New citizenship in schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

New citizenship in schools

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The idea of the project raised from some big immigration issues we had to deal with in our country and we felt the need to share this problem with other countries and schools and to see how other countries were facing this big issue and what they were concretely doing in terms of integration.
So three schools, that were dealing with immigration issues though from different perspectives and involving different aspects of the immigration and integration question, gathered their strengths.

Saint-Joseph Boondael, Brussels, Belgium. This school has a pedagogical project based on the IENA approach, known as an “active pedagogy”. It gives a lot of space to cooperation and active learning. Pupils are encouraged to collaborate to learn, work, play and help the school community.

School Tiberiu Morariu, Salva, Romania have in their school an important percent of children who have parents working abroad. Some of them used to be migrants themselves in different countries in Europe. They came as partner in this project with good practices, methods and tools to integrate new groups of migrants in the European dimension of education.

Istituto Comprensivo “Barbera”, Caccamo, Italy Sicily has been facing many immigration events and problems, which need to be solved at various levels. They built recently a collaboration with a refugee center and that’s why they entered this partnership.

These three schools worked to achieve the following project objectives:
to integrate around 200 migrants/unschooled children in school activities and in non-formal activities with NGOs and stakeholders, to exchange good practices regarding methods and teaching materials aimed at integrating migrant children in schools activities with parents and the local community and to raise awareness amongst pupils and schools about the migrant issues and European citizenship.

To this purpose, the partner schools organized 9 activities.

“Information meeting and local dissemination”
Parents and stakeholders were invited to attend a meeting where we described the project. We also wrote an article for a local newspaper and made a Facebook page of the project.

“Art to meet each other.”
Unschooled children were invited into the schools to meet a migrant artist. They created an exhibition with the pupils, made some wall paintings and learned songs together.

“Discovering nature, discovering each other”
Partners hosted migrant children and together they had a walk in a green area close to the school. Romanian team made a herbarium thanks to the visit of the green area.

“Immigrants and European citizenship”
Each partner made an interview with pupils, parents, teachers and education stakeholders to make a common movie about experience in other countries, work and integration in society.

“Information meeting and local dissemination II”
Each partner organized a meeting for the parents, teachers and education stakeholder. They gave a follow up of the project and also gave more information, and answered the questions asked.

“Culture for childhood”
Migrant children visited with the pupils of the school a museum adapted to their age.

“Meet the nursery school”
The schools had a breakfast for young children and parents and then several creative workshops as painting and dancing to music.

“Let’s cook together!”
Migrants children, their parents and the pupils of the school shared recipes and they cooked together.It was also the perfect moment to learn more about geography and show on the map where the migrant children and their parents originally came from. We learned more about the country and their favorite dishes.

“Let’s celebrate !”
At the end of the program,there was a party for all the people who took part in the project.
It was the perfect way to end the project all together.

During the project we had three transnational meetings for the monitoring and the coordination of the project. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the project and the activities lived in the other schools.

During the project we also organised three training sessions where we shared good practices and pedagogical methods. It was the perfect opportunity for the participants to discover the reality of the partners, living in another country. We learned more about the project bus also we had a look at the school, the activities and the countries and their heritage and we could see how the immigration and integration problems were dealt with in the partners countries and schools, at various levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50650 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Saint-Joseph Boondael & Country: BE

Project Partners

• I.C. “Barbera”
• Scoala ProfesionalaTiberiu Morariu Salva