Stalag: live and die in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the World War II Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stalag: live and die in a German prisoner-of-war camp during the World War II

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Learning about the history of the II World War in Poland, France and Germany is a very difficult subject which students consider to be not very interesting, as usually about II World War they finding out on the last step of the studying and it’s a lots of real story listening.

Innovation about this project is to propose an attractive method of learning, based on alternative ways of teaching which goes together with needs and expectations of young people, on activating methods for lessons and information technology.

The novelty consists on adaptation of the teaching tools on different kind of differences between project partners: social differences (pupils from both technical and general secondary schools), language differences (mother tongues used by the participants) and cultural (tradition and religion).

We would like to put teaching the history in a wider dimension, in order to give to students the envy to discover the link between the past and the present day. Also to show the connection with other subjects like arts, philosophy, foreign language we would like to prove that history it is not a simple research in the past but the source of inspiration, themes of discussion, a pretext to exchange with colleagues from other countries.

The history of the POW camp is considered as a beginning of the complex reflection about good and evil, about moral attitudes in front of difficult historical events. It’s particularly true today when the world and also Europe are confronted to the terrorism, to the flow of immigrants and a fear towards foreigners. Also to show the consequences of racial, cultural and ethnic segregation.

The common work in international group will facilitate an understanding of the past of different countries who were linked by painful history for a long time.

Structure of partnership consortium, base on participants from Poland, France and Germany, came from a fact that people from these countries took a part in a war, were prisoners and guards of stalag.

The main goal of the project is to engage learners from those three countries to learn more about their history, to enrich collective memory and to develop historical knowledge about the POW camps and their prisoners after the war.

During the project we would like to search for contacts with last war prisoners who are still alive and their families, visit the museums with war display, develop innovate educational material, develop pedagogical games and organize the event which will publicize.

Innovate will be shown by:

– Educational Video – short video about the history showing the most important things during the class work.

– TACOS – Interdisciplinary and creative challenge for students – put the students in a situation which will be a touch challenge for them and let them use the abilities and competences and look for necessary information and documents to finish the tasks. This technique is about teamwork and creative side of students

– Flipped learning – when the students became a teacher and passed the knowledge not only during the lesson but also outside in front of the large public.

The task for project participants will be not just gain the knowledge and reflection but also lay the information and own thoughts thought different meaning of expression.

Another goal of the project is to start to build the symbolic monument of the Stalag IB Hohenstein in the place of the ex camp territory.

Participation to work with a young people from the countries which in the war were in a different points of the barricade will give a symbolical dimension

Innovation is also the project subject – history of stalag and war prisoners. This subject will give a huge chance to find out about information and all the facts so we would like to expand it with adding source institutions like museum from Olsztynek, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock and Saint-Connan

Innovativeness of the showing method is a result that despite it’s a history, the assembled videos will be use for teaching different subjects like literature, nature subjects, maths and many more. Also TACOS is very useful tool to enrich lesson about native language, arts subjects and will give an idea for after-school clubs.

Added thing for the project will be contact with people working in a museum and will give a chance to exchange the experiences to work with young people, enrich own workshop and animation offer which will give in a future for better contacts with college.

To communicate between schools will use e-twinning which will enable to fulfil online.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147865 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum Polsko-Francuskie Côtes d’Armor-Warmia i Mazury w Olsztynie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Association franco-polonaise Côtes d’Armor Warmie Mazurie
• Dokumentationsstätte Stalag 326 (VI K) Senne
• Lycée Saint-Charles La Providence
• POLE DE FORMATION LA VILLE DAVY
• Gmina Olsztynek
• AGPAMEN
• Zespol Szkol Licealnych w Moragu