This project will continue our Comenius Project which we are going to conclude at the end of July 2009. The project involved European schools from Germany, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria and Estonia coming together to explore the concept of migration and it’s impact on native and migrant pupils and the society in which they live. The project had specifically designed activities leading to the sharing of statistics, stories, food, music and other cultural aspects. The aim is to work and live together in mutual respect and tolerance. The schools, working together produced collections of their work and established a webpage which provides a rewarding, active experience and a future useful resource for other schools. The pupils of the participating schools along with their teachers had the unique chance to explore and grow in understanding across borders and languages. And this is the reason we decided to go on with the project. We want to stay in contact by using the possibilities of the eTwinning platform. The ultimate impact on pupils and teachers within their schools and communities is enriching and life-enhancing and will hopefully encourage other schools to participate in our project.

• Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Environmental Education, European Studies, Foreign Languages, Geography, Home economics, Informatics / ICT, Music, Religion, Social Studies / Sociology
• Languages: DE - EN
• Pupil's age: 11 - 18
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Web publishing
• Aims: A long-term aim of this project is the cooperation between participating schools from Germany, Northern Ireland Bulgaria and Estonia, pupils... read moreA long-term aim of this project is the cooperation between participating schools from Germany, Northern Ireland Bulgaria and Estonia, pupils and teachers beyond the duration of the Comenius project. A second aim is surely to find more interested schools who want to join our project. We want to focus on developing young people who are comfortable with and confident in expressing their complex cultural identities, have respect for the cultural diversity around them, are active and responsible citizens of their country, Europe and the world. We want to enrich our pupils and teachers’ knowledge of other cultures and of their own national culture and ethnic diversity within the country. We want to prepare young people for the challenges of intercultural interaction, and who are thus able to be tolerant and active participants in the communities to which they belong and in which they function, and who respect otherness and reject racism and xenophobia. We like to open up borders and reaching across Europe for a better understanding. Our aims are to establish relations that hopefully last longer than a project and we want that our students really get aware of the idea “Europe”. We see ourselves as schools that are aware of the necessity to build own networks and try constantly to widen them. hide
• Work process: We like to go on gathering recipes from the countries of the participating schools, pupils’ stories about their migration and... read moreWe like to go on gathering recipes from the countries of the participating schools, pupils’ stories about their migration and the situation in the new country. The results will be published on the Comenius Projects homepage. We want to bring together students and teachers from different countries via e-mail contacts, chats or forums, where they can learn to know each other. These email contacts shall finally lead to (we hope) video conferences. hide
• Expected results: - E-mail contacts between students and teachers - A maybe weekly chat among the partners - Answer questions about the participating countries... read more- E-mail contacts between students and teachers - A maybe weekly chat among the partners - Answer questions about the participating countries in a forum - Establish video conferences as a helpful tool for learning more about each other - If there is any possibility, meeting each other hide

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