Project week in Utebo (Spain)
"Celebrating Diversity"
19. - 25. October 2024
"Celebrating Diversity"
19. - 25. October 2024
The topic of the project week in Utebo (near Zaragoza) was "Celebrating Diversity". The students discussed the challenges and opportunities of diversity and migration in our society and learned how important empathy towards people from different backgrounds is for a peaceful society.
Participating schools:
IES Torre de los Espejos, Spain (hosting school)
Liceul Teoretic "Onisifor Ghibu", Romania
Gymnasium Penzberg, Germany
Topics of the project week:
Getting to know each other
Ice breaker games
Dodgeball
Presentation of the home countries
Visiting classes as "Erasmus+ ambassadors"
Student guided tour of the school house
Farewell party
Discussion about migration, integration and empathy
Linguistic barriers for migrants: Students had to face the difficulties of learning a new language (Elaborating dialogues in Spanish with the aid of Spanish students)
Reading of the text "Migration and war" and debate about the text
Elaboration of the "good cosmopolitan citizen's decalogue"
Creation of posters to promote consciousness about social values
Discussion about democratic values in the EU
Students face key facts and concepts about refugees
Role-play: Interview about diversity and migration
Our newspaper: Interview of some students and some teachers by the school newspaper
Selfie tour around Utebo in international groups
Visit of the natural monument "Monasterio de Piedra"
Some results of the project week in Utebo:
What is migration?
Immigrants you know