This project comes from the gathering of five polyglot schools representing Europe’s diversity. They all got their strength from building European projects and they all want to collaborate around the same topic: “living together”. At a time when we build walls against differences and we can’t help noticing the rise of intolerance, when people from different social backgrounds, whether they are handicapped or immigrants without losing sight of their integration. Each collaborator highlights the importance of social integration as the main priority of their project. The goal is to improve the “living together” spirit in each collaborating school which looks alike and complete each other on the one hand but, on the other hand have different ways of teaching and different pupils. Thus, each and everyone can enrich the other with their own experience and the gathering of their strength. The project aimed at having the prejudices pushed back in schools thanks to communication, collaborative work, at promoting self development and strengthening European citizenship, tolerance, openness and favoring employment. In order to do so, we will have to elaborate a common chart indicating the basis of the “living together”. This will happen thanks to the collaboration of the economical, cultural and political partners, the link between the different subjects taught and the publication of a web magazine which will be available for everybody, dealing with the different activities linked to the topic (conferences, meetings, shows, writing workshops). The process will be followed thanks to digital contacts, movements, international meetings in other countries. From the inside, everyone will make sure the project goes forward thanks to regular assessment. The communication will happen on a big scale using all possible means : word of mouth, press, posters, internet, through the web magazine, using the network of the schools. The pupils will be the main actors and ambassadors invested in the process of research and preparation, collection, self-assessment and spreading. Each partner will have their freedom of action with their differences but respecting the framework and the calendar that we will have appointed before. The French team who is the project initiator, will collect and federate all the datas and it will make sure to coordinate them respecting every individuality. This project would rapidly end in an evolution of the behaviors which can be proven with a decrease in the attendance in places of dialogue and mediation, the drop of the acts of bullying and discriminatory comments, in order to achieve their eradication over the long term. Everyone will be considered, as its own value and practice the “living together” in order to be “ honnêtes Hommes”, fair enlightened citizens of Europe. Thus, the impact shouldn’t be limited to schools but it should spread out whole society.
This project was born from the gathering of five polyglot schools representative of the diversity of Europe, all of them with experience in conducting European projects and eager to collaborate on the same subject "living together". At a time, when Europe is confronted with problems involving its future, where a strong reference structure is needed in the face of global giants, it was important for us to bring together people of good will from same continent with similar but different cultures to address the issue of social inclusion and make it a horizontal priority. The main objective was to raise the awareness of young high school students about the difficulties of living together in all the partner institutions that are similar and complementary but have different backgrounds and audiences. The idea was that everyone can enrich the other through his own experience and the pooling of forces to reduce prejudice in school and to acquire sustainable values that he can transmit himself to build the world of tomorrow with a European citizen conscience based on tolerance, openness to others and favorable to employability. The idea of building a common charter laying the foundations for living together was imposed on everyone. To achieve this, each partner country has decided on the activities to be implemented leading to the identification of specific biases, and in particular that of gender, which has reached consensus. Each one was free of the various means to exploit to remedy it within the framework fixed previously. The meeting times during the learning activities made it possible to take stock of their accuracy, their relevance, to measure their progress and to project themselves. The results achieved are beyond our expectations considering the interest that young people have in this regard. The richness of their productions testifies as well as the progress made in languages, digital, speaking, relational, autonomy and state of mind. Such a journey has significantly changed their behavior, their approach to each other and their worldview. Young people who are involved in this project are now trained: their daily work shows their ability to reuse their knowledge, know-how and skills. They are capable of autonomy, of taking initiatives and even for certain responsibilities. In addition, their relationship to the teacher has changed from a wait-and-see posture to a benevolent horizontal posture. We can only welcome this progress and perhaps to have aroused future careers. For all young people and adults, this project has been punctuated by very beautiful meetings, some of which are in the process of becoming permanent. Moreover, he broke the elitist, confidential and time-consuming image that some could still have. Finally, our schools have gained visibility, recognition and influence in the minds of families, the public, municipal and local authorities. From now on we are solicited for projects with varied subjects allowing a wider opening to society and to the world.