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Pour que nos différences deviennent une force

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2015-1-FR01-KA219-015207
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 193,932 EUR

Pour que nos différences deviennent une force

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The project came to life through the coming together of the partners networks. Their common and main interests lie with fighting against presumptions and differences.The English partner (Calthorpe Academy-Birmingham) is a special needs academy for children and adolescents. The French partner (MFR Saint-Sauveur Lendelin) shapes youths with less opportunities to work as people aids. The inclusion in the project of a school specialized in forming high level sportsmen and women in Poland (ZSOS N°1 Cracovie) represented an important diversity as regards to the participants and was meant to bring another vision on the inclusion of special needs people.The aim was ambitious because there existed a huge difference in between the youths involved in the activities. The Polish participants were very orientated and powered by competition, French youths were in tune with social questions and quite, or very far from, sports challenges, and English participants were special needs youths. The challenge was huge!The project had many objectives but the main one was to work on inclusion of special needs youngsters. The project also aimed at comparing and analyzing different ways of working and interacting with special needs populations, the end product being a toolbox allowing all professionals working in Europe to adapt their activities to special needs youths.The number of direct participants in the project was 212 students and professionals over 24 months (1st September 2015 until the first of September 2017) this, not counting the considerable amount of people who were undirectly involved or touched by the project.The activities were organized around three themes : sport, well-being and arts and culture.The youths and professionals participated in 6 mobilities over the course of two years, 3 “ambassador mobilities” and 3 “main event” mobilities. The ambassador mobility (C1) consisted in evolving in the host country with a small group of students in order to prepare the main event mobility (C2). The main event mobility brought together a much bigger group of participants. The activities, based on the different themes, relied on the participation of all of the students. During each exchange, activities were conceived so that each student may take part with equal chances of success. The main objective was to develop for the entire group notions such as tolerance, helping others, respect, sharing, open-mindedness, all of this in the spirit of adversity and competition (as relative as this notion was during this project). For certain students, a step back and empathy were needed so as to interact with some of the participants.This project had an exceptional dynamic throughout its two years and helped develop new skills for the students and professionals. It allowed the schools to work with new partners and form new bonds in their regions. The extensions of this project will be consequent and activities between new partners are already being set up.Work collaboration between the partners was key and the exchanges were very frequent and in a truly collective spirit.The three partner schools are already engaged in depositing new projects, including new schools. The dissemination of this work and the projects benefits is well and truly efficient. Some undirect beneficiaries of the project are also engaging in thought on the benefits and impacts of an Erasmus + project in their activities and for the students they work with.An important communication was made during each event by the papers, internet, social media, information meetings, general assemblies…It must however be noted that the project had some difficulties such as the maintaining of the website by an exterior partner and the terrorist attacks which made more complex or completly cancelled some youths participations in the project due to the parents angst.The impacts of such a project are huge for each of the three partner schools. It has especially allowed to develop a culture of tolerance and accepting of other and their differences, which was our main objective. The inclusion of special needs youths or youths with less opportunities was at the heart of the project and all of the objectives were reached.All of the partners wish to thank the ERASMUS + progam for its financial and technical support, without which this brilliant project would never have existed.

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