Past and current migration movements in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Past and current migration movements in 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: Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The project itself :

KA2 project : short-term mobilities for students involving 6 schools/countries:
Etablissement des Soeurs de Notre Dame – Namur – Belgium
Su za HNI “Konstantin Preslawski” – Varna – Bulgaria
Ticaret Odasi Bilim ve Sanat Merkozi – Istanbul – Turkey
Erakool Garant – Tallinn – Estonia
Zespol Szkol im. Jana Kasprowicza – Jelcs-Laskowice – Poland
Piramatiko Genika Likio Panepistimiou Kritis – Rethymno – Greece

Title : Past and current migration movements in Europe :

Benefits of the Erasmus project in general for students:
– Raising the awareness and feeling of belonging to a same, European community, which would hopefully lead to a greater sense of solidarity.
– Reinforcing the qualities of tolerance, open-mindedness and a living-together spirit through a shared experience with other cultures
– Going beyond the strictly theoretical cultural knowledge, learning about other cultures by being a real actor.
– Living in another family to learn to adapt better and to not consider themselves as the norm.
– Re-motivating some students who might take distance from school because such a project can bring a fresh boost to their school life.
– Allowing less wealthy students to live a travel experience to destinations where they might not have gone without the Erasmus grant.
– Learning English (target language of the project) and practising it in the real life through e-twinning chat first and face-to-face during mobilities.

Benefits of the topic of migration for students:
– Allowing students to be involved in the project by the preparation of the exhibition during classes (geography- English-history)
– Learning about the migration story of their own country: about the immigration of other people to their country BUT also the emigration of their people to other places to be better informed on the topic.
– Being aware of each country has been/is involved in migration movements but in different ways.
– Listening to and collecting testimonies from migrants to have a qualitative knowledge about the migration issue to hopefully lead them to a bigger open-mindedness.

Benefits for schools in general:
– Bringing some organisational skills to the teachers/headmasters in charge since they would have to manage a team, to dispatch a budget, to communicate in and outside the school, to organise activities involving many persons when the other schools come to visit, to organise the trips, etc.)
– Creating and/or making a bigger European network in order to continue the collaboration between the countries involved in the future and/or to facilitate the creation of future projects.
– For accompanying teachers, having the possibility to discover other pedagogical and/or new practices to get inspiration and maybe renew their own teaching methods and communicating them to the other teachers of the school.
– Greater sense of unity inside school thanks to co-operation through an Erasmus and multidisciplinary team involving teachers, management members to prepare the project and its development and students.
– an extra possibility for interdisciplinary work (preparation of the exhibition + pedagogical activities linked to migration)

Practically speaking
6 countries (cf. Participants): one mobility in each of them with the 6 countries involved.
Project duration: 24 months: 3 mobilities each year
Target language : English
Accomodation : Host families for students
Duration of each mobility: 5 days on spot + 2 days travelling
Number of students involved: 6 per mobility (+ 2 accompanying teachers)
Age of the participants: between 14 and 18
Participants must be able to understand and speak English.

Profile of the partner schools:
The 6 partner schools are secondary general education schools.

Dissemination :
National production : exhibition about the history and present of the migratory movement in the host country. (first inside the schools)

Publication of a collection of short migration stories (testimonies)

Creation of an Erasmus website to publish this written collection and other material (videos, audio files) of the collected testimonies + all information linked to the project/mobilities

Portfolio with the different migration-related activities proposed in the different schools to do in the classroom (also published on the website)

Publication on the e-twinning group of the work done + link to the Erasmus website

Planning:
Day 1 : getting to know each other and the environment (school, town)
Day 2 : Presentation of the national exhibition (history of the migratory movements)
Pedagogical migration-related activities.
Day 3 : Visit of refugees centre or activities with refugees/migrants to collect stories and testimonies
Day 4 : Visit of some of the national landmarks
Day 5 : work on the final product + evaluation

Project Website

http://www.migrationmovements.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46992 Eur

Project Coordinator

Etablissement des Soeurs de Notre-Dame & Country: BE

Project Partners

• PIRAMATIKO GENIKO LIKIO PANEPISTIMIOU KRITIS (RETHYMNO)
• Istanbul Ticaret Odasi Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Erakool Garant
• Zespol Szkol im. Jana Kasprowicza
• SU za HNI “Konstantin Preslavski”