1914-2014 Il y a 100 ans, la Grande Guerre : regards croisés d’élèves en l’Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

1914-2014 Il y a 100 ans, la Grande Guerre : regards croisés d’élèves en l’Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Iniated in March 2014, the project started with a transnational meeting in Romania in October and a first trip to France in November 2014 for the first commemoration of the end of the war. Unfortunately, the budgets arrived very late in the institutions, (end of October) which changed the initial schedule of the project.
The first trip was to Italy and then in France.

During the first trip, some minor problems appeared concerning the accommodation of the delegations in host families but also on the exceeding of the daily budget (hotel costs, meals, transportations …). The principal of the college, coordinator moved urgently to Sicily to organize a framing meeting. The rules for hosting mobility have been redefined and have allowed all the others events to run smoothly. We realized that the form was incomplete because the 2 days of transport had not been budgeted and therefore not that they had not been included nor financed in the global envelope.

A digital workspace has been set up on the wikispace platform to promote exchanges, but its ergonomics are not easy enough to allow it to play its full role. Skype and the phone were often used for exchanges between the partners and the coordinator. Only two partners discovered the European projects (Germany and England) for the others and it was a big advantage, the experience gained to favor the project.

The biggest problem for the project was the sidelining of the Turkish partner, teacher of English. Indeed, after the attempted coup, we did not hear from this teacher and the partner was not present during the last 2 tripe. She resumed contact in May 2017 to finalize the project. This absence of Turkey also had the effect of canceling the last planned event in Samsun, as many partner countries refused to go to Turkey with the political risks and uncertainties that prevailed in the Turkish partner school. In a working meeting we decided to make the last mobility in a voluntary country, Poland.

The project has been labeled by the “centenary mission”, the logo has been affixed to all official documents.

For each partner the work was organized in 3 parts:
• Collective work over 3 years:

– An exhibition on « the school, the city and the region before during and after the war ». This work resulted in work in each partner school and a digital book.

– A “large timeline” composed of 8 different panels made by each school.

• Mandatory work for each trip according to the theme chosen by the host country (Art, cooking, propaganda, technological advances, celebrities, uniforms in war)

• A work of each partner according to the programs, ideas of the context of the countries.

All the trips were successful, on the organization and all the exchanges.
The choice of accommodating students and even teachers in host families has resulted in savings on accommodation and meals. This has also improved cultural and linguistic exchanges between the students of the project.

During the event in France, the week was very rich in partnerships especially with the city of Antibes which put at our disposal many teachers, artists and workshops of the city. The town archives but also the associations of war resistance and veterans participated in the meetings and workshops. The commemoration of November 11th 2015 was a great success with the presence of the 8 foreign delegations to the parade as well as the participation of the choir in front of the authorities. This week was the starting point for the excellent relations with the City Council.

Over the 3 years of many activities, outings were carried out within the framework of the Erasmus project, without it being planned initially. With the help of the department, a short film was designed by the students and the Art teacher. This film was screened at Anthéa Hall, lent for the occasion by the town hall. Many guests, including the Academy Inspector were able to admire this 7-minute animated film, filmed mounted at Fersen College. The quality of the film was even rewarded with a prize at the Hyères Short Film Festival and selected at an international festival.

Finally, this project was an opportunity to communicate to the outside, to put set up tools improving communication. The material resources obtained as part of the project and its implementation have facilitated the reception of ten people during the various events and project valorisation (outdoor displays, events, inauguration of the “large timeline”, labeling, award, European day, clothing and promotional items …)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 265195,46 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Fersen & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Montenegro
• Mosslands School
• Liceul Charles Laugier
• Schiller-Realschule
• I. C. CAMPOFELICE DI ROCCELLA E COLLESANO
• Powiatowy Zespol Szkol w Chojnowie
• Fatih Temiz Ilkokulu