Context: In the mind of a part of our students, Europe has no reality. The tendency is to withdraw into oneself. This project is a great opportunity to develop a European identity but it is also a protection against xenophobic behaviour. Our project will use students' experience to carry out territorial marketing work. At the end of the project, each student will receive a Europass delivered by a European representative. Goals: For learners: - Perceiving Europe as a territory rich in its diversity and fighting against xenophobia. - acquiring skills while giving the taste to learn and fight against school dropping out. Number and profiles of the participants: This project involves more than one hundred students aged 14 to 18 years old. Four schools are associated with this project: Maurice Genevoix High School (France), Benjamin Franklin High School (France), Vittorio Emmanuele II High School (Italy) and Zespol Szkol Gastronomiczno-hotelarskich High School (Poland). These schools have a rich experience in international projects and exchanges. The students involved in this project come from Management, Economics or Hotel and Catering sectors. Description of the activities: - Study visits organised by partner countries at sites chosen by them (economic cultural or gastronomic sites). - Creation of a language vademecum by each country and its translation into English. - Creating a Quizlet - Creation of a communication tool by each partner country (video, blog, flyer, brochures) - Metting with professionals (tourism, hotel and restaurant industry, territorial developer, local elected representatives). - Use of digital tools Impacts: - Development of a European spirit for participants. - Increase in the number of students enrolled in the school. - Increase in the number of teachers teaching a foreign language in DNL (non-language subjects). - Creation of a pool of experienced teachers. - Improvement of the formal educational training offer. Expected results: - More motivated students. - Decrease in the dropout rate in these pathways. - Increase in the success rate in these examinations. - Increase in the mobility of the students. - Increase in the number of students enrolling in the school for an HND (High National Diploma) - Increase in the number of language certifications.
This project mobilized 4 schools for which international opening is a priority: Maurice Genevoix high school (France), Benjamin Franklin high school (France), Vittorio Emanuele II high school (Italy) and Zespol Szkol Gastronomiczno-Hotelarskich high school (Poland). It brought together students and teachers from our technological and professional sectors around a territorial marketing project. Young people aged 15 to 20, living in very different territories, discovered and shared their respective family, cultural and tourist environments. Supervised by teams of multidisciplinary teachers, they created marketing and promotional materials in collaboration with tourism professionals. The beneficiaries of the project belong to modest economic and social categories, mainly young girls for Italy and Poland. Very few had ever traveled to another country. Some of them had never visited tourist attractions in their own territories. For our learners, the objectives were : - to arouse a greater interest in the European space so that they perceive it as a territory rich in its diversity and as an opportunity for their future academic or professional careers. The challenge was to remove the prejudices and psychological barriers against mobility, - to transmit knowledge and skills on the basis of a different experience, more motivating for students who need a concrete approach, - to put them in contact with professionals, - to bring them closer to European institutions. For our schools and our teaching teams, the objectives were: - to increase the influence and attractiveness of our schools and technological sectors, - to motivate teams of teachers willing to enrich and exchange their teaching practices.