Becoming a European citizen through artistic and cultural exchanges Erasmus Project

Project Title

Becoming a European citizen through artistic and cultural exchanges

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

“Becoming a European Citizen Through cultural and artistic exchanges” is a project led by four European schools: collège Edouard Pailleron (Paris, France), Instituto Comprensivo Via Maffi (Roma, Italy), Staatliche Realschule Hösbach (Hösbach, Germany) et Geniko Lykeio Kaisarianis (Athens, Greece). Our project aims at introducing our pupils to their European citizenship and identity thanks to various artistic and/or scientific exchanges. We understand this project as inclusive, since our pupils come from heterogenous backgrounds and face, for the most part, social and educational challenges. Our goal is to enable them and their families to become familiar with what they perceive as “foreign” through learning activities and exchanges. Indeed our pupils have difficulties conceiving the cultures of their fellow european countries, as they perceive them as foreign to their own cultures. Learning one or more foreign languages is not enough to fill this gap. That is why we intend to make them aware of their European citizenship.

We will base our project on scientific exchanges, implementing a common language, and on a diachronic artistic curriculum, showing how the history of arts is built on exchanges, mutual influences and interest in other cultures. Through this long-term exchange, the pupils will themselves produce a culture common to their schools, that is why our partnership hinges on a collaborative blog and a series of exhibitions organized in every partner school. The short-term exchanges planned in conclusion to these exchanges will complete this progressive opening to their european culture and citizenship. Our project aims at having our pupils become aware of their European citizenship, as well as helping them become more involved in foreign languages learning in general.

We hope this project will contribute to improving our school’s image, and foster a long-term involvement of our teams in European openness for our pupils. We wish for those of our pupils who will be directly engaged in the project to become ambassadors or European culture to their families and fellow students. Beyond our two-year project, we wish for European openness to become part of our school’s projects, and to maintain our exchanges with our partners schools u-in the years to come.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84247,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Edouard PAILLERON & Country: FR

Project Partners

• 1o Geniko Lykeio Kaisarianis
• VIA MAFFI
• Staatliche Realschule Hösbach