European cities: history , ecology and tourism. How do we represent ourselves and our identity? Erasmus Project

Project Title

European cities: history , ecology and tourism. How do we represent ourselves and our identity?

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Our project is entitled ‘European cities: history, ecology and tourism. How do we represent ourselves and our identity?’. It deals with tourism, history, art and representations. The different partners are France, Italy, Austria, Spain and Portugal. The French school, Collège Théodore Monod, is coordinating the project. The other schools are located between land and sea, from small towns to big cities so that it allows us to study the different European geographical spaces. 11 to 16 year old students are involved in the project in both general section or adapted (SEGPA /ULIS: special needs students/ handicapped). The different international meetings will take place in each partner country where students and teachers will attend the activities.
Through real and virtual exchanges, the partners will work with different educational teachings: cooperation learning, learning through experience, peer teaching using new technologies and rational use of media. The project aims at training future European citizens to work in international groups, to have them discover the different European spaces and for them to create a common culture. They will develop their critical mind using different sources. They will know their common past and heritage, their national culture and those of the European countries. This is important to live together in harmony. Through different activities and workshops, students will discover and go into the European cultural heritage more deeply. From East to West and sea to land, the pupils will work on the differences between the cities, the areas and they will also reflect on what links the different European cities- that is to say tourism (for historical, ecological, artistical and architectural reasons) and the consequences of tourism (its advantages and disadvantages). The discovery of the European cultural heritage will lead them to the necessity of protecting it. They will act as a group and think about the development of tourism due to media, culture, tradition, gastronomy, art and new technologies. They will be able to think about the challenges it raises to all countries. We want to develop engagement and debates between pairs to create a group of citizens who will be aware of the needs of a sustainable development, who will be tolerant and ready to reach the same goals.
Each activity offered to the students during the mobilities will be transmitted and shared to the rest of the group to have the schools fully included in the project. Pupils need to learn how to work with different cultures and different persons. That is why we include in the project some groups of pupils with specific needs (intellectual, social or physical). It will allow the group to reinforce cooperation, tolerance and integration. In our project each partner city will be introduced and represented in the exchange with the other partners. We will bring the project to light through different media: new technologies, posters, photographs, press, exhibitions. The partners will discover the different areas and how to present them to foreign people. During 2018-2019, the students have started using e-twinning and the twinspace for the first exchanges. For the years 2019-2021, students will participate in different meetings in the partners’ schools. They will have a global and European vision of our identity.
This project puts forward the European cultural heritage: historical, architectural and artistic. Students will develop basic skills in languages as well as in the use of new technologies to communicate.
This will allow them to become citizens able to cooperate with different cultures, to share their knowledge and to give access to their own culture (share their tradition, references…) thus building thefuture for Europe. Indeed, each school is hosting a meeting. The project offers a way to deliver a message and represent our identity through art, language, ecology and new technologies. The workshops and realisations will be sustainable and visible in the different countries. The project will show the use of the different skills and it will allow students to developp their personal and collective initiatives skills.

Project Website

https://www.facebook.com/VillesEuropeennes/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 13104 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Théodore Monod & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga
• Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg
• INSTITUT D’AURO
• S.M:S PASCOLI