"The school exchange ""Being a pupil in Europe preparing its future"""", organized in the framework of Erasmus +, united five schools : Arthur Rimbaud secondary school and Saint-Exupéry high school , located in the northern districts of Marseille and part of the same education and learning network ; G. Pascoli secondary school which is located in Aversa, a small italian city between Napoli and Caserta ; Georg-Büchner-Schule secondary school in Stadtallendorf, in northwestern Germany and the EBI of Ginetes, a secondary school on Sao Miguel island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, a ultraperipheral european region. All share the same problems: majority of underprivileged students, little cultural openness, lack of willingness and ambition of young people to go as far as possible in their studies and lack of knowledge of European arrangements to support them and help them succeed. They decided to work together to fight against these determinants and to go beyond proposing a collective work on the competences that they all have all in common in their respective formations to reach their objective of orientation, study, and to term, professional by discovering new professional streams and deepening the wishes of orientation ; then, the strengths of each system and pedagogy to achieve the goals of each ; and finally, the opportunities offered by the European framework for academic success and further studies. They throught about the grade level chosen to do this work. This is the one at the junction between the middle and high school so that the participants will simultaneously progress in their studies and the completion of the project : they will start in middle school and continue in high school, a time when they will have to start a serious reflection on their future and their orientation. The project will last two years. The first year will be for exchanges to get to know each other better. This step will be done through a common website and a Twinspace. The partner teachers will prepare these exchanges through quizzes and fun discovery sessions. Social networks will be used to create more personal links between participants. These exchanges will allow us to begin the activity of comparing each group scholl system. This activity will continue and will end in the second year in which a file on the issue will be jointly developed. Travel in each of the four countries of the partner institutions will punctuate the work. The overall goal is to push up the young people who will participate in projects, offer them a broader view, opportunities and perspectives that go beyond the local framework. The ultimate goal is to break the inevitability that some people feel towards their living conditions, take them out of their community, a reassuring but often closed place, push them into their studies and open up the European horizon with all the possibilities it offers them. In the long term, the partner teachers hope that some of the young people they will work with will participate in other Erasmus projects, notably to continue their studies elsewhere in Europe."

The school exchange project Erasmus+ ‘’Being a pupil in Europe who enjoys learning” gathers six European secondary schools : Arthur Rimbaud Middle School and Saint Exupery High School in Marseille, France; the Georg-Büchner-Schule in Stadtallendorf, in the Hesse land, Germany; the 2nd middle school of Kalamaria, near Thessaloniki in Northern Greece; the 'instituto de educación secundaria El Calero in Telde on Gran Canary Island, in the Canary Islands archipelago , and the Ilmaristen primary-middle school in Lieto, in South-West Finland. It completes and extends a previous school exchange entitled ‘’Being a pupil in Europe preparing one’s future” with partly new partners. During this first exchange, whose theme was the academic orientation, a key point was made: for a pupil, preparing one’s future is apprehended in a purely materialist way, meaning one has to work, reap knowledge, pursue the right studies to get a “good”, well-paid job. Personal fulfillment by the acquisition of new knowledge, the development of new skills, the cultural enrichment are sidelined. In brief, learning is often synonymous with obligation to succeed. Generally speaking, with this project the partners aspire to change this observation so as to convey the will of learning to know more, of discovering, of understanding and getting to know more about others so that, inside and outside the schools, the pupils work in an active way to elaborate their knowledge and walk of lives. More precisely, the aim is threefold: to encourage the European pupils in getting more invested in class and further their studies; to spur them to enrich their culture to intellectually blossom, and to concretely discover the pleasure of learning in their daily lives; to sharpen their drive for personal improvement and ambition, including in the choice for their life trajectory. Concretely, this aim will be reached through two manners that complement one another. First, by realizing a common synthesis about what is the pleasure of learning for a pupil in Europe – distinctive features, boosters, obstacles, differences and similarities between the countries, etc – using the exchanges and experience sharing between the partners. The aim is to define the conditions to develop the pleasure of learning so as to then be able to put them into effect. This synthesis will be completed during the first year and will be published on eTwinning. Secondly, by jointly realizing an educational and ludic game on the theme. The goal of this final production, partly realized with elements of the previous work, is to materialize the pleasure of learning and to allow the pupils to experiment it as a group in a fun and pleasant way. This production will be realized over the course of the second year. On a regular basis, representatives of each group will meet in one of the partner countries in order to know each other better and to share activities broadening their knowledge and culture. The school level chosen to accomplish the complete work has been deeply thought. In all the partner countries, the pupils who will participate to the project will whether be in their last year of middle school or freshmen in high school (between 14 and 16 years old). For their teachers, it’s important to invite youths at the bridge between the two secondary curriculums to work on the pleasure of learning theme so as to boost their motivation and encourage them in their academic learning efforts and cultural openness outside of school. It’s also a time where they’ll be able to foresee more easily their further studies elsewhere in Europe, as part of the Erasmus program. This last point is to all the project initiators the ultimate ambition.