(Magyar) Félúton Odüsszeusszal
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School in Szigetbecse – SZMKIKIFT
Szigetbecse is a small city about 60 kms from Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Social circumstances in the area are general. The rate of unemployment is about 5 %. There are lots of mobile workers here, especially heads of families (fathers), in order to find better opportunities and jobs in the surroundings or in the capital. 16 % of our children come from disadvantageous socio-economic background, 20 % of them are children with special needs.
The primary school participating in the project belongs to a federation of educational institutes containing 2 kindergartens, 2 primary schools and 1 library. All of them operate with different staff, different pupils in different cities. They have the same identification number, even they are different institutes, identified by different codes of location (partner data, code of location).The associated structure helps to solve financial problems of the institutes belong to it, but causes operational problems sometimes. In spite of these difficulties, the federation is very active in participating in proposals and cooperation involving the level of education, but none of them have participated in international partnerships so far. This institute hands only one application form for COMENIUS partnership, but may occur other applications from the federation, with the same identification number.
We are a small primary school with lots of children having disadvantageous socio-economic background. We would like to try out ourselves in an European context. We would like to encourage not only our students, but also our staff to take part in European and cross-cultural activities. This partnership promotes our children and stuff to become more open-minded, helps to become more tolerant for human relations. The ongoing work develops teachers’ communication skills in a foreign language, and their competence and confidence in using ICT. They also learn to take decisions in a more effective and responsible way. We would like to coordinate the ongoing work with the help of our associated partner MOSTart NGO having great experiences in international cooperation, in order to learn project management and priorities of European context, and try to lead partnerships even independently in our next projects. The topic of the project also contributes to develop our entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.