France-Finlande two partners in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

France-Finlande two partners in Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Context and Objectives:
Jules Ferry Middle School (Chambéry, France) and the Hankoniemen Lukio (Hanko, Finlande) are keen on initiating a partnership program between the French and Finnish students coming from a wide range of social backgrounds. The English language will be the main subject bringing together the French and Finnish students involved. 3 main objectives will focus on three main objectives:

– Create a strong lasting partnership and thus contribute to promoting cooperation and mobility within Europe.
– Strengthen and improve the students and teachers’ communication skills in foreign language.
– Prevent early school leaving by including special needs students and/or students with great learning difficulties.

Thanks to European projects such as ERASMUS+, Jules Ferry Middle School and Hankonienmen lukio wish to get involve in a unifying project which will lead to a lasting twinning.
Such an ambitious project is lacking in ours two schools. It is consistent with the different sections taught French as a Second Language Section, Gifted Students Section, CLIL Section, …
Teachers in charge of those specific sections in ours schools will also benefit from European and International links and pedagogy.

Activities and Methodologies:

– French and Finnish teachers will work in close collaboration: Coordinators (Principal, supervising teachers) will be in charge of doing the follow up to their peers and plan the different activities and meetings (Skype, WhatsApp, eTwinning…).
– Each activities will regularly be reported on European platforms (eTwinning, mobility tools, webgate.ec, europa.eu …) in order to keep track of the work achieved by the students.
The numerous productions downloaded on the different platforms will attest to the coherence and positive results of the project.
– The Education for sustainable development is setting a new direction for education and learning for all in this project.
– The Arts and creativity is an other activities subject for learning in this project.

Impacts and long-lasting repercussions.
– Teachers and students improvement in their language skills and cross-disciplinary skills.
– Promotion of the cultural and social local partners such as Town-hall, schools, museums, sports club, charities.
– Increase in the European and International presence of the school (students, teachers and administratives) thanks to the many networking platforms.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50085 Eur

Project Coordinator

collège Jules FERRY & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Hankoniemen lukio