On the Road! Erasmus Project

Project Title

On the Road!

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Theme: Experiencing Europe – moving, working, learning

Title of the project: On the road!
How to welcome immigrants, understand their culture by sharing it with us and help them adapt to our society? Together with the neighbouring countries, we have been facing similar issues.

The different schools have noticed that a high percentage of students was reluctant, afraid and had lots of prejudices and stereotypes about “the Other one”. This project aimed at minimizing that situation by measuring the effects of our activities on the students. Through a survey carried out at the beginning of the project and then at the end, we were able to see the impact of our exchange.

We found it important to define with the students who a migrant, a refugee or an asylum seeker was. People flee for various reasons.
Through this project, we tried to open and change our students’ minds on the matter.

At the same time, the project fed the students’ / travellers’ brains with culture and experience.

The project intended to give students the tools for them to keep on learning and discovering new places and cultures when they are grown ups. Then they will have the tools to pass it on to the next generation, to open their mind to the world around them. Experiencing the long journey of the migrants by trying to be in their shoes has obviously made them think about the world we live in.

By working with new technologies – creating a website along with a QR code, some videos and the use of digital equipment- they have become more familiar with them and have realised that theory leads to practice. Learning English has also made sense and motivated students to make progress, work and feel more confident in speaking another language. Indeed, we have supported students with social, economic, and cultural difficulties, improved their motivation and self-confidence.

The numerous activities we offered the students developed many skills: creativity and dancing through a flash mob and the logo, writing skills through the magazine and the song, digital competences through the website of the project, technical skills thanks to the metal tree, oral expression through the interviews and presentations in front of an audience.

The exchange of good practices were be reinforced by observing classes in the partner schools. That implied learning, teaching, preparing pedagogical material together and using it in each school. In the end, we evaluated the effects of such an experience.
This project has emphasized on reducing the early leavers at each school and has prepared the students to get access to further or higher education. They will become more adaptable for employers and will be able to fulfill their European citizenship.

One hundred and twenty people were involved including gender equality, but the project has had a larger impact at each school and in the local community. Most of the students were students at vocational schools, except for the Spanish one which was a general high school. In Poland, France, and Norway, 2/3 of these students do not continue further education. This was a crucial experience for them. The whole project was engraved in the Lifelong Learning Programme defined by the European Commission as a few teachers still struggle to speak English too. And as we know, not all countries are equal in this matter.

Our end product, the metal tree, represented the synthesis of all the activities carried out for 2 years and gathered the work of an intercultural partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117790 Eur

Project Coordinator

LP Jean Moulin & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ponadgimnazjalnych im. Unitow Podlaskich w Miedzyrzecu Podlaskim
• Madres Concepcionistas
• Alta videregående skole