Wir fördern Integration – Aim to integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wir fördern Integration – Aim to integration

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The topic of integration and migration (emigration, flight) was as planned in the focus of our Erasmus + project. There were, as planned, three priorities:
1. Developing a common school-based approach and program to better manage migrants and refugees and improve school outcomes for those groups. 2. Improve the integration of migrants into the school community by reducing discrimination and building tolerance. 3. Improving cooperation between schools and external partners. The resulting tasks could be addressed as follows: There was a very productive exchange of experience between the project schools, so that they could work on a broad basis thematically and in terms of content. In this way, it was possible to ensure, as also stated in the application, that not only regional, ie limited, issues were of relevance. In the process, all schools involved are developing a concept for dealing with migration, which should be included in the respective school programs. Here is a constant revision and update makes sense. Results are available in the manuals produced by each participating country. It should be noted that there has been a strengthening of cooperation among teachers in all nations of the project; also a change in knowledge and attitude within the teachers’ colleges and the student body. The development of teaching concepts and methods, in particular for the language acquisition of refugees and migrants (individualized and cooperative learning), has also been initiated. as a result, there should also be an improvement in cooperation with the parents of the refugees / migrants. Further development of the school programs in the field of “dealing with heterogeneity” is under way. Thus it can be assumed that – within a reasonable time – an improvement in the educational success of the targeted groups of people can take place. This would also result in improved integration of refugees / migrants into the school community. In addition to these narrower tasks, more general goals could be achieved among all those involved, to name only a few: prejudices could be reduced and knowledge expanded on all sides; Experiences abroad could be made possible; and much more. We should also mention the further expansion of cooperation between the schools and the relevant regional authorities. (Migrant organizations, offices, …). Here, European-level added value has been achieved through thematic cooperation between local, regional and international organizations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112405 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mariengymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Santa Maria da Feira
• COLLEGE ALIENOR D’AQUITAINE
• ISIS MAIRONI DA PONTE
• Strömstad Gymnasium
• Panevezio K. Paltaroko Gimnazija
• Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium