DOOR (Discovering our origins and roots) to Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

DOOR (Discovering our origins and roots) to Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

During the past years, the constant influx of immigrants has been the cause of dramatic and fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political, economic and educational landscape of the European Union. With the rise of racial and xenophobic attitudes towards refugees accross the continent, European values such as tolerance and solidarity came under huge pressure. Aware of the complexity of the issue, we formed a team for an Erasmus+ project entitled DOOR (Discovering our origins and roots) TO EUROPE. The project brings together six schools from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Greece, France being the coordinator. Altogether, we have the following objectives:
– form an open and balanced perception of immigrants and their cultures through research, analysis, counter narratives, intellectual dialogue, and direct encounters;
– gain insight from and share good and easy-to-implement practices for the social inclusion of immigrants and the way host countries receive and treat them;
– focus on social and civic responsibilities by encouraging cultural awareness through creativity and the acquisition of English language and digital skills, and fostering a sense of initiative and leadership.
– raise awareness of European Culture Heritage.
DOOR TO EUROPE will involved students aged 14- 18 as well as staff and teachers from different department (sciences , history and geography, languages, art, ICT…) participating in meetings and organizing various learning/teaching/training activities, but also participants (family members, local authorities, immigrants, associations, politicians, etc.) who will be involved in the implementation of the project on the one hand and dissemination of the project on hthe other hand.
All the activities are interrelated, insofar as they analyze the issue of immigration ( treatment from different perspectives, students backgrounds and roots, laws…)
Opting for a holistic approach, the team will start off by gaining insight into its own history then national histories related to migration and go on to analyze the root causes of the current migration phenomenon. It will also take a look at measures being taken to tackle the issue and finally, consider possible, future actions. Hopefully, this approach will help students form a balanced, overall opinion on the present immigration crisis.
Among the activities foreseen, there will be
Activity 1: Surveys and A European Immigration Map: Each partner will make a survey about the origins of its students/families and teachers (where they come from, why they are here…?) and make researches about migration flows. This will enable the students to create a map with all the students’ countries of origins, the location of the partners countries the migration flows.
Activity 2: Family trees
Activity 3: the creation of a logo .
Activity 4: An Immigrant Experience (Interviews and testimonies)
Activity 5: Presentation of a survey: How multi-cultural are we?
Activity 6: Organization of a Tolerance Day
Activity 7: The survival kit activity focuses on the creation and realisation of the implementation of a “welcoming concept” at each of the participating schools. The students will develop a “survival kit” which includes the most basic information on their school and cultural and linguistic support.
Activity 8: Survey about the laws and regulations at the national and European levels about immigration: What do the European countries do to support positive immigration? What organizations help migrants and what is their role? What school/students do to help immigrant people?
Activity 9: Creation of a freedom school calendar
Activity 10: Silent short film contest: Students from all participating countries will have the chance to take part in this silent short film competition that will shed light on the plight of immigrants in foreign lands.
Activity 11: A cultural week to familiarize people with the customs, folklore, handicrafts and food of the immigrants’ country of origin.
Activity 12: The poster contest and exhibition will promote tolerance and acceptance.
This creative workshop will help pupils to become aware of their belonging to a united Europe, and to make them aware of migration, help them understand why they should support and assist people who are migrating, probably suffering, trying to reach their destinations and setting up a new home. These materials will be used as a mean of dissemination. Students will have made previous researches in their own country.
Activity 13: Welcoming immigrant people Charter
Activity 14: The final Exhibition: all the materials, products and outcomes (logo, charter surveys, calendar, family trees, interviews, maps, survival kit, silent short films… ) will be displayed as tools of dissemination.
All Partners have Erasums+ experiences and so as to succeed the implementation and the dissemination of the project, we’ll use the E-twinning plateform (twinspace) and a website will be createi

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170665 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association Tourquennoise de gestion de l’EIC – Lycée Privé Marie Noël & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LICEO SCIENTIFICO LS TREBISACCE SEZ.CL.ANN.
• I.E.S. La Arboleda
• 1 EPAL KAVALAS
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 9 Kolobrzeg
• Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium