Pour l’amélioration des compétences transversales en section bilingue Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pour l’amélioration des compétences transversales en section bilingue

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Pedagogy and didactics; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The strategic project PACTES (Pour l’Amélioration des Compétences Transversales en Section Bilingue) has brought together four European schools : IES Juan de Mairena in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Spain), Burgau-Gymnasium in Düren (Germany), G. Luosi High School in Mirandola (Italy) and Lycée Sainte-Thérèse in Quimper (France).

The participating secondary schools have a distinctive mark in common: the German, Spanish and Italian schools have a Binational Section, offering their students the opportunity to get the French Baccalauréat and the national final exam (Abitur, Bachiller, Esame di Stato) simultaneously. The French school itself offers classes in the three languages of its partner countries and joined them especially in the context of its European Spanish Section and Teaching of History and Geography in DNL (Discipline Non Linguistique).

Throughout the project, students of ‘Seconde’ (15-16 years old), supported and guided by a team of teachers from different disciplines, have worked collaboratively on the platform TwinSpace in the development of a series of short documentaries on European issues, among others, the bilingual sections from the testimonies of German, French, Spanish and Italian educational communities members. Moreover, they have participated in class exchanges and activities of individual mobility to develop a common project and to experience living and studying in the country of the target language.

Also, teachers involved in Sections have written a contrastive study of Abibac, Bachibac and Esabac programs, which includes reflections and methodological recommendations concerning the teaching of the DNL History and Geography and Language and French Literature in binational bilingual programs .

Through these activities, students have improved their soft skills (academic, linguistic, numerical, organizational and social) while increasing their level of cultural awareness and their sense of belonging to the European Union. Teachers have deepened their knowledge in the field of bilingual education and have enhanced their teaching practices. Finally, the partner schools have strengthened the position of the target language and the European dimension included in their school project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109425 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.E.S. Juan de Mairena & Country: ES

Project Partners

• OGEC SAINTE THERESE LES BUISSONNET
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE GIUSEPPE LUOSI
• Burgau-Gymnasium – Städtisches Gymnasium mit zweisprachigem deutsch-französischen Zweig