Live culture, love culture Erasmus Project

Project Title

Live culture, love culture

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

This project was born at a meeting between language professors at an eTwinning seminar in Turin in 2018. Through the sharing of a common project centered on culture and as part of the European year of cultural heritage 2018, we had the opportunity to keep in contact, building upon our ideas to create a full-fledged project design. Following the initial exchanges and activities carried out on-site at the seminar, the idea for the project « Culture en vie envie de culture » (Live Culture, Love Culture) between Metropolitan France, Reunion Island, and Italy was born. Throughout the year of 2019, two other partners joined the project. These additional partners were already engaged in another eTwinning project with the French high school, lycée François Mansart. Because our institutions were already familiar with each other through eTwinning, we were able to come together and create an outline of a project that would correspond to our respective geographical and cultural realities. For this purpose, we aim to focus on the enhancement of local cultural or natural heritage in our respective regions. This exchange project with other European students is an opportunity to (re)discover an aspect of a cultural or national heritage that may be very closely located to the students geographically, but may not seem to them as such. We consider exchange to be an opportunity to become more aware of other countries, while also providing the chance to further explore the rich culture and natural environment of one’s own country.
The strength of the project also lies in the heterogeneity of its participants:
– In Spain, a technological high school
– In France, a vocational high school
– In Reunion Island, a middle school
– In Ireland, a multi-purpose high school
– In Italy, a secondary school
One hundred students will directly participate in the project (through the exchanges and other educational activities), but we expect all students in our institutions to take part in this Erasmus+ project (through our preparation to receive partners and promotion of the project). In Reunion Island, as in metropolitan France, our schools welcome students from disadvantaged backgrounds and do not normally benefit from a supply of diversified culture. It is a question of working in a common way to discover the local patrimonial sites firstly through the natural and/or cultural heritage:
– France: the mining heritage in Valenciennes (Northern France)
– Norcia, Italy: rebuilding and preservation of a medieval city destroyed by the earthquake in 2016 and the surprising discovery of a new river flowing through the valley.
– Reunion Island: a UNESCO World Heritage Site: “le Piton de la Fournaise and the cirques”
– Ireland: the Cliffs of Moher and Croagh Patrick (a place of pilgrimage and hiking)
– Spain: the region of la Garrotxa and its 40 dormant volcanoes
Students will be expected to produce virtual courses presenting the chosen natural and cultural site in English/French/Italian via mobile geolocation and applications such as GuidiGO or others (ie: Geocaching).
We will rely on the online work platform proposed by eTwinning: the Twinspace. This service will allow us to:
– Deposit the educational activities and audio-visual resources of the students and for the students
– Chat live (using Live Chat)
– Virtually discover the regions included in this project
– Prepare for the exchanges of our partners
A blog will also be created and will serve as a logbook of our exchanges and other mobility. It will be gradually fueled by student-created productions and testimonies.
To carry out the project, it is essential to train the students and teachers regarding the necessary digital tools (mainly the geolocation applications), so that they may carry out the final task using: Actionbound, Guidigo, Geocaching, Relive, etc.
Moreover, in the context of transnational meetings, the participants will collaborate in the creation and implementation of the project from its launch to its finalization. Through the realization of this project, each partner, supported by their management, will answer a problem specific to its establishment:
– In France, the principal of the vocational high school will be interested to use this project to prevent early school leaving.
– In Italy, the director will show how this project contributes to preserving the memory of certain cultural places
– In Spain, the director will be able to register this Erasmus project in the continuity of the policy of presenting Europe its establishment on the scale of Catalonia
– In Ireland, the principal will be able to show how Europe’s help enables him to promote the opening up of his region and to address the question of the dynamics of European rural territories.
– In Reunion Island, the principal will highlight the policy of international opening up of his establishment and will show how this project brings this outermost region of the continent closer together.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 244636 Eur

Project Coordinator

collège Mille Roches & Country: FR

Project Partners

• BOSC DE LA COMA
• Lycée professionnel François Mansart
• ISTITUTO OMNICOMPRENSIVO “DE GASPERI-BATTAGLIA’
• Ballyhaunis Community School