Wealth Mine Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wealth Mine

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: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Poland and France have now signed the immigration convention providing for the collective recruitment of Polish workers for 100 years. It was intended to respond to the shortage of labour in the war-torn regions of France, while solving the problem of misery of rural populations in Poland, in a country with an anachronistic agrarian structure and an underdeveloped industrial sector. Half a million Poles have therefore settled in France, in mining regions, mainly in the Nord / Pas-de-Calais. The history of mining industry, having employed thousands of Poles, has been valued through its labeling as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has become a real common heritage between these two nations. Also, World War II brought about a change in the history of the Poles in the Pas-de-Calais: the engagement of young Poles in the French army or even participation in the resistance within French network.

Furthermore, the European Union works to preserve the common cultural heritage of Europe and to support and promote actions in heritage education through events such as the European Year of Cultural Heritage aiming at making this lively and diverse culture accessible to all. Culture is present in many EU policies, such as research, social policy, regional development and external relations, including education. Enhancing the educational offer within the two establishments, relying on innovative pedagogical teaching, promoting active pedagogy and improving the accessibility of pupils and staff to mobility actions and more particularly European school exchanges make it possible to respond to challenges of lifelong learning as well as the promotion of common values, inclusive education and the European dimension of action.

For more than ten years, the Bolesław Chrobry high school in Pszczyna and Sainte Marie high school in Aire-sur-la-Lys have been investing in a partnership that promotes positive values, is it allows of cultural openness and offers opportunities to their students and teachers to have access to European mobility. Building an innovative educational project and enhancing social ties and Franco-Polish cultural heritage are the bases on which the “Mines of wealth” project was defined. The general objective of the project is to help promote the role of cultural heritage as an essential component of cultural diversity, European citizenship and intercultural dialogue. This school exchange project will offer the opportunity to French and Polish students to achieve European mobility which will have meaning allowing them to understand the heritage for structure the cultural identity of a territory, to change their outlook on migration. , fight against prejudice or, in the long term, promote the integration of migrants into societies.

Moreover, the European school exchange project highlights the project pedagogy thus making the students actors of their learning, their education and their training. The mobility of students and teachers in Poland and France will induce collaborative work around a cultural and artistic production which will result in the development of a photo exhibition. This will take up the various cultural activities carried out within the framework of mobility and will mobilize the educational teams of the two establishments then registering the “Mines of wealth” project in the educational project of the Polish and French high schools.

The expected results of the project will make it possible to respond to the inherent priorities in the project and more particularly they will contribute to strengthening the development of key skills: developing the sense of observation, strengthening the motivation of learners, promoting cultural and European openness, promoting linguistic practice, developing autonomy. Educational teams, project managers and establishments are also beneficiaries of the approach. Indeed, the “Mines of wealth” project will contribute to the European and international attractiveness of the establishment, build and consolidate a common and European culture, exchange experiences and good practices, innovate the partnership and educational dynamic, promote a multidisciplinary approach. Finally, in the longer term, this European school exchange project will help strengthen the students ability to express themselves in a foreign language, obtain better results in exams, encourage further studies, enable job search on an enlarged labour market, train citizens who are open to the world and strengthen and improve the quality of education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 28188 Eur

Project Coordinator

SYNDICAT AVENIR AGRICOLE ET RURAL DE LA VALLE DE LA LYS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im Boleslawa Chrobrego