History and issues of sea routes for Europe ,seas and oceans, places of exchanges of yesterday and today. Erasmus Project

Project Title

History and issues of sea routes for Europe ,seas and oceans, places of exchanges of yesterday and today.

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The Academy of Normandy has made internationalisation and mobility a priority for its students and more particularly for young people from underprivileged backgrounds in order to increase their academic ambition and future adaptability in an internationalised world.
The secondary school Les Provinces, part of a Priority Education Network, located in Cherbourg in the Cotentin region, provides schooling for pupils from very disadvantaged backgrounds and far from mobility. For these pupils, leaving their family, leaving the local territory, confronting cultural differences while freeing themselves from representations that hinder encounters, remains a challenge.
After extensive work on its inclusive school climate, the school has then decided to develop a policy of international openness for all pupils who need to meet others beyond borders and to build themselves as European citizens by leaving their families, neighbourhoods and territories.

Three Italian, Spanish and Romanian schools, which share the same approaches of openness, caring and save school culture, project pedagogy and citizenship education, have chosen to work with the French school on the following objectives:
– To develop a culture of openness and mobility among all pupils, whatever their geographical, cultural or social situation, in order to prevent them from dropping out of school and to give each of them ambition.
– To give students the opportunity to practise foreign languages in an authentic context favorable to exchanges.
– To contribute to the construction of the students’ citizenship path

129 pupils aged 13 and 14 years old, in the 4th grade and in the Adapted General and Vocational Education Section, some of them in great social or academic difficulty, will work together with the teaching teams for two years on the theme of the seas and oceans, places of exchange in Europe yesterday and today, in connection with school curriculum.

The work between all the pupils will be carried out on the eTwinning space of the project and in during the mobilities. The activities will focus on 3 areas – migration yesterday and today; culture and its dissemination yesterday and today, and trade yesterday and today. History, geography, economics, culture, literature, arts and technology will be invited through research, collecting and sharing information in each country which will enable pupils to acquire tools for understanding the major current debates in Europe. The second phase of the project will be based on the simulation of a face-to-face UN conference on the current challenges of these three themes (migration/culture/trade and environmental impacts).
The students’ mobility will also be an opportunity to discover the culture of another country.
All exchanges will be conducted in 4 languages – French, Italian, Spanish and English.

At the end of the project, the most distant pupils from mobility and those with the greatest difficulties will have had a first experience of moving abroad which will be a source of greater self-confidence, an opening up to future mobilities and greater academic ambition. Thanks to the educational, cultural and social mix of the project group, all the pupils will also have made progress in their relationship with each other.
The theme of the project, the work in international groups, the discovery of different European cultures will have contributed to the construction of citizenship of young people. The knowledge acquired on the history of Europe – migration, cultural and commercial exchanges by sea – and the social skills developed (adapting, communicating, cooperating, debating, proposing, voting) will enable pupils to understand the current challenges of the world and to find their place as citizens. Thanks to the practice of several languages in authentic communication situations for two years, pupils will be able to exchange effectively with other young Europeans during their schooling and in their lives as young adults.

In the longer term, the aim is to make international openness and mobility an essential part of the pupils’ educational pathway, by ensuring the inclusion of the most vulnerable school groups. The four schools that will have gained competence in the development of European projects, will be able to broaden their cooperation and include this international axis in their policy in a sustainable way. The school part of the Priority Education Network will be able to prove the strong impact of an international opening for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. It will be able to help other schools of Priority Education Network to rely on international openness to make things better for their pupils. Thanks to the Erasmus + project developed at the heart of deprived neighbourhoods, Europe will become a reality for pupils and families and the secondary school will strengthen its role in the social inclusion of the most vulnerable.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126548 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLÈGE LES PROVINCES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Kindergarten s.r.l.
• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.1 Urdari
• COLEGIO DIVINA INFANTITA ALMERIA