Vibrate for commitment, Immerse in a common culture, Know other Europeans, Inform yourselves about a the worl issues , Nourish your knowledge, Go ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Vibrate for commitment, Immerse in a common culture, Know other Europeans, Inform yourselves about a the worl issues , Nourish your knowledge, Go !

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Energy and resources; Regional dimension and cooperation

Project Summary

Through its history, the Normandy region is closely linked to Norway. Cultural and educational cooperations between Vestland and Normandy are numerous. At the same time, Norman and Norwegian students are in fact quite unfamiliar with their common history, which is often reduced to the Viking identity and the stereotypes that go wtih this abstract notion.

The Lycée Fresnel in Caen, France, welcomes Norwegian students in a one-year immersion program every school year. It is in this context that Norwegian and French teams were able to meet and decide on an Erasmus + project that would allow Norwegian and French students to get to know their common roots through the discovery of their heritage but also to reflect together on the current issues that the two régions face, and more precisely the environmental challenges linked to the sea.

The two schools agreed on the following objectives:
– To develop the feeling of belonging to the same European community through the discovery of a common heritage and by going beyond the current representations and stereotypes of the Viking identity.
– To raise awareness of environmental management policies among students, focusing on the common links of the Norman and Norwegian population with the sea.
– To develop active and responsible citizenship among students by giving them both the intellectual tools to understand environmental issues related to the sea and the space and the means to exercise their citizenship in a concrete way at their level.

The discovery of the common heritage will be carried out through research activities and exchanges between students on the Etwinning platform and will concern history, geography, economy, languages, arts and literature. The mobilities will be a time of discovery of each person’s heritage organised by the students themselves who will be ambassadors for their region. A digital exhibition “Viking Identities” will highlight the work of the students on this theme.
Raising the awareness of students to the common environmental problem of the exploitation of the seas will be done through reports and interviews of actors from both territories (local elected officials, environmental protection associations) which will be prepared beforehand on the project’s Twinspace in Franco-Norwegian teams and carried out during the mobilities.
In the last phase of the project, the pupils will develop an information and awareness- raising campaign on the environmental issues related to the sea that they will implement among their school classmates and in local primary schools. The implementation will be carried out by Franco-Norwegian teams on the ground in France and Norway.

At the end of the project, French and Norwegian students will be able to talk about their common origins, what differentiates them and what brings them together. They will also have created bonds of friendship that can be perpetuated through the creation of the Franco-Norwegian association of students from Caen and Bergen. They will thus contribute at their own level to the cooperation between Vestland and Normandy. The work carried out over two years on common environmental issues will enable the students to acquire scientific knowledge on a fundamental issue for their future. They will be able to take part in the debates by having the necessary intellectual tools to make their point of view heard.
The project activities that will have placed the students in a position of actor, that will have enabled them to take responsibility and to speak in public before elected officials, will contribute to the construction of their citizenship.

The aim here is for students to build a culture of sharing, collaborative work and commitment that will serve them in their future life as students but also in their life as citizens. For the two institutions involved in the project, the impacts will be numerous:
The innovative approach of effectively putting students at the centre of activities, with more space for exercising citizenship and taking initiatives than usual, will lead to new practices within the schools that will help students to become more empowered and more involved in the debates on tomorrow’s world.
The cooperation between the two schools will be perpetuated by the creation of the Franco-Norwegian high school association and will be enriched by new projects.
Thanks to this project, the two high schools will also be able to consider further developing their fundamental role in education for sustainable development in conjunction with all the stakeholders in the territories and in new Erasmus + projects with new european partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65632 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYC GEN TECHNOLOGIQUE AUGUSTIN FRESNEL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Amalie Skram videregående skole