Diversity is our identity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Diversity is our identity

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

CONTEXT:

Our identity is our diversity: The current context marked by numerous crises in Europe (Brexit, refugees …) makes us wish to work about the question of identity. Indeed, these issues raise questions about the European project and one of its foundations: a common European identity. We want to bring at least some answers to our students even if an exhaustive study on European identity is impossible. Above all, we would like our students to grasp the idea that a European identity really exists, even if it is pluralistic one. Local and national identities center around a common European identity. That’s why we plan to use at least occasionally our regional or national languages, as well as English, in addition to the main language of the project, which is French.

AIMS:

The main goal also corresponds to the main mission of the school: Creating good learning conditions for our students to enable them to become informed citizens. The project work helps to combat school failure by offering educational activities that can motivate again those students who were not successful in the past. The main goal consists in developing social, civic, linguistic, technological, digital and intercultural skills as well as the creativity of the students.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS:

The entire school community (students, teachers, parents, management and administration) and external partners (European information centers, local and European elected representatives …) will be involved in our project.
The STUDENTS are between 14 and 18 years old and are at the heart of the project. We want to create the necessary conditions for the students to really get involved into the project and become the real actors.
At least 16 pupils per school will participate by the mobilities in the 6 common learning activities, at least 96 students for the six schools. The number of students participating in the local activities will vary. Depending on the local activities, there will be between 50 and 100 students per school that can be added.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES:

All activities are documented by video. All results will be in French or bilingual (with English or local / national language). The list below is not exhaustive:
– training activities involving joint meetings: C1 Luxembourg: debates on pluralistic identity; C2 Portugal: representation by each partner of a short play on identity and reflection on the outline of a scenario for a common theatre play; C3 Cyprus: writing a more detailed and specific scenario for the common play on identity; C4 France: realization of the choreographic elements of the common play; C5 Spain-Canary Islands: production of the soundtrack of the common play; C6 Spain-Valencia: representation of the common play.
– local activities (P1,2 …) between the joint meetings have the aim to prepare or implement joint training activities: preparation of the short play by each country as well as the preparation of the common play; preparations for debates; interviews with political representatives; school surveys; videos documenting the activities etc.
– publishing of the information and the results: Erasmus + area in each school, articles for school websites and the press, Etwinning and Twinspace, project logo etc.

METHODOLOGY:

The local coordinators, assisted by a team, coordinate the project at their schools, whereas the Luxembourg coordinator is responsible for the coordination at his own school and internationally. An evaluation grid makes it possible to evaluate the progress of the project and to react to possible problems throughout the two years. Students are at the heart of the project and are actively involved. All participants are supposed to be “multipliers” in order to be able to share the acquired skills with others.

IMPACTS AND EXPECTED RESULTS:

The main impacts will be on a civic, social and educational level: our students will be able to reflect and debate about plural identity and become “informed” citizens. The practical activities allow them to create and realize a common theatre play. All students, especially those with academic difficulties, can find in this project a meaningful source of motivation. Our schools and teachers can establish contacts with external partners: invitations of elected officials, partnerships (partner schools, information centers).

LONG TERM BENEFITS:

The activities and results are sufficiently wide-ranging and manifold (plays, debates …) so that many students and teachers can benefit from them. Partnerships between schools and European information centres as well as political representatives can be easily perpetuated by similar projects. The partnerships between schools can be continued with further projects, activities and specific mobilities.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/68647/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197170 Eur

Project Coordinator

Deutsch Luxemburgisches Schengen Lyzeum & Country: LU

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Jerónimo Emiliano de Andrade
• Lycee STELLA
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA JAUME I / INSTITUT D’EDUCACIÓ SECUNDÀRIA JAUME I
• Perifereiako Lykeio Livadion
• IES JOAQUÍN ARTILES