Currently, public discussion almost exclusively focuses on the refugee crisis. Here, our project "Migration in Europe" starts. It places the refugee wave into a wider context and examines the different sorts of migration which have taken place in the last seventy years, since World War II. The students will learn that migrations take place for various reasons and that they happened in Europe in all epochs. We try to avoid treating the subject only in an abstract way, but want to give the phenomenon "migration" or "refugees" a personal face. Therefore, we will contact migrants and refugees to learn something about their personal fate. To complement these very personal life experiences, the legal circumstances in the different countries and the measures taken to solve the current refugee issues will be examined. This will give our students a more sophisticated view on the current situation. By analysing former migration waves our students will also learn details about the various effects of migration in the different countries and that positive effects may result thereof, as history shows us.From the implementation of an Internet-based project room the students will gain experiences in Internet-based cooperation and they will thus promote their ITC-skills. And so, we hope to convey them important experiences for their future professional lives. The work with this project room will also provide the participating teachers an insight into a different teaching method.In the project five European schools will work together: Gymnasium Wertingen, Germany, Liceo Scientifico „R.Nuzzi“ Andria, Italy, Celldömölki Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium, Hungary, Osg Willemblaeu, Netherlands, and Garbi Pere Vergés Badalona, Spain. When choosing the project partners we paid attention to the fact that the countries have had different experiences with migration in the last seventy years and that they have experienced different sorts of migration. In some countries immigration prevailed, in others emigration. And in the current refugee situation the countries of the participating schools have gained different experiences and have had different strategies. By comparing these manifold aspects we expect to achieve a more sophisticated picture of the current situation. Another aspect was the readiness to work with an Internet-based learning platform. All five schools have already had experiences with learning platforms and with European cooperation projects and they are ready to improve them.To support the project work a virtual project room on the Twinspace-platform will be set up. This room will serve for communication and cooperation among the participants as well as for the collection of materials developed during the project. During the period of the project four topics will be discussed:- Different kinds of migration in the students' own countries, their reasons and their effects- Regulations about immigration and treatment of refugees in Europe and in the respective countries- The current refugee wave- Efforts to integrate migrants The students will research in all subject areas in their own countries and they will formulate their results. During the common learning activities these results will be revised in transnational work groups and a final version will be developed. In the course of the project a collection of materials will result from that work. To complement the issues a discussion with a local representative from administration or a politician about the effects of the refugee situation on the region will take place each time. Besides, a documentation of personal fates of migrants or refugees will be produced. At the end, all the results will be put together in a multilingual book and in an exposition, which will be presented to the public in the last common learning activity.The online teaching unit, which the participating teachers will create from the materials of the project room, will be another final product. The different results will be available via the Internet even after the end of the project and they will be published as OER.In the long term, by using the materials during the lessons we expect the students to get a more sophisticated view of the phenomenon of migration. Apart from that, they will learn that personal research is absolutely necessary for an informed opinion and that the results may well differ from the presentations in the media. As to teachers the experiences with the project may help them to initiate and supervise such projects in the future and they will use their knowledge to develop new online teaching units on their own.
Public discussion almost exclusively focuses on the refugee crisis. Here, our project "Migration in Europe" started. It placed the refugee wave into a wider context and examined the different sorts of migration which have taken place in the last seventy years, since World War II. The students learnt that migrations took place for various reasons and that they happened in Europe in all epochs. We tried to avoid treating the subject only in an abstract way, but wanted to give the phenomenon "migration" or "refugees" a personal face. Therefore, we contacted migrants and refugees in each country to learn something about their personal fate. To complement these very personal life experiences, the legal circumstances in the different countries and the measures taken to solve the current refugee issues were examined. This gave our students a more sophisticated view on the current situation. By analysing former migration waves our students also learnt details about the various effects of migration in the different countries and that positive effects may result thereof, as history shows us. Due to the implementation of an Internet-based project room the students gained experiences in Internet-based cooperation and they promoted their ITC-skills. And so they gained experiences for their future professional lives. The work with this project room also provided the participating teachers an insight into a different teaching method. In the project five European schools worked together: Gymnasium Wertingen, Germany, Liceo Scientifico „R.Nuzzi“ Andria, Italy, Celldömölki Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium, Hungary, Osg Willemblaeu, Netherlands, and Garbi Pere Vergés Badalona, Spain. When choosing the project partners we paid attention to the fact that the countries had had different experiences with migration in the last seventy years and that they had experienced different sorts of migration. In some countries immigration prevailed, in others emigration. And in the current refugee situation the countries of the participating schools have had different experiences and shown different strategies. By comparing these manifold aspects we expected to achieve a more sophisticated picture of the current situation. Another aspect was the readiness to work with an Internet-based learning platform. All five schools have already had experiences with learning platforms and with European cooperation projects and they were ready to improve them.To support the project work a virtual project room on the Twinspace-platform was set up. This room served for communication and cooperation among the participants as well as for the collection of materials developed during the project. During the period of the project four topics were discussed:- Different kinds of migration in the students' own countries, their reasons and their effects- Regulations about immigration and treatment of refugees in Europe and in the respective countries- The current refugee wave- Efforts to integrate migrants. The students made research in all subject areas in their own countries and they fixed down their results. During the common learning activities those results were revised in transnational work groups and a final version was developed. In the course of the project a collection of materials resulted from that work. To complement the issues a meeting with refugees or representatives of local support organisations took place at each transnational meeting. Besides, a documentation of personal fates of migrants or refugees was produced. At the end, all the results were put together in an e-book and in various expositions, which were presented to the public. Posters of the transnational meetings and the results of the work have got a permanent place inside the school buildings.The online teaching unit, which the participating teachers created from the materials of the project room, was another final product. The different results are available via the Internet, even after the end of the project and they are published as OER. In the long term, by using the materials during the lessons the students got a more sophisticated view of the phenomenon of migration. Apart from that, they have learned that personal research is absolutely necessary for an informed opinion and that the results may well differ from the presentations in the media. As to teachers the experiences with the project may help them to initiate and supervise such projects in the future and - hopefully - they will use their knowledge to develop new online teaching units on their own.