committed art as a vehicle for promoting and disseminating values of the European Union Erasmus Project

Project Title

committed art as a vehicle for promoting and disseminating values of the European Union

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: Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The rise of nationalism, intolerance and the disaffection of European citizens vis-à-vis Europe concerns us. It seems to us that the communication on Europe, too materialistic, has forgotten the humanist dimension of the European project. Thus, many European citizens no longer know the fundamentals underlying the construction of the U.E. its values which constitute one of the reasons of the Union. Faced with this observation, which is not without consequence for the very durability of Europe itself, In our opinion, it is essential to carry out a civic work whose aim is to remind our students of the fundamental values of freedom, democracy, peace, tolerance, solidarity and non-discrimination.
The study of artistic engagement seems to us an interesting gateway to highlight among our students, also future citizens, the values that are at the base of the construction of the U.E. To give to see the world, to put it in light to better understand it is indeed intimately related to the artistic approach. And many artists have taken a stand to guide us in our confrontation with the world, using their art to do so.
Highlight the struggles of artists, past and present, to highlight the values that lead the way to better living in our societies (these values that are the foundation of the U.E. it is thus to raise the questioning, the awareness of our students and to offer them another vision of the European project. In fact, we also want them to understand the ongoing fighting in the U.E. and encourage them to take an informed position and thus to grasp their European citizenship.
Our project is thus primarily a citizen project: it is about understanding Europe, knowing the humanist fundamentals that are at the origin of the European project and encouraging our students to stop them , the questioning, the awareness necessary to the citizen approach. Thinking around the works involved, encourage our students to post their points of view, to defend causes … it is also to remind them that taking a stand is an eminently citizen act.
This project will also be an opportunity to concretely give life to European citizenship, especially during transnational meetings: during these special moments of exchange, students will be led to perform “artistic” performances on the theme of European values; it will be as many opportunities to present points of view, to defend them with the comrades of the different partner countries, to bring his stone to the realization of the “work” common.
Because of the meeting with works and artists of all genres and eras, we intend, through this project, to promote the cultural enrichment of our students and we hope to develop their sensitivity and artistic creativity. Because by opening them to beauty, it is about arming them to life.
This project will, of course, also provide opportunities to get to know each other and to learn from each other’s points of view and visions. Going towards the other seems to us essential in a citizen approach. To work with European partners, to discover them, to create links with them, is to make it possible to overcome the anxiety that all too often arouses “the other” in our societies and which is a hindrance to the development of a real European citizenship .
This is also why we want to integrate in the project pupils from 16 to 18, of heterogeneous levels, belonging to different teaching sections (general high school students and high school students). We do not doubt that this will be a source of enrichment and will help to establish a spirit of mutual aid.
Our approach around this project also aims to work differently so that our students find a new interest in the lessons they are taught. By this it is a question of avoiding dropping out of school. We intend to build on the complementarity of our subjects to raise the level of skills of our students and validate both formal and informal learning. We therefore envisage a gain relative to learning at school (we are particularly thinking of the benefits that students will gain from the use of foreign languages, especially English, Spanish and French, because of the need to communicate with their counterparts. foreigners, directly or via the CTBT). Similarly, the opportunity to take initiatives will also help to make our students more involved in their training, which will also promote the development of self-esteem, a prerequisite for a “fulfilled” education

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158102 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE POLYVALENT REMI BELLEAU & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE”ENRICO FERMI”
• VI Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Joachima Lelewela w Lodzi
• IES CALDERON DE LA BARCA
• Music School of Arta