The objectives of the project are twofold. On the one hand, it is the aim to improve reading skills and encourage young people to read. On the other hand, the project addresses the current topic of migration and integration and aims at promoting understanding and tolerance. At the beginning of the project, pupils will therefore be made familiar with reading strategies, which help to facilitate the reading process, thus making the reading experience more enjoyable. To further support this process, all partners will agree on a certain set of texts so that the pupils involved in the project share the same experience, read the same texts and will have something to communicate about. The choice of texts will gradually lead to the topic of the project: migration, integration, tolerance, shared values. After this joint introductory part, the pupils will be encouraged to choose their texts more freely and share their reading experience with the partners. They can do this in various ways, for example, by writing reviews or creating reading posters. However, in the course of the project, texts will also be transformed into other materials, i.e. pupils will produce podcasts and videos. The aspect of developing reading skills is "hidden" in this approach; nevertheless, pupils are required to read and to read intensively in order to be able to, for example, produce a podcast about a particular piece of literature. This is what pupils will learn and practise in joint workshops that deal with podcasting, making videos, creating and maintaining a website and using further ICT tools that ensure an enjoyable approach to learning. Insights gained from literature will also be compared with real-life experience. The schools involved have to cope with migration and integration in different ways. Those experiences will also be shared, for example, by designing, carrying out and evaluating a survey at the schools about stereotyping, prejudices and attitudes towards migrants. Moreover, during project meetings, the participation of pupils with migrational background should be ensured whenever this is possible. All results produced during the project term will be published on a joint website, which will be maintained by an editorial group consisting of pupils from all partner schools. This allows many more people, for example, to learn about reading strategies. Furthermore, as the project website will be linked to school websites, the project can achieve a greater impact, regarding the promotion of tolerance and understanding. The project will be carried out mainly with 12-14-year-old pupils. This seems, a suitable age to, firstly, initiate the reading experience; secondly, to raise awareness of problems in society and promote open-mindedness. The international exchanges are planned for about 20 pupils each in order to ensure a fruitful atmosphere, which is to lead to useful results.
The objectives of the project were twofold. On the one hand, it was the aim to improve reading skills and encourage young people to read. On the other hand, the project addressed the current topic of migration and integration and aimed at promoting understanding and tolerance. At the beginning of the project, pupils, therefore, learned to apply reading strategies, which help to facilitate the reading process, thus making the reading experience more enjoyable. At the beginning of the project, all partners agreed to read stories from the "Odyssee" so that the pupils involved in the project shared the same experience, read the same texts, and had something to communicate about. Thus, the pupils gradually discovered various aspects of the project, such as migration, integration, tolerance, shared values. After this joint introductory part, the pupils continued reading in their different classes. Teachers decided individually on topic-related texts which also corresponded with regular course work. Especially interested pupils were encouraged to choose their texts more freely and share their reading experience with the partners. Thoughts and ideas collected in this process were meant to be a part of the final short-term exchange, which due to the pandemic situation could not take place. In the course of the project, texts were also transformed into other materials, i.e. pupils produced podcasts and created stories using Scratch. The aspect of developing reading skills is "hidden" in this approach; nevertheless, pupils were required to read and to read intensively in order to be able to, for example, produce a podcast about a particular piece of literature. This is what pupils learned and practised in joint workshops that dealed with podcasting, programming with Scratch, creating and maintaining a website and using further ICT tools that ensure an enjoyable approach to learning. Insights gained from literature were also compared with real-life experience. The schools involved have to cope with migration and integration in different ways. During project meetings, the participation of pupils with migrational backgrounds was ensured if possible; this applies to the meeting in Germany. Results produced during the project term were published on the joint website; an editorial group with members from all partner schools was formed during the respective meeting. As the project website is linked to school websites, the project can achieve a greater impact, regarding the promotion of tolerance and understanding. The project was carried out mainly with 12-to 14-year-old pupils. This seemed a suitable age to, firstly, initiate the reading experience; secondly, to raise awareness of problems in society and promote open-mindedness. The international exchanges were planned for about 20 pupils each in order to ensure a fruitful atmosphere, which is to lead to useful results. In fact, a considerably greater number took part in the meetings as hosts for generally 15 guests.