This project, which was first realized at a school in Dresden, Germany, deals with strangeness and prejudices in the pupils’ everyday life. Our motivation is to do something against the fear and the prejudices towards strange people - not only foreigners from other countries, but also strangers in our everyday life. And we want to be a small contribution to the pupils’ development of their social competence as we think a lack of this competence leads to intolerance, discrimination and racism. Strangers and unknown social groups (e.g. disabled people, foreigners, homosexuals…) are easy targets for prejudices, fear and anger. 

With our project, we want to give the pupils the opportunity to find a way to get in contact with these groups and to gain an impression of how they really are. After having met the “strange” groups, the pupils should reflect their prejudices they actively figured out before and weather they were justified. It also should allow the pupils the experience that it often is much easier to get to know the strangers than they think and that this can be great as well. .