"Rust Never Sleeps - The Iron curtain 20 years after" 

Im Vorjahr wurden auf Initiative des Interkulturellen Zentrums Wien gemeinsam mit einer Schule in Orosháza/Ungarn inhaltliche Vorbereitungen unter dem Titel „20 years after – rust never sleeps. Kulturelle Grenzen und wie sie überwunden werden könnten.“ getroffen. 
Diese Vorbereitungen wurden mit einem Geldpreis von insgesamt 2000.- prämiert. Beide Projektpartner erhalten jeweils 1000.- Das Geld ist zweckgebunden und soll für gegenseitige Besuche verwendet werden.
Vom 28. – 31. Oktober sind 12 Schüler aus Oroshaza zu Gast und werden neben projektbezogenen Arbeiten am neuen Gymnasium auch Gelegenheit haben die highlights der Stadt und des Bezirkes Leoben zu sehen.

Die Beteiligten Institutionen sind:
ACES
IKZ Wien
Unesco
Erste Bank

Stadgemeinde Leoben, Verein Eisenstrasse, Asia Spa, Lebenshilfe Trofaiach

 

... und ein kleiner Auszug aus der Projektbeschreibung:

Project idea and specific focus:
The project lays a rich platform of involving participants who have similar features but different culture to share feelings, information, culture and experience. As the topic is sharing the ideas of people who belong to other cultures and accepting the way they live, we teachers should teach this to our students. They will learn their own and foreign history by exploring and comparing past, present and the expected future. Besides knowing the world’s history students will improve their IT and foreign language skills and their international interaction. In some activities not only the participants but also the surrounding community is involved. Partners are motivated in this project because they consider the topic of intercultural dialogue as an identity process aimed to revalue and reinforce their opening to each other. In the project we are thinking in three main themes: The first stage is when politics and ideology stood between people in the past; the second one is Iron Curtains nowadays all around the world by any mean and the third one is imaginary future. We must give our children the hint although we have different colour of skin, different religions and different way of thinking we are very similar to each other we are equal in this world of diversity. Borders and barriers do not separate us but keep together, converge and aggregate us. They are given the chance and the opportunity to form their future Europe. Project aims:  Our aim is to make students get familiar with important historical events and the importance of democracy all over Europe through PowerPoint shows, exhibitions and essays. Our students should have the opportunity to explore their history and teachers should guide them. Therefore, the partnership focuses mainly on establishing connections with the European cultures. To achieve the partnership objectives, we will perform joint activities and there will be a continuous assessment during our meetings, work reunions, exchanges of information and visits to the partners. The activities are so well planned that the results of one activity is the development base for the next one. The direct participation of the pupils in these activities will provoke their interest, enriching their knowledge in the particular field. We hope that participation in this Central European Cooperation will result a lot of benefits not only for the school as an institution but especially for our pupils. Our further aims are the followings:

• promote cultural and historical awareness and sustaining this at school via the curriculum
• develop students’ ability to look at cultural diversity within the European context
• cooperate with peers from an other country and establish personal friendly contacts
• make our students aware of the facts that they are the citizens of the EU
• help the students’ integration who are coming from different family backgrounds
• establish personal fulfillment, social sensibility and, tolerance and entrepreneurship
• develop their abilities in computer technologies and communication in foreign languages
• improve pupils’ and teachers’ capabilities to cooperate and collaborate in teamwork
• increase the motivation, qualities and self-confidence of the pupils and teachers, as well as the prestige of both schools involved in the partnership.
• fulfill the integration between subjects like Music, Create and Craft,  Art, Geography, History, Literature  and foreign languages
• develop the pupils’ self-knowledge, self-evaluation and problem-solving skills
• The teachers from the partner schools working in the same field of education can get acquainted with each other’s work and could give and get methodological ideas to and from each other

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