We wanted to make it easier for young people in rural areas, particularly pupils with learning difficulties, to access a European career pathway. To do this, we wanted to work with them to create a booklet of careers in digital and printed form. We wanted to enable the teenagers in these schools to understand their place as European citizens, to set up local actions and also to take part in European actions promoted by the institutions. We wanted to show them that they are as legitimate as any other EU citizen to take part in actions, travel around Europe, discover other cultures, work in another country... and vote when the time comes. We wanted to boost their self-esteem by having a concrete project that was both ambitious and motivating and realistic. We wanted to involve all the teaching teams in the classes concerned to enable the pupils to improve their skills in a cross-curricular way that would benefit the results of the project: reading, writing, counting, but also: structuring themselves in time and space, learning digital skills, developing European citizenship.
We wanted to - facilitate access to Europe for teenagers from rural areas who are experiencing serious difficulties at school, some of whom have fewer socio-cultural opportunities. - to give them a practical insight into the role of Europe in local initiatives and the possibility of taking part in civic action locally or in Europe. We realised that these students rarely allow themselves to think of other European countries as destinations for their professional lives. We wanted to enable them to improve their linguistic and cultural skills. - help them to improve their knowledge of the local and European territory from a professional point of view, so as to better support them in their choice of career in today's world, and develop their motivation to improve their key skills: reading, writing and arithmetic. - Encourage an openness to digital skills by using the tools to be created or used during the project. We chose to work in collaboration with a Polish school, a French school and a Franco-Polish association whose adults already knew each other (previous Erasmus+ cooperation project), which gave us a better understanding of the pupils' respective needs.