The End of Hospitality? Changing Attitudes to Immigration and Refugees in Europe. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The End of Hospitality? Changing Attitudes to Immigration and Refugees 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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

“The End of Hospitality?’’ came into existence because of five schools’ joint desire to work together on a new European project on the theme of the migrant crisis. The objectives were varied.
First concerning students: reinforcing links between school education and active citizenship, economic, social, cultural and European considerations, increasing their self-confidence, and helping them acquire better language and digital skills.
For teachers: enhancing their professional development by integrating a collaborative and innovative approach into the activities we proposed. The successful relationships between teachers concerned will lead to future collaboration as a result of this project. As far as schools are concerned: the aim was primarily to open our schools to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education we provide.
There was a class of 30 students, aged between 15 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from very
different socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. This two year project was divided into four semesters, each
focusing on a particular aspect of the question in four areas: the history of immigration since the Second World War, the human stories of migrants through the study of a book written by a young Syrian refugee ‘Nujeen’, the changing attitudes of people in our five countries towards refugees and finally the way the refugee crisis is dealt with by the media. All the proposed activities were selected as a result of consultation with colleagues interested in sharing their methods with others and learning from the approach of other European teachers and involved people living and working close to our respective schools.
Four transnational learning activities offered the opportunity to compare, to pool and conclude the work carried out on such questions beforehand in each individual school. Students in turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, secretaries,
artists, webmasters thus, thanks to the collaboration with students from partner schools, constructed their own learning
processes, their relationships, their sense of responsibility, making them truly European citizens. The tools available on the eTwinning platform enable teachers and other schools to find inspiration from our work thus contributing to other forms of innovation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113100 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE GRANIER & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Etimesgut Ozkent Akbilek Fen Lisesi
• Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Seelze
• Klaipeda Baltija gymnasium
• Bryne vidaregåande skole