Values of olympism in Europe, Excellency, Respect and Friendship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Values of olympism in Europe, Excellency, Respect and Friendship

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: Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

3 secondary schools in Normandy, France, involved in the project “Together, let ‘s share the passion for the Olympic games” have decided to give a European dimension to it by building an Erasmus + project with Greek partners on the topic of Greece, the cradle of Olympism, democracy and citizenship, the humanistic and civic values of sport. 3 Greek schools have enthusiastically joined the project. The schools with a very different profile (French students from priority urban areas or isolated rural areas, French and Greek students with disabilities, refugees in 3 schools), have decided to use these différences to make students learn to live together and share commun values.

The school’s findings on the difficulty of students to open up to the world, to project themselves into the future, to find meaning and motivation in learning have helped to define the following common objectives:
– To enable each student, whatever its geographical origin, its social background, its personal situation, to live an experience of meeting with other young Europeans and a cultural discovery far from the clichés very present in young people with little mobile.
– To put all students in a position of success and give them the Opportunity to develop new skills through motivating activities that will combine sport and culture on the themes of Olympism and its values.
– To give meaning to the values of commitment, participation and citizenship by facilitating the practice of these concepts by students in concrete activities.
– To create a lasting link between students through virtual cooperation and sports events shared together.
– To create partnerships between schools to ensure the exchange of practices between European teachers.

The project involves 175 French and Greek students aged 12 to 14, mostly from disadvantaged backgrounds or schooled in the Local School Inclusion Units, the entire school community (teaching teams,student’ parents) and sport partners (Regional Olympic Committee, National Union of School Sport, Sports Services of the city of Caen, sport champions).

3 major themes are dealt with by students through the prism of sport in Europe: inclusion and diversity in sport, the values of Olympism and sports values, stereotypes in sport. The activities chosen are:
– the discovery of the other through activities of presentation of oneself, his school and his environment and the exploration of the heritage of the partner and symbolic places (Athens, cradle of democracy, cradle of Olympism, Rhodes crossroads of civilizations, Mont Saint Michael place of world pilgrimage, the beaches of the landing symbol of the reconquest of freedom in Europe)
– the research, questioning and debate around the values of Olympism with 3 axes: inclusion and diversity in sport, excellence, commitment and friendship in sport, stereotypes in sport
– the sharing of strong sporting events so that students can put sport values in practice
– the observation of the values at work in an international junior sport event that will take place in Normandy

The cooperative work of all students via the eTwinning platform to produce documents and activities in each school or in Franco-Greek teams and aimed at other students of the schools for 2 years as well as the mobilities organized in reciprocity with the meeting of all students in the 2nd year in Normandy will enable the students to become actors of the project

Students are expected to forge lasting relationships with each other by overcoming their initial apprehensions and thus be ready for other mobilities in their school careers. The social skills acquired (opening up to another culture, adapting, understanding, cooperating, giving one’s point of view respecting that of the other, participating and engaging) as well as key skills (seeking information, analysing it, to report, argue, communicate in a foreign language, work in a collaborative digital space) will be reinvested in school learning for better academic success and remotivation.
The humanistic values that students will have gained will improve the relationship between students and consequently the school climate in schools. The expected impacts concern both pupils and their relationships to each other, to foreigners and to Learning Process, families and their relationship to school and Europe, the sustainable European partnerships which the six schools will build.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197684 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Jacques PREVERT & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Ist Gymnasio of Skalas Oropos
• College Montgomeri
• 5th Junior High School of Rhodes
• Collège Stephen Hawking
• 2nd Peiramatiko Gymnasio Athinon