Wooden factory Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wooden factory

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

In order to study the Austrian school system a teacher visited Austria in the scope of the Erasmus Prism programme. The theme of the study was entrepreneurial management. Thus a school specialized in woodwork was visited. The pupils there learn to make objects made of wood from the age of ten. They also learn about the physical and chemical properties of this material. After visiting the school, the concept of working together on that theme, namely making and selling objects made of wood, reforestation by planting trees both in France and in Austria, was developed. Three groups of pupils will be concerned by the project, one Austrian and two French ones representing a total of 92 pupils (16 special need pupils called SEGPA, 29 cinquième aged 11-12 on the French side). English will be used to communicate and this will include cultural aspects : introducing oneself, the respective school system and local traditions along the year. Thanks to the EPA programme, the SEGPA pupils will be in charge of a mini firm building and selling objects made of wood. They will be helped by the Austrian pupils whose experience in the field is larger. The French cinquième will help the SEGPA pupils to communicate with the Asutrian pupils, as regards selling and experimenting with the help of biology and physics teacher. Their technology teacher will also help them create a small object made of wood but which they won’t be allowed to sell as they don’t belong to EPA. Etwinning will make possible the exchange and confrontation of our mutual experience with the Austrian.
The expected results of this programme are manyfold notably bridging the gap between SEGPA pupils and other pupils as the former will run the mini-firm nationally. This experience will enable many participants to travel abroad, maybe for the first time and to become aware of the importance of the English language as a language of communication. The discovery of a different culture, a different school system, fostering personal development, the awareness of the need for conservation by planting trees within the European community will prove to be so many assets conducive to a better future and personal improvement.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/72605/pages/page/446848

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 19779 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Emilie de Mirabeau & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Neue Mittelschule Graz Straßgang