Bilateral project Felix Le Dantec – Domingos Rebelo Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bilateral project Felix Le Dantec – Domingos Rebelo

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Natural sciences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

For many years now, the European Section of Le Dantec high school has been organizing field trips to British national parks in the aim of studying the environmental impact of tourism on sensitive and protected areas.
The educational team is made up of four teachers whose areas of expertise are English, geology/biology and physics (CLIL).
Since 2013, the field trips have resulted in video clips or reports in English filmed by I-pads and not only internally broadcast in the high school but also in other European secondary schools via a Web-TV.
Since 2016, the 16-year-old students majoring in science have been given the opportunity to present their “TPE” (tutored personal projects) in English. This work is part of the Baccalaureate examination.

In October 2016, we decided to go to the Azores. One of the teachers from Felix Le Dantec high school made contact with a teacher from Domingos Rebelo high school in Ponta Delgada. This first experience permitted to initiate genuine cooperation between the French and Portuguese students who had to make video reports about the environmental issues encountered during our field outings.

This successful experience was multidimensional:
European collaboration between the two foreign teams showed the neccessity of using English as lingua franca.
During our stay, many students of both nationalities improved their English skills and showed greater confidence in speaking in front of a camera.
French and Azorean students as well as teachers, forged ties of friendship.
The investigated environmental issues fall within the French and Portuguese curriculums and cannot but help enrich studies.
The confrontation of the various scientific approaches and the making of scenarios were fruitful. In the same way, the sharing of different teaching methods gave rise to innovative practices.

We now feel prepared to further develop and formalize this exchange within the framework of ERASMUS+.

We need the support of ERASMUS+ for several reasons:
Give a more European nature to the projects of Le Dantec European Section in Lannion and Domingos Rebelo high school in Ponta Delgada.
Build relationships between the Azores and Brittany, two peripheral regions in Europe.
Financially support the project to enable all motivated students – regardless of their social and economic backgrounds – to take part.
Develop the dynamism in openness within Europe with a new partnership between two educational institutions.
Develop cooperation among European teachers having different teaching and learning pedagogies.
Disseminate our experience with the European teaching staff and hoping, in return, to receive feedback to allow us to improve ourselves and make our motto more meaningful : “Discover, Learn, Communicate, Enjoy” (appearing on our logo, see attached file).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 36979,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Félix Le Dantec & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Domingos Rebelo