Rome and Noumea : Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rome and Noumea :

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: Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project “Rome and Noumea: Let’s lay the foundations in the lagoon!”

Why create this Erasmus mobility project between New Caledonia and Italy?

We have noticed that today we live in an increasingly connected world and mastering foreign languages is essential.

The “Rome and Noumea: Let’s lay the foundations in the lagoon!” project will address various themes linked to the heritage of each country but above all will stress the importance of preserving a territory.
We have chosen to work in Rome on the architectural remains and in New Caledonia on the lagoon. These two Unesco heritage listed sites, respectively in 1980 and 2008, give this project a particular interest in safeguarding the sites.

In the course of this project, students in the third year of secondary school (collège Jean Mariotti) and the second year of secondary school (lycée Lapérouse) in New Caledonia, as well as students from the IIS Luigi Einaudi high school in Italy, will have the opportunity to exchange with local populations, environmental institutions, and to meet experts on the remains of Rome and our Oceanian lagoon.

Several objectives are set:
– To promote intercultural exchanges and the active participation of young people at local, national and international levels through heritage.
– To enable young people to discover and exchange ideas on economic alternatives and to promote solutions to alternative and sustainable development.
– To raise awareness about cultural diversity, heritage and the environment in Europe.

Through this project, our young people will thus be able to become actively involved in European life, consolidate cultural relations between the two European countries and become more involved in the various activities proposed.

We will engage our Caledonian and Italian students in a joint project related to the impacts of global warming and environmental issues.

Several activities will be proposed:
– Debates and exchanges with the local population, experts and speakers, on the lagoon and the remains of Rome.
– Workshops on sustainable development in close collaboration with our colleagues from Earth Sciences and Life Sciences: Ms Verlaguet, English: Mr Ounane, Spanish: Ms Brines and Ms Antin, plastic arts: Ms Cavarero-Roy but also, teachers of BTS tourism.
– Visits to museums, ruins, forts in Rome and visits to the aquarium and the lagoon by glass boat.
– The project will come to an end with a final exhibit ion on themes related to the project.

In addition, in order to enhance the value of this project, participants will keep a “European virtual logbook”, the Europass, in which they will record the knowledge and skills acquired in another European country.
We will enable teenagers aged 15 to 18 from different backgrounds to participate in this project and we will focus on group cohesion.

Finally the following results are expected:
– Becoming aware of the stakes linked to global warming as well as cultural and heritage diversity.
– Discovering mobility, personal commitment and solidarity
– Sharing and exchanging good practices and methods with all partners involved.
– Proposing new synergies, new ideas and solutions at local, European and international level
– Valuing pupils’ commitment and European solidarity
– Strengthening the link between secondary school and high school
– Valuing interdisciplinary and transnational projects

Through this project, we want to raise a strong sense of belonging to the European Union and strengthen the pupils’ commitment to the environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98632 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jean MARIOTTI & Country: NC

Project Partners

• LYCEE_LAPEROUSE
• IS LUIGI EINAUDI