Many Immigrants Go and/or Return to/from Another National Territory Erasmus Project

Project Title

Many Immigrants Go and/or Return to/from Another National Territory

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Integration of refugees; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

It is in a context of massive migration of people coming especially from the Middle-East and crossing the Mediterrenean Sea that the project MIGRANT (acronym of “Many Immigrants Go and/or Return to/from Another National Territory”) was born. The targeted objectives enabled to raise awareness of this phenomenon, to understand the push factors through time, then tu study more precisely the situation of refugees who left countries affected by wars and military conflicts and the pull factors of European countries. The participants have been able to compare the way the partner countris face this situation.
This project was the occasion to exchange the innovative methods of teaching and learning of the partner countries.
6 schools were involved in the project: in Turkey in Nazilli, in Italy in Formia, in Norway in Tertnes, in Greece in Platykampos (Larissa), in Poland in Katowice and in France in Lys-Lez-Lannoy. The web sites of these schools are visible on the website of the project that was created by the Norwegian partners: http://my-migrant.org

A Google site https://sites.google.com/site/migrantemergency/ was created and so was a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/migrantemergency/?eid=ARBAgdldggF0-GOggTGCg03omS2ggBqdmJ7duV-wpS_dl3eS2ocq2oqHm3NuY5nqagfIDIT71C3RIV-x

During the transnational meetings, each school was represented by 2 teachers.
A first meeting took place in Poland in November 2016. Didactic workshops took place, about refugees (particularly a conference by Professor Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska, from the Jagiellonian University, in Cracow) and about innovative methods of teaching and learning (The Oxford-Style Debate, CLIL (Content and Language integrated Learning), peer-to-peer education, formal and non formal education) 4 project meetings allowed us to precisely plan the project.
The second meeting took place in Turkey in September 2017. The project meetingsespecially allowed us to evaluate the first year of the project according to the SWOT analysis method.
The third and last meeting took place in Norway in May 2018 and allowed us to finalize and evaluate the project.

3 Learning/Teaching/Training activities (to which 4 to 6 students and 2 or 3 teachers participated each time) took place in Italy in May 2017, in Greece in November 2017 and in France in March 2018.
Each of these mobilities was the occasion of visits of associations working for migrants, meetings with the migrants themselves and volunteer work of the participants with them.
The students of each partner schools presented workshops on three themes:
The rules of their countries and the positions of their political parties regarding immigration.
The history of immigration in their countries.
How to deal with racism and xenophobia in their countries.
Meetings with local authorities were carried out, occasions of rich exchanges.
Furthermore, creative activities took place during each mobility.
The results of the mobilities were first shown at the end of each of them during a final ceremony to which the students and their families were invited. Articles were written in the local press. These results are visible on the website of the project.

All the participants their CV and language passports thanks to the Europass platform.

The Turkish partners created and published a newspaper about the project. This newspaper was massively distributed in the Turkish school and copies were distributed to the partner schools.

The Polish partners created ans published a comic strip, 100 copies were printed and shared in the partner schools, copies that are now enriching the partner schools libraries.

A game named “Immigranopolis” was elaborated by the Greek partners, one copy was offered to each partner school during the mobility in France. This game is now also available in the partner schools libraries.

The most important action was the collaboration of all the participants in the shooting of a film with interviews of migrants carried out in each country, film that the Polish partners have produced.

Finally, a list of volunteer associations working with migrants in the partner countries was elaborated by the Italian partners to allow the sensibilized people to know where they can get involved if they wish to.

All the activities and results of the project have been assessed. The participants answered a questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of the project, so as to make the results visible.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152590 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Gambetta & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Tertnes videregående skole
• Nazilli Menderes Anadolu Lisesi
• ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE ENRICO FERMI
• Gymnasium of Platykampos
• Prywatne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. M.Wankowicza w Katowicach