Mixité & Ambition dans le Spatial Comme Outils Transculturels & Transdisciplinaires en Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mixité & Ambition dans le Spatial Comme Outils Transculturels & Transdisciplinaires en Education

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The main objective of the “MASCOT” project was on one hand to promote academic ambition girls and boys and on the other hand of the male / female parity in areas where girls dare not commit, and use this promotion as women’s employment motor. To achieve this goal, we took benefit on the Space domain: highly dynamic industrial and cultural environment in the Toulouse region and regions of our German and Italian partners. The Riquet high school is experiencing in recent years an innovative exploration education in Space domain, where parity takes a great place. The school wanted to work with German and Italian European partner schools, which share a similar objective to create a common approach and a teaching tool to guide students in their career choices: particularly encourage girls having the relevant skills to head science and technology sectors and related jobs. In the first part of the project, we crossed between partner schools our own strategies and teaching tools: interdisciplinary courses, skills grids and evaluation, course materials for teachers, tools for students etc. Each partner has observed the practices implemented in other European cultural and educational context. By transnational encounters we shared the observations of teachers and those of students in order to produce common strategies and tools that are made available on an LMS platform through course materials. Each meeting was an opportunity for immersion in schools for students and teachers, as well as for the local culture, which made to promote linguistic exchanges in French and / or English, or even in the language of the host country; all the action has produced educational benefits, cultural and linguistic.
In a second part of the project, the contributions of our respective companies and organizations in the space sector (Ariane Cities Committee, aerospace companies, network space …) have enabled students to enrich their knowledge of space jobs, discover the importance of cultural specificities involved within multinational industrial teams. This contribution enlarged their career vision, and enabled them to consider jobs at European level, while allowing them to build relationships with professionals from the three partner countries. For this purpose, the project activities focused on three complementary themes: knowledge of other European cultures, Space in its industrial dimensions (e.g. design applications, simulation, additive manufacturing,…) and cultural (eg historic, cinematographic, literary), and educational guidance through the discovery of various trades. Following these activities, in order to promote educational and professional ambition at European level, for both girls and boys, students at the heart of the project produced in cooperation multilingual support with their work (posters, videos, newspapers, etc.). These supports are broadcasted via Internet to a wide audience, with the communication and dissemination to European high schools. The transdisciplinary work has been the key vehicle of these activities and has, beyond the target classes, involved all actors of the three schools by highlighting the importance of cross-fertilization of different academic disciplines (literature, linguistic, economic or scientific) in any educational innovation but also in all business lines including highly technological sectors. The project’s success is based on the direct involvement in the project activities of many students over 3 years, 169 of whom participated in the international mobility. Works from both the students side and the teachers side has been carried out in such a way that they can be reused in other projects for educational guidance in different areas of Spatial such as Aeronautics, Agriculture, Development sustainable, renewable energy, ecology …

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125619,57 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Pierre-Paul RIQUET & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Gymnasium Vegesack
• IIS Albert Einstein