By 2019, only one teacher had started a European project. 2020-1-FR01-KA101-079512 project was set to create a collective enthusiasm around International mobilities. Il is meant to show it is easy, realistic and good for ambition to dedicate a part of one's professional energy to learning abroad, meeting European counterparts and including international experience to professional abilities. Almost 20% of the staff joined in this new project. It must contribute to renew collective action and bring more staff to join ideas and efforts. Collective expertise must be reinforced. International actions and exchanges contribute to modernize the image of the school in the community and develop, among staffs and students the feeling to belong to a modern, ambitious school, determined to improve already good results and offer students new experiences, both useful in their education and ambition.
Aimé Césaire Junior High School is a peaceful college of 550 students on Reunion Island. Results are good. The European Development Plan is necessary to bring the students to imagine themselves out of their beautiful island. They need to experience the larger world. It will bring them to show more ambition in their school and personal projects. They must be given the opportunity to feel they belong in a larger geographical and political community, to open their minds.. Project 2020-1-FR01-KA101-079512, as one of the first projects aims at developing languages abilities in the staff, in order to make it easier for them to participate in international mobilities ans learning mobilities. It is the first step to create networks of internationaly minded staff and to establish European mobility as a traditional means to acquire new knowledge, methods and partners. It brings staff to develop new wishes and methods to act collectively. It is a step to revive professional enthusiasm and curiosity. More staff join the European mobility team