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"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."
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