Erasmus+Animals (NOAH) : Human beings and animals, a question of civilization… Erasmus Project

Project Title

Erasmus+Animals (NOAH) : Human beings and animals, a question of civilization…

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: Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Natural sciences

Project Summary

MAIN GOAL: To build a common cultural and scientific project by producing, in a transnational setting some films and, as a final product, a science fiction short movie and by reflecting on the relationship between Animals and Human Beings in European culture yesterday, today and tomorrow. We’ll start from the myth of Noah’s Ark and the current debates on the protection of biodiversity.
HOW TO DO IT ? Thanks to field surveys, remote exchanges and meetings, students from four secondary schools can work together to produce works of scientific, philosophical and cultural interest.
EXPECTED RESULTS: Valorizing all students and empowering them through a peer-to-peer learning strategy, implementing a more rewarding and objective learning assessment for learners, and teachers, developing the computer skills of students and staff, and their familiarity with IST, and strengthening the key competences identified by the European Union.

OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
Conducting geographic, historical, biological and scientific field surveys on wildlife, human activities related to it or traditions concerning it ; Production of videos as reports ; Multilateral Meetings ; Writing and making films by editing “rushes”
Study of the myth of the Noah’s Ark, its precursors and its rewritings
Study of the unity of life
Comparative Studies of Agricultural Practices, Reserves and Zoos
Inquiries and debate on empathy and sensitivity, diet
Cross Reading
Preparation of a DVD to account for the final product and to disseminate a method / instead of this disk: we prefer let the contents online in a dedicated website
http://erasmusplusanimals.franceserv.eu/ in order to repect a good practice (relevant to a sustainable development) but people can ask us for a DVD if they prefer

THREAD:
– A methodology based on video tools (no partner is a specialist, we still have a little experience).
– The myth of Noah’s ark: a legend (studied in year 1) that does not correspond to the current requirements of species conservation: rejection of fixism, concept of biodiversity, modalities
of preservation against contemporary extinctions (year 2) . The name of a space ship carrying a European expedition to an exoplanet? (Year 3)

ACTIVITIES:
1 °) Four study travels allowing exchanges and concrete productions in a transnational framework, mainly:
C1 and C2 the production of short documentary films (reports of field surveys)
C3 the publication of a Charter of the City of Human Beings and Animals
C4 the production of a script and a flowchart in order to shoot a science fiction short film
2 °) A C5 virtual exchange supplemented by a summer internship
in order to implement the movie making (by French students, behind and in front of the camera) then its postproduction by all the partners
3 °) Remote activities (shared thanks to various tools: on eTwinning: the “FORUM N + C”, but also the blog: http://erasmusplusanimals.blogspot.com/ and a Facebook group) and local support workshops or even bilateral workshops (in the case of the Franco-Romanian exchange C01)

FIRST IMPACTS:
– A first consensus emerges, both among teachers and among learners, to note the following improvements:
progress in language skills and the ability to work in a team
improvement of student autonomy (self esteem and and sense of responsibility)
greater mastery of digital and video tools
acquisition of knowledge: historical, scientific, etc.
participation in an enriching debate on civilization within the democratic framework of the European Union
– The teachers are particularly satisfied with the quality of the personal investment of the participants, adults and / or students (who have forged lasting links, both across borders and within national teams) and that of the final achievement (this commitment will be validated by a Youth Pass). The film (“THE ARK”) owes a lot to the mobilization of students to overcome the difficulties linked to the pandemic, COVID19 having called into question the work plan adopted during C4 mobility. French high school students invested in a summer internship to successfully shoot images in June 2020, modifying the casting originally planned and taking care of technical aspects initially devolved to others, but their partners took their part, in particular in the post-production of the film (as part of remote workshops held in December 2020)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136932,95 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE MAURICE RAVEL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Profesionalna gimnaziya po veterinarna medicina ‘Prof. d-r. Georgi Pavlov’
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Alcochete
• Gesamtschule Blankenheim-Nettersheim
• Colegiul Economic “Iulian Pop”