JOIN THE EUROPEAN TABLE Erasmus Project

Project Title

JOIN THE EUROPEAN TABLE

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The Erasmus + project “Join the European table” is a project involving 6 partner schools from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Spain and Poland with students in the upper secondary education. Inclusive education and youth training are the main priorities of this project and declared to be the major aims in the strategic paper “Europe 2020” written down by the EU.The events of last years contributed to increasing ideological polarisation in the European society. All the countries involved in this project have been trying in recent years to face different serious problems related to refugees. In some countries the question of immigration has only been theoretical as refugees chose them to be transit to western Europe, others were more involved and can share their experiences. The goals of the project are to promote freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education. By means of educating young people we can ensure they acquire social, civic and intercultural competences by promoting democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and non- discrimination. We would like to stop portraying migration in schools as a problem and start showing the benefits and advantages.

According to this, our three year project will include the following and more specific measures:

1. Getting to know the background : Migration, refugees and their integration in society

Students will be able to analyze the current situation by comparing it to the past. The construction of the “European table” giving the name to the project will take place together with refugees. This will strengthen the feeling of belonging all to one common intercultural Europe. The students will see in situ how refugees are prepared for working attending lessons for refugees and visiting refugees in vocational training in school and at companies.

2. Making experiences with refugees

After having seen films and read books about immigration, students will debate about their impressions and feelings. They will learn about the importance of volunteer work by visiting charities and doing volunteering in their countries. The students will sit down at our “European table” to cook and to eat with refugees. Everybody will learn cultural codes and habits from each other.

3. Being refugees ourselves!

The students will make experiences similar to refugees by going to a foreign country for 2 months having to adapt and to integrate themselves. During the long time stays the guideline developed in advance for welcoming foreign students can be tested, evaluated and improved. The students will discuss in international groups on our “European table” about dreams, future visions and expectations for one united Europe in presence of the media and politicians.

All the participants in the project will gain a rewarding experience as European Union citizens that will be promoted by using the project results such as a booklet about migration, the project homepage, videoclips, exhibitions, the project flyer and other promotional material. In addition a common guided welcoming protocol for refugees and school newcomers will be written and implemented first in our schools and later presented in the corresponding Education Boards of the countries involved in the project so as other schools can take it and use it as an example of school good practice.

Project Website

http://www.erasmus-jointheeuropeantable.websco.fr/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132650,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT CAMPCLAR & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 3rd General Lyceum of Trikala ‘Odysseas Elytis’
• LEGT Victor Hugo
• II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Królowej Jadwigi w Siedlcach
• Kaufmännische Schule Lahr
• Debreceni Egyetem Kossuth Lajos Gyakorló Gimnáziuma és Általános Iskolája