Our differences make us rich Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our differences make us rich

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Our project is entitled: “Our differences make us rich” and aims at the realization of a multimedia manifesto written by our students, young Europeans, for tomorrow’s Europe.
This project springs from a desire to strengthen the feeling of belonging to the European community in a context where many member countries tend to withdraw into themselves.

We will wonder how the handicap, gender equality, multiculturalism and newcomers (or migrants) are being tackled with and represented in our European society. This question will be dealt with in three parts:
– Explain (who are we); explain the themes (what is …)
– Questioning and analysis of each themes (what is at stakes?)
– Proposing solutions to the issues identified.

The main objectives are: opening doors to Europe for students facing economic and social obstacles, the inclusion of pupils with special needs, ensuring that our students acquire linguistic, citizen and civic skills and exchanging teaching practices among teachers. These objectives will have a positive impact on all pupils and teachers directly and indirectly involved in the project through innovative practices, project pedagogy and cross-disciplinary. Parents of students will be positively affected by the project. Through dissemination, our schools will make the results of the project visible and associate their image with that of Europe.

This project, for pupils between 11 and 15 years old, will take place over two years, from September 2019 to June 2021 and will gather the Jules Lagneau College (France), Gymnasio Komotinis (Greece), Instituto Comprensivo G. Pierluigi (Italy), Vilniaus Balsiu progimnazija (Lithuania) and Scoala gimnaziala Nicolae Titulescu (Romania) around the theme of differences. The language of exchange and work is French and the disciplines involved in the project are: languages (French, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian), history, science, mathematics and art.

According to the school context and its specific characteristics, each school is responsible for a theme:
– France: the handicap
– Greece: multiculturalism
– Italy: common cultural heritage
– Lithuania: equality between girls and boys
– Romania: migrations

Five learning activities are planned:
– 12/2019: in France
– 03/2020: Romania
– 05/2020: Greece
– 11/2020: Italy
– 05/2021: Lithuania
During each learning activity, each school will involve 6-7 students and 2 accompanying adults, totaling 24-28 students and 8 accompanying adults per learning activity.

Before the week of learning, students will work on the subject (explanation, investigation). During the week, they will present their results, exchange among themselves and make common proposals. They will visit a place related to the theme, they will be initiated into the language of the country hosting the learning week and discover other cultures and educational systems.

All productions will be posted on the eTwinning platform and will constitute the multimedia manifesto written by our young European pupils and a link between secondary school and high school.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/92064/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166896 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jules Lagneau & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO G. PIERLUIGI
• Vilniaus Balsiu progimnazija
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “NICOLAE TITULESCU”
• 4o Gymnasio Komotinis