Strategic partnership “Epicerie fine” Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategic partnership “Epicerie fine”

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Lycée Santos-Dumont (St-Cloud, France), IES Heliopolis (Sevilla, Spain) and Jelgava vocational school (Latvia) have been involved for a long time in the process of opening onto Europe. Lycée Santos-Dumont helped Jagava vocational school to develop his training restaurant. Every year, the two schools organize student exchanges. The coordinator of the strategic partnership projet has himself developed strong ties with IES Heliopolis in Spain thanks to his participation in two staff mobilities organized by the European Ressources Center of the Academy of Versailles

The projet was built around the creation of delicatessen pop-up shops with 3 vocational High schools in 3 european countries : France, Latvia and Spain.
The purpose of the projet was dual :
a- It aimed at implementing an exchange of practices between educational establishments of the European Union around the question of the decompartmentalization of the careers available in vocational schools. Through a work towards a common educational target and the sharing of referentials, the teams willed to build a bridge between the economy / management and the catering (service) departments in each of the participating schools. This bridge allowed the students to feel a coherence between the different teachings. It also helped them understand their meanings.
b- It also aimed at allowing some secondary school students who have little access to european mobility (students from underprivileged families, students with learning difficulties) to enjoy new opportunities.
To conclude, the projet aimed at preventing students, often fragile and risking failure, from dropping out of school. It’s the reason why the participants were not students registered in programs such as Erasmus+ key 1. They were all taking a level 5 degree, and others were serving an apprenticeship.
The activities were centered around the setting and the running of a delicatessen pop-up shop in each of the 3 participating schools. The shops all saled typical products of the 3 countries. Some of the products were home made in the kitchens of the catering department of each school. 3 mobilities were planned to enable students and teachers to work within the schools, on the projet and on educational differentiated methods. Everything was made in respect of a progression settled according to the school referentials of the 3 countries. The whole projet was conducted according to a methodology alterning video-conferences and physical encounters between partners, students and teachers:
– a first meeting took place in Latvia with French (14) and Spanish (8) participants during the second term of 2017
– a second meeting took place in Spain with French (14) and Latvian (8) participants during the first term of the second year
– a third meeting took place in France with Spanish (8) and Latvian (8) participants during the third term of the second year
At the end of each week of mobility, a festive event was held around the delicatessen pop-up shop to conclude the visit of the partners
At the very end of the projet, a gastronomic meeting of the 3 participating schools was organized on the occasion of a larger gathering involving all Versailles Academy catering schools.
The exchanges between schools were reinforced during transnational meetings as they provided great opportunities to share information on the progress of work in each of the schools, to refine the projet, to organize the shops, to think together over the issue of costs and sells and to organize the different events in the participating countries. 3 transnational meetings were held at key moments.
The expected impacts concerned the educational methods of teachers which became more coherent and more understandable by all students. The expected impacts also dealed with the will to prevent students from failing to keep up and to help all students succeed. The results were evaluated thanks to a close study of the ability teachers, to make referentials meet, to improve students school attendance and students ability to achieve better concentration within the classroom. Finally the teams checked the evolution of exam passing. The results obtained were shared between the educational teams of each schools, between the 3 participating schools, the partners and national boards of education of the 3 countries.
On the long run, this projet reinforced within each participating schools, essential elements of success for the students coming up against the most serious difficulties:
– educational expertise
– european anchoring
– belonging to a network of local, national and international partnerships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78915 Eur

Project Coordinator

lycée santos dumont & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES HELIOPOLIS
• Jelgavas Amatu vidusskola