By implementing this project with the partner college, we wanted to enable young people to work collaboratively with their peers in other countries on topics that affect everyone. The question of integration affects our own schools, which welcome students from different nationalities, disabled... This diversity sometimes creates tensions that could cause situations of discomfort. This project helps to raise awareness among our young people of openness towards others for a better integration of all. In addition, this project allowed students to discover some European institutions, the life of the travellers, the history and traditions of the two partner countries as well as improve the level of language learned (Italian and French). And finally, to provide the opportunity for mobility of students who are relatively far from mobility in general. Indeed, some have discovered the plane for the first time and for others, it was the first time they left France, even the family environment.
Initially, we were driven by the ambition to develop international/ European openness with other institutions, taking into account the values related to those promoted by Erasmus and the schools of the UNESCO network. Following a virtual collaboration born on E-twinning with Ms. Mazzola from the G. Giusti Sinopoli college in the city of Agira in Sicily, the students involved in the "distance" activities decided to work together with us on Europe, European citizenship, the culture and traditions of minorities, including the Traveller population, Sicilian and French . Thanks to the grants, we were able to plan and make known the European institutions as well as the meeting in each of the two countries. Needs such as learning self-reliance, language skills and intercultural discovery led this project.