GET INVOLVED! Erasmus Project

Project Title

GET INVOLVED!

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The Get Involved! (GIVE) KA229 Erasmus+ project is led by the high school Evariste Galois from Sartrouville, France. It is a secondary comprehensive school with demonstrated experience in international cooperation. It is currently coordinating the “Water & Earth Day” KA229 project and planning the sixth edition of the “Days of Evariste” (organised since 2016) which will be about the crucial notion of commitment.
It is around this universal theme and common objectives that we have designed the GIVE project with our students and partners. They are all schools welcoming students from diverse backgrounds and offering various courses and trainings: IES Matias Ramon Martinez from Burguillos del Cerro in Spain (a comprehensive middle school also providing professional training in catering professions), Dr Ivan Panov high school from Berkovitsa, Bulgaria (general education and courses in hotel management and food services), San Severino comprehensive school in Partinico, Sicily, International school Ill Liceum in Gdynia, Poland, and Bahcelievler Aydin Dogan vocational school in Istanbul, Turkey (training in journalism and media professions).
Our priority is to make students aware of the values they share by getting involved. We would like our students to become responsible citizens, aware of the global issues and challenges that they are confronted with, and conscious of the role they have to play as 21st-century citizens. We wish they stand up not only against climate change, but also against inequalities, in favour of peace and justice, and human rights.
In each school, an Erasmus+ club or workshop will be open to all volunteering students. Between mobilities, we will organise collaborative activities via the eTwinning platform: we will write, shoot, edit and subtitle a film about getting involved; we will create a collection of short stories for children, which will be first printed and then read but also performed in front of pupils from the local primary schools of each partner; we will organise an Erasmus+ film festival dedicated to the notion of getting involved, in cooperation with the national drama centre of Sartrouville, and open to other French schools; we will participate in a fund-raising charity race and awareness actions; we will create an active charity.
Seven mobilities are planned: one at each partner’s school and two at the coordinator’s. Each mobility will be open to four or five students and two staff members. A total of 160 students will take part in mobilities. The criteria for selecting the students will be transparent and non- discriminatory. Teachers will make sure they provide particular guidance and support to students facing economic, learning or academic difficulties, or students with special needs or other health problems, whose participation will be encouraged.
We aim at making the GIVE project a platform for equal opportunities and an opportunity to fight school dropout by empowering each student. Students will develop civil and social skills, digital and graphic skills, language and communication skills, organisation and project management skills. This project will allow students to expand their knowledge, discover other cultures, broaden their horizons, open their minds, cooperate and get involved in environmental and solidarity actions alongside charities or NGOs.
The GIVE project will enhance the local, regional, national and European influence and reputation of the partners. The output will be shared on eTwinning, on social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), on each school’s website, on the scolawebTV website (or its European equivalents), on the webmedia or Youtube channels when possible. The Erasmus+ results platform will be used to share the outcome of the project on the European scale.
The project will also improve the professional skills of our teaching staff and deepen their approach of project-based pedagogy. The last activities of the GIVE project will consider how it could live on, through the student association that will be created on the last mobility in Sartrouville, or through the organisation of a second edition of the Erasmus+ film festival on a different topic in 2023.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197810 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Evariste Galois & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Liceo Scientifico statale Santi Savarino Partinico
• III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace z Oddzialami Dwujezycznymi im.Marynarki Wojennej RP w Gdyni
• IESO MATIAS RAMON MARTINEZ
• Profilirana Gimnazia Dr Ivan Panov
• Bahcelievler Aydin Dogan MTAL