"The project "" Migration: Europe’s Challenge for the 21st Century "" initially brought together 6 schools of 6 different countries: Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland and Sweden. The choice of these schools allowed to approach the topic under a different point of view and brought to the project a know-how and/or additional insights related to their geographical situation.The coordinator is German. Eventually Sweden left the project before it even started, leaving the partners with trouble to deal with. It was necessary to find a solution to fill the void left by Sweden: Belgium replaced Sweden in the organization of the 1st transnational meeting and the management of the IT aspect (training and management of the website).The topic of this project is seriously anchored in the current events. As the project was set up in 2014-2015 we were far from imagining the extent of their evolution . And as the project ends, we are very aware that we are nowhere near close to ending the debate.The purpose of this project was to raise awareness and to encourage our people (students, parents, teachers) and their entourage (families, friends, ..) to reflect on the matter of migration from different angle (human, social and political). Subject covered involved economic and climatic migrations, refugees, the history and the study of the migratory flow, the questions of immigration and emigration, problems of integration, ...We consider that our young people have to take their place and play an active role in Europe by being aware of the difficulties and issues of tomorrow related to this big question that is migration. We wanted them to reflect on how to integrate migrants - whatever the underlying reason - at their home, at their school, in their village or city, in their country, here in Europe. ""We are all migrants"", one way or another, was one of the first observations.The subject allowed to set up numerous and varied learnings as well as developing transverse skills:- Practice of the languages (English mainly but also French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and even Polish)- Use of the new technologies and computing tools (website, ICTS- Educational learnings: conceive and realize a survey, analyze and present the results of a survey, make a video movie, produce and present a Power Point slidedeck, realize and present an interview, analyze and present statistics...- Education in the media: reading and analysis of the press and the social networks- Creation of a multilingual glossary (6 languages) and a bibliography- Creation and management of a websiteDuring the 2 years of the project, numerous activities to implement all these learnings were organized in every school - also obviously during the mobilities (weeks of project). Each school was given very specific tasks to complete.On the other hand, every school was in charge of the organization of a meeting (that is transnational or week of project) namely (in the chronological order):· Belgium: 1st transnational meeting (in November, 2016): schedule of the project, the distribution of the tasks + training(formation) ""web site"" and education in the media· Italy: 1st week of project (in January-February, 2017): workshop ""movie"" + thematic visits· Spain: 2nd transnational meeting (in May, 2017): interim report + workshop ""inquiries""· Poland: 2nd week of project (in October, 2017): workshop ""power-point"" + thematic visits· Belgium: 3rd week of project (in March, 2018): workshops "" analyze inquiries and statistics "", presentation of the conclusions of the various studies carried out during the project + thematic visits· Germany: 3rd transnational meeting (in September, 2018): final report + work on the web siteDuring these mobility weeks, every school organized an evening event accessible to the general public: round table with local politicians, round table with actors from the NGO’s, the conference-testimony of actors on the ground, …Every school organised the work differently. In general in every school a core unit was created to function as embassador of the project at each school.The mobilities (transnational meetings and project weeks) also allowed our pupils (and our guides) to acquire social skills, more flexibility, more autonomy while discovering new lifestyles, “integrating” themselves in one European family, a city and a school.As we are nearing the end of this project, we are still very active. In fact we remain aware that there are many things to do to find solutions to this tricky problem. The subject remains sensitive and we shall continue to handle it without financing."

"Context : The project was initiated by 4 long-standing European partner schools in a project called ""International Education"" (I.E.) This network of schools has existed for 20 years and the number of partner schools has fluctuated but the ""core"" of the founding schools still includes schools in Barcelona (6),Germany (2), Italy (2), Belgium (1).This network of schools has been organizing cultural exchanges around the theme ""European Citizenship: Identity and Democracy"". These exchanges are the culmination of a comprehensive curriculum, a European citizenship course, which was developed by a group of representatives from each school 15 years ago.These courses are given in English and raise pupils' awareness of the European reality. Each school integrates them into its curriculum in its own way, but all the students participating in the exchanges worked on the theme ""Identity and Democracy"" before the exchange.Objectives: The aim of this Erasmus+ project is to renew the ""European Citizenship"" curriculum, creating new course sequences in the form of 6 interactive modules, each of which will address a European theme, namely:- European Institutions- Geography and History of the E.U.- Art in the E.U.- Climate change- Migration- Everyday life in the E.U. and its impact on young peopleP.S. These modules will also be offered in mooc form.Participants: 6 schools will be partners in this project: 3 schools (Barcelona, Wavre, Göttingen) which founded the I.E. Group and developed together the ""original"" curriculum, 1 school (Torino) which has been participating in the exchanges for several years and two ""new"" schools that will bring new life to the group, a different sensitivity, a different pedagogical experience (Finland and Turkey).These are all secondary schools which, for 4 of them, have a habit of working together and which trust each other. (The ""new schools"" were brought into the project by the Turin school which has already worked on other projects with them.) In each school, in addition to the teachers chosen for their motivation and competence, a group of 20 students will be ""selected"" to be at the heart of the project, work for 2 years and participate in the activities.These students will be considered as full teachers' collaborators.Activities: 6 activities are planned, one per school. This will be a week of exchange, during which the school will host the 5 partners and where 20 local students + 20 ""student partners"" will test the activities planned for the 6 modules. Each school has its own theme. The 6 schools will prepare the theme that will be dealt with during the exchange in advance of the exchange on the basis of the instructions provided by the organizing school. Of course, the content of each exchange week can be adapted according to the evaluation that follows the exchange.Methodology :-Each school will recruit a team of teachers and students who are motivated and willing to be involved in the project for two years.-Each school will reflect on how best to address the pedagogical and innovative theme of addressing the theme assigned to it.-Each school will send its instructions to the partners concerning the week of activities (material to be brought, presentations to be made....) while within the partner schools the team will prepare for the week of activity.-During the exchange weeks, in addition to the activities planned to test the modules, the teachers will work on the coordination of the project to solve various aspects: schedule, budget, evaluation, problems to be solved, report to be written...-Cultural and festive activities are also planned to allow everyone to meet different European realities, improve in English and to bring the teams together.-After evaluation of the activities, they will be modified if necessary, if possible tested in schools with a ""normal"" school audience and after approval of the whole group, the modules will be converted into mooc, made available to as many people as possibleResults: The schools of the I.E. group will now have at their disposal new sequences of updated courses with pedagogy adapted to the teaching needs of our time.The contents will obviously be renewed later, according to current events. It will be a working base that can be useful to many teachers, outside the International Education group.Impact: The students who will now participate in the cultural exchanges of the I.E. Group will have a better vision of Europe after having taken these sequences of courses. Teachers will have had the chance to experiment with new things for their courses and will be all the more motivated and competent in English. They will also be the spokespersons for the project in their respective schools.Long term benefit: This project will no doubt allow the I.E. group to expand with new partners and allow more schools to get involved in European partnerships (even without financial support from the E.U.). It also puts more Europe into school."