Living and working together – “Sharing and Caring”. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Living and working together – “Sharing and Caring”.

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project took place over 2 school years and involved 3 schools: in Sweden, Spain and our school in France. The Swedish school is 20 kms south of Gothenburg and has about 350 pupils from kindergarten to the end of Year 10. In Spain, the school is located in the city of Valdepeñas 200 km south of Madrid and has about 400 students from Year 7 to Year 13. At Jean-Claude Dauphin school located in Nonancourt in the south of the Eure region, we have 700 students from Year 7 to 10.
The three schools were motivated by this project because, for a variety of reasons, we were convinced of the importance of trying to broaden the horizons of our students – whether by inviting them to better understand physical mobility, or learning tolerance across borders. We were also convinced of the interest of this project in terms of learning foreign languages ​​(English is the first modern language practiced in the 3 countries involved, but in very different ways). We wanted to allow students to deepen their common reflection on the notion of European citizenship and the skills needed to become a future citizen of the world. Finally, we hoped that the project would allow teachers from the 3 institutions to deepen their knowledge of European education systems and of the different teaching practices in place.
The title of our project perfectly summarized these objectives: “Living and working together – Sharing and Caring”. Allowing young Europeans to live together for several days while working collectively on themes to reinforce the notions of sharing and caring for each other and the planet.
During the first year of the project we allowed all of our communities to get to know each other better. The transnational meeting between teachers took place in October 2016 in France and facilitated the beginning of this work here with us. During this meeting we better defined the 2 main axes of the project: natural sciences and the theme of the protection of natural resources in our lives, in particular water, as well as a second theme based on the humanities.
Then between November and May, we created a website in France and conducted various activities with our partners allowing the entire French school to gain a better understanding of the project and our partners: an online vote for the mascots, an online vote for the choice of the logo of the project, the exchange of culture boxes with a quiz on the blog about their content. The mascots had a Twinspace on the e-Twinning platform to “write” about their “adventures” in each country …
The participants were selected in each country to be “ambassadors” for their classes for the first and second mobilities.
The first mobility took place in May 2017 in Sweden. After a week of observations together working on the two themes of the project, the ambassadors made a digital survey in order to both report their work back home and invite their school communities to answer some of their questions after the week together. This on-line survey was carried out in June, September and October 2017.
The second mobility took place in Spain in November 2017 and the ambassadors present analysed and presented the results of the survey. Then they reflected together on how best to communicate on these results during the 3rd mobility in the hope that they could change certain positions that shocked them in the survey.
The third mobility took place in May 2018. Between November and May, students and teachers from the three schools worked together to prepare the projects that were finalised in France.
At the time of the project’s creation, we had asked for a grant for 76 young people and 20 teachers over the two years. In the end we managed to perform 92 student mobilities and 21 teacher ones, thus creating added-value for the project. But this project has touched many more people. In France, the project’s website was a real success: the site has received 35,243 views from 4,238 different visitors. During the last mobility, more than 140 French students (non-ambassadors) were associated with the project during the week as well as 25 adult members of the establishment.
Judging by the testimonials of the parents, teachers and students, the project was welcomed in a very positive way and many families from 3 countries have made an appointment to meet up with each other this summer on vacation.
Strong links have been forged between the teaching professionals involved and several are already working on projects for 2018/2019 which are clearly rooted in this one. Furthermore, the various productions made by the students during the project are all highlighted on our sites, allowing us to exploit them for a long time.
The teaching staff involved in the project have already started to put the skills acquired or worked on during this project to good use in the construction of different actions that will take place in the weeks and months to come.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 101644,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE JEAN CLAUDE DAUPHIN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES BERNARDO DE BALBUENA
• fullriggaren malevik