Patrimoines – Paysages – Perspectives Erasmus Project

Project Title

Patrimoines – Paysages – Perspectives

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The encounter and confrontation of three different European realities, represented by the cities of the three secondary schools participating in the project, Dudelange (Luxembourg), Arezzo (Italy), Berlin (Germany), were the starting point of novel didactics and a new learning experience. Students were asked to exchange with their counterparts the nature and peculiarities of their environment and the characteristics of their city from an architectural and urbanistic, as well as economic and social point of view. An adolescent viewpoint, different from that of adults in many ways, allowed a more spontaneous and innovative angle. The commun language used during the project was French.
The objectives of this project were: a more experienced and responsible European citizenship; improving ICT skillsets; augmenting linguistic skills in FLE (Français Langue Étrangère): “We only learn a foreign language if there is something to say!” (Daniel Pennac); be able to model and present complex information on an urban, cultural and social level; be able to collaborate in transnational group work; be able to critically question one’s own environment as well as that of their partner, thanks to precise categories of interpretation (cat. historic, artistic, …). Another aim was also the development of interactions with the world outside of the school ecosystem (business environment, political representatives, associative and cultural sector, etc.).

The participant pool were three classes of students aged 15 to 17 years with one class per partner institution, with the decisive collaboration of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine (Higher Education) and their professors and students.
We organised distance learning activities as well as “on site” activities. The project employed cooperative education material. Students prepared interviews of people important to them in their locality or of “average” people in order to gather useful information and deductive material to engage with. Imagery and film was used to better reflect the “local” reality to partner students. Surveys were distributed at the start and end of the project milestones and were used to assess the evolution of and changes in viewpoints, knowledge and opinions taking place during the project.
The anticipated impact in the long term should be an increased awareness of European cultural diversity and a marked improvement in linguistic and ICT skillsets. From the teachers’ perspective, the project should continue to encourage colleagues to collaborate in a multidisciplinary approach and to embark on novel didactics of education projects. Hopefully, in the long term, this Erasmus+ project will significantly contribute to the academic development of didactic and ICT tool sets used in education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106170,94 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Nic-Biever Dudelange & Country: LU

Project Partners

• Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium
• Istituto Istruzione Secondaria Superiore Vittoria Colonna
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val de Seine