Différentes côtes pour un même horizon Erasmus Project

Project Title

Différentes côtes pour un même horizon

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: Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

To us, the current project is the logical consequence of the 2017-2019 teachers’ mobility that were
made possible by the first Erasmus file we submitted in 2016.
Jean Mounès Secondary School in Pornic is located on the Atlantic coast, in a rural environment « le
Pays de Retz », but it is only 50 kms away from Nantes, our regional capital, that can rely on
numerous infrastructures conducive to travel and exchanges. So, at first glance, it offers our pupils a
window on Europe and its educational system, which are of major importance today, especially for
a population so differently favored be it socially, economically and culturally.
To help our students get a concrete awareness of their European citizenship, we now wish to stabilize
and make our exchanges with the schools of Battipaglia in Italy and Vogar in Iceland durable.
From this year on, the pairing of our school with the Istituto comprensivo « G. Marconi » made official
by Mister William Marois, Chief Education Officer for Nantes regional education authority in 2014 has
turned into a genuine exchange between students from Pornic and students from Battipaglia. Such a
transformation was made possible by the Erasmus+ project subsidy.
Besides, in October 2018, our Headmaster, Mister Christian Caillaud met Mister Hàlfdan þorsteinsson,
Headmatser of St. O Ru-Vogask ó Li in Iceland and Giacoma Capuano, headmaster of G. Marconi in order to build official contacts and implement the
necessary conditions for a plentiful exchange between our three schools.
To make this awareness of their European identity real, we would like our students to meet their Italian
and Icelandic peers but we would like these meetings to be achieved in a considered and
pragmatic way, first by making acquaintance via the Etwinning platform and different activities
posted on its twinspace – which they have been doing since September 2018 – and secondly by
working before, during and after their exchanges with these two countries on common subjects such
as:
– Seismology: our three schools are located in seismic areas;
– Volcanism: this phenomenon concerns Battipaglia which is near Naples, as well as Vogar, on
a daily basis. For our French students, this subject is part of their school year curriculum and we
tackle it extensively with the “Erasmus+” year 9 we created this year, in September 2018, a
class of 30 students that targets pupils whose yearning to learn is unequal and who will travel
abroad for the first time;
– The dangers of living on a coastline, be it Neapolitan, Icelandic or Atlantic.
We also long for them to widen their knowledge of these two foreign countries and cultures through
their literature. They can already do so thanks to the collections of Italian and Icelandic books at
their disposal in our school library. These collections have been bought ever since 2016 and we
would like to be able to go on supplying and exploiting them. What we aim at doing more precisely
is to promote books and stories related to volcanoes by writers like Jules Verne, Jon Steingrimsson
and Pliny.
The purpose of all these themes and various materials is to alert our students to security issues that
living by the sea, near a volcano or in a place prone to earthquakes involves.
Sharing our daily experiences with our two partners should improve our pupils’ language and science
achievements and skills. It should also nourish their sense of belonging to the European entity thanks
to common concerns and experiences. Our project aims at strengthening their attachment to a
common cause, better understanding of the other through concrete subjects that concern the
present and future of Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 49480 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jean MOUNES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTISTUTO COMPRENSIVO “G.MARCONI” DI BATTIPAGLIA
• Stóru-Vogaskóli