Past and current migration movements in Europe

"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"