"MIKS" project completes its second project phase

Within the framework of the event held under Covid-19 safety standards in Vienna on 17 September 2020, the results so far were discussed and defined as a starting point for further objectification and de-emotionalisation of the cross-cutting issue of migration. Under the title "Objectivity, Responsibility, Vision: Three years of migration communication – taking stock", project leaders Barbara Salcher (ICMPD), Markus Schratter (Federal Ministry of the Interior) and Karl Zarhuber (University of Education of Lower Austria) gave a review of what has been achieved so far. The project "Migration.Communication.Schools" included theatre plays for primary and middle schools and the policy simulation game GOVERNING.AUSTRIA TOGETHER for high schools, has reached more than 30,000 pupils and teachers so far. The aim of these project activities is to familiarise children and young people with the topic of migration and its effects in an age-appropriate manner on the basis of the report of the Migration Council. 

Due to the Covid-19 situation, no school events have been held since the beginning of March 2020. This opened up the opportunity to work intensively on the digitisation of the offerings. The importance of digitisation of project activities was highlighted in a panel discussion during the event. Lukas Gehrke, Deputy Director General of the ICMPD, Peter Webinger, Head of Section V (Alien Affairs) at the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Professor Erwin Rauscher, Dean of the University of Education of Lower Austria, discussed the challenges of globalised migration and the associated need for objective communication as well as praised the initiative as a model for an objective discourse on migration.