European heritages and eco-citizenship to prevent school dropout Erasmus Project

Project Title

European heritages and eco-citizenship to prevent school dropout

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

To promote the “2018/2019 Year of Chemistry from School to University”, a PEAC (Cultural Action Educational Project): “Chemistry and Natural and Architectural Heritage to develop eco-citizenship” is presented in pedagogical council and voted on the board of the LP DE L’HORIZON from the first trimester of the 2018 school year. This PEAC conducted with classes CAP Sale and classes of Bac Pro Architecture and Intervention on Built Heritage, coordinated by a professor of Math./Sciences, takes place over the school year. The registration of this PEAC on the e-twinning Platform since September 2018, is an opportunity for students to report on their actions by interacting with European partners on the valuation and preservation of Natural and Architectural Heritage.
Virtual exchange students often in a situation of inclusion, expressed the will to create a real exchange of practices to show the projects carried out in the schools of each of the European partners. The teachers involved in the e-Twinning exchange decide to concretize by the candidacy for a school exchange KA229 2019 session whose coordinator is the LP DE L’HORIZON. European funding will provide students with country-specific heritage and geographical discoveries: mobility a lever against exclusion. This theme is the guiding principle to prevent school dropout by allowing students to create a “lived” by becoming actors in their skills.
This partnership KA229 is realized with 4 high schools of secondary and professional education. The Valorization of European Natural and Architectural Heritage to develop eco-citizenship is the strategy used to develop basic skills (for students in inclusion) and also cross-curricular skills and European citizenship ie knowledge to be. As a result, it is necessary to prevent school dropout.
The main objectives of the partnership are:
– To exchange, pool on pedagogical and didactic approaches to help the student to be confident, to communicate with European counterparts of all horizons, to be aware of the riches of his country to be able to value them, to develop his skills basic reading and writing and maths for students most in difficulty, to overcome the geographical and psychological difficulties to achieve mobility, so prepare for professional integration that often requires being mobile, to discover trades.
-to help students develop their transversal skills and create a “lived” that will make them actors of their knowledge, know-how and skills to become true eco-citizens and ambassadors of life in their country / city /school .
The educational and didactic method is to use the professional skills acquired during the KA101 training in Granada in July 2019:
– develop creativity and innovation to ensure the effectiveness of the knowledge triangle: education-research-innovation;
– to explore innovative methods for intercultural dialogue and participation with a transversal approach.
Several activities are implemented within the various European institutions to allow the realization of the objectives of the project and according to innovating modalities:
– collaborative work: creation of padlets, communications by email, on the eTwinning platform;
– co-teaching sessions between vocational and general education so that students are aware of the project as a whole;
– In-house collaborations with communities, associations, businesses, artisans.
– educational outings related to the project: visits to cultural sites, museums, businesses, artisans
– stays in a reading and writing center to develop the basic skills of students in inclusion
– the use of ICT
Students work in a dual perspective and on the principle of the inverted class:
– to carry out activities in connection with natural and built heritage and eco-citizen gestures in their own country;
– to carry out investigations to discover the countries of the other partners while ensuring this discovery by communications on the TwinSpace
Through these virtual and real school exchanges, transversal skills and key competences are implemented.
The concrete result will be the Production of a Mobility Passport which will identify the techniques of appropriation of mobilities, an analysis of the eco-citizen activities carried out at each of the Partners visited to promote and preserve the Natural and Architectural Heritage. This Mobility Passport will be in the form of a Project Manager resulting from the pooling of acquired skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128274 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Professionnel de L’Horizon & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Liceul Teoretic “Nicolae Titulescu”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Augusto Cabrita
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Marco Polo Ruggero Bonghi