Migration in the 20th and 21 century Erasmus Project

Project Title

Migration in the 20th and 21 century

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: Inclusion – equity; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Migration in the 20th and 21the Century.

In this project we aim to learn pupils more about migration and flight in the 20th and 21 century.
We do this on different scales: Migration and impact of migration on their own town, (Gouda/Verona) compared with te situation in another country
Italy and The Netherlands and we will look on an European scale, how we can cope with the positive and negative impact of migration on the society.
To learn something and understand the current situation, students need to learn about migration in the past, what happend the last 50 year in our own society and how is migration developed during the last 50 year.

We believe that migration is a topic that influences our both societies (IT and NL). The move of people for work, social reasons or from a humanity perspective is something from all times. Citizen in the European Union have to deal with the consequences of migration from places that are in another statue of welfare, security and or good climate to life and work.

With the aim to share our knowledge and to enlarge the learning effect and impact, we focus in this project not only inside the school but we try to bring our message as a group together outside the school in society, possibly by organising a play or meeting together with migrants, students, families and people from the local society to debate and share about interesting things in the topic of migration. We can find interesting stories in history to learn about and hope to open students mind with 21 century skills as presenting, debating and interviewing people in a respectful way. With this intercultural interaction this project contributes to enlarge the knowledge, but another aim is to enlarge the motivation to communicate with students from another European society about sensible topics as integration and sharing of welfare. In the future of Europe, the current generation will be faced with new forms of migration and need to cope with the challenges there are.
This makes the topic of migration very useful to speak and learn about in this Erasmus+ project.

Activities to be organized to realize the goals for students and teachers are:

– Visiting a hosting place for young refugees and migrants.
– Speak with students with a migration background.
– Visit the Humanity House (Amnesty International) in The Hague.
– Learning about the migration from Italy to Argentina and remigration to Italy.
– Learning about the Jewish migration history in both Verona and Gouda.
– Meet a EU-representative in Brussels to speak about migration in EU
– Organize a meeting or a play to share knowledge with family, friends and society.

As described there are different levels of learning about migration, on local, national and international scale. Very useful to get a good perspective of the impact in different parts of the world and the own environment.

Students need to present their results and knowledge to other students in English.
The students learn how to collect data and how to interview migrants in a respectful way.
Student give and receive feedback on their work by experts, teachers and co-workers. Giving and receiving feedback is an important skill to improve your product.
Students learn to use digital media in a good way to present results in school and society.

Impact on pupils, school, families, stakeholders and society.

For the increase of the knowledge and the evaluation of the quality of the visits and the seminars with the experts we will use a questionnaire for both students and teachers.
1: Students enlarge their knowledge about migration in the 20th and 21st century.
2: Speaking with experts on this theme to see migration from a professional perspective.
3: Meet migrants and refugees that experienced migration and come in contact with (young) people in the local communities to learn about differences in the Italian and Dutch societies on migration.
4: Speak with the local community about idea’s and have an open debate about differences and things in common in both societies.
The meetings will be evaluated by short interviews with participants and the migrants and refugees.

With the organization of the meetings, the sharing of information on social media and eTwinning, the ‘masterclasses given by experts and visits of places of importance. We aim that this project will increase the impact of learning on this topic for students and the experience to teach in this way for teachers in and share this in an international environment. The share of information on the topic of migration is also suitable to reach a big impact on the local community. The topic migration is suitable for building in a respectful why on responsible citizenship in a local and the international community, according to our aim to learn from different perspectives about a sensible topic in an international setting and create a impact for the participants, stakeholders, schools and the (local) communities.
In this project we aim to learn pupils more about migration and flight in the 20th and 21 century.
We do this on different scales: Migration and impact of migration on their own town, (Gouda/Verona) compared with te situation in another country
Italy and The Netherlands and we will look on an European scale, how we can cope with the positive and negative impact of migration on the society.
To learn something and understand the current situation, students need to learn about migration in the past, what happend the last 50 year in our own society and how is migration developed during the last 50 year.

We believe that migration is a topic that influences our both societies (IT and NL). The move of people for work, social reasons or from a humanity perspective is something from all times. Citizen in the European Union have to deal with the consequences of migration from places that are in another statue of welfare, security and or good climate to life and work.

With the aim to share our knowledge and to enlarge the learning effect and impact, we focus in this project not only inside the school but we try to bring our message as a group together outside the school in society, possibly by organising a play or meeting together with migrants, students, families and people from the local society to debate and share about interesting things in the topic of migration. We can find interesting stories in history to learn about and hope to open students mind with 21 century skills as presenting, debating and interviewing people in a respectful way. With this intercultural interaction this project contributes to enlarge the knowledge, but another aim is to enlarge the motivation to communicate with students from another European society about sensible topics as integration and sharing of welfare. In the future of Europe, the current generation will be faced with new forms of migration and need to cope with the challenges there are.
This makes the topic of migration very useful to speak and learn about in this Erasmus+ project.

Due to covid-19 our project aborted in February 2020. Unfortunately are we not able to finish this under the current unpredictable circumstances.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 17346 Eur

Project Coordinator

Antoniuscollege Gouda & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Liceo Statale Gerolamo Fracastoro