Projekt-Updates

‘’Through education we build the foundations of society, the problem is that the foundations of the Dutch education system as well as the European education system are, at large, incomplete’’. This is how Karim Amghar opened his online workshop on interactive and creative teaching methods on Monday 29th of November 2021. In a two-hour session, […]

We are happy to announce that we received 34 submissions from school students across Europe who participated in the TIES student challenge and produced very interesting audio-visual collage about (i) what makes them feel at home when going for a walk around their neighborhood and (ii) the journey of an important object in their everyday […]

After half a year of intense project work, during which we started establishing a network of engaged secondary school teachers across Europe, we thought it was time for everyone to meet up. Because of COVID, this happened later than initially planned, and online, but on 19 April, TIES team members finally met up with 11 […]

In February, we had the opportunity to test our first teaching module, Drivers of Migration, with a group of secondary school students in Amersfoort, near Utrecht. We were very excited to run a pilot of our first teaching module as we needed feedback from students and teachers to improve the teaching module and to evaluate […]

Ready for a challenge? Hast du genug davon, zu Hause zu sitzen ohne Freunde treffen zu können, keine neuen Leute kennenzulernen, nicht reisen zu können und keine neuen Aktivitäten entdecken zu können? Hast du Lust, deine alltägliche Umgebung auf eine ganz neue Art und Weise zu entdecken? Dann nimm an der TIES Student Challenge teil! […]

Where does the migration topic appear in European classrooms? What are teachers’ experiences with teaching migration? And what can TIES do to assist teachers in creating exciting learning experiences about migration? Over the past months, we have conducted many interviews with high-school teachers from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK to find answers to […]

The TIES project started in September 2020 just before the second Covid-19 wave hit Europe. The pandemic has not only altered our work on the project but is also changing the ways in which we do and think about teaching more broadly. The current measures have strongly affected our original project plans: many schools have […]