Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

Together in Europe

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-TR01-KA229-058718
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 153,967 EUR

Together in Europe

Description

"Historically, people have changed where they live due to different reasons such as war, marriage, education, etc... According to 2015 data*, 4,7 million people have migrated to 28 EU member states. This number is substantially increased when we add EU candidate countries like Turkey. In our partnership which include 6 different countries, it is stated that in Turkey the number of refugees reached 2,6 million. Germany is the country with the highest number of immigrants among EU member states with 1,5 million. It is followed by the United Kingdom 0,4 million, France 0,6 million, Spain 0,3 million. As you can see, our partners are the countries with the highest density of refugee / immigration issues. The biggest problem in these countries was social harmony. The host society was concerned about foreigners coming to their country, while refugees and immigrants are fearful of exclusion. Our project originally had started on the eTwinning platform, as a social responsibility Project with the partnership of Turkey-Germany-Slovenia. During our 2017 eTwinning Project, our high school students had participated in activities with school-age children of refugees, immigrants / in order to facilitate the integration of children into their communities. All of our participants had been rewarded with a travel ticket in the category of Move2learn competition. Also had won the best eTwinning award ""zlatikabel” of the year in Slovenia. This motivation led to the development of our project as the Erasmus + Project. The fact that 2018 was a European cultural heritage year had also guided our project idea. We believe that the students and teachers of 6 different countries were able to produce common solutions for our common issue. Five different types of events had been planned for this purpose. 1. Creation of the European immigration map: The countries in the project prepared maps, graphics etc. especially including immigrant demographics of the last century. 2. Language game activities: All students involved in the project taught vocabulary from their mother tongue to each other. This event, which consisted of words that could be used frequently throughout the project, was initially part of the work of warm up and It turned into a game that was repeated daily. 3. Sports Activities: We preferred the games based on cooperation, communication and trust. To achieve this objective, mixed teams were created. The differences in society were reflected on the teams. The winning team was the team that best benefited from their differences. 4. Food culture events: Eating is a social symbol, part of socializing. At least one of the dishes belogned to the immigrant / refugee culture. While preparing the meal, they experienced the collaborative working and the pleasure of enjoying different tastes. 5. Art Activities: Especially non-verbal activities such as painting, music, and photo were the biggest means of expressing feelings. We created a joint exhibition. We studied universal values such as tolerance, cooperation, solidarity, respect, love, responsibility, empathy with mixed teams. As a result of these activities, we planned to achieve the following objectives: - To facilitate the adaptation of school children, who have had to leave their country of origin, to the new country's cultures and customs - To help our pupils and the refugee / immigrant children we work with to acquire some skills such as expressing themselves, effective communicating, working together and problem solving skills - To provide geographical awareness - To discover and embrace the diversity by conserving the cultural heritage. - To create awareness about universal values such as cooperation, tolerance, solidarity, respect, love, responsibility, empathy Our participants consisted of students, teachers, school support staff and administrators. We have also involved participants with fewer opportunities such as economic difficulties, and disability. The age group of our students was 15-17. Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils were attended by 4 students from each school and 24 students in total. A lot of immigrant / refugee students in the host society were included in the studies. The refugee/migrant students of the host community were able to communicate effectively with their peers through the work accomplished. Teachers were selected from the fields required for the activities to be carried out. Support staff and administrators turned their observations into action plans. In addition, pre-activity needs of participants such as ticketing, health, culture were covered.We wanted to make our project spread on national and international platforms Our dissemination activities: - An eTwinning project ""Together we are Stronger"" - Transferring experience through eTwinning events - Creating brochures to present our project - Preparing a web page and an e-magazine"

Data Management Plans
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

Do the share buttons not appear? Please make sure, any blocking addon is disabled, and then reload the page.

All Research products
arrow_drop_down
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=erasmusplus_::600ba75189f3aa297f860a7e3c497535&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>
For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu

No option selected
arrow_drop_down