We wanted to enable our respective educational communities to actively engage in the promotion of gender equality and the fight against disinformation through collective artistic creations adapted to contemporary issues and media uses while raising awareness of our students of the usefulness of developing their key skills. Our objectives were therefore the following: Develop artistic, cultural and European openness. Promote intercultural and linguistic exchanges through real and virtual meetings. Allow students to exchange and communicate, collaborate on a unifying project and, on this occasion, strengthen the international cooperation of partner establishments. Raise awareness of contemporary societal issues such as misinformation and gender equality. Develop critical thinking regarding the media and contemporary information vectors.
When submitting the application, we identified several needs: A need to open our students to international mobility and break the psychological barriers that dissuade them. A need to provide access to diverse and varied cultural and artistic places, with cultural and international openness for a public which suffered from cultural isolation. A need to develop the linguistic skills of our students who are generally not confident in their abilities to communicate in a foreign language. A need to Promote open-mindedness and the development of critical thinking, particularly on the very current issues of disinformation and gender inequality. A need to Encourage the personal commitment of everyone in a collective and artistic project. A need to bring partner schools into a culture of international cooperation by strengthening existing partnerships and training teams.