Des rivières dans nos villes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Des rivières dans nos villes

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Our project is called “Rivers in our Cities ” and its acronym is Rio-C.
The subject will be the link between our cities and their rivers.
Our students will search successively the historical, economic and literary links between the cities and the rivers that pass through them. We want to make them discover these links that concern them in their daily lives but which they know so badly. We want to illustrate the programs of economy, history and language through a clear example. We will therefore apply in concrete terms the essential concepts of their school curricula.
On the other hand, during this project, we will follow a final goal: the renaturation of a site. It will be necessary to establish a partnership relationship with the competent authorities and associations. For our students, it will be a first contact with the professional world. Many of them will work later in the environmental, touristic or scientific sectors. They will be very interested in seeing the work on the ground and will have important information for their future direction. The first step will be to study the site to be renatured (geographical situation, fauna, flora, drinkability of water). Then, we’ll imagine arrangements of this site in close cooperation with the competent authorities. Finally, the students will actually make these arrangements. The agreements have already been made with the authorities to allow the students to invest themselves in the field. They will then be real actors in the work and their collaboration will be a real contribution for the local community (pedagogical panels, explanatory leaflets, facilities…).
Being an international project will allow us to glimpse the solutions used by other countries and to choose the most suitable ones for local problems. This collaboration will give a lot of autonomy to the students who will have to take responsibility for the choices and implementation of the facilities. It will be an opportunity to have a real impact on a place useful to the local community.
For this project, we are bringing together five institutions: Lemgo (Germany); Czestochowa (Poland), Ramnicu Vâlcea (Romania), Zaragoza(Spain) and Agen (France). We are five high schools and our students have very different profiles although they are the same age. Their different profiles are a wealth for this project. With four of these partners, we have already collaborated in a previous project that was already in a strong environmental theme (Present for the future: How to bring a natural site in our touristic regions). We were then very effective and our friendly links were able to ensure the success of all our goals. We are happy to find ourselves in this new adventure and are very confident in our future success. It will be a pleasure to host a new partner (Zaragoza) that the French partner knows yet.
During our mobilities we will study and modify the sites studied in each partner. Our students will discover various cultures and increase their spirit of European citizenship. But most importantly, they will work to improve a site for each partner. This will be very beneficial for the local people and students would find that diversity is a source of richness and that together they are capable of many things.
Between the mobilities,this project will work through groups of students in each institution but also through multiple transnational activities. They are intended to be very useful for our objectives but above all to promote the interactions between the student partners. This will result in multiple benefits for everyone (foreign language practice, use of new technologies, taking initiatives).
The results of this project will be multiple: educational signs, website, photo exhibition (old and current), presentations of various studies (geographical, historical, literary, chemical), leaflets, comics (or other chosen support). This diversity is about all of our students, regardless of their profiles.
The monitoring of this project will be close because we plan to continue meetings via Skype. In fact, during the previous project and during the preparation of this one, the teachers have meetings (with a lot of pleasure) every month on Skype to share their impressions on the progress of the work (information, deadlines, formatting). We will ensure that the various dates and objectives are respected.
In the long term, our project will therefore lead to various progress for our pupils (motivation, practice of foreign languages, new technologies…) but also to real results useful for the local communities (natural site development, contact with the authorities Environmental issues). These authorities will be enriched by these collaborations with foreign colleagues (exchanges of practices).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 156800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Saint CAPRAIS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Colegiul Energetic
• HANSE-Berufskolleg
• I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im.Juliusza Slowackiego w Czestochowie
• FUNDACION SAN VALERO