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Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami
Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project will be realized by the European Clubs functioning by two secondary schools in Bochnia ( Poland ) and Trikali ( Greece ). The clubs are informal organizations. Their members are the students at the age of 16 to 18 – they are particularly interested in international economic, cultural, political issues. They are engaged in different school activities (“Oxford” debates, writing articles in the local press, school students’ council ), regional activities ( working in youth town and county councils, organization of the contest of knowledge about the European Union ) or even nationalwide actions ( such as parliamentary primary elections, charity actions ). About 40 members of the European Clubs will be directly involved in the project , 20 students from each side. The project itself is the result of the interest of the club members in the topic of migration in Europe, opportunities and dangers which are connected with this phenomenon and attitudes which migration evokes in Europe nowadays. Experience of our countries in this topic are both similar and different.We are planning to realize our project on four grounds.The first of them has some historical dimension, but similarly as in the remaining ones we are mainly interested in its influence on the contemporary societies so on us, too.In the past, both Poles and Greeks took part in migration at a great scale. Both nations experienced a considerable reduction of their territories and a great relocation of their citizens. Both nations suffered from lack of their own statehood with a real threat of losing their own identity. First we would like to take a look at the similar history of Greeks and Poles and try to answer the question how this experience has influenced our attitude to migration and migrants. The next sphere of our interest is the migration of Poles and Greeks after the EU accession. In both countries after EU accession there were rapid and violent migration phenomena, mainly of the economic type. Millions and millions of inhabitants left the countries, especially the young ones. In Greece this process occurred about 20 years earlier than in Poland, where it is still in progress. We would like our Greek friends to share with us their opinions and conclusions on the consequences of this phenomenon for the Greek society in different dimensions. We are interested in the issues such as: demographic, economic, cultural ones. We think that it allows us to see the processes occurring in Poland in a bit different way. In this part the Greek group will be more a giver than a recipient. The third part – the Poles and Greeks in view of the violent migration processes occurring in Europe nowadays. Our Polish-Greek contacts and the observation of this phenomenon in media make us think that our experience is totally different. There are almost no migrants coming to Poland, whereas Greece is the gate where migrants enter Europe. We would like to compare approaches of our societies towards migration phenomena occurring presently in Europe. This part is closely connected with the fourth one. Because of this, we would like to talk about our attitudes towards alienation and dangers such as xenophobia, racism, chauvinism. That’s why we are planning a common visit to the concentration camp Auschwitz and a reflection over the dramatic past of Europe. Including the visit to KL Auschwitz was a clear wish of our friends from Greece. All the members of the Polish Club have already visited this dramatic place for the Polish and European history. Nevertheless, we think that it is worth remembering and reminding. There is also one more element of this part connected with the visit to Auschwitz, which is presenting the presence of minorities in the Polish society and its influence on the Polish history and culture. As a result, we would like to visit Cracow, especially the Cracow Jewish district to show the presence of Jews in the Polish past. While realizing this stage of our project we would like to combine it with one more element, namely, watching together the film “Schindler’s List” and visiting the museum in Schindler’s Factory in Cracow. All the four parts ( segments ) were presented during the meeting of groups in Poland. Actually, their preparation has already started. We have chosen the topic of the project together and agreed on its general scheme, which is its four major parts ( segments ),we would like to deal with while working together. The clubs’ members choose the most interesting segment for them in accordance with their interests, and in groups they develop their Polish or Greek point of view on a given problem on the basis of a similar scenario. The groups working on the same project segments contact each other online and analyze the materials collected by the other side. We assume some kind of lack of balance in segment two and four. While preparing the project, we are going to use involving and activating teaching methods.