Iin lukio has been working together with Baktáy Erwin Gimnázium for six years. The main goal for this work has been to educate the students of both schools for international relationships and to get to know the cultures of Finland and Hungary. The main topic up till this year has been the UNESCO’s World Heritage program and the local history of Ii and Budapest area. (for more information: http://www.iiseutu.fi/ii_kunta/lukio

In the next two years from August 2001 onwards we are going to work on tolerance. Students participating in the project will study the refugee policy of both countries and how refugees and other national minorities live in Ii and Dunaharaszti and what kind of relations they have with local people.

Students will, for example, study how minorities get education for their children and themselves. The focus will especially be on problems concerning their language, and what kind of work they can get in a foreign country.

During the project we will try to work together with local Refugee Centres and schools which provide teaching in minority languages. We will try to get in contact with refugees and national minorities living in Ii and Dunaharaszti.

2001
September forming of new student groups in both schools.

October accepting and planning the working schedule in both schools

November organising the work and finding the concrete way to work (via e-mail)

December Students working on the topic and gathering information about what is going on in Hungary and in Finland (via e-mail)

2002
January …continuing work…

February …continuing work and preparing the visit of Hungarian students to Ii

March The visit of Hungarian students and teachers to Ii, during the visit exchanging experiences and the material gathered in Hungary and in Ii, visits to the Refugee Centre

April working on the material which will be been gathered during the visit

May …continuing work, preparing an exhibition on the topic

September The same student group continues the work during the autumn, in September a new start after the summer.

October organising visits from Refugee Centre and national minorities to the school (a lesson, maybe music, theatre…)

November …continuing work…

December …continuing work…Finding out what kind of refugee policy Finland and Hungary actually have (Interviews, newspapers etc.), (e-mail/Internet)

2003
January …continuing work…

February …continuing work…

March preparing the visit of Finnish students to Hungary

April …continuing work…

May the visit of Finnish students to Hungary, a closing seminar of the project

A report of the project, containing information about the refugee policy in both countries, exhibitions in both schools, a report on the Internet, young adults who think internationally and can understand other cultures and tolerate people coming from a different culture

Schools, School Administration, the EU, municipalities, students

Teijo Liedes and Margit Kemiläinen, Iin lukio

Kovacs István and Marianna Bucskó, Baktay Ervin Gimnázium