Nos différences nous rapprochent Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nos différences nous rapprochent

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The title of our project is “Our differences bring us closer together”.
It has three objectives. The main one is to develop our students language skills so that they become fully involved in their future and regain ambition in their orientation project.
The second objective is a reflection on the essence of our identity. The aim is to understand what brings us together and distinguishes us culturally, historically, geographically, economically, socially and on a sport level, in order to break down stereotypes and change identity representations in each of our countries. In this way, we wish to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European Union, to the same European identity, a sense of belonging that is too weak for our students because of their lack of European culture and mobility opportunities.
Finally, our third objective is to fight against early school dropout and to compensate for the social and cultural inequalities suffered by our students by allowing them to discover other lifestyles and different cultures, by sharing sporting values and thus helping them to forge a civic identity.
All this represents a significant linguistic enrichment, cultural and social openness in a short period of time.

Our project directly concerns 60 students aged 15 to 18 years old and 6 teachers involved in the project. In France, these are Year 11 students from different courses of study, chosen on a voluntary basis, who have never taken part in a European project (or even a school trip for some of them). In Denmark, the project is aimed at first-year high school students who are learning French and English. Most of them have spent a year in an educational and alternative boarding school before entering high school in order to avoid dropping out of school. These students need to find a meaning in learning. Indirectly, other actors will participate: the “big brothers/ sisters” of the partner students, the students of the “Literary Excellence” section, host families, local external actors and the school city as a whole.

During their stay, the partners will live in immersion and will have to practice the language on a daily basis. They will make heritage and cultural visits that will aim at enriching their cultural knowledge and broaden their specific language knowledge. They will take classes and spend a night in the boarding school in order to live the life of a French student from the inside. They will visit educational boarding schools and meet local organizations helping youths in trouble. While putting an emphasis on fighting early school dropout, all this will enable them to compare the two educational systems and to question our differences in order to fight against stereotypes. This will be done through exchanges, sports activities, workshops, debates, discussions, “embassies”, exhibitions, video production, the use of ICTs and the Twinspace platform, as well as questionnaires and surveys.
Through this mobility, participants will acquire more motivation, language and ICT skills, autonomy and self-management, methodological and argumentative skills, and respect values that they can reinvest in their school curriculum and besides.

We hope that all these activities will provide an exceptional opportunity for our students to become future adults who are more responsible, more civic and who can look forward to a future open to other cultures and other people both in their studies and in their professional life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 36150 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée polyvalent Gaston Crampe & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Nykøbing Katedralskole