"The Greek philosopher Thales was the first to advise ""A healthy Mind in a healthy Body"". Nowadays society is imposing barriers -psychological, cultural or social- the state of well-being implies overcoming these and accepting one's peers. The goals of the project are linked with the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training ""ET 2020"". Their implementation includes activities in various school subjects (history, French, foreign language, music...) in an intellectual and a practical approach through experiments, conferences, training courses, mobilities, workshops, sport, actions around 6 sectors (Communication, Creation, Environment, Health, Humanity, Sciences). The partnership will enable learners and staff to explore, share knowledge, understand, describe results during congresses and courses and compare lifestyles and backgrounds across Europe These meetings will give the opportunity to people from different social backgrounds (medical, educative, cultural worlds and associations) to carry out common tasks, taking into account everyone's specific physical constraints whatever their disability. Everybody should be safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. The project will allow the acquisition of knowledge, know how to be and help develop peaceful, cooperative, supportive, fraternal relationships with the other Europeans. This will be done through better self-awareness ( skills, physical and mental abilities, tastes, strengths and know one's own limits and accept them) and self-esteem and self-confidence (we try to understand and analyze our actions in a positive way). The aim is to find one's identity, open up to the world, be more successful along with getting awareness of one's own and inalienable value as a human being. By putting them into perspective, it will help face failures, learn from mistakes and benefit from them. Our project will give tools to know oneself better, know one's body, one's way of thinking, one's sensorimotor capabilities, feelings and needs, one's sexuality, etc... Knowledge transmission from professionals in their fields, and in peer education (university to high school, high school to middle school) will be an asset for their future. Learning to meet other people in a compassionate way creates a favorable climate so that everyone can perceive their own value. Self-esteem will grow with communication, respect for differences, cooperation, knowledge of other cultures, other people and ourselves. Exchanges with experts (dance, drama, photolanguage, relaxation, …) will be part of the process. Every partner will take an active part in planning, developing and evaluating the project. Psychological wellbeing will be treated as distinct from subjective wellbeing and focused on aspects such as a sense of purpose, a sense of autonomy, competence, relatedness, locus of control, self-image, self-esteem, optimism and aspirations for the future. Our project puts an emphasis on people's engagement into social, emotional and physical life, which will impact their choices in the future. Acquiring some knowledge about the physical body and spiritual mind is really necessary. The meetings and exchanges will contribute to the creation of a supportive and formative EU awareness. The great variety of activities are based on self-respect, respect of the others and diversity, whether in the school system, in the medical, artistic, social, intellectual or linguistic fields. The project aims to overcome barriers created by the varieties of professions and languages used (French, Spanish, Finnish, Romanian and English). That will increase understanding and open-mindedness through: cooperative working in and out of school, transfer of good practices, a sense of personal well-being, self-worth and social value. Our aim is a shift from purely academic knowledge to real, practical skills, which can improve students' future employment opportunities. Although the applicant organizations are only schools, this project will be developed in collaboration with different NGOs. The desire to develop an international team spirit is a preponderant point for the pupils, the teachers, the management team, the artists, the nurses, the sports instructors. The will to favor mutual respect, appreciate the diversity of cultures in individuals and groups, excluding all xenophobia and discrimination, is a key point of this project. The outputs of these experiences (reports, articles on the blog, videos) will be collected and shared during the meeting projects (Teaching & Learning), courses and congresses (proposed by each country) and disseminated out. What distinguishes this project from other projects is the attention paid not only to students' needs but also to teachers' professional development, by creating an exchange of good practices with external professionals, having non-traditional roles and mutually enrich each other through new perspectives."

1. Learning foreign languagesIt is sometimes difficult to make our pupils aware of the usefulness of learning foreign languages. A concrete use of these languages will make them understand that modern communication necessarily requires the knowledge of several languages and that they are a priceless asset on the job market.2. Information and communication technologiesMoreover, teenagers often limit their use of new technologies to social networks. To make this project work, they will use these tools in a perspective of communication (thanks to the website, emails, a blog or the wiki) and for concrete productions (a DVD, videos or an interactive book). The pupils as well as teachers will thus build new skills in IT. It is obvious that this input is also an asset for the professional future of our pupils.3. European diversity as an assetThe goal of this project is to establish an intercultural dialogue between young European pupils coming from very diverse social and geographical backgrounds (about 200 teenagers from seven different countries) about the theme ''Land and Food.'' The pupils will get to discover one of the main riches of Europe: its diversity. This diversity will be studied in its different forms: its geography, agriculture, gastronomy and languages. 4. “Tell me where you live, I’ll tell you what you eat”: the main steps of the projectThe different steps of the project will allow our pupils to have a more precise knowledge on their own countries and to anchor them in a much wider frame: that of Europe. They will get to know the differences that there are between them and their neighbours and also their common points.First, the pupils will study the geography and the climate of their own countries in order to know more things about themselves before discovering other countries and cultures. We will lead them to question their knowledge so that they can eventually do a reliable and precise presentation of the geography, the climate, the resources and the productions of their regions and countries to their partners. To achieve this, the pupils will be asked to use different mediums such as a website, a wiki, emails or a blog.The pupils will then make hypotheses on the resources and productions of the partner countries, based on what they know best: their own countries. They will take into account the similarities and differences between these countries inside the European Community. An introductory course of the languages of all the partners will be included at this stage.Finally our pupils will question their regional gastronomy and that of their partners and their link between the resources and the local productions. The exchanges with the partners will allow to understand how the natural resources but also culture have an influence on what we eat.The final production of this project (the interactive book of recipes and its paperback version) will bring a very concrete dimension to this great work, which we hope will be carried on well beyond the expected end, through the continuation of personal and professional exchanges between pupils and teachers. There is no reason why we couldn't regularly update and add new things to the recipe book and the website.5. The impact of the projectThe impact we expect to get thanks to this project is multiple.- First, it has to do with our pupils: we hope to teach them tolerance and what it truly means to be a European citizen, thanks to a better self-knoweldge and an acknowledgement of others.- It will also impact the teachers who, thanks to many exchanges on teaching between European partners, will do their best to diversify their teaching approaches and, consequently, make their teaching more attractive.- Each school will be impacted and, thanks to the dynamics set by the teachers, their influence on a local and regional scale, will shine.To conclude, we can undoubtedly say that what the pupils (and the teachers involved) will live and go through in terms of experience will be an everlasting source of personal satisfaction and enriching.