Committed Travelling European Student Erasmus Project

Project Title

Committed Travelling European Student

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The Erasmus+ EVLI project – Euro Voyageur Lycéen Investi – was born out of an observation: during mobilities abroad, whether it be exchanges, school trips or internships, students often show a consumer and passive attitude. They only try to touch the monuments, to take selfies, without necessarily taking the time to prepare their stay, without taking the time to meet the people who welcome them, or even without taking stock of the contributions of the trip in terms of knowledge and progress.

Our European team, made up of participants from three countries, Italy, the Czech Republic and France, has produced a guide, throughout the two years of the project, declined in different ways to try to change this state of mind and train young European travellers who respect their heritage and wish to enhance it.

This guide first of all took the form of posters, during the first year, produced in tri-national teams and illustrating 4 areas: Accommodation, City Life, Historical and Cultural Monuments, Natural Sites.
Then, in the second year, the teams chose, in an eco-responsible approach, to produce the guide in the form of Powtoon video capsules. While continuing the work of exchange and consultation begun in the first year, the evolution of the mentality of our teams of high school students involved has made it possible to produce, in each country, capsules in much more than the three initial languages of the project in order to highlight the idea that our European richness also comes from our diversity.

The realisation of our project involved, on the one hand, the training of teachers and students in the digital tools necessary for the production of the guide and, on the other hand, face-to-face meetings – during mobility – and remote meetings via Padlet, videoconferencing, social networks and e-mail in order to enable consultations, exchanges and productions.

The mobilities, initially planned to be five in number – two in Italy, two in France and one in the Czech Republic – were not all able to take place.
The health crisis due to the Covid pandemic19 led to the cancellation of the last mobility planned for May 2020 in Mérignac and the official presentation of the guide. However, the participants continued and finalised their work during the lockdown. They then carried out a virtual closure by videoconference and were thus able to bring this project to a successful conclusion in a constructive and benevolent spirit.

This project enabled all participants to deepen or acquire numerous digital skills (creation of the website, use of eTwinning, mastery of video editing or presentation software such as Padlet, Powtoon, etc.), linguistic (both written and oral), communicative (exchanges on social networks, promotion of various productions), organisational (working in teams and autonomously, organisation of working time and definition/adjustment of objectives) and managerial (decision-making, caring, knowing how to delegate) skills.
The productions produced, in particular the video capsules, have been the subject of institutional, local, national and international dissemination and promotion by the local press. The guide appears as a reference document for students and for any teacher wishing to organise a mobility abroad as part of an Erasmus project or a school trip.
The participants were also able to evaluate, thanks to a questionnaire, the journey made during the two years of the project and to participate in the production of a video synthesis in English.

This project also obtained the European Label in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and was a finalist – in the general and technological high school category – for the Hippocrène Prize for Education in Europe 2020.

But above all, for all its participants, this project remains and will remain a formidable meeting of European teams who have seen a concrete change in the way they approach a mobility abroad.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 86418 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE Fernand DAGUIN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Nymburk, Soudni 20
• I.T.E. “Antonino Calabretta”