To be or not to be addicted? That is the question! Am I ? Fighting Addictions is fighting school drop out Erasmus Project

Project Title

To be or not to be addicted? That is the question! Am I ? Fighting Addictions is fighting school drop out

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Health and wellbeing; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

« To be or not to be addicted ? that is the question ! Am-I ? » is a project born from the common and known concern to understand better what is at stake with addictions, their consequences on our young population, teenagers mostly. By awakening our teenagers to the inherent mechanisms which « imprison » them and to the numerous and diverse consequences, often dreadful and painful, whether it be on a psychological, physical or social point of view, they are subjected to, we also wish to fight one negative and important result of addictions ; school drop-out which is most of the time the outcome of their consumption. An internal study and survey made in 2019 in our school showed this topic was at the core of most of our issues. We decided to open that topic on a large scale and we created and filed this project on e-twinning which enabled us to find and cooperate with 5 European partners who were thrilled at the idea of this theme and eager to answer and work on this project for the same reasons ; fighting shcool drop-out, promoting the European spirit, awakening our teenagers to their European citizenship which they tend to ignore or neglect, and to practice languages (French and English) ; This topic is the cement of our virtual cooperation first and maybe more !. Our main objectives are :

– To awaken to the mechanisms and consequences of addictions in our modern society
– To find the means to fight addictions
– To develop transversal and interdisciplinary skills
– To use the I.T tools
– To exchange on our methods and share experience to improve our common skills
– To awaken to their European citizenship
– To promote integration and mobility
– To awaken to the cultural differences and to the respect of other cultures
– To develop the « European feeling » (being part of Europe)
– To promote our students’ skills and social and professional integration

The students will all be of the same age (13 to 19 years old) and from diverse fields of study. The French coordinating school is a vocational school training and forming students in the professional fields of sales and marketing, electrotechnics and logistics. The other European partners are either technical schools, general schools and vocational schools. They will bring diversity which will also be a force for this project. It will imply students, various social and professional organisations to manage and understand the addictions and the apprehensions they create in order to promote a common message of prevention. We will confront the different views and ways of living, the analysis and common critics will put an emphasis results which will be exposed and validated by professionals. In the end, these activities and common works will enable our students to become more responsible, more independent and more respectful of their well-being and of their body and mind, to broaden their state of mind and to increase their self-esteem by sharing and confronting with others. We will edit our productions on various supports for everyone to consult ; families, institutions and medias. The results will be posted on the e-twinning and Erasmus platforms. They will be fed with the productions as we get on with the activities. To reach these objectives, we plan activities on a two-year period. This experience will definitely benefit everyone and will open up new perspectives for our students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195280 Eur

Project Coordinator

LP La Peupleraie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Mehmet Ozcan Torunoglu Ortaokulu
• Colegiul National “Ecaterina Teodoroiu”
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga
• Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt Rankweil
• Mārupes Valsts ģimnāzija