The Pro Social Values project is a project supported and funded by the Erasmus + KA2 program of the European Union. The time frame for realization and implementation of the project activities is long-term, i.e the project was started at the end of 2017 and last until 2020. Implementators of the project are six non-governmental organizations from Italy, Turkey, Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria and Macedonia whose program goals are aimed at developing modern educational trends:
- Polo Europeo Della Conoscenza (Italy)
- Uşak İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü (Turkey)
- Panevezio Rajono Svietimo Centras (Lithwania)
- Consejeria De Education (Spain)
- Trakia University (Bulgaria)
- Friends of Education (North Macedonija)
The national contact point for the implementation of the project Pro Social Values in the Republic of North Macedonia is the Association “FRIENDS OF EDUCATION”, and all teachers who will register on the official website of the project will have the opportunity to participate at the following link http://psv.europole.org as well as the project blog at the following link http://psv.europole.org/mk/blog/.
The project activities of the project Pro Social Values in the schools in the Republic of Macedonia will take place in two phases. Initial first phase of project implementation which started in June 2018 and which included eight primary schools from the Republic of North Macedonia: Primary School “St. Cyril and Methodius ,, – Skopje, ,, St. Cyril and Methodius ,, – Prilep, Primary School ,, Zivko Brajkovski ,, Skopje, Primary School ,, Grigor Prlichev ,, – Ohrid, ,, St. Cyril and Methodius ,, – Prilep, Primary School “Krste Misirkov” Skopje, Primary School “Kocho Racin” v. Ivanjevci, municipality of Mogila, primary school “Petre Pop Arsov” Bogomila, Caska.
The second phase will be realized in the period from September 2018 to June 2020 and teachers from all schools in the Republic of Macedonia will have the opportunity to participate in it. The project activities in this phase will include the following activities:
- Conducting webinars to promote project activities and support teachers who will be involved in the project
- Implementation of workshops for sharing good teaching practices that demonstrate prosocial learning
- Organizing an award-winning competition – a film festival of educational films with “prosocial content”
- Organizing school initiatives / events so called PROSOCIAL WEEK
- International cooperation and participation in the Fifth Education Conference dedicated to Prosocial Learning.
Pro Social Values Project, which has founded the world network Nobody Less, addresses the challenge of social inclusion and education by helping children from 5 to 15 years old to learn the prosocial skills, develop positive interpersonal relationships and therefore foster social coexistence and individual empowerment. The means through which this change will be achieved are an international community of schools cooperating in the promotion of activities at the national and international level, specific training for the teachers and a set of serious games to involve pupils and improve their prosocial skills. A database of serious games on prosociality will be collected. The partners will develop the training for the teachers responsible for their local prosocial communities. As an integration to the training (available also in a specific digital platform), an online serious game about prosociality, with different levels of difficulty will be developed. Once the teachers will be trained on specific methods to teach the prosocial values, the research phase will start and the social improvements in the involved schools will be measured and analyzed. Two international conferences, local seminars and workshops and three newsletters will contribute to the dissemination and exploitation of the results of the project. One of the main project outcomes is the setting up of an international community Network called ” Nobody Less” which is just growing and already counts at least 20 countries in the world.