Health and Safety at Work : an International Issue Erasmus Project

Project Title

Health and Safety at Work : an International Issue

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: Health and wellbeing; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Transport and mobility

Project Summary

Health and safety at work: an international issue
This two-year project involves two countries: France and Poland. There are two priorities : the support to individuals’ acquisition and development of basic skills and the promotion of a coherent approach of the languages teaching and learning.
This project was born when partners felt the need to open up internationally, to valorize their vocational school, to exchange teaching practices, to develop the teaching of the European citizenship and to strengthen the regular practice of a foreign language (English).
The partners also notice that one of the most important issue to them health and safety at work is an essential issue which involves many actors, students at first.
This project would enable the students to tackle and to realize the issue of this problematic, as well as to improve their language and digital skills. This project would also enable to their experience of mobility and to value it on a resume.
The teachers will also take advantage in this project. Apart from the educational exchanges, the team work (intra or transnational) will be strengthened and developed.
We’ll have two goals to achieve on both the form and the substance. The formal and informal communication will be facilitated and more spontaneous between the participants.
In addition, the students will get familiar with the intended issue and will improve their language and digital skills.
These objectives will be achieved by the creation of manual of tips how to behave at work to avoid risky situations (from wich some posters wil be created), short videos and dictionary of logistics and transportation terms. One of short videos will represent the project of the two schools at a contest organized by INRS (National Institute for the prevention of accidents at work and professional diseases). This contest is entitled “Health and Safety at work: from school to workplace, it’s up to you to film”. The project will be also involved during the European Vocational Skills Week.
Thanks to all these activities, the participants will be able to work differently mainly by cooperating with students from another country, to stimulate their creativity and to carry out numerous skills especially language and digital skills.
The platform eTwinning will be used to perform the activities. The work will be synchronous and asynchronous. We’ ll prepare and organize the future physical mobilities but we’ll mostly work on virtual mobilities. Moreover, all the activities will be recorded on eTwinning so that the project management can be seen by everybody.
The participants aged 16 to 19 study LOGISTICS/TRANSPORT. The whole school team will be involved in the project.
For the French vocational school, the participants will come from the 1ère BAC PRO LOGISTIQUE/TRANSPORT (24 students). Eight students and three teachers will take part in every physical mobility.
For the Polish school, the participants will come from the third year of LOGISTICS (MATURA: similar to BACCALAUREAT). Eight students and three teachers will take part in the physical mobilities.
This project is part of the students’ school curriculum. Throughout the two years the project will serve as guidelines for the teachers to mainstream the activities to their teaching.
During every physical mobility, the students will attend a training related to safety in warehouses, will do artistic and professional work (pictures, posters, videos), they will visit companies and organizations relevant in safety at work and will study regulations related to safety in companies in the host country.
The students will be able to assess themselves regularly in the language and digital fields. Their involvement will be also assessed during the two years thanks to a record with items such as regular attendance, a renewed interest, familiarity with the health and safety at work issue.
An exhibition will be organized to show the students’ works with an official opening in each school and will be made available to the school community (on the website of the partner school, on education sites and on eTwinning and on Facebook page) at the end of the project.
The participants also will participate to events ERASMUS DAY and the European Vocational SKills Week

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51996 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE RENE CASSIN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Transportowo-Komunikacyjnych im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Lublinie