City Walls Erasmus Project

Project Title

City Walls

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: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

it has been 30 years since the Berlin Wall has fallen, thus, in 2019, we would like to…

• Connect the European fortified cities;
• Get to know the cultural and architectural environments of each other’s cities (Roman walls, medieval ramparts, modern fortifications…);
• Question the identity of the fortified cities, in terms of history, architecture, urban life ; question the evolution(s) making them open or destroy their walls;
• Question the symbolical aspect of the notion of fortress – or rampart, which supports the citizens’ values, those of the human beings all over Europe;
• Establish a network to share the European values of freedom, the spirit of openness, the idea of integration.

The different partners – their profiles:

• 120 pupils, 20 accompanying adults (cf. attached file);
• 5 European high schools – Ferrare (Italy), Tabor (Czech Republic), Velo (Greece), Tolede (Spain), Metz (France);
• 5 trips.

The different activities:
• Creating and voting for the project’s logo – multinational contest;
• Pupils’ collaborative effort on Twinspace (and in English) to fill in questionnaires, to exchange pictures…;
• Guided tours of city walls, in English;
• Online conferences held by historians / sociologists / authors chosen by the host schools;
• Writing workshops, supervised by Stanislas Cotton, a playwright;
• Reporting on the four final productions (that will serve as the bases of the final performance);
• During the last trip : rehearsing and preparing the live show (drama play, video, body performance…) – the pupils from the different countries wil work in groups.

How we are going to complete the project successfully:

• Setting up a steering group;
• Working together or online with the help of Twinspace;
• Assessing the project;
• Circulating information about the project;
• Making it durable;

Expected results and impacts:

For the pupils
• Improving their English language skills;
• International links, building up a European citizenship and identity;
• Improving their digital skills;
• Improving collaborative work, be it together or online;
• Developing a sense of creativity.

For the schools
• Reinforcing the European identity;
• Integrating the project into the schools’ development plans;
• Spreading the project so the schools can benefit its repercussions;

For the teachers
• Discovering other educational systems;
• Exchanging views on the way we work;
• Multidisciplinary work on a European scale;
• Forward thinking;
• Creating a group dynamic;
• Recognition of skills;
• Professional training.

Project Website

https://www.facebook.com/cormontaigne/videos/2646442545660522

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85004,15 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE POLYVALENT LOUIS DE CORMONTAIGNE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Liceo Roiti
• VELO HIGH SCHOOL
• Gymnázium Pierra de Coubertina Tábor
• IES El Greco