Nîmes Verona Exchange: Opening and Language 2021 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nîmes Verona Exchange: Opening and Language 2021

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: Access for disadvantaged; Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The Lycée Professionnel Voltaire located in Nîmes, France, and the IPSSAR Angelo Berti, located in Verona, Italy, are two vocational public schools for teenagers and adults. Both provide trainings in the field of hospitality and catering: cooking, restaurant service, pastry baking and hotel reception.
The aim of the project ENVOL, as imagined by the two schools and hopefully financed by Erasmus+, is to continue and develop their international actions in order to improve the quality of the available trainings. Both schools also hope to have more and more students be granted the chance to take part into such experiences that enhance the quality of their training as well as their personnal and professional exprience by being a doorway to foreing countries.
This project consists in a sharing of professionnal practices and cultural knowledge based on a school year use of e-twinning website, and on two mobilties in each partner school. In France, it is meant for all volontary students of the first year of hospitality and catering field, and in Italy it is meant for all students having French as a foreign language lessons in the 4th year of their training. A group of 15 students in each school, will be chosen among all the participants to the project, to take part into a real mobility. Students are aged between 15 and 19 years old.

Regarding the working methods, the project is based on several activities that are to supply the e-twinning sharings and prepare the mobilites to come, such as:
– Inter-language units: Meant to have pupils learn professional vocabulary in the foreign language part of their training, bus also as an beginer’s guide to the various native languages of the students.
– Professional workshop units: Meant to teach students elements of their local products and specialties so that they can in turn pass that knowledge on to their peers from the other school.
– Co-teaching units: Focused on the professionnal as well as general courses programs, these units are meant to have students work on subjects and knowledge they can then share with their penfriends during the exchange (on the artistic and tourism heritage for instance).
All the produced work will be used for the e-twinning exchanges and sharings, that thanks to the material from these 3 types of units, will be part of a good relationship between the students of the two schools, and also will be used as a common thread for the project.
Eventually the mobilities, that are the climax of the project, will give the students a chance to practice and/or share all their previous learnings, during the meetings with their penfriends.

The expectec results for the project are:
– Improve the learning skills of the students: With this project, students get in contact with new professional know-how and will have a chance to use and enhance their owns.
– Improve their independance and self-esteem: Many of our students are of modest origins or social backgrounds, and as a consequence never really left their homes, families or region. This experience, thanks to the frame it offers, might tone down international (or even national) departure.
– Improve foreign language skills: For the same reasons previously mentionned, our students often don’t understand the real value of learning foreign languages, including in their professional field. An experience like this one, based on exchanges and meetings of foreign students is for them a chance to realise that learning a foreing language is nowadays mandatory and the inter-languages units will hopefully increase their awareness on this matter.
– Better understanding of inter-cultural facts: Due to their lack of experience, many of our students think their family culture and habits of their neighborhood are of universal value, while having poor knowledge of their own local heritage. Having a sharing and mobily experience could help them change this attitude open to other ways of life, even next door.
In the long run, this project, that is extended further in the training with the opportunity for some of them to have an internship abroad, should favor a better access for our students to the labor market, including abroad where there are a lot of business opportunities in hospitality and catering.
This experience is also a good way for both schools to improve their reputation by communicating on the actions made in favor of the European cooperation and enhancement of the students trainings.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 34248 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Professionnel Voltaire & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IPSEOA Angelo Berti