TITLE OF THE PROJECT: TEACHERS’QUALIFICATION AND STUDENTS’MOTIVATION AS A DETRIMENTAL FACTOR IN YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE MINORITIES SOCIAL RELISATION

Financing Organisation: The Ministry of Education together with the ‘Center for Educational Integration of Children and Young People from the Minorities ‘

Start of the project: October 2007

Deadline: October 2008

Manager of the project: Atanaska Koleva

Participants: Teachers and students from Hristo Botev High School, the ‘Éducation and Business’ Partner Organisation .

Students from three ethnicity groups study in the school-Bulgarians, Turkish and Roma.

The aim of the project is increasing teachers’ qualifications in their work in a multicultural environment. One of the objects is getting to know and accepting the differences as a source of knowledge for the other person and enriching personal culture. A number of teacher trainings were carried out. The project activities were in three of the issues of the school newspaper. A ‘Teacher-Parents Collaboration’ club was founded. A lot of topical books were bought for the school library. The end of the project was stated with a big concert under the motto “We are different but we sing and play together for you”.