The french”Scandibérique”along the famous transeuropean bikeway Eurovelo3 Erasmus Project

Project Title

The french”Scandibérique”along the famous transeuropean bikeway Eurovelo3

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The french”Scandibérique”along the famous transeuropean bikeway Eurovelo3
The « Scandibérique » from Northern to sourthern Europe through the French département « la Vienne » (mid-west France)

EuroVelo 3

The main goal of our project is to go biking on 3 different parts of the bike path EuroVelo 3 : one in Sweden, one in France and one in Spain. In the meantime we also aim at discovering the cultural and environmental context of each territory. This project will also be the means for the pupils to take up a big challenge.

Along the journey the pupils will develop educational skills, transversal skills and psychosocial skills. The « Scandibérique » challenge will be met by pupils as long as they behave and adopt a positive attitude on the road as well as if they share with their penpals by talking and discovering their respective cultures and environments.

The main psychosocial skills we aim at are :

* Being responsible on the road (wearing the helmet, the yellow safety vest, respecting the traffic regulations…) : to educate to road safety and to adopt an appropriate behaviour on the road.

* Being self-sufficient and living within a group (cooperate)

* Being supportive with classmates in difficulty (helping with the backpacks, changing tubes…), packing the bags for the day to come (water, snacks, waterproof suits, pens, notebooks, spare tubes…)

* Dealing with physical effort : developing endurance and team spirit ; skills that pupils will be able to later use in their schoolwork or daily life.

* Being able to step out of one’s comfort zone and learning :

-by communicating in English/French/Spanish with one’s penpal and exchanging with the other ones.

-by discovering a territory and another culture and allowing the other to discover one’s own culture.

* Developing self-esteem and self-confidence : the pupils will take this project as a challenge which will allow them to develop their ownself-worth at the end of the challenge.

* Striving against sedentarity by developing the satisfaction of effort and the desire to surpass by bike.

We plan three meetings : one in Sweden, one in France and one in Spain. Each partner will participate in the programme organized by the host country. Each host country will prepare the route on its part of EuroVelo 3. Each teacher in his own subject will prepare and work on different parts of the school programme in class with the pupils (cartography, physical training, studying of the environmental issues, translations and activities in target languages). Some virtual exchanges are planned via eTwinning, videoconferencing, emails… so that the penpals can get acquainted and start a cooperative work before the real meetings.

Thus, one groups of 25 French pupils, their families and teachers will welcome their Spanish penpals in April 2020. Another group of 25 French pupils, their families and teachers will welcome their Swedish penpals in May 2020. Both French and Swedish or French and Spanish penpals will ride on a part of the EuroVelo 3 in Vienne (French department). The programme will include cultural and historical visits of Châtellerault (a town in Northern Vienne), the discovery of « la vallée de la Vienne » on the Vienne riverside and sport events linked to the environment of the site « Lathus Saint Rémy » in southern Vienne. The penpals will also spend some time in French families.

In 2021 the French pupils will be able to discover their penpal’s country (either Sweden or Spain). They will cycle together on the Swedish/ Spainish part of the EuroVelo 3.

In Spain they will visit Pamplona and its surroundings on the Pilgrims route down to Los Arcos. The pupils will also spend some time in the Spanish families.

In Sweden they will visit Stenungsund and the surrounding shoreline, they will also discover fishing villages by the Swedish west coast, they will visit Gothenburg and also stay in Swedish families.

Each part of the EuroVelo 3 will be approximately 150 km long, which constitutes the big challenge both for students and teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE MAURICE BEDEL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Cooperativa de Enseñanza San Cernin
• Stora Hogaskolan