CONTEXT: Our identity is our diversity: The current context marked by numerous crises in Europe (Brexit, refugees ...) makes us wish to work about the question of identity. Indeed, these issues raise questions about the European project and one of its foundations: a common European identity. We want to bring at least some answers to our students even if an exhaustive study on European identity is impossible. Above all, we would like our students to grasp the idea that a European identity really exists, even if it is pluralistic one. Local and national identities center around a common European identity. That's why we plan to use at least occasionally our regional or national languages, as well as English, in addition to the main language of the project, which is French. AIMS: The main goal also corresponds to the main mission of the school: Creating good learning conditions for our students to enable them to become informed citizens. The project work helps to combat school failure by offering educational activities that can motivate again those students who were not successful in the past. The main goal consists in developing social, civic, linguistic, technological, digital and intercultural skills as well as the creativity of the students. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: The entire school community (students, teachers, parents, management and administration) and external partners (European information centers, local and European elected representatives ...) will be involved in our project. The STUDENTS are between 14 and 18 years old and are at the heart of the project. We want to create the necessary conditions for the students to really get involved into the project and become the real actors. At least 16 pupils per school will participate by the mobilities in the 6 common learning activities, at least 96 students for the six schools. The number of students participating in the local activities will vary. Depending on the local activities, there will be between 50 and 100 students per school that can be added. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: All activities are documented by video. All results will be in French or bilingual (with English or local / national language). The list below is not exhaustive: - training activities involving joint meetings: C1 Luxembourg: debates on pluralistic identity; C2 Portugal: representation by each partner of a short play on identity and reflection on the outline of a scenario for a common theatre play; C3 Cyprus: writing a more detailed and specific scenario for the common play on identity; C4 France: realization of the choreographic elements of the common play; C5 Spain-Canary Islands: production of the soundtrack of the common play; C6 Spain-Valencia: representation of the common play. - local activities (P1,2 ...) between the joint meetings have the aim to prepare or implement joint training activities: preparation of the short play by each country as well as the preparation of the common play; preparations for debates; interviews with political representatives; school surveys; videos documenting the activities etc. - publishing of the information and the results: Erasmus + area in each school, articles for school websites and the press, Etwinning and Twinspace, project logo etc. METHODOLOGY: The local coordinators, assisted by a team, coordinate the project at their schools, whereas the Luxembourg coordinator is responsible for the coordination at his own school and internationally. An evaluation grid makes it possible to evaluate the progress of the project and to react to possible problems throughout the two years. Students are at the heart of the project and are actively involved. All participants are supposed to be "multipliers" in order to be able to share the acquired skills with others. IMPACTS AND EXPECTED RESULTS: The main impacts will be on a civic, social and educational level: our students will be able to reflect and debate about plural identity and become "informed" citizens. The practical activities allow them to create and realize a common theatre play. All students, especially those with academic difficulties, can find in this project a meaningful source of motivation. Our schools and teachers can establish contacts with external partners: invitations of elected officials, partnerships (partner schools, information centers). LONG TERM BENEFITS: The activities and results are sufficiently wide-ranging and manifold (plays, debates ...) so that many students and teachers can benefit from them. Partnerships between schools and European information centres as well as political representatives can be easily perpetuated by similar projects. The partnerships between schools can be continued with further projects, activities and specific mobilities.
CONTEXT: The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the implementation of our project and its planning. Between March 2020 and September 2021, the project was paralysed by the pandemic: cancellation of the C2 training activity in Portugal in March 2020, closure of schools, lockdowns, very different situations from one country to another and prohibition of school exchanges, making it impossible to carry out the rest of the project in the timetable and order initially planned. We therefore adapted the calendar and the order of activities without changing our objectives and activities in order to be able to complete our project: we asked for a one-year extension of the project, changed the order, the number and partly the content of the training activities (4 training activities with pupils, 1 training activity cancelled at the last minute and 1 staff training activity instead of the 6 training activities with pupils initially planned), added a local activity (P10: films on the changes in our schools due to the pandemic) etc. These upheavals did not lead to a reduction in the number of activities, but rather to an increase in the number of activities. These changes did not affect our objectives, nor the problematic of our project: "Our identity is our diversity". Despite or thanks to the diversity of the situation of each partner school during the pandemic, we have lived and continued to build the European identity of the participants and of our project. OBJECTIVES: The main objective also corresponded to the main mission of the school: to create conditions conditions for students to learn and to become informed citizens. The project helped to combat school failure by offering activities to motivate pupils who were failing. The aim was to develop social, civic, linguistic, technological, digital and intercultural skills, as well as the ability to communicate with others, digital, intercultural and creative skills. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: The whole school community (pupils, teachers, parents, management and administration) and administration) and external partners (information centres, local and European elected representatives, etc.) were involved in our project. The PUPILS were between 14 and 18 years old and were at the heart of the project. The necessary conditions were conditions were created so that the pupils became the real actors of the project. Between 10 and 20 pupils per school participated in the 4 common learning activities through the mobilities. The number of pupils participating in local The number of pupils participating in local activities was variable but higher than those in mobility. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: All activities are documented by films, pictures and files and can be consulted on our Twinspace:https://twinspace.etwinning.net/68647/home All results are mainly in French. The list below is not exhaustive: - joint training activities: C1 Luxembourg: debates on identity in the plural; C2 Portugal: cancelled; C3 Canary Islands: writing the script for the joint play during a staff training; C4 France: realisation of part of the choreographic elements of the play; C5 Cyprus: realisation of the rest of the choreographic elements and the soundtrack of the play; C6: Portugal: performance of the play. - local activities (P1-14) between the joint meetings which serve to prepare the training activities: preparation of the play and debates; interviews with political representatives; surveys in schools etc. - Dissemination: Erasmus+ space in each school, articles on school websites and in the press, eTwinning, project logo etc. METHODOLOGY: The local coordinators, assisted by a team, coordinated the project at school level and the Luxembourg coordinator coordinated at school and transnational level. An evaluation grid was used to assess the progress of the project and to react to possible problems throughout the three years. The pupils were at the heart of the project and actively involved. IMPACTS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES: The main impacts were civic, social and academic: Our students were able to reflect and debate on identity in the plural and become "informed" citizens. The practical component allowed them to create and produce a common play. All the pupils, especially those with learning difficulties, were able to find a source of motivation in this project. Our schools and teachers were able to open up to the outside world: invitations from elected officials, partnerships (partner schools, information centres). LONG-TERM BENEFITS: The activities and results are sufficiently transversal (play, debates...) to benefit other pupils and teachers. Partnerships (schools, information centres, political representatives) can be easily sustained. Partnerships between our schools can be continued through future projects already planned.