-To improve the internationalisation of the school. -To give our educational community, and especially our students, the opportunity to get to know different educational contexts. -To encourage cooperative work with pupils from other cultures through the use of the foreign languages studied at our school and information and communication technologies. -To make known the cultural heritage of the European countries that welcomed our students. -To know and value our own cultural heritage in order to preserve it. -To strengthen our identity as Europeans by promoting tolerance and respect for those who are different. -To encourage teachers to join or prepare themselves to work in the CLIL project and to learn how CLIL works in other countries in order to acquire new methodologies and resources for this project. -To improve the communicative competence in a foreign language of pupils and teachers and for the whole educational community to value their learning. -To promote lifelong learning for our teachers and students by improving their training. -To value the interdisciplinary work carried out over the years by our teachers and to learn about similar work in other countries, especially in science (STEM).
The project has been developed in a multicultural educational context, as our pupils come from almost 25 nationalities, mostly from Latin America and Africa. We are in an ultraperipheral area and our educational community needs to open up to Europe, reinforce European identity and value foreign languages as a means of integration and tolerance. We live in a tourist area and we need to protect our natural, social, cultural and historical heritage resources while learning to value the heritage of other countries. We were a pilot school in 2000 during the implementation of the CLIL programme, however, the number of teachers and, consequently, students has been decreasing due to lack of training and/or interest of teachers in the programme. We needed to know how CLIL works in other countries in order to learn about other methodologies, to encourage other teachers in the school to join CLIL, to improve our teaching practice and the training of our students. In addition, we wanted to highlight the work carried out by our interdisciplinary teaching group and find out how STEM is worked in other schools in order to assimilate resources, methodologies, etc. that could be applied by our teaching staff.