The project addresses the topic on migration in the past and present and the different countries experiences. Migration is a recurrent political question in Europe, and in the world. A question that raises questions and feelings among the citizens. The project aims to help our students to expand their general knowledge, and have a better understanding of the world they live in by unbiased and science based discussions. During this project the pupils will be able to meet different countries experiences of migration in the past and the present and have a chance to discuss the situation the Europe, as well as the global community, is facing. We will have four meetings, one in each participating country, where the students will learn about that countrys experience. Each meeting will involve five students and two teachers from each country, which means that a total of 80 pupils and 16 teachers will be directly involved. The expected impact is, besides awarness about migration in the past and the present, to promote European values such as Human Rights and Democracy, trengthening Civic skills and enhancing cultural understanding and a sense of belonging to community and encouraging the participation of young people in democratic life in EU, cultural openness and mobility. The project will also strengthen the teachers competence and produce material which the schools can use in the future.
The project addresses the topic on migration in the past and present and the different countries experiences. Migration is a recurrent political question in Europe, and in the world. A question that raises questions and feelings among the citizens. The project aims to help our students to expand their general knowledge, and have a better understanding of the world they live in by unbiased and science based discussions. The first activities that took place in Thessaloniki focused on migration history in each country. It showed the different experiences of migration in each country but also made it clear that the countries history is a history of migration and that the development of the countries has been dependent on migration. The next meeting dealt with the perspective of migration in the present focusing on politics in the different countries, a sociological perspective on migration and segregation and also the perspective of the migrants themselves. This revealed that we share a lot regarding what challenges the society is facing and the political debate, but also the differences in the politics. The third meeting focused on NGO:s and voluntary work and their importance for the reception of migrants. The plan for the last meeting was to focus on the migrants, where the students would collect and record their stories. Those were planed to be presented in an exhibition in Leon. Though covid-19 came and made this impossible. The students did the interviews (which most of them had done before the pandemic) and edited the recordings best they could under the circumstances. Those are now presented at a website. The project aimed to help our students to expand their general knowledge, and have a better understanding of the world they live in by unbiased and science based discussions. As they got to meet different perspectives, such as historic, political, science and the migrants own stories, the students got a broader knowledge of the subject and deeper understanding on the situation and the political debate. This is really a question of democracy – to be able to analyse and take part in the political debate based on deeper knowledge as well as the possibility to navigate and to be source critical in the vast information flow. The teachers also gained a lot of knowledge and material that can be used in teaching and also to meet the questions raised in the subject in the classroom. It is also an important subject in creating sustainable societies and promoting human rights, connecting the subject to the global goals and education for sustainable development.