It's a project to establish a 2 years partnership between 6 european countries located in all Europe and showing a broad diversity (north/south, city/countryside, social diversity of the pupils, different ways of teaching...) : Poland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Finland and France. All teachers from the different schools will be involved in the project. Our objective is to develop self-esteem for our pupils and to show us the differences that enrich us. In this troubled period, it's important to go out and meet our neighbours and to encourage a real european culture. This project also aims at being federative with the idea to involve together all the pupils, whatever their class, at different levels, on a same project. In conjonction with our project on sustainable development, language and ICTs skills and competences are also essential in the future world if we think in terms of good individual and professionnal integrations. Then the idea is doubled up : -On the one hand, the pupils will have the opportunity to discover countries they didn't knew very well through their teachers visits abroad. With all the material brought by their teachers, they will create posters on these countries, locate them and know them better (flag, currency, monuments...). They will use all modern communication media to establish links with other european pupils : emails, Skype videoconferencing, school correspondence... They will decide together to build common projects : documentary slideshows in geography or on fauna and flora, ebooks on traditionnal tales and children literature, common recipes... A work will also take place on images in all languages in order to see the resemblances and differences of the different languages used (of unity in diversity).They will communicate on common celebrations and events (carnaval, Christmas and New-Year cards...) and share their likes (arts) and their creations (songs, theater pieces...). Oral and written language skills and competences mastery will also be at the heart of our communications. All the productions will be online on the twinspaces so we can associate the parents and different local partners (municipality, cultural centers...). An exhibition will allow them to show the results of their work. An Europe Day will allow the pupils, in each country, in each school, to work on all european countries. -On the other hand, the teachers will at first have the occasion to develop their skills and competences in english. Just with the exchanges by mails in english, they are already in the activity ! A unique opportunity is also given to us to discover any other ways of teaching or practices ! Each visit will be used as a pretext for discovering particular functionnings, workshops or innovative practices, to shake up each one practices ! We want to develop a European way of life: unity in diversity. Children will work on the euro with its European side and its national side linked to our heritage discovery, the European flag and the national flags. It is about realizing together!
The project was initiated on the basis that our differences enrich us and that knowledge of the other creates bonds. The partner countries of this project are in North, South, East and West of Europe. The schools are in villages, large agglomerations, in working-class districts or in the mountains, in the countryside, in the city center, near forests. It can be hot or very cold there, or it rains a lot, some say. But all the students of these different schools have a common project: to create a unifying European project around new technologies and English at the outset, with the discovery of the culture of the other. Unfortunately before the start of the project, we lose our Polish partner following a change of management at the school level. We therefore continue the adventure at 5. After a formal discovery of the countries (map, flags, hymns, currency), the children set about creating common collections: a CD of Christmas carols to begin with, a collection of traditional tales (work on powerpoint), a collection of recipes made during Erasmus Days, a film on flora and fauna (internet research, use of green funds in videos, slide shows ...) and the countries seen through the character of Asterix for the part on new technologies . The trips to the different countries have also enabled teachers to make films and develop videoconferencing (with students who have stayed in school or with European bodies such as the Finnish European Commission during a trip to Italy). Cohesion was also made by sending Christmas cards, written correspondence between students in English or in the original languages, sending typical board games ... With each trip, a real relationship a bond has been created between the children and the European teachers. Their arrival was prepared (choirs in Italy, folk dances in Greece, school entirely decorated on the theme of the project in Spain with hymns in welcoming music, escape game in the city of Joensuu organized in Finland, presentation videos in France, code ... and these are just examples). For the teachers, it was also for many a mean to perfect their English and the activities carried out in the form of workshops in the countries made it possible: scientific activities, activities related to Tices, in visual or cultural arts. The teams also organized a week of discovery for their counterparts (visits to museums, slag heaps, castles, remains, mountain treks, etc.). The exchanges of practices were rich in lessons for all and real friendship relations developed. The municipalities of the different countries invited the participants in the project to a convivial meal and other bodies introduced their premises: inspectorate, middle and high schools, university, teacher training institutes ... Aid networks in different countries also took part in the adventure through the fight against dropping out of school and the development of self-esteem. It is interesting to see the means implemented by our partners to manage children with special educational needs and the various personnel linked to this support network. A visit to a specialized center even took place in Greece. Real bonds of friendship have been created and several projects will be able to continue: sending of greeting cards, school correspondence ... Calls in Visio will also be able to share moments between the students (sledding in recess in Finland and activities in Spain (sports facilities, vegetable gardens ...), ice hockey / sport horse riding etc ... The choir and the visual arts, the creation of films being very present, we can conceive of specific thematic exchanges under paddlet shape.