EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS’ JOINT OLYMPICS for YOUTH Erasmus Project

Project Title

EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS’ JOINT OLYMPICS for YOUTH

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The ENJOY project is anchored on the organization of sports and cultural olympiads of which editions 1 and 2 have already taken place in the past. The ENJOY project includes the organization of editions 3 and 4 gathering three European schools: a French school coordinating the project, a Greek school and a Spanish school, both willing to practice the French language and to know the French culture. For two years, students between 13 and 15 years old from the three schools will train and meet each other in order to compete during this sporting and cultural event in Olympic sporting events, defined by the schools organizing the event, a robotics test and a general culture test on the history of the Olympic Games and their values.
This project includes 4 periods of mobility divided into 2 per year:
– Year 1: an exchange of students in France to get to know each other and learn about the events, and participation in the Olympics event in Spain (edition 3).
– Year 2: an exchange of students in Greece to discover the emblematic places of the Olympic Games, but unfortunately due to the health crisis, the edition 4 of the Olympics in France could not take place.
This project was started in September 2016 to support Paris’ bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024. The media coverage of this project was an opportunity for the different participating schools to showcase their European dynamism. This project allowed the students and their supervisors to experience the Olympic Games of yesterday and today by being at the heart of the event: visit to Olympia, live two days at the Olympic Academy like the athletes, visit the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, meet with the Director of Paris 2024, meet with personalities who work for the influence of the Olympic Games in Europe.
The pedagogical benefits of such an event are multiple: increased motivation of students for the practice of languages and sports, involvement in a European project, participation in a world-renowned event, development of Olympic values and good citizenship, validation of skills in the context of end-of-cycle exams.
To date, this project, which simply transposes the spirit and the organization of the World Olympic Games to a school scale, has resonated with political institutions that have wanted to take it up and develop it in their city or region.

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/a/miguelbravo.es/erasmus-enjoy/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96370 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC DE L’INSTITUTION SACRE COEUR & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Miguel Bravo-A.A. La Salle
• High School of Itea Karditsas