perceptions of ethnic and racial groups can affect the child's attitudes toward those minority groups. In the multicultural and multi-ethnic Europe of today, the schools have to promote intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and respect around a common theme. This project, involving pupils and teachers in a great multi-cultural European experience, provides stimulation and motivation. It will influence the development of positive attitudes in young pupils by learning about and promoting the various cultures . The teachers can help to eliminate stereotypes by presenting material and activities that enable children to learn the similarities of all the single persons. This project widens the horizons and creates friendships, breaking through national, linguistic and social barriers.

"NiToMeYo" promote awareness of each other’s way of life, appreciation of diversity (by sharing cultural experiences and promoting respect for “the other”); INTERCULTURAL AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FOR EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP is the key to this Comenius partnership and , in our project, THE DIFFERENCES MAKE LIFE FUN!