Facing the future – European teenagers coming together to meet common challenges Erasmus Project

Project Title

Facing the future – European teenagers coming together to meet common challenges

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: Migrants’ issues; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Facing the future – European teenagers coming together to meet common challenges”, from September 2019 to August 2021, invites students from Salerno (Italy), Fort-de-France (Martinique) and Duesseldorf (Germany) to examine two significant and omnipresent challenges in their lives. As the students from all three countries are daily challenged with various migrational and environmental challenges in their town, at their school and home those two challenges are the central focuses. Meeting and collaborating with students from two other European countries they will learn about possible coping strategies and gain new insights regarding these challenges. Thus, the project aims at supporting our students in developing basic skills and key competences in the context of environment and migrant issues. As the final product will be the creation of a 360 degree video including all the results linked to the objectives, the participation also ensures an increase in their digital competences. The involved students comprise nine students from each partner organization aged 14 to 17, who are extremely motivated in dealing with environmental and migrants’ issues and partly attend CLIL classes at their respective schools. All of them learn English as their first or second foreign language at school. In order to foster our students’ intercultural competence and gain insights about different approaches first-hand, there will be three venues, each hosted by one of the partner schools. Whereas Martinique hosts the various activities concerning environmental issues, Salerno’s focus is on migration and Duesseldorf takes care of the final evaluation and fusioning of the results and taken measures. However, students from all organizations will prepare the respective meetings soundly by creating videos about their personal behaviour and attitudes in terms of waste reduction, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy and another one informing about each country’s history of migration before each meeting. This ensures an apporiate examination of the topics beforehand, trains their research skills and builds the basis for the respective encounter also language-wise. We expect the students to learn from the other countries’ perspectives and find new ways of coping with these challenges they can possibly implement in their town, at their school or home (e.g. parent-migrant student mentoring program, waste separation at school, international and multicultural festival etc.) to promote a more sustainable and multicultural Europe in different sectors of life. As the students will also meet an EU respresentative and local politicians their wishes, ideas and possible requests will also be communicated on a political level. Taking action in their every-day life and standing up for their more sustainable and multicultural future by spreading their ideas with the 360 degree video and promoting their results ensure a long-term realization and implementation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 5275,9 Eur

Project Coordinator

Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Liceo Statale Alfano I
• lycée général et technologique de Bellevue