A young European’s laughs and dreams, past and present Erasmus Project

Project Title

A young European’s laughs and dreams, past and present

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Context:
Year 1: A partnership between two classes. A European studies class in France (History and geography taught in English) and a Danish class studying French.
Year 2: A partnership between four classes. Two European studies classes in France (History and geography taught in English) and two Danish classes studying French.

Objectives:
Year 1 Identify and compare what makes young Europeans laugh today. Contrasting with what made their parents or grand-parents laugh and dream yesterday.
Year 2: Identify and compare what makes young Europeans dream today. Contrasting with what made their parents or grand-parents laugh and dream yesterday.

Participants:
Year 1: Around sixty students, aged 16-18 and four teachers.
Year 2: Around one hundred students, aged 16-18 and five teachers.
The French may be granted a European mention for the baccalaureate.
The Danish have made the choice to learn French.

Activities:
Year 1: Discovering and presenting the two schools, exchanging about school life via etwinning.
Working on stereotypes: listing them, confronting them and confirming them with videos.
Meeting with the other class, create productions together.
Enquiring about the previous generations. What made them laugh? What made them dream?Analysing the results.
Year 2:
Inquiring about our region’s attractivity (Activity #5)
Leading an intergenerational survey on young Europeans dreams now and in the 1980s.
Preparing a Declaration of our European Dream

Methodology:
Year 1: Collaborative work and individual work, field investigations, debates in videoconferences, collective productions when together.
Year 2: Collaborative work and individual work, field investigations, online group work, online meetings

Expected results:
Developing transversal abilities
Opening on to other ways of thinking

Long-terms benefits:
More exchanges, more collaborations with or without travelling, more plans to be mobile in Europe.
More collaborative moments between our two countries, included in the curricula.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53867,2 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycee Maine de Biran & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Espergærde Gymnasium og HF