The strategic partnerships project for schools involves two secondary schools:- Marie Laurencin Vocational High School situated in Riom, Auvergne (France) and- Istituto istruzione superiore Einaudi Scarpa situated in Montebelluna, Venetia (Italy).The duration is of 24 months.The name of the project is « Fashion and Entertainment: 2 closely linked worlds» .The theme of the project is the production of a gala dress for the «Festival de Cannes ».Our project concerns:- 15 French pupils preparing a diploma of Technician in the Entertainment Industry Dressing Option- 25 Italian pupils preparing a vocational diploma of Fashion. Our priorities are:- developing the mobility of the students inherent to these 2 courses- giving value to the 2 courses to motivate the students for their current and future studies- strengthening the basic, language and transversal skills.We strongly want the pupils to be involved in the evaluation process (self-evaluation, co-evaluation) and to develop teamwork.We plan intellectual outputs, in particular a technical file of the gala dress scanned in English.We plan multipliers events: the technical file scanned for the collaborative groups of French and Italian teachers, exhibitions (sketches, dresses, …) at our different partners : museums, administrations...We plan several mobilities:- a transnational meeting in Italy at the beginning of the project with all those involved in the project..- a mobility of pupils and staffs in Italy (during 5 days) the first year and the second year : learning activities and of the companies- a mobility of pupils and staffs in France (during 5 days) the first year and the second year : learning activities and of the companies.The project involves staffs of management and teachers of general and vocational subjects from each country.

Two vocational high schools, a French and a Spanish one, have decided to work together on an issue dear to them which is to include disable people to every day’s life. The idea is to make furniture that can be adapted to the people with reduced mobility so that they can be an answer to their own ergonomic constraints.The work of the pupils of both schools will be complementary. The wooden and metal structures will be conceptualised and made by the French high school. The Spanish high school will be in charge of the creation of the motorization of the movements.made in the local press but also through television reports.These young people in vocational training schools are well aware that the lessons closely linked to the job they are learning are useful. It is less obvious for them when they are taught general education. Language learning belongs to general education. The project will enable these young people to get more involved in the learning of foreign languages.Working on the subject of the inclusion of disable people gives these students a chance to become actors in their society. Moreover connecting French and Spanish students will stir their curiosity and help them to become European citizens. This project becomes meaningful for their studies since it develops interdisciplinarity. Vocational and linguistic teachings, as well as applied arts and environmental- health- prevention lessons will be necessary.The pupils concerned are the vocational training certificate levels (CAP) and the BTEC vocational high school diploma (BAC PRO) for the French and High National diploma (BTS) levels for the Spanish students. They will be 11 per school.At the beginning of the program, meetings are planned to estimate the needs and suggest the achievements that will be selected. A disabled person organization (MDPH, l'ASH et l'APF France handicap) will support us at this moment of the project. A visit to a disability exhibition will also help to identify the specific needs. Students will exchange design files during the studying step. Then they will meet again to start the orders and plan the manufacturing.At the end of the project, the achievements will be shown to specialised exhibitions, during the open house days in high schools. Local press and television reports will cover the events.

