By meeting and working with other students from different countries and cultures: - Become aware of the richness of differences and the necessary adaptations each individual needs to live together - Raise awareness of how to express difficulties - Learn to know oneself and manage emotions - Build solutions to problems with peers - Foster understanding of others, combat prejudices, and promote an intercultural outlook - Create a positive working atmosphere, encourage mutual support, and improve coexistence between students and teachers from different countries - Improve language skills and the use of technology - Reduce bullying, intimidation, and problems related to the school climate Through the mobility programs during which our students have been hosted by families, the young students have experienced the discovery of others in their entirety and their way of life, and have discovered that Europe is a blend of cultures sharing common values. Our experience has allowed them to collaborate, within the framework of a democratic process, in the creation of a common tool which will be used for our future students to improve inclusion in all its forms.
We wanted to bring an international dimension to the management of a recurring problem in schools: living well together. We believe that meeting others will lead young people to think differently about differences and will improve the values of tolerance, inclusion, and acceptance of others. The transnational dimension helps improve foreign language learning and gives meaning to learning by putting it in a real-life context. The project allows educational teams to meet, exchange, and share their professional practices, the specificities of their school, and discover the support and tools put in place to deal with increasing difficulties: harassment, cyberbullying, intimidation, and inclusion difficulties due to the omnipresence of virtual exchanges. We also want to allow young students to benefit from immersion within host families to enrich them with the discovery of other ways of life and habits and to offer an educational path to prevent conflicts by guiding young people to know themselves, to overcome prejudices, because knowing others is the main way to live in mutual trust and respect.