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"Context : The project was initiated by 4 long-standing European partner schools in a project called ""International Education"" (I.E.) This network of schools has existed for 20 years and the number of partner schools has fluctuated but the ""core"" of the founding schools still includes schools in Barcelona (6),Germany (2), Italy (2), Belgium (1).This network of schools has been organizing cultural exchanges around the theme ""European Citizenship: Identity and Democracy"". These exchanges are the culmination of a comprehensive curriculum, a European citizenship course, which was developed by a group of representatives from each school 15 years ago.These courses are given in English and raise pupils' awareness of the European reality. Each school integrates them into its curriculum in its own way, but all the students participating in the exchanges worked on the theme ""Identity and Democracy"" before the exchange.Objectives: The aim of this Erasmus+ project is to renew the ""European Citizenship"" curriculum, creating new course sequences in the form of 6 interactive modules, each of which will address a European theme, namely:- European Institutions- Geography and History of the E.U.- Art in the E.U.- Climate change- Migration- Everyday life in the E.U. and its impact on young peopleP.S. These modules will also be offered in mooc form.Participants: 6 schools will be partners in this project: 3 schools (Barcelona, Wavre, Göttingen) which founded the I.E. Group and developed together the ""original"" curriculum, 1 school (Torino) which has been participating in the exchanges for several years and two ""new"" schools that will bring new life to the group, a different sensitivity, a different pedagogical experience (Finland and Turkey).These are all secondary schools which, for 4 of them, have a habit of working together and which trust each other. (The ""new schools"" were brought into the project by the Turin school which has already worked on other projects with them.) In each school, in addition to the teachers chosen for their motivation and competence, a group of 20 students will be ""selected"" to be at the heart of the project, work for 2 years and participate in the activities.These students will be considered as full teachers' collaborators.Activities: 6 activities are planned, one per school. This will be a week of exchange, during which the school will host the 5 partners and where 20 local students + 20 ""student partners"" will test the activities planned for the 6 modules. Each school has its own theme. The 6 schools will prepare the theme that will be dealt with during the exchange in advance of the exchange on the basis of the instructions provided by the organizing school. Of course, the content of each exchange week can be adapted according to the evaluation that follows the exchange.Methodology :-Each school will recruit a team of teachers and students who are motivated and willing to be involved in the project for two years.-Each school will reflect on how best to address the pedagogical and innovative theme of addressing the theme assigned to it.-Each school will send its instructions to the partners concerning the week of activities (material to be brought, presentations to be made....) while within the partner schools the team will prepare for the week of activity.-During the exchange weeks, in addition to the activities planned to test the modules, the teachers will work on the coordination of the project to solve various aspects: schedule, budget, evaluation, problems to be solved, report to be written...-Cultural and festive activities are also planned to allow everyone to meet different European realities, improve in English and to bring the teams together.-After evaluation of the activities, they will be modified if necessary, if possible tested in schools with a ""normal"" school audience and after approval of the whole group, the modules will be converted into mooc, made available to as many people as possibleResults: The schools of the I.E. group will now have at their disposal new sequences of updated courses with pedagogy adapted to the teaching needs of our time.The contents will obviously be renewed later, according to current events. It will be a working base that can be useful to many teachers, outside the International Education group.Impact: The students who will now participate in the cultural exchanges of the I.E. Group will have a better vision of Europe after having taken these sequences of courses. Teachers will have had the chance to experiment with new things for their courses and will be all the more motivated and competent in English. They will also be the spokespersons for the project in their respective schools.Long term benefit: This project will no doubt allow the I.E. group to expand with new partners and allow more schools to get involved in European partnerships (even without financial support from the E.U.). It also puts more Europe into school."
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