This is a social responsibility project that takes “REFUGEES and IMMIGRATION” in its centre with the approach that everybody deserves a life as stated in UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. For more than ten years of research in Europe and beyond, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented serious violations of children’s rights arising from immigration detention of children. Children may be arbitrarily detained, held in cells with unrelated adults and subjected to brutal treatment by police, guards and other authorities. They are often held in poor conditions that fall far short of international standards governing appropriate settings for children deprived of their liberty. Children in immigration detention include unaccompanied migrant children, children in families (including young infants), asylum-seeking and refugee children, and children whose parents are refugees or people seeking asylum. The project came out of the most serious social problems in recent years as stated above. It is a very serious issue for all of us. We cooperated with the institutions from the countries being more and more affected by the problem. Turkey and Bulgaria are the countries where the problem is dramatically increasing. The Italian school has refugees among their students and they have experience in dealing with the problem of integrating these people and children into the European culture. DK and PL are the other countries which are familiar with the issue as the members of the European Union. The project will not solve the problems but it will increase social awareness in terms of understanding those people, helping them in their difficult situation. Children and at risk people are the main case to be dealt with. As they are the most innocent actors of the issue, it is our responsibility to do our best to take care of them for they are the future. Our starting point of this project is humanism ( and there for human rights). We have to show our respect to those people because we live in the same world. This must be seen as our common responsibility. As educational institutions we can't solve this very serious problem alone, but we can manage to provide social acceptance and manage to give people in need stronger motivation/hope for a happy life. Furthermore, this project will be very useful for our students while developing their social skills, social sensitivity and autonomous personalities. In this rapidly globalization we will continue to see more migration as economics, climate change and conflict will force people to travel to safer lands with more opportunity. We need to prepare the future generation for these coming changes. The project will examine the following issues: -forced immigrants -the causes and consequences of forced migration -the impact of immigration detention on children -insufficient sensitivity towards immigrants It will also promote and develop: -increasing social responsibility campaigns for migrants -social consciousness, social awareness , social sensitivity, tolerance, empathy for the immigrants and refugees -destroying stereotypes -entrepreneurship and volunteering skills of our students The project activities will be applied at five schools, the schools in the neighborhood, NGOs in a local area, local community. Students, teenagers, parents, people in local community will be the main actors. There are five stages of the project: - Searching immigration and refugees issue -Why do immigrants and refugees move to Europe searching for a happy life? -Getting familiar with refugees and immigrants (taking videos and preparing documentaries of them) -Organising social volunteering activities for them including as many people as possible -Disseminating project activities effectively in local, national and international areas to create spreading waves in Europe and across the world NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS Teenagers: 500 active+ 500 indirect : 1000 Teachers: 50 direct + 50 indirect : 100 Members of NGOs: 50 direct + 70 indirect: 120 Administrative staff: 20 direct + 20 indirect: 40 Parents: 300 direct + 300 indirect: 600 Local community : 300 Total number of beneficiaries : Direct:920 Indirect: 1340 : 2260 RESULTS AND IMPACTS Through our project the five partners intend to create both short-term and long-term tangible and intangible results and to achieve the biggest possible impact to future projects and policy processes such as leading students to overcome lack of social skills, setting up the project website in order to provide continuous access to the general information of the project activities, progress and results, writing newspaper reports and creating on-site panels or leaflets to inform non-specialist audience about the project background and the main results, communication, and cognitive skills of students, cultivating effective partnerships between trainers, educators and community organizations so as to amplify our collective impact on the students.
Our project ' who wants to be a refugee', with the five project partners officially started on the 21st of November, 2017 in Denmark, after months of preparation, partner searches and promotion. The innovative methods and techniques of teaching and learning in this field yielded strong results. By using innovative, strategic approach in the following system: from modern tools to assess the skills and professional qualifications, by creating on the basis of innovative methods of teaching and learning techniques using multimedia technology and ICT learning materials developed subjects, including foreign language training, the creation of innovative learning programs and subject competency (refugees, politics, geography etc.) . The idea of the project was based on observation and studies of the refugee situation by partners. The project manifested itself in the way of the introduction and development results. It is a specific strategy which consists of a number of smaller elements in the form of development tools to investigate the qualifications, then on its basis of modern methods that had not been necessarily adapted by the partners, we created a program for the project. In fact , it is worth mentioning that, the whole project took place in the international area, though travel, using modern methods of communication (video chat, whatsApp etc), student exchange and community action. All four areas generated each other and are mutually complementary, which further demonstrates the synergies in the design and perfectly fits the idea of international strategic partnership. Objectives inside the project are as follows: – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, increasing social inclusion - Causes and effects of forced immigrants - Destroying stereotypes - Focus on immigrants - Universal Declaration of Human Rights Our international partnership consisted of the five upper primary schools mentioned above. The profile of participants varied from country to country, but in general were of similar socio-economic background attending/working at public/semi private schools. There was a very limited number of participants with special needs or limitations. The activities as prescribed took place over two transnational meeting, four students exchanges and the on going work of the project during project period. These activities included but were not limited to: M1 Denmark Introduction of partners to each other Understanding the institution involved Learning and sharing common knowledge about the topic of “refugee” Identifying Erasmus Mundus project regulations Develop a plan and schedules and deadlines Project ideas and planning students exchanges Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, increasing social inclusion Causes and effects of forced immigrants Students and Teachers mobility Host Families and social inclusion C1 Italy “Recognise Immigrants” We studied the European law and the procedures of Dublin, the Italian government attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers. Our students have been involved in the following activities: Meeting with local institutions Exchange of good practices with the use of website and social such as FB Visiting centers for refugee and asylum seekers refugees: how they spend their time, the daily activities, their stories, the reasons Disseminate to teachers and student families, contact the local press C2 Poland “Introducing Immigrants” Shared their experiences creating friendships and destroying stereotypes workshop with and parents and teachers Search students inside the school who had stories of immigration Dissemination activities: Doing some activities with music with refugees Articles in local newspapers C3 Bulgaria “Organising social volunteering activities for forced immigrants” Dissemination activities: Visiting the SPRAR center Doing some activities with art and music with refugees Articles in local newspapers C4 Denmark “Disseminating project activities”' Meeting with local institutions Writing poems and songs with refugees visiting language for refugees seeing refugee situation in Copenhagen cultural exchange night Disseminate to teachers and student families, contact the local press M2 Final Project Meeting: Turkey summary of project activities, final report The impact and ways to further disseminate information The goals achieved The main aim of the project is to improve the quality and understanding of the refugee situation, this we achieved . Naturally, the dissemination of the project results will play a vital role in achieving this goal in a European dimension. Partners carefully prepared strategy for dissemination to adequately match the intended actions and provide for adequate reach the target groups. Dissemination of the project will be a dynamic process, continuous, continued even after the completion of the project.