Social inclusion through education in the age of migration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social inclusion through education in the age of migration

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project focuses on education and social inclusion of refugees and immigrants. The main objective is to exchange good practices as to how we solve both pedagogical challenges as well as challenges in terms of social inclusion for minority students. As a second motive, we want to focus on how ICT can be used to facilitate better learning and social inclusion for minority students. Finally, the project will give participating students intercultural competence and further improve their English skills.

All four participating schools have experience in teaching immigrants and refugees. Our project partners all participated in Erasmus plus KA229 “School Walls”, a project exploring inspirational learning environments. During our work in this project it became clear that we had a lot to learn from each other in the way we welcome and teach minority students. Over a period of 20 months, one visit to every participant will be organized. With our four particpating schools, this will yield a total of four transnational meetings. These meetings will involve three teachers and three pupils from every school as well as 10 pupils from the school that hosts the visit.

In the transnational meetings the host school will organize lessons and activities for the pupils that highlight and demonstrate how the host school works with education and social inclusion of minority students. Teachers from the visiting schools will observe and interact with the students, but also discuss practises in meetings parallell with the students’ lessons. Excursions and other activities that will promote cultural exchange will also be organized by the host school.

We will conduct in-depth interviews with the students that participate in the project. Participating teachers will also be asked to write a short entry in which they reflect on what they have learnt from the project. A digital guide with best practices will be the final product of this project. This guide will be easy to use for all teachers and schools and we will make sure that it is widely circulated through E-twinning and other media. The guide will be discussed and changes to existing practises will be implemented according to the results of the project at all the participating schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90546 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fyllingsdalen videregående skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Gymnasio Gennadiou (Secondary School of Gennadi)
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA OBLIGATORIA EL SOBRADILLO
• Agrupamento de Escolas de São João da Talha