CITE 18 (Circulation of Ideas and Technologies through the 18th century Europe) CITE 18 is a project which purpose is to lead students to become European citizens able to know, to promote and to defend European values thanks to the discovery of the works of the Enlightenment Philosophers who lived in Haute-Marne. Students are going to understand that these values are a LEGACY from the 18th century and from the Enlightenment philosophy. This project intends to make our students work on core competencies : document research, working groups of writing , working on written and oral presentations. We want to make the students aware of European COMMON VALUES through cultural visits, readings, and through the team works that will lead to the production of gazettes: these productions will highlight their culture and their creativity. We are aiming to work on democratic and political science skills. The students will understand that these values were built on a long time. They will identify the importance of REASON in the philosophers’ considerations. The students will have to understand the universality of these values as well as their fragility. We wish the students to develop some organization and adaptability skills to make them informed citizens, able to take decisions and to agree on a consensus as a working team, to reach a common goal : writing gazette articles. We want to make the students responsible for the project and for their schooling, and thus, to lead students to become European citizens able to get involved for themselves and for others. Project CITE 18 combines remotely preliminary works to get to know each other and to plan the realisation of the project. We are organizing two periods during which the students will be able, first, to create the gazette and then, to spread their works to everyone who took part in the organisation. The Slovakian pupils will be coming in November 2020 in France and the French pupils will go to Slovakia in March 2021. Learning and teaching activities will be based on the history, humanities and arts history curriculums and on general knowledge from both schools. These activities will enable students to practice several languages: Slovak, English, French to spread our work widely. During those activities, the pupils will use transferable skills: writing and talking, using digital and computer-based tools, managing information and working in teams. The productions will be spread through different means: a gazette, posters, articles in the regional press. They will be published to the general public but also to other pupils, to parents, to school staff and to local elected representatives. The blog of our project will also be a showcase to show the students’ productions. This project is going to help us make our first exchange of students durable. It started thanks to a call for applications led by the French embassy in Slovakia and by the Centenary Partnership Program. Its topic was “Mémoires héritées, Mémoires partagées.” This durability would be beneficial for both schools in order to increase the European opening. Our students will be able to become aware of the diversity offered by Europe as well as its common values that we all share. Zilina bilingual high school has an advanced experience and knowledge of the Erasmus curriculum and the teachers of this school decided to support this project to help us improve our professional knowledge. Therefore, they helped us as well as other participants to create this project and to submit it. Then, we would like Charles de Gaulle high school to benefit from this experience to increase the opening of the high school to European programs and exchanges. Finally, this project will be beneficial to pupils. Project CITE 18 will be the opportunity to go than further the French class of citizenship education. This project is about training pupils to become European citizens, aware of the values that gather member countries. The pupils that will take part in this project will have to show that they are responsible citizens capable of defending freedom, equality and democracy’s values through diversity. They will show these skills through their commitment, their involvement and the decisions they will have to take to reach the targeted objectives. This project is more than a school subject, it is a European society project through which pupils will become more aware to be real members of a community of European citizens.

The idea of an Erasmus + partnership project emerged a few years ago from our meeting with a few teachers from IPSIA Vallauri in Carpi, while we were looking for a partner school to forge bonds between the industrial and cultural heritages of our respective regions, Pays de la Loire in France and Emilia-Romagna in Italy. We soon realized the interest that this alliance could present: in addition to an agreement on a human level, similarities between our respective regions, both economically and culturally, and identical programs within our two vocational schools, that is to say the fashion sector, we saw an opportunity to combine our assets and skills to achieve an exchange partnership around a common creative project. We therefore naturally turned to Erasmus for this project to emerge. We set the following objectives with our partner: allowing a group of students and teachers from both establishments to meet and work together in order to create a motivating and civic dynamic of cultural and heritage discovery around the achievement of a range of clothes on the same theme, Japan. To do so, we worked together on a two-year program, made up of interdisciplinary activities in the fields of fashion, art, languages, history and geography provided in our respective schools, and jointly during four trips (two in each country), to culminate in a common fashion show that would allow the tailored outfits to be presented. From September 2019 to March 2020, the program could be carried out as planned with the main achievements of fruitful distance exchanges and educational activities making it possible to lay the foundations of the project and create links between the participants, and above all a first mobility of the French group in Italy. Unfortunately, the onset of the COVID19 epidemic disrupted the progress of the project and forced us to rethink the terms of the exchange. If these adaptations penalized the participants through the frustration of not being able to carry out the planned meetings, and slowed down the progress of the production of the collection, this did not prevent the two schools from continuing their exchanges remotely or from completing the collection of clothes.There is no doubt that this experience, despite the obstacles encountered, will remain memorable for French and Italian students thanks to the moments shared. The personal and professional enrichment that the project could bring to them represents so many beneficial assets for their future life, preparing them for the possibility of continuing their studies, and why not do an internship or even hold a job in a foreign country.

The project “Fair trade in the textile industry: How to be green, ethic and fair?” aims at educating our students to a deeper and more conscious knowledge of fashion, a leading sector in the economy of our two countries. Today fashion is not just creating amazing garments, it is creating garments in a world that is experiencing a dramatic situation, with a devastated environment, exploited natural resources, a nature that rebels against man and imposes its own rules, as the coronavirus pandemic is demonstrating. Our students must become aware of the consequences of our actions, and in particular of the consequences of the textile industry and of fast fashion. This issue will be implemented in most school subjects, besides workshops, meeting with experts and project activities will be included as an integral part of school curricula. Thanks to these actions, the students from partner schools will be able to develop their competencies and skills. The short-term exchanges of students will enable the participants to get in direct contact with another European country, broaden their horizons and acquire new possibilities to continue their education and pursue a career in the future. The local community plays a fundamental role in our project, the activities and cultural events organised by partner schools hopefully will have a significant influence on them, too.The Vademecum of Best Practices created at the end of the project, will be adopted in both schools and will be sent to all the fashion schools of our regions, companies and businesses operating in the field. This will ensure sustainability to the project .