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Sub-Projects – Theme 3 – Socio-cultural integration
“MEB” - Multicultural Education on Borders
General description of the project
Multicultural education is an important means to improve contacts and mutual understanding between citizens on both sides of the border. However, national policies to promote multiculturalism are often too general and not adapted to the specific needs and characteristics of border regions. The three regions involved in this sub-project all have the aim to foster multiculturalism in their regions and therefore search for models to develop concrete strategies and actions for multicultural education.
The project partners are looking at children and the youth as a key target group to foster multiculturalism. Their early involvement in cross-border cooperation activities is crucial to raise awareness for and increase knowledge about the culture of the neighbour country and establish good neighbourhood relations. The purpose of the sub-project is thus to exchange experience on working methods and tools to improve multicultural education and to better involve children and young people in cross-border cooperation activities. The project partners will therefore create a new kind of local partnership between schools and stakeholders of cross-border cooperation for example by drafting material for multicultural education and organising periodic events in schools.
