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The teachers of our school are engaged with the improvement of their teaching and communicative abilities, in order to assure the pupils the best conditions for learning and socializing with others. Teachers, headmaster and all the staff are interested in new ways of teaching and making a more modern school. For this reason, our school promotes different kinds of projects. Among the various subjects taught, the most relevant for this project are: political economy, law, English language, Spanish language and business. We are specialised in IT and our teachers' skills cover a variety of fields: information science, journalism, psychology applied to education, knowledge of Engish, Spanish, French and German. Allm these skills have been playing a pivotal role in the success of the projects we have been taking part in. Our students have been able to produce an online multilingual dictionary associated with an e-book for the on-going projects SEEDS and Young Media Literates of Europe. For the latter we are printing a newspaper to be publishe online and on paper thanks to the great cooperation of our colleagues who work as web designers. When we take part in an Erasmus project all the schooll staff is involved and each of our teachers is ready to share their knowedge and make his own skills avaible for the project. that's why we are ready to take part in your projects, especially in the one about migration as the city where our school is located, Taranto, is renowned for its naval station whose ships have been dealing with the picking up of migrants from the Libyan sea in the last years. Upon their arrival at the port of Taranto, migrants are divided into groups according to their nationality, in order to receive differential legal information; thus, differentiating between ‘economic migrants’ and (potential) ‘asylum seekers. Asylum seekers have access to the reception area of the hotspot, which functions as an accommodation facility, and they can exit the facility during the day. At a later stage, they are transferred to first reception centres to initiate their asylum procedure. While those considered ‘in clear need of protection’, on the basis of their nationality, are provided with services of first aid and reception, the hotspot of Taranto becomes a path to ‘illegality’ for those who do not fit that ambiguous and undefined category. In fact, those classified as ‘economic migrants’ are treated as a public order issue: thus, they usually receive an expulsion decree, with the order to leave the national territory within 7 days. The migration issue is part of our lives as some of our students are boat migrants and have started a new life thanks to sports clubs and teachers they have met. Our students know the meaning of welcoming and are confronted to the effects of European policies on people's lives. we would be really glad to give our contribution to the dissemnation of the welcoming culture by participating in your projects.