Migration on EUropean Stages Erasmus Project

Project Title

Migration on EUropean Stages

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Multiculturalism is a reality in today’s European societies. The EU carries out several projects that aim to promote the social inclusion of migrants and refugees and to encourage cooperation between, knowledge of and innovation among social professionals.
A society with segments of non-integrated people is divided economically, socially and even geographically. It is therefore essential to achieve full integration for a successful Europe. Education can be a key asset in achieving this goal. Hence, we saw it as our duty to create a project that may assist in raising awareness about the issue of migration, fostering the European ideal by showing how everyone can benefit from integration, helping students in becoming independent, open-minded and critically thinking European citizens and improving the partner-countries’ (and beyond) curricula in order to make education ever more inclusive.
The agenda Europe 2020 demands, among other things, the enhancement of the performance of education systems and the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship at schools and to counter poverty and social marginalisation. Knowing about these aims and the fundamental importance of the topic of migration itself, we developed MEUS. A project in which students investigate different topics connected to migration trough an artistic approach (theatre).
Overall, the following main objectives for MEUS have emerged:
>Improving the key competences of the professionals and students of all partner organisations and other
stakeholders, through a deepening of knowledge about migration and different theatre approaches.
>Promoting the fight against discrimination, intolerance and xenophobia towards migrants and their families. In this regard, the priority will be on ‘Common values, civic engagement and participation’.
>Promoting equality of opportunity with regards to education, social security, housing and cultural rights by means of various artistic and non-artistic methods.
>Promoting education in and through theatre with a specific focus on skills development in order to tackle early school leaving.
>Exchanging good practices, confronting ideas and methods related to education, migration and theatre.

The participating schools are located in Austria, France, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. All schools have identified a need for tackling the issue of migration at their schools since all schools have multinational classrooms and their curricula do not always reflect that reality. The participants in this project will be teams of, at least, 2 teachers at every school as well as, on average, 20 students per mobility. However, at school we will involve larger groups of students as well as additional teachers and staff for the preparation and evaluation of the physical mobilities as well as additional work needed for the successful completion of MEUS.

At the beginning of MEUS, there will be a staff training event that will ensure all countries are adequately prepared for the successful completion of the project. The mobilities all require prior preparation and exchanges via various platforms such as eTwinning and TwinSpace as well as evaluation afterwards. That will ensure a continuous workflow throughout the project which will involve the greatest number of participants possible. The digital activities ahead and after the mobilities foresee the gathering of knowledge about the country to be visited and theatre style to be used as well as the exchange and discussion of ideas about migration and the preparation of the performances. The aim of the mobilities is to foster physical exchange between the students and teachers, to perform plays, to work on the project, to gather experiences in the country that is visited and to disseminate the project at the host-school.

MEUS will be carried out und the coordination of the Austrian school and by communicating via various digital media and platforms including Email, WhatsApp, eTwinning, TwinSpace etc. We will design brochures and lesson plans that will ensure that certain aspects of the projects will be replicable by other teachers, schools and students in order to make the impact of MEUS as big as possible. Theatre is an artistic medium that can be used in classrooms all over Europe to tackle the issue of migration. MEUS’s aim is to not only impact all the participants but to provide results (lesson plans, brochures, videos, reports) that will spread our insights and methodologies over other countries and curricula. MEUS is a project that aims to raise awareness of migration in Europe, spread the European ideal and improve education across European borders. Thus, we aim to ensure the results of the project remain sustainable over a long-term period and may be applied and modified by educators and students all over Europe. We also keep in mind the impact such a project and the mobilities it entails can have on all the participants and their personal and professional future in Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 212933 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bundeshandelsakademie Wolfsberg & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Ås ungdomsskole
• Lycée Mémona Hintermann Afféjee
• IES RAMÓN MENÉNDEZ PIDAL
• Ozel Kocas Anadolu Lisesi
• Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite