Context All Partners want to collaborate to give innovative opportunity to their students in the field of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and Active citizenship and visit foreign country realities, local projects and sharing the best practices developed locally in the past years. The objectives of this project are focused in 3 axes for the students of our high schools: - Entrepreneurship: be able to stimulate the creativity and project ideas of our students, supporting them with professionals, mentoring, coaching, and specific training in this field. - European Active Citizenship: spread this feeling to have the pupils start to think that they are part of Europe, they are the future of Europe. Offer the students informative sessions about European Institutions, their function and how they work. - Foreign languages: increase language competences and skills of our students from 11 to 17 years old. An added value from this point of view is the period of language immersion in the foreign country, it concerns Italian and English. With this project, we want to improve the students' autonomy, creative thinking, improve problem solving and foreign language competences, and, at the same time develop the teacher’s efficiency, the school steering efficiency, and boosting employability of our students in an era in which the unemployment rate is very high all around Europe. Participants The students will be among 14 and 17 years old (Rosselli-Rasetti School, ND and ASBL Mutien Marie) and also between 11 and 14 years old (Oliveira, Rosselli-Rasetti, ND Fundamental). The teachers involved are from different subjects: foreign languages, economy, geography, ict and social subjects. Also the head master will take part in the mobility to share their good practices in the fields of this project. Activities There will be 5 mobility of pupils, teachers and headmasters. C1 Portugal students 11-14 - focused on active citizenship. “Young Parliament” and “Young Municipal Assembly” C2- Belgium students 11-14 - focused on active citizenship and environment. Improvement of the "Eco-Schools" program and "BE AWARE OF THE RISKS". C3- Belgium students 16-17 - 2 weeks. Immersion in second language. Training in Entrepreneurship. European Active Citizenship Role game "In the shoes of the Eurodeputy" C4- Italy students 11-14- Active Citizenship "007 of the environment". Excursion and work in the fields (parks, lake, river). C5 - Italy students 16-17 - 2 weeks. Immersion in second language. Training in Social Entrepreneurship. Methodology The methodology used to run the project provides: Work in group, role game. Simulation games, involving different levels of learning (rational, physical, emotional). Language and cultural immersion. Non formal education training in entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Collaboration with NGOs, public and private companies during and after the teaching and training sessions. Results The results of the project will cover different fields: Better understanding of legislative procedures in each country, the partners in preliminary activities will prepare a presentation of their countries, including the political and administrative aspects. Increasing of the skills to speak in public, to work in international groups and leadership. Document and interviews designed by students about: 1) their suggestions to improve school environmental issues 2) their suggestions to improve school organisation, in order to grant them more autonomy. They will present this to the school staff as a conclusion of the project 3) their personal conclusions on the benefits of such a project Learning to work together: pooling, constructing one's reasoning, arguing, public speaking, negotiating, making a compromise, debating, finding a common solution, deciding (voting). About the training activities for students 16-17. Creation of a virtual company and virtual product and creation of NGOs after the analysis of needs of the different local communities. The target of dissemination activities is represented by different actors: - Local community - Parents - Other teachers in the schools of our region - Other public insititutions - Public Administration and policy makers in the educational, labour market and social fields. Impact on Institutions The first impact on all three institutions will be to get a photograph of how they are seen by the pupils(and also teachers and principals) of the partner schools. This will be a first step leading to more reflexivity and will at the same time strengthen the positive points and boost evolution. The second impact will be to enter deeper into a collaborative European dimension which will contribute at the same time to reinforce the identity and dynamism of these institutions and lead them to further cooperations. Impact on participants All participants are going to "grow", linguistically, culturally, and in humanity.
The original version of the report is written in English.