Portugal
participants
The goals of this activity were, first, to promote the Erasmus+ and other mobility programs to high school students; second, to share the culture and mobility experiences from international students with those high school students; third, to promote volunteering, active citizenship and reflections on diversity, inclusion and discrimination through a series of previously thought-out activities in which ESNers, international students and high schools students participated.
This activity lasted an entire morning, as ESN volunteers and International Students moved from class to class. In each class, they would share their countries' history and culture and their mobility experience in Portugal. ESN volunteers also shared their mobility experience abroad with the young students, who asked questions about culture, the Erasmus+ program, and moving abroad to the volunteers and to the participants.
Erasmus in Schools had a tremendous positive impact on everyone. The high school students appreciated not only the testimony from the international students, but the opportunity to ask questions directly to people from different countries and different cultures. For the international students, both appreciated being able to share their experiences with young students and inspiring them to apply to a mobility program.
