This project entitled " Did you dig our cooking? Sharing a garden and cooking skills, thus erasing distance and difference." lies in the union of a group of SEN students from Réunion Island and valid students from Minervino Murge, Italy . They both share the same desire to overcome the prejudicies and apprehensions regarding disabilities within their institutions and local community. The objectives are: - To publish and promote a booklet on French (Creole) / Italian recipes, created by the students. - To Create an edible garden within the Italian school. Sharing abilities and competencies is at the core of the project, some will learn how to grow a garden and learn from botanical work whereas others will perfom their langage skills and social skills. SEN children will get the opportunities for success as they will lead the gardening and cooking parts of the projet, showing their skills and teaching their italian partners. Both groups of partners share the same social/cultural backgrounds , they met on the eTwinning platform two years ago, this project is a further step towards real discovery of others, involving youths as future European citizens. The use of ICT will play a large part in this project, and the partners' meetings, both in Réunion and in Italy , will place increased emphasis on preparatory activities, preceding these two key moments. The expected impacts go well beyond traditionnal classroom activities, and using ICT will enable the partners to disseminate the project to the local community and the academic authorities with the aim of enhancing new educational techniques and students' assessment, in favour of inclusive education in an highly effective way.
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.