PARTEA PROJECT: AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE TO DEVELOP INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE IN EUROPE

The PARTEA project (Parents and Teachers: Partners in intercultural dialogue) has been an educational experience developed in seven European countries (Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and Romania), whose main objective was to identify and develop methods in schools to improve intercultural dialogue among parents of minority cultures and teachers from the different European countries participating in this project. This project, which was funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, was carried out during two academic years, between 2009 and 2011. Throughout the life-time of the project, we found the need to improve intercultural dialogue among the members of the educational communities, considering that a closer relationship is needed among parents of different cultures and teachers to develop an effective intercultural dialogue. Thus, the project has also been an excellent opportunity to exchange good educational practices among teachers, establishing new channels of communication and interaction with families from different cultures in the context of a much more culturally diverse Europe.