UN BIJOU QUI VOYAGE Erasmus Project

Project Title

UN BIJOU QUI VOYAGE

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

“A travelling jewel” is a project gathering five partner schools. These six schools are from five European States and share a common vocational training linked to jewellery techniques and the art of jewellery design. Their goal is to involve as many students as possible in a project pedagogically relevant. Considering today’s European identity and territory, we consider it impossible not to embrace the diversity of techniques and ways in learning the same profession. Our travelling jewel can be seen as a ring, but it is foremost a symbolical circular object expressing the union and solidarity of an alliance. the educational policy in our institutions becomes richer from this alliance through our differences and togetherness thanks to the numerous pedagogical tools and innovations that we create.

“A travelling jewel” conveys our will of going on a pedagogical journey together through time and space. Over the course of the three years of our partnership, we thus suggested to orientate the project first on the past, then on the present and finally on the future :
a) During the first year, each country focus on its territory and discover and analyse its own heritage, be it natural, industrial, mineral, cultural or artistic. We want to respect traditional and empirical techniques that founded the craft as well as integrate our cultural heritage. Sharing them with our partners was our way to sensitize them to our way of doing things and of thinking.
b) During the second year, the project was integrated into the present time and focus on raising our political, cultural, social and ecological awareness. We did this by discovering and using materials and techniques seen and experienced when meeting the other culture in another country thanks to the project mobility between schools.
c) The third year develop the project into the jewel of future time. During that last year, the focus was on the desire of innovation and exchange between schools around common values such as commitment and european citizenship.

The pluridisciplinarity and transversality is obvious throughout each year :
1) First, the students did research on their own heritage and then discover their partners’ heritage.
2) Secondly, they were creating jewels by using what they learnt both from their own cultural heritage or by what they discovered from their partners.
3) Thirdly, Students wrote and distributed their experience in the school newspaper, on the web, on social networks, …
4) And finally, the pinnacle of our partnership was a yearly travelling exhibition presenting the “travelling jewels” created by students from the five schools.

The project “a travelling jewel” is meant to trigger new ways of learning for all the teams involved in the partnership, it also disseminated the result in a relevant way via the exhibited and published products. Most importantly, it opened and sensitized the pedagogical horizons of our schools towards the most fragile students, those who are most susceptible to drop out or vulnerable when it comes to occupational integration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 217800 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL JEAN GUEHENNO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IATA
• Escuela de Arte 3
• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE SUPERIORE “B. CELLINI”
• Escola Artística António Arroio
• SCHOLES TECHNIS MOKUME I.K.E.