Homeland Erasmus Project

Project Title

Homeland

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

More and more people in the whole world are leaving their native country to move their geographical focus to another place. More than 150 million people worlwide live as migrants in a state, which is not their original native country.
The asylum and refugee policy, also areas of the migration and integration policy are hardly more conceivable without common regulations by the European Union.
Germany, England and Italy belong to the countries of the European Union, which took up most of the migrants during the last years, and the main areas in integration policy are anti-discrimination as well as the access to the job market.

The participating nations of the ErasmusPlus project “Homeland” also represent this reality:

We, the Michaeli-Gymnasium (Munich, Germany), the Lewisham Southwark College (London, England) and the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Antonio Pacinotti (Venice, Italy) understand our project “Homeland” as a transnational project, which especially tries to achieve the social integration and an easier access to the job market for students with migrant background.

The primary target group, which also takes part in the transnational activities, are students with migration background at the age of 16-19 years, whose social integration we want improve and whose personal and professional career we want to promote.

The project participants learn by the creation of documentations, in which their friends with migration biographies can tell their story in their new life sphere, to face any form of discrimination, exclusion and racism with courage and to promote a school climate, which makes the social integration of migrants easier. The learners document in their respective country challenges and chances of integration at the example of their friends. Besides, we also try to explain what homeland means for each individual. The documentations have English subtitles and will be shown at the visits of the partner schools. Thus an exchange of solutions for all forms of discrimination is generated, as well as documents of successful integration.

At the end of the project we link the contributions of all three countries to one single episode and provide in addition a common trailer with the faces of all participants of the ErasmusPlus project to make a contribution against racism as well as for tolerance.
Our project is accompanied by institutions from economy, society, culture and politics. Thus regional and national enterprises, press and television, associations, museums as well as representatives of the European Parliament of every single country promise an interesting insight into the process of globalization in Europe to all partners and provide for a spreading of our idea of an open and tolerant cooperation in the European Union.

The lastingness of our project will appear with the help of positive indicators of the individual school development by which students should turn against every form of discrimination, harassment and power and start for an unprejudiced, tolerant and constructive contact with each other, where difference is understood as a chance. Moreover, the Europass documents the qualifications and competence of our students acquired by our actions understandably and clear throughout Europe, what makes the access to the national and international job market much easier.

Thus our transnational project “Homeland” shows a documentation of successful and succeeding integration as a result of European cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62725 Eur

Project Coordinator

Michaeli-Gymnasium Muenchen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• The Corporation of NCG
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Antonio Pacinotti