Accreditation for the UEG!

Taking part in the EU accreditation programme, our school is now ready for EU-funded activities. We have conceived six goals for mobilities pupils and teachers can carry out exchanges, projects with partner schools, teaching and jobshadowing visits at European schools, and thematic and language classes.

With these, we intend to

  • focus on humanistic principles and values to tackle political, cultural, ecological, and social conflicts.
  • expand foreign language teaching to include stronger real-life, thematic, and practical relevance, as well as interaction with native speakers to strengthen democracy, sustainability education, and intercultural exchange.
  • integrate practical aspects of sustainability and democratic education into geography and sports lessons as well as into extracurricular activities.
  • design computer science lessons and expand media literacy through interdisciplinarity and the inclusion of democratic education in cooperation with schools with a high degree of digitisation.
  • reflect on inclusion activities for pupils with learning disadvantages and or migratory backgrounds, and improve and expand options for action by comparing inclusion measures at European schools
  • promote language acquisition, study preparation and reflection on didactic actions in the German-Dutch border region.

With these goals in mind, we are going to organise international mobilities for pupils and teachers to our partner schools and public and private institutions to achieve these goals. On this page, we are going to report on all these activities and the progress being made.

The Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium in Europe

For almost 20 years, the UEG has been participating in various international projects and exchanges. This website will help you find out what we have been doing and what we are about to do.

This is still a construction site,

but progress is being made. We have categorised our activities and history, which are being filled with more information step by step.

Impressum / site notice

International exchanges at the UEG

Countries and exchange partners:

France: Lycée Aristide Briand in Evreux, Lycée Louis Armand in Eaubonne
The Netherlands: Christelijk Gymnasium Beyers Naudé in Leeuwarden
Portugal: Agrupamento de Escolas D. João II in Caldas da Rainha
United Kingdom: Redland Green Secondary School in Bristol (2014-2015)
USA: Shawnee Heights High School Topeka
China: Ye Qianyu Junior Middle School in Tonglu (2007-2025)

Our project partners – past and present

Arts as a meta-language to build a common European home
Brønnøysund barne- og ungdomsskol, Brønnøysund, Norway
Lipsi, Greece
Copenhagen, Denmark
Pajuris, Lithuania
A sustainable life cycle of clothing
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Suchy Las, Poland
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Winsen/Luhe, Germany
Euronited pupils
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Suchy Las, Poland
Noto, Italy
Small businesses in European regions – step by step
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Suchy Las, Poland
Noto, Italy
European citizenship – cultural, historical, economic, lingual, and political dimensions
Oradea, Romania
Thessaloniki, Greece
Noto, Italy
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Almería, Spain
Short project on living sustainably
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Thessaloniki, Greece

Our Europe club (Europa-AG am UEG)

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Here, you can explore our activities on international and social issues. Our current topic is „Courage in Europe“. Club members will investigate areas in which civil courage is asked for. They are working on the following:

  • The history of the European Union (to give a general understanding of the European idea on which our common societal and individual values are based)
  • Anti-war songs
  • Violence based on sexuality
  • Sexual assaults in public, stalking
  • Football derbies in Europe
  • Victim blaming

Our club took part in the certification of the UEG as a „School without Racism – School of Courage“, a network of 4,000 schools committed to overcoming discrimination and violence, and active participation of the school community in these matters. Further information on https://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org/.

Sexual assaults in public, stalking

This topic is meant to reveal the omnipresence of sexual assaults on women in public. Its psychological impact on victims is often downplayed or marginalised, which e.g. can be evidenced in the lyrics of popular songs. Six of them have been investigated in our club.

Public discussion on this issue of the past fifty years can be followed on a timeline with a QR code for further information.

The UEG in Europe

After our last short-term project on sustainabilty together with the Arsakeio Gymnasium Thessaloniki in Greece and the Agrupamento de Escolas D. João II in Caldas da Rainha in Portugal, we are now striving to establish new partnerships in the framework of our Erasmus+ accreditation proposal, which has now been approved! We are planning our next steps organising our activities for pupils taking part in exchange programmes and project with our partners, as well as programmes for teachers taking part in international classes on didactic sand paedagogics.

Within this accreditation programme funded by the EU, we would like to discuss ways to improve inclusion, find inspiration for alternative teaching methods in mathematics, get new perspectives on our mutual humanistic European legacy to bolster democracy and to counter anti-European tendencies, and to focus on sustainable approaches to agriculture and sports. Further information can be found in the category EU accreditation.

In the meantime, we have joined an NLQ consortium which promotes networking among European schools by organising job-shadowing activities at European schools. These visits are meant to get insight into how other countries tackle educational challenges posed by current developments.

These visits are being organised and funded by the NLQ and last a week.