School and Social integration by the cultural path Erasmus Project

Project Title

School and Social integration by the cultural path

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: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

This Erasmus + project, “Social and academic insertion through culture” aims at allowing Catalan, Italian and French youth facing social and academic difficulties to widen their cultural knowledge so that they can look at and apprehend new horizons.

Having had the chance to exchange about the fragility of the public we welcome in each collaborating school, we realized that our students (whether from the ACADA1 section of La Garriga, from the ‘Inclusion’ group of Spallanzani high school, from the SEGPA2 of Germillac secondary school or from the CAP3 section of Fazanis high school) had lost too much confidence in themselves to believe in their potential academic and professional achievements, to take part in social life and to explore outside of their family and geographical environment, which can be quite narrow.

This common finding, which results from the collaborative work led beforehand by multiple meetings (remote and in attendance) motivated us to imagine a common project materialized by this application.

It seemed then interesting to us to put the youth together so that they could realize that even though they face similar difficulties, they could all improve and develop their expertise through their different knowledge and skills. They could play a part and improve collectively.
Our state of mind in creating this project is that the students should see the other not as a danger but as a resource to evolve in a common action, participate to the elaboration of common cultural productions. This should help our Italian, Spanish and French student find meaning in their academic life.

In each school, we are going to adapt our teachings to strengthen their link to the development of this project, based on a strong collaboration between us. Each school carries an action in relation to its own professional fields or its cultural competences. These actions will be developed with the participation and implication of all the other participants all along the length of the project.

The ACADA group of La Garriga high school offers a study around art trades (ceramic and wood) in Catalan architecture and modernism. The ‘Inclusion’ group of Spallanzi high school offers a study of local goods and their commercialization. The CAP group of Fazanis high school offers a study on the commercialization and use in kitchens of local goods as well as an artistic use of photography. Finally, the SEGPA of Germillac secondary school also offers a study on cooking knowledge as well as the discovery of the Aquitaine region’s heritage.

These actions will be led through exchanged and shared knowledge, contributions to common productions. To do so, we plan on having regular exchanges on the e-Twinning platform.
The first works should be followed by joint practice workshops during mobility stays. Cooperation among students should then culminate.
English proficiency will be an important stake for all of the participating students.

All this work will be the subject of the creation of many e-books taking the form of travel journals. These productions will be showed off in multimedia libraries as well as on the schools’ websites. We are also contemplating printing out paperback copies if we can find necessary funds with local authorities.

1 ACADA (Academic Adaptation for students with learning difficulties)
2 SEGPA (Professional and Adapted General Teachings Section)
3 CAP ( Professional Ability Certificate)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 22089 Eur

Project Coordinator

EPLEFPA LOT ET GARONNE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• I.I.S.”L.Spallanzani”
• COLLEGE GERMILLAC