Our project, involving six European Schools, aims to build European citizenship among students and their families and to reinforce it among the adults who educate them. Sharing, practice and comparative study will be the foundation of this work. Openness to others, seeking links beyond our differences will develop a sense of belonging to a community. Cooperation and collaboration between pupils, educational exchanges between adults will lay the foundation for active European citizenship. Through the choice of partners who teach in cycle 1 and in the public sector, we have the will to work for the development of an accessible to all, high quality level of education for the youngest people . The chosen object, arts and culture, from the tradition to the contemporary creation, will allow a better knowledge of our own inheritance and its enrichment by the discovery of this of other countries. The process of progressive decentration will lead from the particular to the universal. A programming of activities, precisely distributed over time, will allow pupils and teachers of establishments of different size and functioning, to cooperate in the construction of common and evaluable knowledge and skills, referring to the European base. The nature of the proposed activities should allow language skills to be developed particularly by promoting benchmarking, analysis, comparison and categorization. By systematizing these intellectual postures, we should increase the chances of successful entry into learning to read for all our students. By paying particular attention to the valorization of all cultures, all forms of participation, all productions and all engagements, students will be able to assert their self-confidence and we will be able to avoid the birth of the precocious feeling of school failure often predictive of early school leaving The accompaniment of special needs audiences, access to equal opportunities will be our ongoing concern. This project will aim to reduce cultural and social gaps and integrate students and families through active and playful participation Each activity will be an opportunity for experiences and learning through a variety of productions, regularly using a diverse but limited panel of digital tools to build mastery among teachers and raise students awareness . In addition to traditional e-mails, virtual communication and the data sharing, will be promoted through the use of collaborative remote working tools , especially via the eTwinning platform dedicated to European exchanges. Dissemination to an enlarged community has been thought of since the creation of the project and will take the form of a common website, which will present an interactive synthesis of the work. Improving language skills in the mother tongue and in English, working language, will make sense in both written and spoken exchanges. The learning will be done gradually according to the age of the pupils or the initial level of the adults. The use and enhancement of each original language will be systematic and all documents produced will be multilingual, the transversal language being English. Common learning, teaching and training events will include members of the entire educational community. They will allow the observation and the concrete study of the strategies and devices of the different European school and educational systems, thus improving the professional gestures and the capacity of decentration and analysis. The transversal skills of organization, communication, and management and management will be attested by Europass setting up The final product, a multi-lingual animated film composed of short cartoons produced by each country and subtitled in English, will be screened in local cinemas or cultural and / or public entertainment structures with which each school will have established a partnership since the beginning of the project Through all these communication and dissemination actions we want to give a European dimension to all our schools We also hope to obtain lasting recognition of this desire for this specificity from the supervisory and territorial institutions.
Our project brought together 6 public kindergartens from Cyprus, Estonia, France, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey who aimed to improve the quality of their establishment by giving it a European dimension. It was therefore a question of improving practices and opening up students and the adults who educate them to a broader citizenship. By discovering the arts and traditions of their country of origin, in a simple but emotional way, we have led our students to identify the elements specific to their culture. Through many exchanges with the other countries, we have gradually built up an observation of differences and similarities and highlighted the idea of common roots and an obvious sharing of many cultural elements. Through practice, we then offered them to appropriate certain elements and share a common approach to artistic creation with the partners. The project was broken down into multiple cooperative projects, through very concrete activities, involving families as much as possible. The learning objectives are all part of the school programs of our respective countries, Language, Physical Education, Arts, as well as European orientations in terms of Education, Citizenship, Digital, and inclusion. The collaborative working method, to develop common productions, within each establishment and between the various partner establishments, has enabled adults and children to develop technical skills (in the use of ICTE, organization, teamwork, communication, mastery of the mother tongue and foreign language), but also to acquire transversal skills such as self-confidence, curiosity towards others, tolerance, respect, sense of responsibility, organization and commitment. Each institution was thus able to : Develop tools to develop the exchange of practices and the training of teachers (visits, etwinning). Deepen the knowledge of teachers and students on the chosen topics. Organize visits, regular workshops for students and solicit the participation of families and out-of-school structures Conduct quantitative and qualitative studies to know the investment of students and the impact on families Set up a mascot, which circulated in countries and families in order to collect photos, documents, gifts and testimonies, and allowing young students who could not travel to represent in a very active way family and school life in the other countries. Co-build the common etwinning site by publishing multilingual digital documents for children. Promote the use of these documents for distribution in each country through the media used regularly (own websites, blogs, electronic letters, etc.) At the end of the project, the following objectives were largely achieved for each category of participants : -Students : Discover other cultures and ways of life. Be sensitive to the Arts and the culture that surrounds us Develop knowledge around music, painting, literature, traditions Develop technical skills in animation cinema Expand the vocabulary on all these themes in the mother tongue. Discover the languages of other countries, study their sounds and certain similarities. Learn about English as a working and communication language. Develop critical thinking, questioning, curiosity and tolerance towards others. Know how to work in a group, get organized, plan a job, persevere until the result. Use ICT to produce photo and video documents, search for information, and communicate with others. -Families : Understand the importance of promoting and safeguarding cultural heritage Promote family ties around traditions Become aware of the importance of education in the cultural field Develop knowledge of Europe, know and share its values. Create a link with the different nationalities, identities and cultures present in the establishment . Get to know and understand school practices better and get involved in exchanges with the School. -Staff : Strengthen the bond with families. Knowing, sharing and promoting European values. Open to differences, respect others. Compare and question their practices. Develop professional skills in organization, communication, collaborative work, English, ICT. Build curricular learning trough a “ pedagogy of project ”. Have a goal in the long term Discover other European countries. -Local institutional partners: Discover, promote and support actions.