The World is My Oyster Erasmus Project

Project Title

The World is My Oyster

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our Erasmus+ project entitled “The World Is My Oyster” has enabled students from five partner schools in France, Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom to better anticipate what their future career or job could be in their own country or elsewhere in Europe. Indeed, too often they did not see the connection between their studies and the world of work. With our project, we tried to make them create this connection and develop key competences but also other skills. Indeed, through three mobilities instead of five originally planned (two were cancelled because of Covid-19) and through all the preparatory or virtual activities in class, they have developed their digital and linguistic skills and their collaborative abilities.

The five parts of the project initially planned have been respected even if the two last parts were transformed into virtual activities as physical mobilities were not possible.
Thus, PART 1 entitled ‘A European project, what for?’ with the mobility to Strasbourg in France, has allowed our students to see from the beginning the setting of the project, that is to say Europe and to realise the European dimension of the project. Discovering the common history of the European partners and the need to maintain peace after the 2nd World War, was an important aspect.
With PART 2 ‘Who am I?’ and the mobility to A Coruña in Spain, they have understood that they needed to know themselves before being able to decide on a career or a job. Being able to describe oneself in a self-portrait was a key moment of that part.
PART 3 ‘Jobs in my country and jobs in Europe’ and the mobility to Volos in Greece, made our students look at all kinds of jobs, visiting factories, enjoying experiences where they discovered all the aspects of a job.
PART 4 ‘How can I get a job?’ was only developed virtually as the mobility to the United Kingdom couldn’t take place as it was planned in March 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemics. However, our students learnt how to create a video CV and they voted for the best ones in each partner school on the Twinspace.
Even if we extended the project till August 2021, in PART 5 ‘How can I make myself more employable?’,the mobility to France could not take place either as in the spring 2021, trips abroad were still impossible and all the activities were virtual activities on the Twinspace. Our students worked in a collaborative way and, through different examples, understood the importance of volunteer work.

The productions made by the students will certainly help younger ones to better introduce themselves in a video CV for instance or be more confident when it comes to speaking in public or even give them the idea to join a volunteer organisation or a NGO ! Thanks to the dissemination meetings in the different schools but also thanks to the articles in the local newspapers or on the social networks, we hope this project will inspire other people and mainly students to show them that the World is Their Oyster !

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/60303/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122935 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Calmette et Guérin & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Music School of Volos
• Ecole François Rabelais
• Santo Domingo
• Heathfield School