About the Project

The prohibition of discrimination and the protection of human rights are important elements of the EU legal order. Nevertheless, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual,transgender, questioning and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons persists throughout the EU, taking various forms including verbal abuse and physical violence. Sexual orientation is now recognised in EU law as grounds of discrimination. 

However, the scope of the provisions dealing with this issue is limited and does not cover social protection, healthcare, education and access to goods and services. More people also consider discrimination on the basis of gender identity to be widespread; sexual orientation and gender identity are respectively the second and the third most commonly indicated grounds for discrimination. The project INCLUSION VOCABULARY – Creating a new Inclusion Vocabulary to foster acceptance of sexual orientation among teachers and students in high schools (2020-1-PTO1-KA201-078604), financed by Erasmus+ programme, aims to undertake many actions against discrimination and towards inclusion of LGBTQI+ people 

Inequalities, hate speech and bullying on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identification remain still an active problem in Europe. Our aim through this project is to make an active and useful contribution to this cause, starting from the educational sector that is the most important in shaping future attitudes, improving and even saving, metaphorically and even literally, young lives. 

Objectives & Activities

The main objectives of the project are: 

  • To create positive and inclusive environments in schools for all students regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity; 
  • To accumulate teaching resources and create lesson plans based on respect to diversity, including examples of SOGI topics to reflect the SOGI diversity in students’ lives, families and society; 
  • To extricate any prejudiced or discriminatory words or behaviors from teachers and students’ vocabulary; 
  • To train teachers, educators and high school students on how to foster their SOGI inclusive, social and communication skills through digital technology (videos, dedicated platform, website); 
  • To provide parents of students who identify themselves as LGBTQI+ with digital resources for communicating with their children in a respectful and accepting manner; 
  • To sensitize and make teachers more receptive on those issues, not only towards their students but also towards colleagues and other members of society who identify as LGBTQI+. 

In order to reach these objectives, the following Intellectual Outputs (IO) will be developed: 

The New Vocabulary Handbook (IO1) that addresses one of the most important problems of the LGBTQI+ community of middle and high school students. The New Vocabulary Handbook is a dictionary-like document which contains a complete list of inclusive and accepting terminology regarding sexual orientation and gender identity topics. The handbook contains examples of these terms in an everyday context, pedagogical advice regarding LGBTQI+ students, interviews from experts on the subject and, most importantly, good and bad practices. The handbook is targeted at school educators who seek to break taboos on SOGI topics in their respective countries; it embraces all students regardless of sexual orientation and gives to discriminated ones a sense of inclusion and security within the school environment. 

New Vocabulary training course for teachers (IO2) – a complete training course for middle and high school teachers who wish to implement the project’s ideas into their teaching life. The training will introduce teachers to the structure, parts, contents, proper use and implementation of using an inclusive vocabulary inside the class for students belonging to LGBTQI+ groups. Furthermore, the training concentrates on specialised pedagogical methods to foster the inclusion of diversity students, focuses on how to deal with bullying and shows methods of prevention of discrimination and hatred. Moreover, good practices from schools and other countries will all be part of the course curriculum. 

New Vocabulary video stories (IO3) After a training for teachers regarding the principles of filmmaking (C1), 4 teams of 5 students in each one of the 5 participating schools will be formed. Each team will be assigned a supervising teacher. Therefore, well have a total of 100 students and 20 teachers participating. Each team will create a short video revolving around linguistic discrimination and (cyber)bullying towards LGBTQI+ students, addressing a specific issue and recommending solutions steaming from the handbook. All the videos will be uploaded to a specially designed online platform where viewers will be able to rate, comment and share the videos. The platform will also host information and news about the project along with the New Vocabulary Handbook itself and will be hosted also online communities for parents, teachers and students. 

Resources

News

Inclusion Vocabulary Project Nominated for Erasmus+ Award 2024

Inclusion Vocabulary Project Nominated for Erasmus+ Award 2024

The Inclusion Vocabulary project, spearheaded by the Porto Cerco Schools Cluster, has been nominated for the prestigious Erasmus+ Award 2024 in Category 2. This recognition highlights the project's exceptional contribution to fostering acceptance of sexual orientation...

Partners met for the last time in Belgrade

Partners met for the last time in Belgrade

The third and final international meeting of the Erasmus+ project “Inclusion Vocabulary – Creating a new Inclusion Vocabulary to foster acceptance of sexual orientation among teachers and students in high schools” (project number 2020-1-PTO1-KA201-078604) took place...

The Italian Multiplier Event

The Italian Multiplier Event

On Monday 21st November, our Italian partners, CEIPES and Liceo Scientifico Statale S. Cannizzaro organized a big Multiplier Event together with more than fifty participants. The event took place in Palermo at Liceo Scientifico Statale S. Cannizzaro where teachers and...

Students in Portugal for the New Vocabulary Video Stories

Students in Portugal for the New Vocabulary Video Stories

From the 18th to the 20th of October within the Erasmus Inclusion Vocabulary Project, Agrupamento de escolas do Cerco do Porto  welcomed a group of teachers and students from: Escuela 2 Cooperativa Valenciana (Spain); Liceo Scientifico Statale S. Cannizzaro (Italy);...

The consortium met for the second time

The consortium met for the second time

On Friday 23 September, the partners of the Inclusion Vocabulary project – Creating a new Inclusion Vocabulary to foster acceptance of sexual orientation among teachers and students in high schools (2020-1-PTO1-KA201-078604) encountered in Sofia, Bulgaria, for...

The Handbook is online

The Handbook is online

Nowadays the fight against gender discrimination is more and more relevant and it’s increasingly necessary to promote the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people. To prevent discrimination, hate speech and inequalities needs an inclusive environment, mostly within schools;...

 ‘’New Vocabulary Training Course’’

 ‘’New Vocabulary Training Course’’

From the 3rd of May to the 5th of May 2022, the New Vocabulary Training course of the Inclusion Vocabulary (2020-1-PTO1-KA201-078604) project took place, in the fantastic panorama of the city of Madrid. It was a key moment for the Inclusion Vocabulary project, which...

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