Category: Integration & Belonging

Integration & Belonging

Lesson Plan: Rethinking ‘Us’ & ‘Them’

This lesson plan helps high school students examine their perceptions of integration, belonging, identity, and migration. In a 90-minute session, students engage in activities, discussions, and video screenings to explore ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ dynamics. The lesson challenges students to reconsider their views on integration, aiming to educate and empower them to think critically about their roles in a diverse society.

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Screening

Reflecting on Integration & Diversity: ‘I Am European’ Final Event

At IL KINO Berlin, we celebrated the culmination of our three-year ‘I Am European’ project with engaging film screenings and a dynamic panel discussion. Commemorating the 5th anniversary of our ‘Rethinking Us & Them’ series, a popular MOOC on the iversity platform, we explored integration and diversity in Germany today. The evening featured insightful screenings from our series and a panel with speakers like Hafiza Hamoud, Chiponda Chimbelu, Mine Nang, and Dr. Jihad Alabdullah, moderated by Sophia Burton

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Teacher Training

Talking about migration in Latvian classrooms

In this collaboration with Latvia’s think-tank Providus, we brought Migration Matters content to around 100 high schools across Latvia. This project, led by Providus’ senior policy analyst Agnese Lace, includes a comprehensive manual for teachers, lesson plans, and on-site workshops to equip educators with the tools they need to bring balanced discussions about migration into the classroom.

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MOOC

Advocate Europe

Migration Matters produced a Massive Open Online Course on integration and diversity as part of the Advocate Europe grant.

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Street Survey

This Election Season: Integration & Diversity

The Treaty of Rome, signed on March 25, 1957, brought together six European countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) to work towards integration and economic growth and created a prototype of the European Union as we know it today. But here we are 60 years later, and the question of…

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