The project 'Europeanize Yourself One Europe One People' is a 24 month-European project based on exchanging about multiculturalism and discovering others through the use of sports. The partner countries are Portugal, Ireland, Sweden and Iceland, countries with cultural similitudes when it comes to Northern Europe countries or when it comes to so-called 'Mediterranean countries'. Yet, they can also be opposite when it comes to culture, customs and traditions and languages. The main objectives of the project are numerous. First, one of the main objectives is to prove open to other cultures, espcially through the use of sports, which seems like a unifying theme that can dynamise the students and the project. In addition to this, a more cultural, social objective is planned by learning about other cultures.Then the project also aims at creating a real European network of students who will be able to live and work together, which could also help gaining self-confidence. As far as languages are concerned, there is a double objective : on the one hand, the project aims at developping the use of English as a communication tool between all partners and correspondants and then, on the other hand, it aims at discovering the languages from each country (Icelandic, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Gaelic). Concerning the teachers and staff members, the main objective is to lead both groups and activities in a foreign language, to prepare the students to meet youngsters from other countries and to work with European partners and create educational projects and share best practices. This Erasmus+ project also wants to strengthen cultural exchanges, inter-disciplinary work, and on a wider scale, aims at reflecting in European web on building up classes, using European competencies, modify methods, practices and validating skills. About the main activities, the project consists in organising and using sports activities, typical and traditional games, cultural visits and observing classes and multicutural workshops. All activities will be led in mixed groups so as to get to know about each other and in order to communicate with everyone. Some activities will take place at school, in workshops and others outdoors when it comes to museum visits, cultural visits. Some associations will also come and help organise traditional or more dynamic activities or even reflexion times about diversity. To conclude, the results and impacts have been reached and have led to some long term results such as the creation of a European week in each partner country, more exchanges, a second Erasmus+ project started in 2017 with Portugal about sharing science and maths good practices, the promotion of languages and more inter-disciplinary projects. In the long run, it will be more meaningful for students in class who will also benefit from a more cultural open-mindedness , for example they could go on professional trainings throughout Europe or go study abroad. As far as teachers are concerned, they have the possibility to start KA1 projects between teachers, more communication in general on the etwinning platform for example and also apply to new Erasmus+ cooperation projects. They can also keep in touch and organise exchanges as has been the tradition since 2010 at Collège Icare.

« The Boost up your Maths » project was born from the desire to improve students’ skills in solving maths problems.Five schools welcoming schoolchildren aged from 10 to 14 from five different countries were involved in that project : France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Lithuania. We all shared the finding that our students were not good enough in solving maths problems and more particularly in the use of their knowledge of maths to solve everyday problems : the « transfer » was not working well.We identified two possible reasons for the difficulties of our students. First, maths are suffering from an elitist picture which may impress our pupils. Starting from middle school, too many students develop a real lack of personal confidence in maths and easily become demotivated. Moreover, our teaching practises are possibly no longer adapted to the pupils’ needs and expectations.But this observation shared by all of us masks real differences between our various countries. For a few years now, some of the countries involved in our project have developed innovative practises such as the class being held outside the walls in Lithuania or practises based on cognitive sciences in Sweden... Therefore we thought that sharing in common the teachers' skills of the different countries would be profitable to everyone, since each country would be able to share its most promising teaching practises with the other partners.For two years and three weeks a year, math teachers and additional teachers from other subjects who were motivated by interdisciplinary work joined together in the various countries of the partnership in order to study the most interesting practises and the joint work cessions of the « welcoming » country : we could compare our assessment systems, create share tools and present the teaching practises for students with special needs.Between those sessions, the teachers could experiment in their own classes the practises they had discovered in the partner countries and pass them on to the colleagues in their schools.Besides, in the context of the project, we strongly desired to develop an activity in which the pupils would be the main actors : « Challenge your Maths in Europe ». The latter is inspired by the long existing tradition of challenges being given between the European and Japanese mathematicians since antiquity. After a presentation time between the students involved and through the use of videos and other media, the pupils had to create, write and present their own maths problems in order to challenge their friends from the other countries.Our students were extremely motivated and enthusiastic about this activity. This enabled them to step back and think about the mathematical tools in writing the problems themselves and they were consequently able to develop a better command of maths. Additional skills were also strengthened such as group work, the practise of the English language and the use of new technologies...All along the project, we ensured to evaluate the improvements achieved in maths by our students and to check their motivation. The latter was assessed four times all along the project. All our students were also required twice to pass a common diagnostic test. The tests they passed enabled us to make the following statement : for the students not taking part in the project, the interest in maths goes down very strongly all along their schooling in middle school and this is even more telling for girls. The results of the motivation survey that was carried out at the end of the project made it clear that the project had really been beneficial for the girls. The various teaching practises that were implemented (more interdisciplinarity, the link made with the real world, more manipulations) were in some way « reassuring » for some pupils who were, because of their former cultural representations, less inclined to succeed in the field of mathematics.An important part of the activities implemented during the project are shown through short texts and videos on the project site : https://boostupyourmaths.com/. These activities are accessible to the entire educational community. Besides, the report which was made at the end of the project lists the most positive practises that had a strong impact on the students.Finally the impact on professional skills and motivation of the teachers involved needs to be mentioned. The survey which was conducted at the very end of the project is very positive. A great number of activities that started during that project will be continued thanks to new projects or through the daily practises of the teachers.

During our project development all participant institutions will encourage everyone to realize the importance of learning Maths, to make a step towards developing creativity, organizing and group work skills. After completing the activities in the project, it will be shown that it is very necessary to learn Mathematics for analytical, technological, scientific and economic applications. Through different activities, interaction and exchange we will motivate our students/pupils to understand how Mathematics is used in everyday life in their countries and other countries in Europe. By this way they will also learn to accept customs, culture, and heritage to see that we are the same even in our differences. They will be motivated to learn foreign languages for effective communication. Six schools from different European countries will participate in the project. After researching students' comments and suggested activities it was decided to have the project theme of 'Maths'. Students are between 11 and 15 years old. All the schools have SEN students in their school and almost all the schools are based in socially disadvantaged areas. So it is very important for the students in these schools to participate in this kind of project to be more open, self confident and tolerant.Students will develop the activities within their school subjects during regular classes and also some extra-curricular activities may take place. Teachers from different subjects and students from different classes will be involved to allow a wide representation of activities.The results and process of the project will be evaluated by monitoring, feedback, internal and external evaluation according to the principles of Total Quality Management. By exchanging reports, pictures, videos and products, the students and also the staff will become more aware of the use of Mathematics, cultural similarities and differences between themselves and people from other countries and increase their ability to communicate more effectively with each other. The project theme will become an integral part of schools' curricula not only for two years of the project, but that will also last after the financed period. Articles concerning the partnership will be published in local/regional newspapers and on local/regional websites. A project website/blog will be created to put the news, results and project progress information on the Internet. Project results and activities will be made available to the parents during the parents' meetings at schools. The project results will be disseminated as wide as possible. The partner schools will work together on eTwinning platform Twinspace, develop the activities and create new tasks even after the end of the EU funding. Finally, the staff can compare their students' attitudes towards learning Maths and exchange ideas how to encourage teenagers to become more conscious participants of educational process in the future.