This project brings together six organizations from three countries (France, Poland and Portugal). It includes both school partners (Lycée Collège Jean XXIII in Quintin, Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Wladyslawa Broniewskiego in Paslek, Agrupamento de Escolas Poeta António Aleixo in Portimao), associative partners (Franco-Polish Association Côtes d'Armor Warmie and Mazuria, Mémoire en Demeure) and the Folk Architekture Museum ethnographic Park in Olsztynek (Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego - Park Etnograficzny). This project is a continuation of an experience lived the previous year in Quintin. The pupils of the General and Professional Adapted Education (EGPA) have carried out school learning in interdisciplinarity within the framework of a cultural and heritage approach on the theme of flax. The richness of this heritage, both in Quintin's history and in its economy, has led to an interest in the related international relations and in the different approaches in European countries. The project is also part of a bilateral cooperation action instituted by agreements between the Department of Côtes d'Armor in France and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. The partnership with the Olsztynek open-air museum and the Mémoire en Demeure association completes the cultural opening. The partnership with the establishment of Portimao will also make it easier to work on the structuring of the educational course proposed to the students of their establishment, adapted and modular. This route can be enriched by creative actions around the flax crafts and other areas that may be linked (cork, wicker, pottery). Our aim is to enable partner organizations in the three territories to work in a network, to increase their capacity to operate at transnational level and to share and compare ideas, practices and working methods. The creation of skills badges will be a tool for recognizing their careers. We want to facilitate school learning and avoid early school dropout by offering participants an interdisciplinary discovery through local heritage. This will enrich a school training path towards the discovery of new professions that are little present in the imagination of young people. Our goal is also to bring students closer to the art, crafts and cultural heritage that surround them. By highlighting this rural heritage, the founder of their environment, we want to convey this curiosity to them. The related objective is to encourage exchanges between countries on heritage enhancement practices and their importance in future professional learning. The project is aimed at 80 students aged 12-13 (born in 2008 - 2009). Many of them do not have the economic or cultural opportunity to meet other young Europeans. Some of them also have difficulties in approaching languages. We are betting on a multicultural encounter to encourage them to develop both their social and linguistic skills. The other actors in this project are secondary school teachers (history, geography, mathematics, science, librarians), teachers specializing in educational difficulties, cultural leaders and mediators. The exchange language will be English for all partners with occasional learning of the languages of each country. During the project, artisanal and artistic creation will be the main medium to open up the educational and pre-professional paths of young people. This will result, over the course of the project, to an exhibition of the progress made and the works created in each establishment, to the production of a game and to the creation by each pupil of a travel mementos scrapbook. This document will form part of a personal and European portfolio, which will enable them to present the skills they have acquired. The methodology employed initiates the adoption of new pedagogical practices allowing the development of transversal competences between school subjects and practical learning to meet the specific needs of students. We will have to take into account, as the project progresses, the differences in learning related to geographical, cultural and socio-economic disparities. In the long term, we hope to make young people aware of the interactions between the existing heritages to enable them to build sustainable international relations and to understand through actions the reality of European citizenship. We hope to open bridges for them to prepare a better career orientation and avoid the dropping out of school. This project will make it possible to develop new partnerships for organizations such as ours, located in rural areas, but capable of working in a European perspective.
We wanted to enable young people to : - Understand the historical links between regions of Europe through awareness of belonging to their own environment; - To learn about geography through mobility and visits. - Meeting pupils from Europe to have access to other national cultures and other languages; learning a few words in the language of the country visited, sharing and discovering the daily habits and tastes of young people - Meet professionals in the business and craft sectors; encourage vocations in the technical and artistic professions linked to linen, open up possibilities for pupils in their pre-professional career - Share mobility experiences between students - To have free access throughout the school year to looms lent by a private individual (in France); - Develop curiosity in all school subjects to make links, encourage reading, writing and the use of science; - To enable greater efficiency in the digital domain to reduce the digital divide and to practise a reasoned and civic use of the media.
In France, the pupils are in academic difficulty and are educated in the "Enseignement Général et Professionnel Adapté". The teachers wanted to exploit the cultural richness of the nearby environment to allow for different learning methods and to encourage the discovery of cultural diversity. Pupils and families were able to experience that international encounters and mobility are possible for them: hence the importance of the partnership with an international cooperation association and a local heritage association. In Poland, the school and museum partners wanted to combine knowledge of the cultural heritage of their region with the implementation of formal and non-formal learning skills. For the teachers in Portugal, the use of crafts seemed to be an opportunity to implement creativity and transversal learning. The heritage of linen, with its European and innovative dimension, seemed to be a proposal in line with the objectives of the different partners. The pupils, through their mobility, could internalise their European citizenship. The partners were able to experiment with transnational networking.