Our project had several goals. 1. LINGUISTIC GOALS: the international context is fundamental to achieving this goal. Despite language teachers' efforts, our students study foreign languages as school subjects; their sense of closeness to the world of sociability, culture and representations conveyed by each of these languages remains weak. The aim of this project was to bring students closer to the partners' languages through culture, in particular the arts and food. 2.CIVIC GOALS: a. to give students a sense of meaning in their education by taking part in an activity in which they are valued, and where their efforts are visible and appreciated by others. b. to extend the community feeling to the wider European sphere. We have succeeded in enhancing individual identities by developing the desire and curiosity to get to know others, and by giving students the motive, the people to talk to, and the means to communicate with other European teenagers.
We didn't "apply" for this project; we created it. It's an original idea motivated by the desire to bring together teenagers from different European countries and encourage them to work on joint projects. As one of the main themes of each partner's school project is international openness and the practice of foreign languages, in particular French, English, Italian and Spanish, our project fitted in perfectly with this theme.