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The final conference, entitled "Réunion d’information débat autour des productions du projet Erasmus+ “I Have Rights” en faveur de l’éducation aux droits fondamentaux européens dans un contexte scolaire multiculturel", was an event organised in Paris (France) on 19 June 2018. It gathered around 30 partners, speakers, and school members and teachers from short private higher education, from all over France and Europe. 

The fourth meeting took place in Paris (FR) on 18 June 2018. Alessandra Viviani and Lorenzo Martellini conducted the meeting and all partners contributed with the presentation of the activities carried out at national level for the production of the final publication on Integration of Immigrant Students at School and for the organization of the multiplier events.

The Greek multiplier event will take place on the 25th and 26th of May at the Municipal Council hall of Thessaloniki. It will be a 2-days conference titled "All children different and all children equal at school". A group of esteemed professors, researchers, teachers and practitioners, as well as representatives of the Greek Associated Partners have been invited as guest speakers. Teachers and students will attend. The project objectives results will be presented, followed by a selection of best practices.

The Training Activity “Expert in Multicultural School Environment” was organized by the University of Siena addressed to teachers and based on the use of non formal education tools, with the aim to develop intercultural competences and raise awareness and acquisition of knowledge on non-discrimination principle with reference to migration issues. 
The Activity was implemented in close collaboration with REDU (Rete Educare I Diritti Umani) and Associazione Culturale Ulisse (ACU), both Associate Partners to the I Have Rights Project.

A number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years. They include no profit associations, NGOs, training institutions, universities, public authorities, etc. The information about all associated partners is available on the project portal under the Associated Partners section.

Nowadays, European schools receive an increasing number of foreign students, especially migrants (from outside the EU), European classes. Teachers are suddenly faced with students of different nationalities, cultures and learning styles they have difficulties to approach…This introduction module first outlines the historical context of migrations in Europe and their impact in educational environments.Then, it presents, through the results of the survey conducted by the project partners, how teachers and students nowadays see this diversity in the project partner countries.Finally, it gives an overview of projects implemented by schools in various countries to make education more inclusive.

The module has the main objective of giving teachers useful information about how they can develop intercultural competence and thus organize and manage multicultural classes. For example, Zadra (2004) states that the training of teaching staff is an important factor in the development of intercultural competences in learners.

This module focuses on teachers’ awareness on the value of intercultural competences as a transformative tool, able to increase similar skills in their students, thus representing a significant factor in the improvement of their future professional qualifications and active citizenship within a multicultural European society.
This module also highlights the main responsibilities of teachers in a multicultural environment (by deconstructing prejudices, promoting diversity, improving active listening, etc.). 

The third meeting took place in Liege (BE) on 19 – 20 October 2017. Alessandra Viviani and Lorenzo Martellini conducted the meeting and all partners contributed with the presentation of the activities carried out at national level for the production of the Guidelines for Teachers on Inclusive Education. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partners to make a detailed planning of the project future activities and to organize the project's work that focuses on the production of a publication related the Integration of Immigrant Students at School.

National and Transnational Report are now available. The reports presents the main findings related to the survey on human rights and intercultural issues carried out in 6 European Countries. The survey involved a total number of 900 teachers and 3 000 students

The Best Practice identified in the 6 partners’ European countries on intercultural competences and Human rights at school are now available on the project portal.

Several educational web sites promoted the I Have Rights project through a dedicated link. The complete list of web sites promoting the I Have Rights Portal is available in the section Press Review.

The second meeting took place in Coimbra (PT) on 30 – 31 March 2017. Alessandra Viviani and Lorenzo Martellini conducted the meeting and all partners contributed with the presentation of the activities carried out at national level for the survey related to intercultural issues, integration, non-discrimination values and human rights at school. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partners to make a detailed planning of the project future activities and to organize the project's work that focuses on the realization of the guidelines for teachers.

Project Partners are currently conducting a field research in all partners countries involving approximately 900 teachers and 3 000 students. The aim of the research is to better understand  the current situation of human rights and intercultural issues at school.

Partners are collecting case studies  focusing on intercultural issues, integration, non-discrimination values and human rights at school. At least 60 case studeis will be identified.

The project partners are currently creating the network of schools interested in cultural integration issues. Several schools have already been involved from six countries. Teachers and counsellors will work together with the project partners in order to better work in multicultural classrooms. Do not hesitate to contact them!

The kick off meeting took place in Florence on 29 – 30 September 2016 and it was the opportunity for the European project partners to present themselves and their activities, to discuss the activities to be carried out and to identify the main intellectual outputs to be produced.

The I Have Rights project has been funded by the European Commission and French National Agency in the framework of the Erasmus + Programma, Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practice, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships. The aim of the project is to provide secondary school teachers with the skills to deal with multicultural classrooms through the acquisition of intercultural competences based on the understanding of human rights  and non-discrimination values.