As we are living in a more and more connected world, we've come to realise that our students are increasingly living in a digital world and hardly knowing their neighbours, whether close or far. They are hyper connected, think they know ‘everything’ but only a few of them know the customs of their European neighbours or the local initiatives they could take part in to help the Other. Thanks to this project entitled Local initiatives in a European Village we want our students to take a critical look at their use of social networks, the internet in general and mobile phones but also lead them to use them efficiently, safely enjoying the multiple benefits they can provide. Alongside with learning how to master this tool they were born with (contrary to us, their teachers …) we want them to know the many local initiatives that are around them and to make them take part, to make them learn how to help the Other, how to respect our beautiful Planet and how to transfer our know-how. The European dimension of the project will enable them to compare their behaviour, experiments, the many different initiatives they can be part of and the solutions they can bring to make a better living together future. They will also learn that it is no better no worse elsewhere, but just different and that one must take time to consider different opinions, strategies, ways of doing things to better understand others and to better live altogether We want to work with 13 to 14 year-old students from the 4 partner schools that’s to say , France,Bulgaria, Italy and Spain. Each partner wants to work with a team of about 20 students on a regular basis each year. The different activities we’ll organise will ensure us to efficiently lead this project and to foster the development of abilities and skills for our students such as -looking for information thanks to ICTs -meeting local actors ( humanitarian charities, crafts transferring actions ….) -creating, conducting analysing and disseminating the results of surveys -exchanging and meeting with our European partners. -creating blogs, posters, exhibitions, videos, articles….. Each school wants to involve as many teachers as possible so as to ensure cross-curricular learning and skills sharing. The project objectives will be achieved through effective European team work (on twinspace and during the mobilities). Parents will of course be involved and encouraged to take part in the different actions taken. Thanks to this project, we hope that our students will become more autonomous, more confident and open-minded with the others and the world they are living in. We want them to practice foreign languages and see how important they are. We want them to get used to working in teams, here in multicultural teams. We would also want our students to be sensitive to local initiatives and to get some of them to take part on a regular basis. They will also be aware of what is happening in other countries, how other people are dealing with the same and often burning issues. Finally we want them to take a critical stance on their digital devices use (and use pace), keeping clearly in mind the drawbacks and benefits they can provide in our everyday life. Whether in short, medium term or in the long run, local partners, such as charities, will benefit from the involvement of our students and the feedback on European initiatives we will provide them. In their future life as young adults, students will definitely benefit from this enriching and empowering experience giving them the means to better understand their social and economic background as much as the European one. Having acquired key competences, ICT and languages skills, they will be motivated to keep on studying, for some to escape poverty and psychological decay. They will thus face adulthood with as much confidence and hope as any young European should have.
As we are living in a more and more connected world, we've come to realise that our students are increasingly living in a digital world and hardly knowing their neighbours, whether close or far. They are hyper connected, think they know ‘everything’ but only a few of them know the customs of their European neighbours or the local initiatives they could take part in to help the Other. Thanks to this project entitled Local initiatives in a European Village we wanted our students to take a critical look at their use of social networks, the internet in general and mobile phones but also lead them to use them efficiently, safely enjoying the multiple benefits they can provide. Alongside with learning how to master this tool they were born with (contrary to us, their teachers …) we wanted them to know the many local initiatives that are around them and to make them take part, to make them learn how to help the Other, how to respect our beautiful Planet and how to transfer our know-how. Unfortunately, the pandemic has slowed down our activities and reduced the number of local initiatives we were able to discover. The European dimension of the project enabled them to compare their behaviour, experiments, the many different initiatives they can be part of and the solutions they can bring to make a better living together future. They have also learnt that it is no better no worse elsewhere, but just different and that one must take time to consider different opinions, strategies, ways of doing things to better understand others and to better live altogether We want to work with 13 to 14 year-old students from the 4 partner schools that’s to say , France,Bulgaria, Italy and Spain. Each partner worked with a team of about 20 students on a regular basis each year. The different activities we organized have ensured us to efficiently lead this project and to foster the development of abilities and skills for our students such as -looking for information thanks to ICTs -meeting local actors ( humanitarian charities, crafts transferring actions ….) -creating, conducting analysing and disseminating the results of surveys -exchanging and meeting with our European partners. -creating blogs, posters, exhibitions, videos, articles….. Each school wanted to involve as many teachers as possible so as to ensure cross-curricular learning and skills sharing. The project objectives have been achieved through effective European team work (on twinspace and during the mobilities). Parents of course have been involved and encouraged to take part in the different actions taken. Thanks to this project, our students have become more autonomous, more confident and open-minded with the others and the world they are living in. We wanted them to practice foreign languages and see how important they are. We wanted them to get used to working in teams, here in multicultural teams. We also wanted our students to be sensitive to local initiatives and to get some of them to take part on a regular basis. (even though there were less opportunities because of the pandemic, the students still got the opportunity to discover a wide and diversified range of European initiatives) They are also aware of what is happening in other countries, how other people are dealing with the same and often burning issues. Finally, we wanted them to take a critical stance on their digital devices use (and use pace), keeping clearly in mind the drawbacks and benefits they can provide in our everyday life. The pandemic has been a lively example. Whether in short, medium term or in the long run, local partners, such as charities, will have benefited from the involvement of our students and the feedback on European initiatives we have provided them. In their future life as young adults, students will definitely benefit from this enriching and empowering experience giving them the means to better understand their social and economic background as much as the European one. Having acquired key competences, ICT and languages skills, they will be motivated to keep on studying, for some to escape poverty and psychological decay. They will thus face adulthood with as much confidence and hope as any young European should have.