Spanish Republicans in Mauthausen Erasmus Project

Project Title

Spanish Republicans in Mauthausen

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Thanks to the 2017 Erasmus project (Erasmus 2017 1 FR01-KA102-035713), the Mauthausen project – initiated by Simarró High School in Xàtiva (Spain)- has been entered into an international dimension.
In this project, we will work on the duty of remembrance about the deportation and its various forms. There will be 3 times and it will be realized during the following meetings: first in Spain to understand the part of the Spanish deportees, then in Austria to take part in the special ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Mauthausen camp, finally in France to study the French view and make a summary of the project.

Common objectives for all the partners:
– sharing the common values by understanding the deportation phenomenon and the sufferings shared by the European peoples;
– promoting the awareness and developing civic and intercultural skills;
– understanding the migration issues to promote the European identity;
– pooling the works and trying creative and digital practices;
– encouraging the intercultural dialogue between teachers and students and by this way improving the language skills.

25 teachers are leading the project and are preparing actions and works with their own classes.

About the activities:
– Working on the comic strip “Le photographe de Mauthausen” in French, in Spanish, in Arts, in History and Geography;
– Collecting the survivors’ testimonies;
– Working on the movie “Land and freedom” by Ken Loach and on the pictures taken during the Civil Spanish War by Robert Capa in English;
– Creating a slam in French and Spanish;
– Working on “Cartes robades, censurades, segrestades” of the Spanish refugees and on the photography exhibition from l’Amicale (France), exhibition of the work results of the students;
– visiting the Camp des Mille in France, Mauthausen camp in Austria and taking part in the special ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the camp, visiting the camp and the memorial in Rivesaltes in France, visiting the bomb shelters in Spain and sharing time with teachers and students from the different countries.
– Communicating with the local press, radio adverts, visit to the town halls in Carpentras and Xàtiva, open house day while exhibiting the photos from l’Amicale and information on the high school websites and national education websites.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71189 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL VICTOR HUGO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Verein für Bildung und Erziehung der Franziskanerinnen von Vöcklabruck
• IES DR LLUIS SIMARRO
• LGT Victor Hugo