Students Academy Film and Theater Awards Erasmus Project

Project Title

Students Academy Film and Theater Awards

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The SAFTAS partnership was imagined in order to foster a strong motivation to learn for our students and a dynamic incentive to create for our teachers. The schools involved in the partnership face the same challenges eventhough geographically we belong to different worlds. Some of us are inner city schools others are located in smaller towns, but our students are all the same, and as teachers we all try to create innovative ways to help them learn and be ready for the world of tomorrow. We have in common a passion for creative learning and we strongly believe that students need to build strong interpersonal skills and find ways to think clearly and express themselves and their individualities at the best of their possibilities.

Our three year project developped around two areas of expertise had as a main objective to provide for learners opportunities for self expression, critical thinking, careful research and discovery, combined with the challenge of a competition. Cinematography and drama would provide a secure framework for our students to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking in a foreign language. They could thus develop communication skills in English first of all, but also in a second foreign language as they would have the opportunity to share ideas, work together, be hosted in European families and experience memorable moments together . Languages and multiculturality were indeed at the heart of our project. What’s more, our students would build technical and professional skills around those two areas of expertise.

The partnership included six schools from six different countries were part of the SAFTAS project :
– LPO d’Estournelles de Constant, general, technological and vocational highschool situated in the semi-rural town of La Flèche – pop15241 – located in the rural area of Sarthe, in the west of France. There are 1350 students in total who come from all the neighbouring villages and towns. Most students come from modest families where they cannot afford international travel.

– Fatin Rüstü Zorlu Anadolu Lisesi, a high school founded in 1994. It is located in Kartal district of İstanbul, Turkey. It has around 700 students, 40 teachers, 3 administrators and a principal. Although they are academically successful, most students come from poor districts where they cannot afford to join international activities.

– Istituto Superiore Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Naples, Italy. It sits in the midst of Naples bustling metropolitan area. There are currently approximately 900 pupils aged 14-19 in the school, 89 teachers,20 assistants, and 5 support staff, all from different cultural, social and religious backgrounds

– IES As Barxas, secondary school formed by 48 teachers who teach 526 students , aged 12-18 and distributed in 21 groups. One of them being Sport Vocational Training Studies and all the rest Secondary school, with 4 groups of A levels. The school is situated in a rural area by the sea, 15 km. away from Vigo, the most important city in the south of Galicia.

– Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 4 in Bydgoszcz is a public, pre-secondary and secondary school for pupils aged between 13-18 years old. It is located in the Kuyavian – Pomeranian district of Poland. There are 377 students and 42 teachers. The curriculum covers different areas, It also tenders individual tutoring for students with special needs.

– Nea Peramos Senior High School (Geniko Lykeio Neas Peramou) is a State General Education School offering students a three-year curriculum of both general education subjects and orientation subjects in Humanities, Science and Technology.

– The students had to apply for the opportunity to be part of the mobility projects, write letters of motivation.
– They learnt to become jury members for a festival.
– They met and worked with professionals, interviewed them.
– They designed promotional campaigns and worked on post production.
– They interviewed and invited Costa-Gavras to be the President of the final festival in La Flèche.
– They organized the final festival in France, planned the activities.
– They performed their plays in competitions.
– They showed their films in competitions.
– They made films together with their European partners.
– They staged plays with their European partners.
– They participated in learning mobilities with their European partners.
– They attended workshops and visited theaters.
– They took part in working with professionals.
– Some students were offered work opportunities in the field of cinema.

The students who didn’t take part in the mobilities contributed to the project in each school of the partnership as each partner had built a team of teachers who contributed to the project in the individual schools. Students with disabilities or those who were in danger of leaving school early were included.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221518,61 Eur

Project Coordinator

LPO d’Estournelles de Constant & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 4 w Bydgoszczy
• Istituto Superiore Gentileschi
• IES As Barxas
• FATIN RUSTU ZORLU ANADOLU LISESI
• Geniko Lykeio Neas Peramou