This European project implies 5 catering vocational training organisations from France, Autria, Finland and Turkey. These different schools need to improve pedagogical methods to prevent the dropping out of the students and as well to foster their integration into the labour market and find their place into the society. Indeed, when teaching, we can face multiple difficulties of the students. Through this kind of project, we want to make the teachers change in their day-to-day work. The project will provide a space to get new learning methods to help young people to reconcile them with school and with the education system. Thus, during this project, more than 20 teachers will observe other pedagogical methods, will have space to exchange with European colleagues. They will implement new pedagocial methods in their classroom and evalute them. A the end of the project, workshop files will be gather and put on a website in order to disseminate the results.Through this project, we also want to test a method. We are convinced that if the students have a better knowledge of themselves in terms of their past and their origins, they will get self-esteem and will be stronger to face nowadays life. We wonder if this process will have consequences on their special needs in learning. Through this European project, we will answer to this question. To do it, we imagine to create a book with recipes. The students will choose a recipe according to their story and who they are. During the European project, they will learn how to introduce themselves, will improve and personalize the recipe. About 85 students will travel abroad to exchange about the project with foreign students. Through this project, they will get or improve differents skills: knowledge of European products and how to cook them, new cooking techniques, knowledge of migratory flows, English language, social skills, capacity of adaptability... All these competences will be certificated by an Europass document. The Saint Michel vocation college is also part of this project because of its printing section. A class will follow up this project and will print the book. It will be an opportunity for the catering training students to discover another job and reciprocally. The students from Saint Michel school will exchange with Luovi and Turkey's students which have design or printing section as well.This European project is a real chance for the students to help them integrating into Europe and into the labour market, espacially for the special needs students.We will follow up this project through 4 transnational meetings, an important moment to communicate, to evaluate and to adapt if necessary. This will also be a place to exchange about pedagogical methods to give space for innovation.We will disseminate our results through our organisations (most of them are national), through different networks we belong and also through a blog. We hope it'll become a dynamic virtual space for exchange between English teachers and catering teachers.We hope to create a dynamic network of catering schools which want to modernize their pedagogical methods and would like to offer European learning path to the students.

First of all, it is important to highlight that this project, entitled” Ready, steady...life” emerged from the relationship among different schools from France, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Poland which got to know each other throughout the e-twinning platform.These schools shared the same concern and this lead them to do research on the reasons which influenced the average increase of teenagers who suffer from overweight or just the opposite case, adolescents who suffer from eating disorders.Eventually, a conclusion was reached: all of these teenagers shared the same “eating patterns” characterized by:A high consumption of food which is scarcely or not at all beneficial for health.The insufficient practice of sport or physical activity.A strong influence of media and beauty stereotypes among our youngsters.This is the reason why we decided to focus the theme of this project on healthy food and sport in youngsters who range between 12-18. We decided that researching at school would be the proper thing, as we consider school to be one of the main agents which contribute to the personal and professional formation of our students.On the other hand, we need to emphasize that the main reasons why we consider the relationship and the cooperation among all these participating countries necessary are :- Compare and value the influence that culture exerts on it.- Get to know the gastronomic features shared by countries within the European Union.Concerning the aims to be attained within this project, we must highlight the following ones:-Rise awareness among students 12-18 aged of the importance of healthy eating habits to have a better life quality.- Teach our students to develop a critical attitude towards ”food” marketing.-Analyze and value the benefits of exercise for health.-Reflect on the damage or benefits that our eating habits carry to our health.Regarding the people who will be immersed in this project, we have to distinguish three sectors :Students, 12-18 aged.Teachers and all the school communityStudents’ parents or tutors.The average of the above is 120 people, approximately, from each of the participating countries, which sums up to 840 people among students, teachers and parents.On the other hand, it is important to highlight that the teaching-learning process of this study will be carried through an innovative methodology, based on the most up to date Information and Communication technologies. With this, we pursue our students’ attraction to the topic dealt with while improving their technological skills, which will be useful for their future professional careers.Regarding the activities which will contribute to the reach of objectives, we have considered those which foster reflection among our students and which are both attractive and are dependent on the use of TICs.The diversity of activities range from the elaboration of advertisements on healthy eating to visits to ecologic farming plantations, the elaboration of healthy diets, the creation of narrative scenarios and comic strips in favor of healthy eating, the analysis of the different and most frequent eating disorders in adolescents carried out through games, guided walking tours in natural environments, etc.Finally, and by way of conclusion, we intend our students to modify, in a certain way, their wrong eating habits in favor of much more beneficial eating habits for their organism, to reflect on their relevance and to value the benefits of exercise in their daily lives.