Un potager et une cuisine à partager pour effacer la distance et la différence! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Un potager et une cuisine à partager pour effacer la distance et la différence!

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: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project entitled ” Did you dig our cooking? Sharing a garden and cooking skills, thus erasing distance and difference” lay in the union of  a group of SEN students from Reunion Island and valid students from Minervino Murge, Italy . They both  share the same desire to overcome the prejudices and apprehensions regarding disabilities within their institutions and local community. It was a simple project involving two well acquainted partners and who had become experienced in eTwinning projects over the previous years.

The objectives were:
– To publish and promote a booklet on French (Creole) and Italian recipes, created by the students.
– To create an edible garden within the Italian school.
The activities organised during both mobilities have enabled the partners to effectively improve their language skills (French and Italian). Another area of marked progress concerned their social and relational skills which were first underestimated especially regarding SEN children, as well as gardening and cooking skills.

The use of ICT played a large part in this project, being a central thread  increasing emphasis on preparatory activities, preceding the two key moments of the partners’ meetings. This created an important synergy between eTwinning and ERASMUS+.

As both groups of partners  share the same sociocultural backgrounds, this project was a further step towards real discovery of others, involving youths as future European citizens.

The impact went well beyond traditional classroom activities,  and using ICT enabled the partners to disseminate the project to the local community and the academic authorities. The gardens which were created in both schools are perennial today and have been opened to new groups of children. This project saw a wide participation of the families as well as people from outside the schools’ communities.

This was a project with a large inclusive added value, showing the possibility of creating together regardless of disabilities. We feel that the project provided a good springboard for future international exchanges.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 107605 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE JOSEPH HUBERT & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO “PIETROCOLA MAZZINI”