No one offside : How to become a European Citizen? Erasmus Project

Project Title

No one offside : How to become a European Citizen?

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Our project«No one offside: how to be a European citizen» aims at developing the feeling of being a European citizen for students coming from three different countries (France, Scotland and Spain). This will revolve around three aspects of European citizenship—common values, common rules and a common European culture.

Three European education networks will take part in this project; a network with special needs students in Paris, a junior High school in Madrid and another one in Edinburgh.
NOO resulted from the assessment of the daily lives at school of French, Scottish and Spanish students belonging to those schools. Our students are faced with the same social difficulties, the same misbehaviors, and they struggle to succeed at school because of their family backgrounds which are often complicated (poverty, poor housing conditions and blended families). Furthermore, because of the political situation in Europe, with European people becoming more and more individual, the lack of open-mindedness, we have realized that our students were the first victims. In Paris, for example, instead of escaping from social and ethnic ghettos so as to discover the splendour of the city, they prefer to be imprisoned in their social environment. It is because of this tough social context that we are willing to build up together this cultural and social citizen project for students of various cultures and nationalities because they undoubtedly share the same lives day after day.

All the students of the partnership will be concerned by NOO. An estimated thirty students (aged from 11 to 14) and a dozen of teachers of each country will take part in these European exchanges. Four exchanges are to be scheduled over a span of two years, including one early exchange in Paris and another one at the end of the period, and the two others in Madrid and Edinburgh. It is paramount that as many students as possible take part in these exchanges.
The main goal of the project is to arouse a feeling of European citizenship through three different aspects:
Firstly, by assuring a common European culture, with the creation of a virtual guide entitled ,’follow your hero’. Students will play the role of a medieval character, or a French, or Scottish, or European character and they will follow the same historical path.

Secondly, by assuring that the rules for living together should be accepted, with the creation of a video game entitled’ imagine your Europe’; the game will stage the daily activities of a future European citizen in their environment and their different reactions, be they appropriate or inappropriate.
There will also be two digital creations which will allow our students not to be mere consumers but real digital designers. Their skills as digital-native will be reinvested at school and in their future jobs.
Thirdly,by assuring the acquisition of common citizen values, through the creation of a ‘Rugby European Tour. A tournament which will rest on the values of unselfishness, solidarity, sacrifice, loyalty and team spirit conveyed by the game. Our students will have to organize practices and games; each student will have a role to play depending on their knowledge and qualities.

The project is therfore:
-interdisciplinary: physical education,mathematics,history,geography,science, foreign languages).
-a combination of primary and secondary education.
-international: three European countries are involved in the process.

Social and civics skills: working in small groups, collaborating and living together, speaking in a foreign language, carrying out a scientific approach.

School skills: general knowledge.

The Spanish school will deal with the communication of the project; the pupils will make a tv show which will highlight the various exchanges. Moreover, the making of a blog, of a twitter account and a radio show that will be developed by the media section in Hector berlioz will contribute to building up the project.

Expected impacts:
-reinforcing the feeling of being a European citizen and belonging to a group among the students, be it local, national, European and an eco-friendly environment.
-expand the European culture
-improve school conditions and allow a European influence in our schools
-share teaching methods and reinforce the thirst for interdisciplinary for the people involved in the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109926,37 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Hector Berlioz & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Castlebrae Community High School
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Siglo XXI