Togetherness and Integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Togetherness and Integration

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Diversity and Integration
We find ourselves at a time when refugees are fleeing to Europe in order to escape war and oppression. Most of the students involved in the project realized that the integration of refugees and migrants is essential for a peaceful coexistence. Our students became aware of their global responsibility and understand that nationalistic politics can provide no solution in a globalized world.

Our students celebrated with the refugee children in integration classes and assisted them with learning the German language. Reciprocally they learnt about the culture of the new children.
The students should understand that in the professional world international dependency exists and that people from different cultural backgrounds must work together.
During our project meetings we visited very different firms. There the pupils learned about the international dependency of the firms and several pupils could envisage working in another country.
In this project we wanted to eliminate prejudice against foreigners. Our short term training class and working activities certainly assisted in this.
Working together in international groups provided the children with lots of fun and prejudices and generalization were forgotten.
This project was conducted by six schools from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Turkey, together with 300 students. The cooperation was excellent, all pupils worked on presentations, plays and texts.

We wanted to compare the work of the different schools to discover how the best possible integration of refugees and migrants can be achieved in our schools. In the Integration Classes the Europaschule Gladenbach presented the work to the partner schools, we demonstrated how we worked with migrants and of course learned about the work of our partner schools.

Activities were: Creating a project homepage, immigration and emigration in our countries. Preparing a presentation of the work with migrants within schools and society, preparing presentations on culture in the partner countries, compiling curriculum vitae for migrants, visiting companies, handicrafts and cooking.

Our students were encouraged to integrate with pupils of migrant backgrounds and to help one another.
Our secondary school pupils from Realschule (not so much Hauptschule) even with migrant background, were able to work with grammar school pupils from partner schools.

This project enabled us to educate most pupils to become cosmopolitan people and many students had the opportunity of visiting our partner schools.

Our aim was to prepare our students for living and working in a Europe that is well aware of its global responsibility. This European dimension characterized our project and our schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125970 Eur

Project Coordinator

Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule, Gladenbach & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im Wincentego Pallottiego
• Ozel Antalya Bahcesehir Anadolu Lisesi
• Osnovna skola Vidovec
• GTKMS/GTNMS Anton-Sattler-Gasse
• Agrupamento de Escolas Emídio Navarro