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"This project has focus on the idea of contemporary Europe. The refugee crisis in 2015 brought a lot of information, sometimes untrue, about immigration in Europe. Free movement of people has been the key ideas of the common idea of European Union. Therefore, we have a lot of people from different backgrounds in our home countries. Some countries have been target countries while others have been in transit position. The populist movements around Europe have strengthened at the same. In this project we collect knowledge of our culture and how it has evolved in history, then we study statistics of immigration and policies related to the topic with the help of local authorities, NGO's and ordinary people alike. After the statistical work we visit businesses with international background from worker or founder point of view. We build idea how a native gets work in home country compared to immigrant from another country.The social inclusion is one of the key priorities in this project. We want to involve students from different backgrounds. Some partners have bigger number than others. Even when there is limited number of immigrants they might not be encouraged to take part in the project and that is one thing this project wants to have an impact. Also, we are going take local immigrants involved as we visit their companies and compare their business stories. This will give a boost for self-esteem for them as being respected members of society and we would like to see their children to look education as a possibility with this encouragement.We are a group of six schools (institutions) from different parts of Europe. The very experienced Finnish school will be the main coordinator. The other experienced schools are the Polish and Bulgarian partners. The other three partners from Italy, Latvia and Spain have experience as institution, but they might have new staff members. We have set our timetable in a way that institutions can and will learn from each other. The task distribution has been done in order to respect this learning process but also to let schools to use their skills and qualities. All the schools have at least two committed teachers for the whole project.Our methodology is based on project based learning. We will start from looking at the evolution of own culture. Second, we will study immigrants have and will shape our society. Third, we will visit companies with multicultural environment and build our own business ideas from the perspective of a native and of an immigrant. Fourth, there will be a research of educational possibilities offered by EU and also a study of key EU institutions. When phases 1-4 are done, we will contact each partner country's MEP (Member of European Parliament) as a phase number five with the results we have gathered. The final product will be a letter/proposal how an integration of immigrants should be done in our students point of view. Normally, students of our institutions are not eligible for voting due to age, but this proposal gives an idea to policy makers how youth sees the solutions for the problems caused by peoples movement around Europe. There comes the title ""From Eurodivision to Eurovision"". Our proposal is a vision of how social inclusion, integration and future labor market should work. All the activities will lead to this letter which is also given to all those who have participated project as cooperators. So the final product is open for discussion both local and European level. Throughout project we will use eTwinning as our communication tool and we will set open guest accounts for visitors alike. We value the idea and achievement and we will apply a European quality label for the project in eTwinning.The expected impacts will be related to open discussion of better inclusion of minority groups. On the local level, all the participants will get an impression how situations vary between natives and newcomers. These results are also disseminated to local policy makers, schools, law enforcement and non-government actors. The social inclusion will step into the picture as we look immigrants as already functioning parts of our society by them part of our project-based learning. This hopefully encourage families to take into the activities of the society for example in the field of education as we want especially students from different backgrounds to take part in the project. In the last step, when we have established contacts with MEPs, the publicity is guaranteed because none of our schools are located in the most developed areas of countries (for example in the capital areas). This will have a hopefully long-term impact in our regions which will get us a new vision of Europe. That is the main core of ""From Eurodivision to Eurovision, FETE) project."
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