Encounters dedicated to Inclusion, Cohesion and Humanism in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Encounters dedicated to Inclusion, Cohesion and Humanism in Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project is the result of the desire of a French secondary school and its district primary school to make school inclusion a priority by relying on local resources and existing projects while sharing their reflection with other European schools to allow each student to plan for their education and mobility abroad regardless of their geographical, social, or disability.
55 French elementary and middle school students from low-income backgrounds and young people from a medical institute integrated in the school will participate with 56 other Greek youth from a secondary and a primary school in a project on the theme of living together through the practice of sports activities and a work on the values of sport and Olympism.

The activities on the eTwinning space of the project will allow young people to get to know each other, to discover and understand each other’s culture, to debate the themes of sport and its values, sport and inclusion by supporting their reflection with shared research in history, civic education, literature and general culture. questionnaires on stereotypes, interviews with high-level female/male/disabled/disabled/stateless/binational athletes, the history of handisports, the symbols of the Olympic Games, will be effective mediums for conducting exchanges between European students.
The mobility of all students will be experienced as a highlight of mutual aid, respect and tolerance around cultural discoveries and collective sports activities in which each student will have a place taking into account the diversity of profiles and difficulties faced by French and Greek students. The fact that students are in charge with their teachers of organising the stay of the classmates taking into account the concrete obstacles to be overcome for young people with disabilities, or allophone ones, will help to forge a civic awareness among the students. The philosophy of the project also relies on the mix of audiences, schoolchildren and college students to create solidarity between the youngest and the older ones.

The objectives for the schools are:
– to make the project a privileged time in the development of inclusion in the four institutions: to work together, to learn to live together.
– to give every French and Greek student the opportunity to experience mobility abroad and moments of encounters with other young Europeans regardless of their social or geographical origin or disability.
– to make sport a way for openness and integration.
– to build new pedagogical and educational practices with partners around school inclusion and forge lasting links of cooperation.
This project is expected to allow every student to feel well in his/her differences and smililarities : openness to others, adaptation in an unfamiliar environment, autonomy and accountability in relation to oneself and collective should facilitate the building of an authentic citizenship. Most of the students in the project have never traveled abroad ; thanks to this project, they will gain confidence and they will be able to look at their future in a more positive way knowing that they are able to succeed in beautiful projects despite their difficulties.
The social skills acquired throughout the project (learning to adapt, cooperate, debate, help each other, take into account differences and make them a collective force) can be transferred to learning and facilitate the students overcoming their difficulties (dare to ask for help, to say their difficulties, to rely on the collective, etc.). The links forged between the students as part of the project will allow the youngest to enter secondary school in France and Greece in a more serene way, and for all students to continue to correspond with their European friends.

Through this project the teams will also have questioned their practices regarding school inclusion. The pooling of practices, the collective creation of new activities will bring a fresh start to the teams in their daily practices. Teachers will be able to testify at academic seminars dedicated to the inclusion of schooling what they have learned and implemented as part of this project. The four institutions are conducting a policy of inclusion, the project should enable them to enhance this policy, to make it visible in the territories and to eventually become ressource institutions on the subject.

Project Website

https://view.genial.ly/616f3bd4768bed0e30497ab8

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131828 Eur

Project Coordinator

college LETOT & Country: FR

Project Partners

• SECOND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF IOANNINA INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
• 26th Primary School of Ioannina
• Ecole Primaire Hubert Bodin