BoMaRoBa Erasmus Project

Project Title

BoMaRoBa

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The BoMaRoBa project (Bonn, Marcq, Rome, Barcelona) involves four partners devoted to their European identity, sharing common values they actively uphold locally.
– The fight against discrimination in school in terms of disability and social difficulties, promoting the principle of fairness and prevent early school leaving especially for the most vulnerable.
– Citizenship, acting together in a democratic framework, sharing the notions of solidarity and sustainable development as much on a personal level as on a global scale.

This project arose from a common desire to promote the universal need to live together and act as one so that our actions reach an increased number of people and enable us to go further and stronger reinforcing our ties.

This project needs financial support even though each partner can apply for grants or subventions. It will not emerge without the support and the unifying essence of the European Union ensuring that no pupil will be left behind because of financial reasons.
This a two-year project built around gatherings and exchanges :

(1) Over this two-year period, each partner will set up a gathering around a key theme ( Sustainable development in Spain, the fight against school inequalities and early school leaving in Germany, Equity in school and inclusion of disabled pupils in Italy, and European citizenship in France). These short gatherings will bring together two adults and two pupils representing each partner to discuss European actions, that have been or will be conducted within this project, and the contributions of each partner to implement them. These will take place or resume during exchanges between the partners including a five-day period of scheduled activities. Gatherings are financed by the Management and Implementation budget.

(2 )The exchange groups will be composed of 15 pupils. The exchange relies on the project financial support and will be completed according to the possibilities of co-financing and grants from the partners, and even of sponsorship and contribution from the participating families.
Schedule : Exchanges between Spain, Italy and Germany will take place within two years and students will be selected according to their implication or their specific profile regarding the project’s priorities and will sometimes require linguistic training.
In France, exchanges will take place every year with each of the partners, in order to keep an ongoing dynamic and also to enable several communities to meet and to develop the multicultural aspect of the project thanks to hosting several groups in France simultaneously and to joint trips to the partners’ countries.
So, every year, each of the partners will benefit from an exchange period (a group in France and one in a partner’s country) and a hosting period (a french group and a group from the third partner).

Activities :
Exchanges consist of time spent in families to achieve total language immersion. They also include learning activities in class aiming at making participants feel more comfortable with longer periods of mobilities and encouraging them at extending their mobilities with international programs or conventions between partners.
The exchanges include various activities in relation to the four chosen themes, one with an interdisciplinary aim (inclusion and disability). Hosting or aWending partners will carefully select the participants who will tackle this theme along with the three others.
One of these activities will focus mainly on the theme chosen by each partner country. Each theme will be coupled with an in-depth activity which will be carried out by the receiving organisation, along with learning activities for all the partners, therefore ensuring the equal treatment of each priority by all the participants.

Communication:
Community members rely on the e-twinning platforms as well as on regular mobility reports.
These communication platforms will help building, maintaining and strengthening the bonds of friendship which are at the core of this project.

To conclude, we started developing and drafting this project in early 2019, bearing in mind the affinities of each partner, their skills, and the overall context in which this project is established.
The partners and the headteachers have already met and agreed on the fundamentals of this application, which is, in our opinion, a solid, ambitious yet realistic project, since it has proven highly feasible and relevant. Our experience is also the cornerstone of this project.
Finally, the ties formed between the community members as well as the existing solidarity allow us to ensure the success of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93240 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE DU LAZARO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSTITUT JOAN MIRO
• Bertolt-Brecht-Gesamtschule
• Istituto Comprensivo “Sinopoli Ferrini”