"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."

<< Background >>The project «Europe of Human Rights» brings together French, Portuguese, Italian, Bulgarian and Romanian institutions around the fight against discrimination in Europe. Through simulations of defence speeches before the European Court of Human Rights, the young high school students involved will become promoters of the fight against discrimination by making the best use of the possibilities offered by the European Convention on Human Rights.<< Objectives >>In the position of actors, the students will learn how to better identify the different types of discrimination in Europe, their forms (direct and indirect) and their short and long-term consequences. They will discover the possibilities of recourse they have as European citizens when no judgment from their national jurisdiction has granted their request, even though one of their rights guaranteed by the European Convention has been violated. The main point is that they become aware that Human rights are much more than written texts that seem fixed, distant and therefore of symbolic nature. High school students must know and master the judicial mechanism of the space in which they evolve on a daily basis as European citizens.<< Implementation >>The students, «apprentice lawyers», will discover the ECHR, the major tool for the protection of fundamental rights and will make use of it to defend either a claimant victim of discrimination, or a government accused of disrespecting the principle of non-discrimination. This will be in the form of a competition before a court of justice in each participating country. The defence speeches will be based on cases already judged by the European Court, summed up and communicated to the students in the form of practical cases.<< Results >>This action will allow to:- identify the common motives of all discriminatory behaviours.-detect, on the basis of specific and varied practical cases in the European Union, the short, medium and long-term effects of situations of discriminations on people.-become aware of the originality of the European protection of human rights and identify the diversity of these guaranteed rights.-discover its success and its obligation to evolve.-learn to use that protective instrument.-learn to defend either a victim of discrimination or a State accused of discriminatory behaviour by finding arguments in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.-promote the values of tolerance, respect and solidarity between people.-raise the awareness of European citizenship and/or stimulate it.-know how to submit and defend a file and present arguments in public.-develop critical thinking and analytical skills.