Romanité en Europe : les fils de notre citoyenneté Erasmus Project

Project Title

Romanité en Europe : les fils de notre citoyenneté

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

1/ Background

A needs analysis within the school has led to identify two objectives to be pursued:
Developping the European dimension of our schools
Promoting innovative common teaching practises of languages
The project also ties with the International year of moderation

2/Overall objectives

-Understanding Europ by studying Romanism in partners countries
-Confront and merge the signs of past and the memories of Antiquity in the two countries
-Facilitate student effective linguistic learning through innovative teaching methods
-Foster collaborative work between French and German students
-Strengthen in young people a sense of European citizenship

3/ Participants

One hundred of 14 to 16 year-old students attending french 3èmes and studying German and Latin, or germans 9° studying french and Latin, coming from various social and cultural backgrounds, some of whom are socially disadvantaged, are targeted.
Two teams of 6 french and german teachers teaching the same subjects ( literature, foreign languages, latin, history, technology, arts ) what the school management team fully supports with guide them.
Two archeological roman places , near the two schools , make their contribution to the projects ( visits, documentary resources, studies and activities )

4/Activities description
Meetings and trainings of the teachers to prepare common innovative pedagogics materials ( co-animation, serious games, documents )and find resources
Investigate work led by the students who may search in resources centers and parallel writing activities in the two countries
Meetings between partners institutions : confrontation and presentation of writing , cooperative workshops to create an historic and illustrated fiction on European Romanism.

5/Project management
Preparatory phase concerns meetings among teachers and investigative works led by the students

Implementation phase contains two stages
For the firs year , a transnational work( led by the pupils) of cultural mediation in the resources centers ( visits in foreign langages , historic and touristic documents destinated to a scholar public , cultural workshops created by the students )
for the second year , a cooperative production of an historic illustrated fiction , throwing new light on Romanism’ s role in the construction of European Identity . Editing the movie shot during the different phases of the project in both languages

Dissemination phase
final productions shown to the wider educational community ( students, parents, teachers, educational authorities)
At a broader level, exhibitions in public places such as librairies, resources centers , cultural events led by students .

6/ waited outcome
Development of linguistic ( oral, rhetoric, writing) area competences for students of the two schools
construction of european citizenship and identity
Development of multicultural area competences of students
Multiplication of european projects between the partners

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63274 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège François Rabelais & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Willibald-Gymnasium