MIGRATION CHALLENGE EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

MIGRATION CHALLENGE 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

This project is a socially responsible project. It takes immigrants and refugees in its core and approaches this sensitive topic in many ways by many groups of people. This project states that everyone deserves to live a life according to the DECLERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

Human Rights Watch, has witnessed and documented for more than ten years, severe violations of human rights, especially with it comes to immigrant children in their detention. Young children can be detained against their will, in places with adults they do not know. They may experience brutal treatment by them, the police or other authorities. Those kids are being held in conditions that are way below the minimum international standards for a decent human life. Their liberty is being deprived by others.

There are several cases of immigrant children being detained. One case is migrant children who are unaccompanied; one other is children within a family (from infants to kids). Then we have children who are refugees and seek asylum or children whose parents are seeking asylum because they are refugees as well.

This project deals with one of the most concerning social issues in recent time. It is one of the most important issues for each and every one of us. This is a joint cooperation with institutions from countries that are being affected by this problem in a major degree. Italy and Turkey are the two most affected countries, where this issue is dramatically scaling. The school from Portuguese has a number of students who are refugees. Lithuania has several issues the last years as well as Portugal, since people flea from Africa to the EU via the Mediterranean Sea. This project aims to develop and enhance the social awareness, so everyone can understand those people and the situation they are and help them to cope with that situation. This project shows special sensitivity with it comes to children. It’s our responsibility to help them and support them, as our ethics and humanitarian values command.

The core of this project is Humanism. We have to show our humanity and respect to the people who are going through this because we are all living in the same world. It could very easily be us, going under the same situation. We must face this as a common mission and responsibility. Since we are educational institutions, we cannot do much to solve this very serious problem as we speak, but we can set the basis for a better world in the future. We can manage to educate people , so migrants and refugees become more socially acceptable and give them a strong motivation and hope for a happier life. In this project, our students will learn to develop their social skills, sensitivity and built autonomous thinking and personalities.

Our project will deal with the issues stated below:
-Forced migrants and refugees
– Causes/Consequences of forced immigration
-Immigrant children in detention and the impact to them
-Lack of sensitivity towards migrants/refugees

We will develop and promote:
– Social responsibility for immigrants
– Enhance social awareness, consciousness, sensitivity, empathy and tolerance for the refugees and immigrants.
-Bringing down stereotypes
-Volunteering and entrepreneurship skills of the students.

The activities of our project, will be implemented in five schools, the schools that are close to the first ones, local NGOs and the local community. The main group of people participating will be the students, parents and people from the local community.

PARTICIPANTS.NUMBERS AND PROFILES
Teenagers/Students: about 500 active and other 500 inactive: Total of 1000
Teaching stuff: 40 direct and 60 indirect: Total of 100
NGO Members: 50 direct and 50 indirect: Total of 100
Administration stuff: 20 direct and 20 indirect: Total of 100
Family members: 300 direct and 300 indirect: Total of 600
Local community: 300 indirect
Total number of beneficiaries (direct and indirect): 920 and 1320 : Total 2240S

RESULTS – IMPACTS
In this project, we aim to build a long term relationship among partners. We will have both tangible and intangible results in order to achieve the maximum possible impact for projects that will be implemented in the near future. We will standardize some policy processes such as a)helping our students develop social skills, b) setting up the website in order to disseminate our activities and people can have a direct access to our results and news, c) writing newspapers and create leaflets and panels in order to inform the audience about who we are, what are our results d) cognitive skills and communication , e) building strong and reliable relationships among partners f) bind trainers, educators, students and communities for the benefit of all.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 163873 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “R. PIRIA” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CARSAMBA 75. YIL MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• Tallinna Kesklinna Vene Gümnaasium
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Cister
• Vilniaus Uzupio Gimnazija