Chantonnay-Bedzin-Puertollano-21- My city tomorrow Erasmus Project

Project Title

Chantonnay-Bedzin-Puertollano-21- My city tomorrow

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: Rural development and urbanisation; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The strategic partnership project « Chantonnay – Bedzin – Puertollano – 21 My City of Tomorrow », put together by three organisations, the high schools of Clemenceau in Chantonnay (France), Galileo in Puertollano (Spain) and Kopernik in Bedzin (Poland), takes its inspiration from a problem shared by the three centres: their pupils’ lack of ambition for higher studies if it will oblige them to leave their town, the risk of drop-outs during the three years at high school and failure to complete university studies since the students find it hard to adapt to life in a big city. These difficulties are linked to common factors found in the three centres: either the pupils come from deprived social and economic backgrounds or from ethnic communities who are not well integrated into the community, or there is a large presence of pupils with special needs (ex: dyslexia). These factors have already been identified as priorities by the governing bodies of all three schools.

The objective of the European partnership is to oblige the students to communicate with other young people in a foreign language and to open their minds to different cultures. A major concern of the project is to develop the linguistic skills of the pupils (the priority being for English, but also Spanish and French). In order to increase the pupils’ chances of success in their school and university careers the project aims to help them learn to work in a group and individually, to develop the quality of their oral and written expression, to teach them to have confidence in themselves and to manage their stress. Given that the project will involve a stable group of pupils over two years, (their first and second years of high school) we will be able to evaluate the impact of the project when it comes to making choices for their university cursus in the final year of high-school. The tools created during the course of the project will then be reused and integrated into the three schools’ policies for the preparation of higher studies.

The choice of a European theme, the town/city, which is a part of all three countries’ national curriculum, has led the three centres to create a multi-disciplinary programme of skills and aptitudes which our pupils should acquire during the course of the project. The objective being to encourage the pupils and future citizens to OBSERVE, LEARN ABOUT, TRANSFORM, INVENT and LIVE IN the TOWNS/CITIES of their regions, of their nations and of EUROPE, YESTERDAY, TODAY and TOMORROW.

In order to attain these goals, the three centres must work in parallel on a identical programme of multi-disciplinary and innovative activities which will make use of digital technologies and lead the pupils to construct their learning collectively.

1. Observe and understand the changes European cities have undergone since the 19th century.
2. Become aware of a common urban history and European urban and architectural patrimony by confronting three historical towns, Nantes, Toledo and Cracow, two of which are classed as Unesco World Heritage sites.
3. Study the economic, social and urban transformations which have taken place in European cities during the 20th and 21st centuries.
4. Observe the organisation of urban space on different scales (small and medium-sized towns, big metropolises) and work on the concept of an urban network.
5. Think about the concept of sustainable development.
6. Study the priorities of the town planners and architects of the three partner countries.
7. Understand what an urban planning project should be (what it entails, the needs it must satisfy….)
8. Imagine the city of tomorrow and work with local government to propose an urban planning project for their respective towns.

Thus, the success of the project won’t be measured only by the impact on the pupils who participate, but also by the impact on the wider school community in the three centres, the pupils’ families, the local populations and the local government.

The expected results are a new awareness of a common urban history and of their participation in a collective culture of European citizenship. The young Europeans of today will be the driving force of the European project of tomorrow. The 21st century is characterised by digital technology, sustainable development and globalisation where the cities of tomorrow will be the sites in which the youth of today will become the town-planners of tomorrow.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91926,61 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Clemenceau & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES Galileo Galilei
• I LO im.Mikolaja Kopernika