Let’s dance together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s dance together

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

4 European partners
We are two French schools in isolated areas where students from disadvantaged social classes have little access to mobility, a Polish school seeking international openness, a Spanish school seeking new European experiences in order to enrich the educational path of its students. We are all faced with school failure and dropping out and we are looking for solutions to help our students reach a path of excellence and aspire to greater academic ambition.

The aim is to offer our students an opening to Europe through three countries (France-Poland-Spain) using the languages they are learning (Spanish, French and English as languages of communication) and to experiment with body language (dance) as a vector of communication and transnational cohesion. The idea is that our students can dance different dances together and discover that body language is also a language that allows them to meet and get to know each other.
We wish to enrich our exchanges by highlighting our regional peculiarities and identities.
Our working theme will therefore be: interculturality and our intangible heritage (dance and music).

Our objectives :
1- To make people discover our daily life, our dances and traditions (our intangible cultural heritage):
-Learn to know ourselves and to make our daily life known in the college.
-To make our regions and our regional cultures known.
-Discover the cultures of three other European territories.
-Sharing and experiencing together cultural and sporting activities (visits, flash mob type choreographic montages, practice of different dances: Breton dances, Polish dances, flamenco and percussive dance).
2- To make our students discover known or unknown European spaces:
-Discover Brittany and its strong cultural identity (its language, its music, its dances).
-Discover Andalusia, a region of Spain with a strong cultural identity (flamenco: dance, music, costumes, festivities…).
-Discover a Polish region: the Warmia and Masuria region (also called the Thousand Lakes region).
-Discover another French area: Burgundy. Our partners in Burgundy will be the carriers of the percussive dance project.
3- Develop transversal and basic skills:
-Use the modern languages that the students are learning.
-Work transversally on reporting projects (in languages, history, Breton, documentaries).
-Work on artistic and corporal expression: dance workshops.
-Fight against school drop-out by involving students in a motivating project with multiple inputs: written, oral, body language with various media (blog, photos, videos, web radio, online collaborative journal ….)

The project is aimed at 12 pupils per school (48 in total) aged 13 to 14 who have had little access to mobility. Among these pupils, we will integrate one pupil with a disability (from the ULIS class of the school Jacques Prévert). On a wider scale, we will make sure that the project spreads to involve a maximum number of pupils in our schools (by involving them in specific activities such as the flash mob which will be choreographed by pupils from the 6th grade in Brittany).

A project in three stages:
1-Time excluding mobility:
The time of preparation for the meeting and the discovery of the other through preparatory dance workshops, discovery workshops around the European question, exchanges of reports, videos, audio, Webradio programme, creation of a blog for the follow-up of the project…

2-The time of the meeting:
-The mobility of the pupils: 36 pupils + 12 pupils hosting: a stay in Brittany, a stay in Poland, a stay in Andalusia.
We will do a workshop of FLAMENCO dances in Andalusia, Breton dances in Brittany and Polish folk dances. The time of meetings between our students will give life to a “flash MOB”, to workshops with professionals from the world of dance and to three percussive dance workshops, taken in hand by the Burgundian students.

3- The time for assessment
Assessment of the experience lived during the three mobilities: production of an online collaborative review and a video that will retrace all our dance experiences throughout the project.

To set up and carry out the project, we have “dedicated hours” in our schools in co-animation: in Brittany, Burgundy, Poland and Andalusia, a time slot will be set aside to work on the project with the students.
With this project, we hope to fight against dropping out of school, social determinism and inequalities in access to mobility.
In the long term, we hope to train young people open to the diversity of human situations who will have a taste for mobility.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/110186/pages/page/1414572

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 124234 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jacques Prevert Guingamp & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES BEZMILIANA
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 34 im. Jozefa Malewskiego
• Collège Jean Mermoz – Chauffailles