Our project W.O.W has helped to develop key skills in the linguistic and digital fields and contribute to education for sustainable development. By breaking down the walls between a hundred French, Italian, Greek and Spanish students with varied social profiles, the project has enabled these young people to live a hybrid learning experience (thanks to etwinning and physical mobility) highlighting the crucial importance of social ties and human contact. The foreign language skills of French people are lower than in most European countries, especially orally. 20% of our seniors still have an A2 level in English at the end of high school. The «Make the Wall» project helped us to achieve these objectives by bringing at the end of 2Nnde 50% of our students to this level of competence through interactions between peers and real mobilities. We also wanted to contribute to the improvement of mental health, and the development of students, the project allowed students to feel more confident, more integrated in their classes and more involved in their lives.
The war in Ukraine has created an impulse of solidarity putting European values at the forefront. It was therefore fundamental for us to make Europe live for our European students by giving life to this European belonging. European cooperation is also one of the best ways to combat the loneliness of young people who have suffered from lockdowns. Language and social skills were undermined during two years of health crisis. Our participation in an Erasmus KA2 project enabled us to achieve the citizens' and humanist objectives of our settlement projects. At the Lycée Saint-Maurice we wanted to open our young people to the diversity of European cultures. At our school, we were also committed to diversifying the ways of learning, recognizing the plurality of our students' learning profiles. This ERASMUS project enabled us to meet the needs of our students by offering motivating and ambitious activities that aroused curiosity, stimulated the pleasure of learning and the taste for effort.