European heritage, flax, root and road Erasmus Project

Project Title

European heritage, flax, root and road

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 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

This project brings together six organizations from three countries (France, Poland and Portugal). It includes both school partners (Lycée Collège Jean XXIII in Quintin, Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Wladyslawa Broniewskiego in Paslek, Agrupamento de Escolas Poeta António Aleixo in Portimao), associative partners (Franco-Polish Association Côtes d’Armor Warmie and Mazuria, Mémoire en Demeure) and the Folk Architekture Museum ethnographic Park in Olsztynek (Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego – Park Etnograficzny).

This project is a continuation of an experience lived the previous year in Quintin. The pupils of the General and Professional Adapted Education (EGPA) have carried out school learning in interdisciplinarity within the framework of a cultural and heritage approach on the theme of flax. The richness of this heritage, both in Quintin’s history and in its economy, has led to an interest in the related international relations and in the different approaches in European countries. The project is also part of a bilateral cooperation action instituted by agreements between the Department of Côtes d’Armor in France and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. The partnership with the Olsztynek open-air museum and the Mémoire en Demeure association completes the cultural opening. The partnership with the establishment of Portimao will also make it easier to work on the structuring of the educational course proposed to the students of their establishment, adapted and modular. This route can be enriched by creative actions around the flax crafts and other areas that may be linked (cork, wicker, pottery).

Our aim is to enable partner organizations in the three territories to work in a network, to increase their capacity to operate at transnational level and to share and compare ideas, practices and working methods. The creation of skills badges will be a tool for recognizing their careers. We want to facilitate school learning and avoid early school dropout by offering participants an interdisciplinary discovery through local heritage. This will enrich a school training path towards the discovery of new professions that are little present in the imagination of young people.

Our goal is also to bring students closer to the art, crafts and cultural heritage that surround them. By highlighting this rural heritage, the founder of their environment, we want to convey this curiosity to them. The related objective is to encourage exchanges between countries on heritage enhancement practices and their importance in future professional learning.

The project is aimed at 80 students aged 12-13 (born in 2008 – 2009). Many of them do not have the economic or cultural opportunity to meet other young Europeans. Some of them also have difficulties in approaching languages. We are betting on a multicultural encounter to encourage them to develop both their social and linguistic skills. The other actors in this project are secondary school teachers (history, geography, mathematics, science, librarians), teachers specializing in educational difficulties, cultural leaders and mediators.

The exchange language will be English for all partners with occasional learning of the languages of each country.

During the project, artisanal and artistic creation will be the main medium to open up the educational and pre-professional paths of young people. This will result, over the course of the project, to an exhibition of the progress made and the works created in each establishment, to the production of a game and to the creation by each pupil of a travel mementos scrapbook. This document will form part of a personal and European portfolio, which will enable them to present the skills they have acquired.

The methodology employed initiates the adoption of new pedagogical practices allowing the development of transversal competences between school subjects and practical learning to meet the specific needs of students. We will have to take into account, as the project progresses, the differences in learning related to geographical, cultural and socio-economic disparities.

In the long term, we hope to make young people aware of the interactions between the existing heritages to enable them to build sustainable international relations and to understand through actions the reality of European citizenship. We hope to open bridges for them to prepare a better career orientation and avoid the dropping out of school. This project will make it possible to develop new partnerships for organizations such as ours, located in rural areas, but capable of working in a European perspective.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 262185 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC de QUINTIN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego – Park Etnograficzny
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Wladyslawa Broniewskiego
• Mémoire en demeure
• Association franco-polonaise Côtes d’Armor Warmie Mazurie
• Agrupamento de Escolas Poeta António Aleixo