Civilians in the wars, XXe-XXIe centuries. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Civilians in the wars, XXe-XXIe centuries.

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Title of the project : Civilians in the wars, 20th- 21thcenturies
Partners : France, Romania, Germany
Context school/area : REP listed (priority schools network)
« Priority surburbans in the politics of the city » listed
« Educational city » listed

Most of our students come from a disadvantaged or immigration background and have difficulties at school, struggle to have access to culture and we daily fight against communitarianism.

ROMANIA :
Rural secondary school with an elementary school (250 pupils) with disadvantaged backgrounds. 10% of the pupils come from benefits recipient families. Many of the pupils are brought up by their grandparents because their parents have to work abroad. Lots of parents are seasonal workers in agriculture.

GERMANY :
1300-student-secondary-high school. A lot of the students come from a turkish background and lately from Syria. Many families live below the poverty line.

Common objectives for the 3 partners :

*Social and educational value of European cultural heritage : Since most of our students have an immigration background, they will become aware that living in France, in Germany or in Romania also means being European . We want to help them feel this other citizenship and divert those who are tempted by communitarianism.

*Access for disadvantaged. Early school leaving/combating failure in education : We want to encourage the students tempted by an early school leaving to be involved in the building of this project. We want to open them up to new perspectives of traveling and working throughout Europe.

*Promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning : students will understand the necessity to speak a foreign language during this project.

*Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong) learning : Students will meet elderly people and they will study testimonies of their lives during the WWII. We aim that our students respect the elders.

Our common will also aims to develop students’self confidence, their self-reliance, and to run new ambitious projects in the future.

Number and profile of the participants :
95 students (13 to 15 years old) + 10 chaperones over the 2 years.
The teachers involved in the project are history/geography teachers, French and English teachers.
The students will be chosen to protect them against early school leaving and to become self-confident.

Description of the activities and the expected results :
* Promoting the EU value and fighting against early school leaving/combating failure in education : An exhibition will be created all along the exchanges, made of children and adults testimonies about what Europe represents for them. It aims to highlight the European value. This exhibition will be prepared before the mobility by all the students then it will be completed during the mobility. It will be displayed to the other students and teachers of the schools and also to the parents during the European Days/Erasmus days.
– Students will have to shoot short videos about the European value.

-Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong) learning and promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning: Playful and interactive activities will be suggested to be done such as a game about Europe and its value. All these lessons and activities will be shared on an digital platform for sharing. Thus all the participants will be able to access to these working resources and work together.

Methodology :
– During the different mobilities meetings will be scheduled. Teachers will draw up a report of the actions done and will focus on the activities to be done. A videoconference will be planned.
– An interim assessment will be organised by the French partner along with the other partners and the Orléans-Tours-DAREIC by sharing documents on Google Drive and Etwinning.
– Each partner will organise their own mobilities. The French partner will coordonate all the other partners and will centralise the information. It will deal with the Etwinning platform in close collaboration with its partners.
– Each mobility will be evaluated thanks to final assessment tasks.
– To promote the project, each partner will feed its school blog with articles and documents (films, photographies etc).
– Participation to the Erasmus days

long term potential benefits :
– giving an international dimension to our schools
– giving opportunities to our students to : meet other cultures, discover the past in order to better understand the present, deal with European values in depth, discover other school systems, get rid of prejudice, communicate in English, forge bonds with people from other countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98695 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Alain Fournier & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Herderschule Giessen
• Scoala Gimnaziala Romanu Braila