From one port to the next : re-connecting students with their local surroundings by showing the way in which today’s world can be embodied within a territory. Erasmus Project
General information for the From one port to the next : re-connecting students with their local surroundings by showing the way in which today’s world can be embodied within a territory. Erasmus Project
Project Title
From one port to the next : re-connecting students with their local surroundings by showing the way in which today’s world can be embodied within a territory.
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 2018
Project Topics
This project is related with these Project Topics: Transport and mobility; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Teaching and learning of foreign languages
Project Summary
Throughout history, coastlines have played a dynamic role in the way territories have been organized. Indeed they have always been areas of high population density; the birthplace of many economic, human and cultural exchanges. Nowadays, our coastlines are a driving force of globalization but at the same time they are areas which are undergoing major transformations as far as their economic activities are concerned. Our project is based on a comparative and historical study of the different coastlines within a short distance of the each partner school, namely Clitheroe, which is situated not far from the north west coast of Britain and Perpignan, situated within a stone’s throw of the Mediterranean. Here we find two maritime spaces which connect the North and the South of Europe, two port areas which are living examples of planning and development choices and two futures which will need to be built with a new imperative in mind, namely that of sustainable development and coastline conservation.
Over the years, the cosmopolitanisms of port towns with their vast diversity of littoral landscapes have also inspired many great artists. What strikes us is the degree of imagination that these spaces can inspire and that is why we believe that an “artistic” creation is the best way to illustrate the work carried out by our pupils. In this era of social networks and the ever growing number of “selfies” that pupils use to put their daily lives on show, we feel that it would be interesting to include that aspect in our strategy of communication. The final production (an Instagram account based on a collection of photos of the places under study and their transformations) enables us to link both photography and a cross curricular study of the notions targeted. But above all it enables us to make our pupils ever more aware of the importance of civic behaviour among European citizens sharing similar pasts and presents.
Along the project it has seemed relevant to deal with the musical trends that were born in Liverpool and Manchester in order to find out to what extent they mirror their social and economic environments , and how they have evolved from a popular culture to a wider one.
As a matter of fact this topic has also enabled us to tackle other kinds of flows and to focus on other aspects of globalization.
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 42962 Eur
Project Coordinator
Lycée Aristide Maillol & Country: FR
Project Partners
- Clitheroe Royal Grammar School