Through this project, the students' competences in democracy and citizenship were strengthened, and they developed to a certain extent new attitudes, knowledge and skills related to democracy. We believe they are better equipped to face challenges in society, and that participation in this project has counteracted alienation. It was important to increase the teachers' competence and reflection in teaching democracy. The project achieved the following: Developed didactic tools and working methods that give teachers increased competence and opportunities to deal with issues that arise in and outside the classroom. The students were involved in developing tools and gained a greater understanding of the issues through collaboration with students from other countries. Their participation was a democratic aspect of the process itself. Researchers and teachers collaborated in the development of tools/ methods, and in the research on the project itself. This provided higher quality tools. These tools are freely available. We have succeeded to some extent in getting these tools and working methods included in teacher education in our respective countries. This is still in progress.
Kuben videregående skole (NO), Frederiksberg Gymnasium (DK) og Burgården Gymnasium (SE) er Scandinavian metropolitan schools with multicultural student communities, where some student groups experience a varying degree of outsiderness, or are in danger of falling outside the "larger society", and in the worst case being radicalised. We applied for an Erasmus+ project because we wanted an increased spotlight on the work with democratic competence in schools. In the project, we developed interdisciplinary didactic tools with the use of student influence to counteract this outsiderness. The didactic tools should make it easier for teachers to work with students in such a way that they can achieve an increased sense of belonging to the society they are part of, and help students to influence their own future through participation in society.