Globalization influences life and politics in the 21st century to a special degree. This term seems like a dense fog to many people and appears to be a threat that is hardly comprehensible. If nothing else that leads to dissatisfaction. This project aims at vitalizing the term with the help of students’ projects making it more tangible with the aid of an intercultural exchange. The experience gained will be carried out among the students of Stockholm and Freiburg. 15 sixth-form students at a time, from each Upplands Bro High School in Stockholm (more precisely Kungsängen, a suburb of Stockholm) and Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium in Freiburg, will work on comparable or even similar projects to examine different phenomena of globalization. Within the framework of the seminar course “Globalization in Everyday Life” the students of Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium will deal intensively with the practical aspects of globalization and examine these on chosen examples of Sweden and Germany. Meanwhile, the students of Upplands-Bro High School will work in a similar course with similar topics (e.g. sustainability in forestry, educational systems in Germany and Sweden, ramifications of the refugee crisis, Spotify’s marketing strategies) together with the German students starting with eTwinning, Facebook, WhatsApp or via email followed by visits at their partner school. These are scheduled for spring 2020 in Freiburg first, and then in Stockholm. Students are asked to exchange their ideas frequently and do on-site research in Stockholm and Freiburg and visit/interview actors of globalization. The students will stay at host families in Sweden and Germany to foster the intercultural experience. The main target of the project is to make the phenomenon of globalization visible. Not only local research in Freiburg or Stockholm will assist but also by illuminating the internationalized web of globalization will picture a vivid image of the aforementioned dense fog of the term. The form of the project and the close monitoring by four teachers (two of each country) will help the students to gain basic skills and key competences to enable them to work on problems interculturally (communication and coordination skills), conduct adequate research on a certain topic (media competency) and develop social competence by working independently on a project in cooperation with students from the other country. This open form promoting independence is based on online exchange and online education prioritizing “promoting engaging, connecting and empowering young people” and also helps to foster key competences and basic skills. The results will be displayed in presentations and wall newspapers and made public via both schools’ homepages and eTwinning. This will ensure a lasting impact for the public at large.
Globalization influences life and politics in the 21st century to a special degree. This term seems like a dense fog to many people and appears to be a threat that is hardly comprehensible. If nothing else that leads to dissatisfaction. This project aims at vitalizing the term with the help of students’ projects making it more tangible with the aid of an intercultural exchange. The experience gained will be carried out among the students of Stockholm and Freiburg. 15 sixth-form students at a time, from each Upplands Bro High School in Stockholm (more precisely Kungsängen, a suburb of Stockholm) and Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium in Freiburg, will work on comparable or even similar projects to examine different phenomena of globalization. Within the framework of the seminar course “Globalization in Everyday Life” the students of Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium should have dealed intensively with the practical aspects of globalization and examined these on chosen examples of Sweden and Germany. Meanwhile, the students of Upplands-Bro High School should have worked in a similar course with similar topics (e.g. sustainability in forestry, educational systems in Germany and Sweden, ramifications of the refugee crisis, Spotify’s marketing strategies) together with the German students starting with eTwinning, Facebook, WhatsApp or via email followed by visits at their partner school. These was scheduled for spring 2020 in Freiburg first, and then in Stockholm. Students were asked to exchange their ideas frequently and do on-site research in Stockholm and Freiburg and visit/interview actors of globalization. The students should have stayed at host families in Sweden and Germany to foster the intercultural experience. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to realise this project as planed because of the pandemic situation. A real exchange wasn't allowed and so we planed a virtual exchange that also affects the globalisation but with the main emphasis on the Corona pandemic. The main target of the project was to make the phenomenon of globalization visible. Not only local research in Freiburg or Stockholm shoud have assisted but also by illuminating the internationalized web of globalization will picture a vivid image of the aforementioned dense fog of the term. However, now the target was that the students in Stockholm and Freiburg discussed and researched about the effects of the Corona pandemic on the individual life, on the Swedish and German society and on the world by exchanging virtually.