"This project ""Green attitude: let's become responsible eco-citizens"" focuses on environmental issues and on how to empower tomorrow's adults and decision-makers. Our planet is sick, so we must react by developing green strategies through environmental challenges. Therefore we have decided to launch a project for students aged 14 to 18 who will decide the fate and future of the Earth.The 5 schools involved in this project are located in Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and France. They are general and vocational secondary schools, some of them are located in rural areas, others in urban areas, which offers a range of different current environmental situations.Pupils are invited to work in teams in their home countries and to present the results in French during short-term pupil group exchanges in the different countries. During these 5 mobilities, students also work in mixed teams. Throughout the duration of the project, teachers act as guides to make sure the pupils learn to work independently and that they are aware of their own responsibility in the project.Pupils carry out the following activities:- the pupils participating to the project will create a logo which will be used on all our publications,- making videos about our respective cities and high schools, to get to know each other better,- participation to environmental and economic workshops (in each school),- visiting community gardens or associations promoting urban agriculture,- presenting local environmental challenges to the project partners,- forging links with local companies or associations that contribute to environmental protection,- visiting eco-neighbourhoods and organic farms during mobilities,- the drafting of a Charter of European eco-citizens responsible for the environment- collaborative work on the European educational platform Twinspace, in each partner school.The goal of this project is to develop a ""green"" attitude for our pupils. We want them to understand and take up environmental issues. As they get to know each other and discover the different places they live in, we want them to become more open-minded and combative. Mobility will both allow the exchange of good practices and their application for students with the guidance of their teachers.The long-term advantage for each individual is that they will become true ""eco-citizens""!"

"Education, training and youth activities remain a pillar for ensuring social inclusion. The choice of French as a subject at school or college, or at least the ability to master it effectively, tends to diminish, especially when it’s perceived as potentially posing additional problems in both social and professional development and integration. Teachers from five educational establishments pose the question why students are less interested in learning French. To provide an answer and to encourage the learning of French, pupils from five schools in different parts of Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, France, Italy and Portugal) propose, as part of a strategic partnership on the exchange of good practices in the field of education, to become ""Young ambassadors of the French language and culture abroad”. The aim of our project is to find innovative solutions and to motivate students to want to learn French at a more advanced level. The implication will be not only be an opening up towards a multilingual and multicultural Europe but also an opening up towards oneself."

"It is essential for the current generation of our students and future generations to become aware of and act on the effects of global warming and to undertake a sustainable and responsible management of our planet's resources at different scales. Work at the level of the 5 establishments involved in this Licitec project (Liberté Citoyenneté Ecologie) on the one hand and at the European level on the other hand will allow a broader awareness of the issues, emulation between young people who became friends after our two years of collaboration, but also between adults, a mobilisation of individual and collective energies, and even the establishment of possible synergies in the eco-citizen actions to be undertaken. Exchanges between countries, in addition to linguistic reinforcement and the rapprochement of peoples and a better knowledge of regional cultures, contribute to this mobilization and emulation of pupils and schools in the field of energy saving, local technical innovations, waste recycling, and material flow management, in line with the eco-responsible attitudes necessary for this education for current and future generations.We wish to combine awareness of the ecological urgency that our planet needs, highlighting the freedom to act on our future that our status as European citizens grants us and above all the implementation of eco-responsible educational approaches.Because each school will have to be able to achieve two objectives in this project: first, to verbalize in French the awareness of the climate emergency and to plead for the ecological cause, even if it means sometimes undermining preconceived ideas. We want the French language, the language of culture, the language of fundamental learning, the language of global communication as a means of accessing international forums, to be at the heart of our project in order to ""counter the progression of boring linguistic and intellectual uniformity"" (Alain JOYANDET, Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophonie). To promote French as a tool for development assistance, we hope that our students will be able to defend their commitment to a better future before an audience, and to make their voices heard to say how much they want to remain free to act so that the natural resources of our planet do not disappear. But words without actions have little impact. This is why the second objective of the partners will be to implement actions that will change habits within schools by mobilizing students, staff and also the inhabitants of their region of location. We have the ambition that our schools and our attached districts will be different at the end of the project, that our schools will be identified as eco-responsible and eco-citizens, anchored in the commitment to sustainable development. The various activities in the partner schools as well as during the working meetings between partners, all have in their reflection and organization the pursuit of these two objectives mentioned above. Participants will be high school students (between 16 and 19 years of age), with 20 students per school each year. Schools are free, depending on the synergy achieved in the first year, to continue the project with the same 20 students in the second year or to propose it to 20 other students. The initial management team will continue its work from the first to the second year, but we hope that additional colleagues will be interested in getting involved as the project progresses. In addition, we will be very attentive to the communication of our project. While we want to raise awareness among our students, their families, our staff and the residents of our neighbourhoods and regions, our broader objective is to raise awareness of the environmental cause among as many people as possible. This is why we will regularly feed the communication media chosen for Licitec: the European Etwinning platform (using Twinspace), the creation of a ""Licitec"" website, a Facebook page and a ""Licitec"" Twitter account. Each school will be responsible for relaying Licitec news on their own communication networks. We hope, of course, that local institutions (Town halls, Regional Councils, Press...) will respond to our requests to further expand the impact of our action on local populations.The ecological transition is underway, the 5 schools involved in this project want to contribute to the environmental edifice, their collaboration for a healthier future. Our project aims to be a driving force for the education of current and future generations."

