The Erasmus+ project "Europeness – The Principles We Share" focuses on young European adults exploring together the historical background and central principles of the EU, inducing them to identify with the European integration process and develop a sense of European citizenship. The target group are ca. 150 16-19 year-old students of the five partner schools in Germany, France, Portugal, Iceland and the Czech Republic.
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Participant Schools
CZECH REPUBLIC
FRANCE
GERMANY
ICELAND
PORTUGAL
LTTAS and Manifestos
LTTA 1 - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
LTTA 2 - DEMOCRACY
LTTA 3 - WAR IN EUROPE
LTTA 4 - CULTURAL DIVERSITY
LTTA 5 - SUSTAINABILITY
LTTA 6 - BRUSSELS PREPARATION
LTTA 7 - EUROPENESS ERASMUS+ CONFERENCE
GERMANY
The Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium (JAG) is a general secondary school preparing students aged 10 to 19 for Higher Education. It is quite a large school with 1,062 students in 2019/20, 534 of which are female and 528 male. The staff encompasses 917 teachers and 8 trainee teachers. The JAG is located in the port and industrial town of Emden (49,981 inhabitants) in the region of East Frisia in the North-West of Germany. The intake of students is both from the city of Emden and the rural surroundings. Despite the fact that Emden and East Frisia have been strongly profiting from the European integration process, it is highly conspicuous that most of our students are not aware of the significance of the European Union for the well-being of their home region and take the advantages the EU has brought to their daily lives for granted.
Therefore the school’s main motivation to join this project is to make students aware of the important role the European Union has played for their living conditions and liberties today and will play for their future life chances.
The second motivation is that the JAG can show its partners many advantages of European multilateralism in a nutshell within the region: Emden is located directly on the German-Dutch border with free border traffic due to the Schengen Agreement. In the Ems estuary, the delineation of this border is disputed between the two countries. But instead of fighting over the issue, both countries are administering the estuary in a joint commission to the great advantage of the adjoining regions. The Ems-Dollart-Region (EDR) is a prime example of a European Interreg (A) region, in which local communities and business representatives on both sides of the border cooperate to form a joint economic space and boost social and cultural exchanges.
The by far biggest employer in East Frisia is Volkswagen. Its car factory in Emden is part of the company’s European production network: The parts assembled at Emden come from all over Europe. And assembled cars of all the Volkswagen brands are brought to Emden harbour from all over Europe to be shipped overseas. Last but not least, as a peripheral and largely rural region within Germany, East Frisia has profited (and is profiting) immensely from European funds. Diverse urban development, infrastructure and tourism projects have been supported by the EU Cohesion Fund, and local farming and fishing communities rely heavily on European CAP subsidies. The Erasmus+ coordinator of the JAG, OstR Burkhard Remppis, will be in charge of the project. He is being backed up by another colleague, StR Jana Kadelke. In addition, diverse colleagues from the school’s Politics, History, Geography, Arts and Drama departments will become involved in the project. The project will heavily rely on their expertise in teaching the history and political structure of the EU and animating students to express their ideas through visual arts and drama at LTTA meetings.
Therefore the school’s main motivation to join this project is to make students aware of the important role the European Union has played for their living conditions and liberties today and will play for their future life chances.
The second motivation is that the JAG can show its partners many advantages of European multilateralism in a nutshell within the region: Emden is located directly on the German-Dutch border with free border traffic due to the Schengen Agreement. In the Ems estuary, the delineation of this border is disputed between the two countries. But instead of fighting over the issue, both countries are administering the estuary in a joint commission to the great advantage of the adjoining regions. The Ems-Dollart-Region (EDR) is a prime example of a European Interreg (A) region, in which local communities and business representatives on both sides of the border cooperate to form a joint economic space and boost social and cultural exchanges.
The by far biggest employer in East Frisia is Volkswagen. Its car factory in Emden is part of the company’s European production network: The parts assembled at Emden come from all over Europe. And assembled cars of all the Volkswagen brands are brought to Emden harbour from all over Europe to be shipped overseas. Last but not least, as a peripheral and largely rural region within Germany, East Frisia has profited (and is profiting) immensely from European funds. Diverse urban development, infrastructure and tourism projects have been supported by the EU Cohesion Fund, and local farming and fishing communities rely heavily on European CAP subsidies. The Erasmus+ coordinator of the JAG, OstR Burkhard Remppis, will be in charge of the project. He is being backed up by another colleague, StR Jana Kadelke. In addition, diverse colleagues from the school’s Politics, History, Geography, Arts and Drama departments will become involved in the project. The project will heavily rely on their expertise in teaching the history and political structure of the EU and animating students to express their ideas through visual arts and drama at LTTA meetings.
