Following a KA-1 project in the 2015/16 academic year, the IES Rafael Alberti (Cádiz) and the Lycée Roland Garros (Le Tampon, island of La Réunion - French overseas department and outermost European region) - come into contact . Since then, the two centers have signed a collaboration agreement, thanks to which IES R. Alberti welcomes 4 French teachers during the 2016/17 school year to "observe good practices" in a European KA-1 project. Throughout the next two school years (2017/18 and 18/19) the IES Rafael Alberti also welcomes students from the Lycée Roland Garros, whose visits have a wide impact throughout the center. In addition, IES R. Alberti faculty has completed 4 teaching periods at the Lycée R. Garros (KA-101) during the years 2017/18 and 2018/19. On the other hand, the Lycée R.Garros, holds regular meetings with the Collège Plateau Goyaves (Saint-Louis), located in a depressed socio-cultural environment and which is included in the "Priority Education Network" of France (REP +), to build bridges between both centers and create new educational opportunities, using Spanish as a tool of inclusion and motivation to avoid school dropouts. In 2019, the Lycée R.Garros, signed a collaboration agreement with the IES Suárez de Figueroa (Zafra, Extremadura), which joins the three already mentioned centers for the current project, since it has a student body with similar socio-economic characteristics , which makes us share motivations and interests. The realization of this project pursues the achievement of various OBJECTIVES. On the one hand, that students are able to travel and integrate into another European school system, as well as welcome and integrate students from other European countries into their center. It is expected that students increase their linguistic competence in foreign languages and become aware of the richness of being European citizens, offering them a panorama of equal opportunities. Another objective is to promote the ambition of students to continue their studies through confidence in their own competences and accompany them in their educational orientation to avoid absenteeism and dropping out of school. It also aims to increase the number of students who consider the option of a training period in another European country. All students will be able to understand and value European cultural diversity as their own and promote appreciation for different European cultures. There will also be an impact on the center in the increase of the number of European projects, an enrichment of partner networks through the development of Twinspaces or other platforms, etc. As for the PARTICIPANTS in the student sector, on the one hand, we have those who will participate in the mobilities: in the Spanish centers they will be students of 1st year of Bachillerato who study French (15-17 years), in the Lycée Roland Garros they will be students of 1ère of the BACHIBAC section (15-17 years old) and in the Collège Plateau Goyaves, the students will be of 3ème (13-14 years old). On the other hand, local students who do not participate in mobility will also benefit greatly, since they will be involved in local activities of preparation, dissemination and school exchanges of all kinds. The intention is for the project to have a multiplier effect and reach as many students as possible. The teachers directly involved will be the French departments of the Spanish centers, the BACHIBAC section of the Lycée Roland Garros and the Spanish Department of the Lycée Plateau Goyaves. The main ACTIVITY will be the integration of the students in the life of the centers. The visiting students will know another school system and another educational methodology, thus increasing its versatility to adapt to new situations throughout its future formation; local students will also enrich their training through direct interaction with classmates. Specific activities will also be developed around the themes of the project: diversity and European citizenship, creativity and art ... In all the activities an active and participative METHODOLOGY will be used, with a fundamental role of inclusion and coeducation through the creation of international and intercultural work teams. Students will not be a spectator, but the creator and protagonist of their own learning, which will be the result of experience. The RESULTS in the medium and long term will be diverse: The improvement of their communicative skills and awareness of their European citizenship with an increase of mutual and intercultural knowledge through the discovery of "the other", which will help a general competence improvement; on the other hand, a series of PRODUCTS such as: videos, photographic presentations, texts and artistic productions that will be shared in the dissemination activities and through the eTwinning platform.
The BACKGROUND of this project is diverse: - KA1 (2015-16): the IES Rafael Alberti (Cádiz, Spain) and the Lycée Roland Garros (Le Tampon, La Réunion, French overseas department and outermost European region) come into contact. - 2016: Collaboration agreement between both centers. We highlight the character of La Réunion as a former French colony and its geographical isolation for the importance of this agreement. - KA1 (2016-17): L.R. performs various periods of observation at the IES R.A. - KA101 (2017-18 and 2018-19): R.A. performs 4 teaching periods at the R.G. On the other hand, faculty of the R.G. carried out motivational sessions at the Collège Plateau Goyaves, included in the "Priority Education Network" of France (REP+), using Spanish as a tool for inclusion and motivation. This support leads to the participation of the P.G. in this his first Erasmus project. These centers are joined by the IES Suárez de Figueroa, with extensive experience in Erasmus, a collaboration agreement with the R.G. and a student body with similar socio-cultural characteristics, which makes up a team of complementary centers. This project is the result of synergies between educational centers in search of a common OBJECTIVE: the development of basic skills and the increase of skills in students. Our PRIORITIES: increasing confidence in their abilities, promoting ambition to continue their studies, avoiding possible early school leaving and effectively improving their inclusion in society and their possibilities for personal development in the future. To implement the project, we decided to work around the value of DIVERSITY, which covers all areas of personal, educational and professional development of students and which is palpable in all schools in one way or another. This has allowed us to achieve our objectives and has provided a general COHERENCE to each of the activities carried out, as well as to the project as a whole. The profile of the PARTICIPANTS is very varied: - 3ème in P.G. (14-15 years) - 4ºESO-2de (15-16 years old), 1ºbach.-1ère (16-17 years old) and 2ºbach.-Terminale (17-18 years old) in R.A., S.F. and R.G. The students study French or Spanish as a foreign language, so the improvement in linguistic competence has generated an interest in continuing their studies. This fact is especially important, since the profile of the participating students is susceptible to dropping out of school. All the foreign language students in the centers have participated in the project at the local level, in the reception or in the exchange activities. A large part of the students who have carried out the mobility had fewer opportunities because they were in a complex personal or family situation, which made it difficult for them to participate in a school project of this type (detailed in the report). The ACTIVITIES of the project have been diverse: - Exchange of educational resources among students (videos). - Exchanges around topics related to the project (video conferences after working on questionnaires and various materials). - Interactions in e-twinning to strengthen ties between students. - Guides in situ to show the realities of the schools carried out by the local participants. - Joint development in multicultural groups of a "visual tour" activity around the experiences of transnational activities. - Joint realization in multicultural groups of "travel cards" that were exposed to the rest of the project partners in the recording of videos using CROMA as a tool. - Creation of expository texts and audio recording with digital tools and subsequent conversion to QR codes. - Photographic exhibitions in each center AUDIO-GUIDED BY THE STUDENTS IN SPANISH AND FRENCH, to convey to the entire educational center what has been learned in the transnational activities. Regarding the RESULTS and the IMPACT of the project, it has been possible to verify: - Improving the skills of students in a foreign language. - Increased student confidence in their abilities and self-confidence. - The huge increase in motivation for learning foreign languages (French and Spanish). - The development of social skills and academic skills. In addition, the schools are committed to making the BENEFITS of this project last in the long term, thanks to the different actions that are already being carried out to give continuity to the effects achieved by the project that has just ended. Some of these actions are based on new Erasmus projects that are already underway, in which each center tries to go further in the opportunities offered to its students and teaching staff: carrying out short or long-term stays in a French or Spanish center and reception of invited experts from another european centre.