"“Discovering the cultural and natural heritage through the 5 senses"" is a project developed by 5 European schools during the period 2018-2021 with the supportof the European Commission, thanks to the Erasmus + program, action key 2.It was designed in 2018 to make young people aware about the European Year of Cultural Heritage and encourage them to discover the cultural richness of the European Union in which all countries share common values: respect for human rights (dignity, freedom and equality) and democracy. The project is based firstly on the need to find a different and more practical approach to the cultural and natural heritage in order to promote it and secondly on the development of student’s different abilities and skills encouraging diversified forms of communication that allow the stimulation of senses and perceptions.Senses and perceptions indeed provide important information on all that surrounds us and influences our behaviour. Through “sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing” we experience a different way to discover and appreciate the cultural heritage of Europe and strengthen the feeling of belonging to a common European space.Its main objectives were:- make students aware of other cultures through activities that solicit their creativity -raise awareness of cultural heritage of European countries-encourage young people to use online resources and networks to develop their citizenship skills and become active citizens, open to other cultures-promote the collaborative approach to encourage communication and promote integration-promote the learning of foreign languages, in particular French, an important language within the EU.-improve the linguistic, methodological, technical, IT and interpersonal skills of students and teachers.The partnership involves 5 schools and students aged 15 to 18. All the schools involved in the project, even if they are in a disadvantaged social background, they are rich in history and traditions. They have worked together to find ways to improve and reduce the identity crisis of young people shown in their behaviour and schooling problems and to promote their access to culture.Animated by the common European culture and a very strong linguistic and cultural openness, they compared about the integration problem of groups of students coming from socially and economically disadvantaged contests, fighting against the risk of dropping out of school.Each partner worked crosswise on their cultural and natural heritage, with specific courses aimed at stimulating creativity and ""cultural awareness"" in students. The organization of activities around the 5 senses (visual, olfactory, tactile, gustative, auditory workshops) allowed to affirm the importance of the role of cultural heritage in a country identity, to observe the similarities and differences between countries and their histories.The activities implemented were:- heritage discovery activities through multimedia presentations and site visits-practical realization activities: workshops around the 5 senses with creative works-writing activities: writing articles, booklets, notebooks, brochures- psychosocial activities: working in teams and keeping in touch by exchanging messages through the various social networking portals.The results achieved are as follows:-various productions published on the website, the Facebook page and the eTwinning platform-a positive attitude towards national and European values-a better ability to cooperate and have good interpersonal relationships-development of individual skills and better self-confidence-an improvement in linguistic and technological skills.The relapse of this project is linked to:-modification of the didactic approach among the schools involved: all the activities done have become an excellent laboratory to reflect on the relationship between reality, culture and communication and could become a good practice for all interdisciplinary activities-dissemination of results to a wide audience through the eTwinning platform, the Facebook page and the project website-the transferability of results by setting up innovative systems in partner establishments-the best visibility at local, regional, national and international level (media, press, radio, open days, Erasmus Days)-the lastingly of the project by maintaining the Facebook page and the project website-the reuse of knowledge and know-how acquired to support other projects."

“Heritage: act now to save the future” is a project led by 6 high schools between 2018 and 2021, financed by the European Commission through Erasmus+ Program (key action 2). This project aims at finding practical means to fight the causes of climate change, and at protecting and promoting natural and cultural heritages. It lays on the celebration of the Year of European Heritage and on the context stressing the need for an urgent and global action on environmental issues such as pollution and global warming. The main objectives of our project are:-making students take part in the process to change their high school by creating challenges and daily life habit changes. -promoting motivation at school in order to reduce school disengagement risks-creating healthy competition and including students in the project-enabling students to define the idea of heritage, to know and to make people know their own heritage-discovering the heritages in the countries being part of the project, their issues and their problems-allowing students to speak up to protect and promote heritages-exchanging teaching methods within the groups of schools being part in the projectThis partnership includes 6 schools with students from 14 to 18 years old, from 6 European regions such as Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, France (2 schools) and Spain. Through the project, students discover the wide range of traditions, cultures and heritages of these 6 European regions thanks to preparatory works, video sharing, and various activities organised by students during the meetings. The inner differences between these schools contribute to a global understanding of european culture and heritage as well as climate change and environmental issues. A European culture and a wide cultural and language openness animate every school in the project, which is also dealing with issues such as the integration of disabled students or socially-precarious students, as well as school disengagement.Here is a list of organised activities::-psychosocial activities: contacting each other by e-mails, messages on Facebook, on ETwinning, livening things up thanks to games and group creative works, ensuring communication through letter writing.-Activities to discover heritages : presentations, visits of emblematic sites-artistic activities: workshops, creative works, poster creation-debates: dialogues and in-situ or virtual meetings-activities to write and to read speeches-article and poem writingHere is the list of fulfillments:-Various works published in websites, Facebook pages and on ETwinning. -Increased self esteem and motivation-A better knowledge of heritages and the strategies to promote and protect them-Initiation to environmental issues: changing individual and group habits through global and daily life actions. -Keeping contact and brainstorming thanks to online meetings -High rating of the project by parents and school community -Acknowledgement of the project by the region Departments of EducationIdentified Impacts and benefits of this project can be linked to the following elements::-The involvement of schools in heritages and environment have modified their own school culture, getting a local highlight through press articles, selection in various challenges and competitive exams, eco friendly labels, creation or strengthening of links between schools and local authorities -investing the new knowledges and know-hows of students into other projects such as a partnership with Political Sciences School (for a French school), or the preparation of the French final oral exam of Upper High School-the commitment of fellow students in associations created up by students having been part of the project-a global involvement in reducing waste, water and energy use -a practical conception of the role of Europe in every citizen daily life (projects once financed then valued and broadcast)-durability of the project through an active Facebook page and two dedicated websites