The project "Precious borderlines" aims to enable pupils from Austrian and Slovenian Styria to deal with the topic "border" in a historical and artistic way. Both schools will have 20 pupils at the age of 15 to 16 participating at the project. With the support of experts from the fields of history and art, they should approach the concept of "border" and expand it - starting from the historical-political border - to other areas in which we are confronted with borders, that can be overcome by joint work just as the political border can. This open exploration of the concept and the value of borders should be raised to an artistic level, as the students deal with the topic photographically at the school locations, but also at the border between Austria and Styria itself. Subsequently, several groups of students are to use the photographs created in these "borderline experiences" to create their own works of art in which their personal involvement with the term "border" becomes visible. This is done with the support of invited artists from different fields of art. The project concludes with a joint exhibition of the project contributions in Graz. Subsequently, the works of art will also be exhibited at both schools in Deutschlandsberg and Maribor. The aim is to promote the European idea and the internationality of the partner schools, to provide cross-border working and learning experiences for the participating students and to increase their personal, social and intercultural competences. Both partner schools have the desire to have more common projects after this one and see it as the beginning of a long-term school collaboration. After the project, the works of art that were created together should remain in the schools as visible signs of the collaboration between both partners.
The project "Precious borderlines" aimed to enable pupils from Austrian and Slovenian Styria to deal with the topic "border" in a historical and artistic way. With the support of experts from the fields of history and art, the participating pupils approached the concept of "border" and expanded it - starting from the historical-political border - to other areas in which one may be confronted with borders. This open exploration of the concept and the value of borders was raised to an artistic level, as the students dealed with the topic artistically at the school locations, but also at the border between Austria and Slovenia itself. In three meetings, mixed groups of pupils used their experiences to create their own works of art in which their personal involvement with the term "border" became visible. The project concluded with a joint exhibition of the project contributions in Graz. Subsequently, the works of art will also be exhibited in other locations, such as the liaison office of Styria in Brussels in November and after that also in Deutschlandsberg and Maribor. The aim of the project was to promote the European idea and the internationality of the partner schools, to provide cross-border working and learning experiences for the participating students and to increase their personal, social and intercultural competences.