By carrying out this project and its universal values of freedom, tolerance, and humanism, we had pedagogical, linguistic, and cultural objectives. -The pedagogical aspect took place in a series of actions aimed at gradually developing in young students a European civic attitude, through the theme of our project: the creation of a dictionary of words in link with the project in the language of the country and in english, the common study of movies and documentaries by the three schools (for instance "Schindler's List" made the museum visit easier in Krakow for the French and Greek students), the persistence of post-World War II conflicts, and the creation of posters on Human Rights. -From a linguistic point of view, the use of English throughout all stages of the project allowed the exchange of different views between adults and students. -The project's intercultural dimension was supported by different types of exchanges. Indeed, the students got to know each other through a video conferencing tool at the very beginning of the project. Then, visiting the Polish school or when the Polish students came to France enabled them to discover another culture: language, teaching, built or natural heritage, food …
Our school located in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) is an urban secondary school in a high-priority education network. It welcomes 430 students aged from 12 to 15, with 21 classes (5 classes for the 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, and 6 classes for the 9th grade). Currently, 41 teachers and 25 non-teaching staff work in this school. It has been classified as a "Reinforced Priority Education Network" (REP+) educational institution since September 2015 because of an increasing concentration of social difficulties that strongly impacted the academic success of our students. The school also has two local units for inclusive education (ULIS) and two educational units for newly arrived non-native students (UPE2A). In the form, we identified 4 needs: • Facing otherness: students from the 3 schools have encountered different cultures. • Embracing History: acquiring historical knowledge related to the project's theme and participating in activities. • Discovering new horizons: the opportunity to participate in a trip abroad to an unknown country. • Perpetuating the duty of remembrance: the three schools are indeed "memory keepers."