Help Our generation to Maintain our Environment: a future for our coastline ? Erasmus Project

Project Title

Help Our generation to Maintain our Environment: a future for our coastline ?

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Most students in our area come from a rural background, experience important financial difficulties in their families and have very little ambition. Travelling is not something they are used to and going abroad, meeting European teenagers and discovering other ways of living and learning is not something they regard as possible. We aim at developing our students’ ambition -at school and in their future lives-, will to succeed and self-esteem. They will broaden their horizon and discover that speaking English is essential to communicate easily with European partners.

What’s more, some of our student who encounter learning difficult have a complicated relationship with school and might consider giving up on their studies. This project, they will be in charge of from the start, will prove them they have strong capacities (especially in languages), will also develop their will to commit themselves in their studies and thus restore their self-confidence.

They will collaborate with Dutch students and their teachers on a local issue they have in common: the future of our Norman and Dutch coastlines. Preserving the European coastlines is an issue that may affect a much bigger area than the place they have always been living in.

Our two main goals are: ambition and citizenship.
– Make our youngsters aware of the importance of preserving our European coastline. When meeting their partners, they will experience active citizenship: they will get to know other young people who work on the same issues, and they will collaborate to come up with common solutions. They will also discover how the European union works on issues such as the environment and sustainable development and how it can have an impact of their local areas so that they can realize how important collaboration between European partners is.
– Develop their basic and cross-disciplinary skills: language, computer, oral skills but also develop their ability to contribute and commit themselves in new projects, make them open-minded, tolerant and understanding young people. These elements aim at making them (especially those with learning difficulties) more ambitious as regards their future studies and jobs. They will be conscious of their own potential and capacities, will also more easily look to the future and think about the place they want to have in the world and in society.
This project will benefit to :
– 100 young people (aged 12 to 15) who will benefit from mobility and 7 French and Dutch teachers
– 100 primary and secondary schools pupils who will be associated to the different steps of the project
– The entire school community (teaching and non-teaching)
– Local populations who will be made aware of the issue thanks to the brochure and website and will be associated to the project.
– Local partners (we are used to working with) who will also contribute and enrich our project with their skills.
There will be three focal points:
– Discovery of local environments (first each partner in his country to learn how to protect and add value to it; then together to think about the best solutions to preserve it)
– Inventory and questioning of the different issues.
– Solutions (already implemented, possible or envisaged)
The starting point of these activities will be going on site, looking for information (on websites and through our local associations and specialized institutes (parc des marais du Cotentin et du Bessin, CPIE, Delft university)
Then, we will exchange on our findings in order to create together a bilingual brochure and a website in English that will thus be accessible to people from all over Europe no matter what nationality they are.
In order to complete this project successfully, students will:
– Pick up information, take photos and videos on site
– Select useful material in class
– Discover solutions already implemented and question their durability
– Use different digital tools to finalize their project
– Present the results of their work during school visits
The different steps of the project have been built with the partner and will happen in the 2 schools at the same time. Key moments when partners will actually discuss and collaborate together will be regular and have already been scheduled by the staff. Collaboration will take place through the use of different media (also during mobility).
This project will find its results in the use that will be made of the solutions suggested by our youngsters and local partners and it will also help raise awareness in local populations as regards the future of our coastlines.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65689 Eur

Project Coordinator

collège Gambetta & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Schoonhovens College