Exercise your European citizenship to discover Romanian history and culture and the organisation of people care in Romania Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exercise your European citizenship to discover Romanian history and culture and the organisation of people care in Romania

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our territories are isolated. So are our students.

Feeling like a European citizen is more difficult for a young person who does not necessarily have the means (logistical, financial…) and opportunities (cultural, social blockages…) to leave the rather restricted perimeter of his municipality, or even his district. In these times when withdrawal into oneself is the general rule, when the rise of populism becomes the almost systematic reflex of our societies, openness to the other and to difference, the banishment of cleavages and the abolition of distances through the exercise of this citizenship becomes a necessity.

In a context of partnership between the Rhône department and Romania, and more particularly the Judet d’Alba, the vocational school of Charentay has decided to initiate a partnership with a Romanian school and to organize a school exchange between the two establishments.
The objectives are multiple:
– enable young people in both countries to be aware and to understand their european citizenship, to grow it.
– work differently, giving a concrete, practical and immediate aspect, language learning;
– discover another history, another culture, see the country and introduce its own history, culture and country.
– go outside their comfort zone, beyond their limits and thus grow up;
– understand a different conception of people care, in another country, another culture and another context.

Thus, the 2nd BAC PRO SAPAT (People care and territories) group, representing about thirty students, is participating in the project. Under the guidance of their trainers, they will benefit from a programme combining the discovery of the host country (history, culture, organisation of the social system), meeting Romanian students through a bilateral school exchange, and the production of various communication materials that will promote their action with all functional and institutional partners.
The development of an exchange platform between the two schools will be a prerequisite for the organisation of the project: this platform, which will probably take the form of a website with a shared cloud, will allow easy communication between the two partners and could be considered as the project’s “show room”.
The students will be asked to produce a written, individual and collective report, which will bring together all the activities carried out but also the various checking and assessment procedures organised throughout the project ; a photo exhibition, as well as a powerpoint presentation, will complete the range of promotional tools, and will serve as a support for the various project presentations that will be made at the end of the exchange (presentations to the Board of Directors, parents’ meetings, federal and institutional partners, as well as neighbouring schools).

Finally, this first exchange of the vocational school of Charentay aims to settle the Erasmus+ action on a long-term basis within the establishment and to place it at the heart of our training practices. As we see it, an Erasmus+ project can become a real driving force for training and will be a source of motivation and emulation for all our students. It is also a first in this type of project for school team ; the goal is to familiarise staff with these approaches in order to develop cooperation with European institutions and professionals in the world of people care, in order to organise individual mobility to enable our students to spend training periods abroad.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 4117 Eur

Project Coordinator

MFR Charentay & Country: FR

Project Partners

• COLEGIUL ECONOMIC DIONISIE POP MARTIAN