HOME (Human Out-Migration in Europe) is a project which aims at bringing to light various aspects that generated vast human movements across Europe over a 100-year period - from after WW1 to the present day. These aspects will cover the major causes, organization, assistance, employment and minor migrants of out-migration. Human migrations have been the base of the ever-evolving Europe as we know it. With migration comes the unknown and the unfamiliar. Whether it be on cultural, linguistic, religious or societal levels. Human diversities have forever been brought together within the various European countries, but they all have one common root: the fact that, at one moment, the decision or obligation to leave a birth place was taken. Each European generation is ADNned with an unexpected diversity of origins and is very often oblivious to this fact. It is for this reason that our project has been created: to let students realize, through their own research and findings, through sharing and learning from each other, that they may each be a true living proof of the out-migration which has created so many rich differences in each of us. Six schools will take part in this project : The French Organisme de gestion privée Lycée Bahuet from Brive la Gaillarde, the Cypriot LYKEIO POLEMIDION from Limassol, The Italian IISS C. Marchesi from Mascalucia Catania, the spanish IES TORRELLANO from Elche, the hungarian KOZGAZDASAGI POLITECHNIKUM ALTERNATIV GIMNAZIUM from Budapest, the German Gymnasium Am Stadtgarten from Saarlouis. In each schools, mobilities will concern 20-25 students, aged 15-18, some of them with fewer opportunities and 2-3 teachers of English, arts, history, geography, etc. During the project there will be activities to help the students understand, visualize, experiment and hear about out-migration. Framed around a set of 6 themes covering out-migration movements, participants will learn by doing or between peer. Moreover, when they will visit refugees camp, center for asylum seekers, students will talk and share with migrants. Through educational visits to local/regional sites and associations, participants will experience and interchange on migratory activities. These meetings will not only help students realize the diversity and richness that can spring from exodus, but will also help them question how human movement has evolved throughout time. The project is aimed at raising awareness of the importance of accepting others, of realizing that each person has a story and history. It will prove that we must develop empathy and understanding towards each other if we want our World to survive in Harmony and Peace for the generations to come. The exchanges and eye-opening activities and visits will help the construction of a solid human understanding towards others.
HOME (Human Out Migration in Europe) project aims at learning and understanding the history of migration and all difficulties to migration issues and and its impact on society at local/national/European level. On the other hand, All the reasons (wars, political regimes, natural disasters...), which drive people to flee their country, have and continue to shape our European civilization. So, good educational practice will always be that which moves beyond the binaries and boundaries of stereotypical, fixed identities. Since the fear of the other causes barriers between religions/nations and leads to divisions and fall of civilizations we must call for the gift of reconciliation. When this openness is achieved, schools become places where not only any individual may be who they are, but where diverse communities are brought together to flourish. During the project participants discovered different point of view about migration (reception, social support, employability..). They met refugees and learned about their story. They studied and presented migration flows from 1919 and nowadays, the different ways used by refugies/migrants, and the reasons of people fled their country. Last, issues related to migration and society are examined to promote the humanitarian aspect of the project. The methodology applied throughout the project involves formal and non-formal/informal and experiential learning. Association educational visits supporting refugees, places greatly impacted by the influx of refugees combined with seminars and workshops activate the interest of students and sensitize them to the difficult living conditions of refugees and migrants. The results of the project have to do with the involvement of participants and interested parties in raising awareness and support for refugees at local/national level. In addition, the inspiration of the younger generation, the exchange of good practices, dialogue with associations, testimonials, cognitive skills are expected results. The impact of the project involves participating schools, the local population and other relevant stakeholders and organisations. We should all work together to support these people. Finally, we expect that this project will lead everyone to realize that the foreigner is not such a different person from us and that we could end up in the same situation one day.