Cultural awareness and academic ambition through European mobilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural awareness and academic ambition through European mobilities

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our project is entirely in keeping with the ongoing one regarding mobilities for adults (2017/2019) within a consortium we are currently leading as a pilot organization.It appears more relevant today to take the next step through a project of mobilities for students, in order to pursue our development project which focuses both on scholar ambition (which also represents the basis of our school project) and on cultural awareness among a student population who mainly comes from underprivileged areas around Dreux. We would like these forthcoming students to realize that long term studies after the bachelor’s degree are not restricted to an elite, but rather that any well-focused and motivated student can be successful, whatever his/her origins and social conditions.
Making these students understand the issues of the European project and make them aware of their roles within this project perfectly matches our willingness to opening which will be rich both on a personal and professional levels. It will be easier to foster mobilities for students compared to the experience lived by the adults who will supervise them.
The possibility to continue exchanging with our current European partners by involving students makes full sense after all the projects initiated thanks to our previous mobilities for adults (mainly in mathematics, sciences, or in social and economic sciences)
Our high school and especially the cinema option (which is the most important in the regional education authority) as well as its developed linguistic pole wants to help its students to continue their studies in good conditions thanks to this access to European. The issue of autonomy among our young people, their motivation, in connection with our school project, enables to take this project so as to help develop self-confidence among teenagers.
In order to meet the objectives set both by the high school reform and the new bachelor’s degree, we would also like to put the emphasis on the practice of speaking foreign languages, which our French pupils are mostly and desperately lacking. Our choice to keep the four specialties regarding “foreign languages, literatures and civilisations” (also called “Langues, Littératures et Civilisations Etrangères “ or LLCE) in English, German, Italian and Spanish in year 11 (or “première”) from 2019 on, are part of our will to send our students throughout Europe.
Moreover, our action taken towards European opening is part of an education to a successful school counselling and to a strong individualization of educational pathways. As members of a French school, we still have a lot to learn regarding international studies on this point, so as to provide school counselling to our pupils and to enable them to reorientate over the years and evolutions : as such, the enrichment brought up by our European partners will be of paramount importance.
Therefore, we would like to promote not only the European cultural opening but also the discovery of foreign scholar systems in the hope of giving a successful personal development thanks to a forthcoming and effective social inclusion to our students, who belong to a school population often captive and underprivileged, who are not entitled to access the roads of excellence without the support of the Republican school. The issue of self-assertion and the making of the future responsible citizen, which we support, also matches the objectives of this project.
Studies led by our teachers when they were hosted by each of our partners enable us to consider serenely the added value of a project which is now opened to students regarding self-confidence, open-mindedness, and the themes of citizenship for their individual and personal construction.
With 5 foreign partners (among whom three are partners from the previous project, like for example Italy, Germany, and Poland), we will involve forty year11 students (or “première”) who have chosen one of the four specialties regarding “foreign languages, literatures and civilisations ” (or LLCE) in september 2019 and two accompanying teachers, according to their commitment into the global linguistic project. These students will not be those following the European section (as these latter often benefit from trips abroad paid by their families and by our own school budget). We will target this level owing to the objectives of the new 2021 Bachelor’s degree and the final oral examination, according to the motivation of the students who have chosen one linguistic specialty.
Therefore, this represents groups of 8 students for each country with 2 different teachers each time. The relevance between those students and their destinations will be decided on the basis of the language they are studying, but also on their personal project, in accordance with the education to school counselling. Students from underprivileged backgrounds (in particular scholarship students) will be a top priority in our selection, should we be financed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 467,56 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée ROTROU & Country: FR

Project Partners

• 2o GENIKO LYKEIO NEAS IONIAS MAGNISIAS
• INS Guillem de Berguedà
• Liceo statale M.G. Agnesi
• ZSO nr 1 Poznan
• Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium