For the implementation of this project, it is necessary to recall the objectives initially intended by it. We identified several: Avoid dropping out of school, especially among students in the process of dropping out of school with significant signs of demotivation with their repeated absences and light involvement in class. The second objective was to give vocational high school students an opportunity to consider mobility as a training purpose but also as cultural and linguistic enrichment and personal satisfaction. This objective underpinned the school's desire to make young learners aware that it is not because they come from very disadvantaged backgrounds, that they do not have the right to find themselves elsewhere than in their poor neighborhood. We were keen to add this notion of pleasure in their mobility to combine work and well-being and make them understand that the two notions are not incompatible. Our third objective was to give all students the opportunity to consider mobility, regardless of their background, disability, or origin. Our vocational school project emphasizes this desire for inclusion of all students.
The newly renamed vocational school Raymond Kopa is a school of about 540 students and 62 teachers. Some of them are specialized and designated as ULIS teachers or referents (in charge of students with disabilities), UPE2A teachers (in charge of refugees or newly arrived in France), or MLDS referent (in charge of dropout students). The school embraces a diversity of students and is committed to being part of openness, whether European or international. In our school project, axis 2 is to collectively promote the construction of enlightened and engaged future citizens and to strengthen the openness and international mobility of learners and staff. To be part of this axis, several actions have been carried out in this direction: Erasmus mobility of learners and staff, Erasmus Days, hosting of Swedish learners and Maltese staff, translation of internship agreements, online meetings in English with our intermediary partners in Malta, Greece, Turkey, and Croatia, working meetings to discuss our projects and expectations as well as working meals. Our mobility projects and our hosting position are in perfect cohesion.