CHORALE : “On the road with the Normans” Erasmus Project

Project Title

CHORALE : “On the road with the Normans”

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: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

As they are from a rural background, it is not an easy task for our pupils to go and study away from home, to open up to new horizons and to have professional ambition. Furthermore, the cultural activities are often far away and the social background is not a facilitator.

Considering this context, the project aims at boosting pupils’ambition and cultural awareness and at the same time promoting a shared European culture and a true intercultural experience thanks to pedagogical work between European teachers, cooperative work between pupils and encounters between the participants.

The school choir is the perfect communication medium. It conveys values such as solidary and gender equality. It also increases self esteem and the ability to learn for foreign peers coming from culturally and socially underprevileged backgrounds. It also reduces cultural and social gaps. Music reaches beyond language and social barriers.

This project is led by two French secondary schools that have already worked together on common choir projects for years. We have common programmes.
Our european partners have joined the project because of the historical ties their countries have with Normandy : Sicily, Southern Italty, Corfu and Ireland have indeed been in close relationship since the Middle Ages. The different partners also share the same educative concerns about the necessity to develop culture and interculturality for students socially disadvantaged.
When all the choirs meet, they will form a European choir. The pupils will then have the opportunity to develop their curiosity for others and for other countries, and a better understanding of what European citizenship means both in terms of history and territory. Thanks to this project we wish to reinforce the sense of belonging to the European community for the students engaged into our European Choir.

The project will run for two school years – from September 2019 to June 2021 at least 200 students and 40 European teachers will be involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197821 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège du Val de Souleuvre & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Collège Albert Camus
• IES Biar
• I.C.S.Gabriele D’Annunzio (Motta S.Anastasia – CT))
• SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA GALEGA GUILLELME BROWN
• 1st Gimnasium of Corfu