"The school exchange ""Being a pupil in Europe preparing its future"""", organized in the framework of Erasmus +, united five schools : Arthur Rimbaud secondary school and Saint-Exupéry high school , located in the northern districts of Marseille and part of the same education and learning network ; G. Pascoli secondary school which is located in Aversa, a small italian city between Napoli and Caserta ; Georg-Büchner-Schule secondary school in Stadtallendorf, in northwestern Germany and the EBI of Ginetes, a secondary school on Sao Miguel island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, a ultraperipheral european region. All share the same problems: majority of underprivileged students, little cultural openness, lack of willingness and ambition of young people to go as far as possible in their studies and lack of knowledge of European arrangements to support them and help them succeed. They decided to work together to fight against these determinants and to go beyond proposing a collective work on the competences that they all have all in common in their respective formations to reach their objective of orientation, study, and to term, professional by discovering new professional streams and deepening the wishes of orientation ; then, the strengths of each system and pedagogy to achieve the goals of each ; and finally, the opportunities offered by the European framework for academic success and further studies. They throught about the grade level chosen to do this work. This is the one at the junction between the middle and high school so that the participants will simultaneously progress in their studies and the completion of the project : they will start in middle school and continue in high school, a time when they will have to start a serious reflection on their future and their orientation. The project will last two years. The first year will be for exchanges to get to know each other better. This step will be done through a common website and a Twinspace. The partner teachers will prepare these exchanges through quizzes and fun discovery sessions. Social networks will be used to create more personal links between participants. These exchanges will allow us to begin the activity of comparing each group scholl system. This activity will continue and will end in the second year in which a file on the issue will be jointly developed. Travel in each of the four countries of the partner institutions will punctuate the work. The overall goal is to push up the young people who will participate in projects, offer them a broader view, opportunities and perspectives that go beyond the local framework. The ultimate goal is to break the inevitability that some people feel towards their living conditions, take them out of their community, a reassuring but often closed place, push them into their studies and open up the European horizon with all the possibilities it offers them. In the long term, the partner teachers hope that some of the young people they will work with will participate in other Erasmus projects, notably to continue their studies elsewhere in Europe."