Being a pupil in Europe who enjoys learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Being a pupil in Europe who enjoys learning

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Pedagogy and didactics; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The school exchange project Erasmus+ ‘’Being a pupil in Europe who enjoys learning” gathers six European secondary schools : Arthur Rimbaud Middle School and Saint Exupery High School in Marseille, France; the Georg-Büchner-Schule in Stadtallendorf, in the Hesse land, Germany; the 2nd middle school of Kalamaria, near Thessaloniki in Northern Greece; the ‘instituto de educación secundaria El Calero in Telde on Gran Canary Island, in the Canary Islands archipelago , and the Ilmaristen primary-middle school in Lieto, in South-West Finland. It completes and extends a previous school exchange entitled ‘’Being a pupil in Europe preparing one’s future” with partly new partners. During this first exchange, whose theme was the academic orientation, a key point was made: for a pupil, preparing one’s future is apprehended in a purely materialist way, meaning one has to work, reap knowledge, pursue the right studies to get a  “good”, well-paid job. Personal fulfillment by the acquisition of new knowledge, the development of new skills, the cultural enrichment are sidelined. In brief, learning is often synonymous with obligation to succeed.

Generally speaking, with this project the partners aspire to change this observation so as to convey the will of learning to know more, of discovering, of understanding and getting to know more about others so that, inside and outside the schools, the pupils work in an active way to elaborate their knowledge and walk of lives. More precisely, the aim is threefold: to encourage the European pupils in getting more invested in class and further their studies; to spur them to enrich their culture to intellectually blossom, and to concretely discover the pleasure of learning in their daily lives; to sharpen their drive for personal improvement and ambition, including in the choice for their life trajectory.

Concretely, this aim will be reached through two manners that complement one another. First, by realizing a common synthesis about what is the pleasure of learning for a pupil in Europe – distinctive features, boosters, obstacles, differences and similarities between the countries, etc – using the exchanges and experience sharing between the partners. The aim is to define the conditions to develop the pleasure of learning so as to then be able to put them into effect. This synthesis will be completed during the first year and will be published on eTwinning. Secondly, by jointly realizing an educational and ludic game on the theme. The goal of this final production, partly realized with elements of the previous work, is to materialize the pleasure of learning and to allow the pupils to experiment it as a group in a fun and pleasant way. This production will be realized over the course of the second year. On a regular basis, representatives of each group will meet in one of the partner countries in order to know each other better and to share activities broadening their knowledge and culture. The school level chosen to accomplish the complete work has been deeply thought.

In all the partner countries, the pupils who will participate to the project will whether be in their last year of middle school or freshmen in high school (between 14 and 16 years old). For their teachers, it’s important to invite youths at the bridge between the two secondary curriculums to work on the pleasure of learning theme so as to boost their motivation and encourage them in their academic learning efforts and cultural openness outside of school. It’s also a time where they’ll be able to foresee more easily their further studies elsewhere in Europe, as part of the Erasmus program. This last point is to all the project initiators the ultimate ambition.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 3000 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE RIMBAUD ARTHUR & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LYCEE GENERAL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE SAINT EXUPERY
• 2o IMERISIO GYMNASIO KALAMARIAS THESSALONIKIS
• Georg Büchner Schule
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria EL CALERO
• Ilmaristen yhtenäiskoulu