En route Erasmus Project

Project Title

En route

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

En route … Migration seems a topical subject in Europe because it appears so much in media. Under the influence of these media, a lot of people, also young people, often have a wrong view on the current stream of refugees and thus have a lot of prejudices. Our schools have nowadays more refugees and pupils of a foreign origin. Social inclusion and integration are often vague notions. Nevertheless, history shows that migration is universal and of all times.
By starting from current affairs and by looking for remains of migration throughout the history of both exchange countries ( Belgium and Germany ), 10 German and 10 Belgian pupils from the last two years of the secondary schools, OSZ Flakowski in Brandenburg (DE) and Barnum in Roeselare (BE), pricked through the clichés and made young and older people, foreigners or autochthons realize that in fact we are all children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren of refugees looking for a safer or better life
During this exchange project, the pupils learned in particular away from the classrooms, in other learning environments. We started with following the current affairs about refugees as a preparation and we debated about this in group, first in both schools separately, afterwards in the whole group . During the first exchange period in Germany, the mixed group visited the Dutch, Russian and French quarters in Potsdam. In Berlin, they participated in workshops and learned a lot about the escapes under and over the Wall. They investigated and showed the results to each other. During the exchange programme in Belgium, they participated in a workshop about the refugees of World War I in Ypres, got to know some refugee families of WW I in the Remembrance garden of the refugees in Westouter. In Bruges, they tried to find historical traces of migration in the Middle Ages. They followed steps of the European families who embarked to America from Antwerp in search of a better life. The docu-film ‘ The art of becoming’ with workshop, brought them back to the 21st century and a visit to an asylum centre teached them more about the European asylum policy and the life of an asylum seeker.
With all this experience and material, the pupils made a poster series of 10 posters to launch a campaign and to spread a positive message throughout the school, in the city library and other public places of Brandenburg an der Havel and Roeselare, on social media. So as not to forget that we are all children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren of refugees …

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 25686 Eur

Project Coordinator

Barnum & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Oberstufenzentrum “Alfred Flakowski”