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ERASMUS + 2014

Participants:
-Ies Ruta de la Plata (Espagne)
-Sirinyer Anadolu Lisesi (Turquie)
-Istituto Comprensivo « Don Milani » (Italie)
-Agrupamento de escolas da Moita (Portugal)
-Collègi Calandreta Leon Cordas (France)

Rationale of this project :

Nowadays, in a moment of world crisis, it's necessary to feel that we belong to Europe, to a wide zone that can help ourselves to know and be in contact with new ways of lives that can teach us different forms of teaching, learning and working. Additionally, as Europe is gradually becoming more and more multicultural, the process of European integration is influencing educational choices of the students.

Students can take great benefits from being in contact with countries abroad, as our students have not travelled abroad, as their socio-economic aspects do not allow themselves to travel by other means.

Based on the above, the partnership within this multicultural European project is bound to help all its participants perceive themselves as citizens of Europe who share European values and contribute to the development of mutual understanding and cooperation.
The cooperation will affect students, teachers and all the educational community in general, since we have already noticed that teachers and even students are eager to belong to this project where they can use English and other languages for the communication.
The choice of the English language to exchange the information and ideas and in general to cooperate gives us all the chance to communicate in a common language and as a result improve our linguistic skills of English as a foreign language.
Nevertheless we saw in our experience that the project can assure space and visibility to the own languages of the partners, main languages and less used languages.

For this, 4 partners from different member countries of the European Union and one country in the European program (Turkey) were solicited for this project. This program provides the opportunity for all the participants to learn about the similarities and common values that we all have as members of the European family. With the first contacts we have already had, we feel that we can work together and form a small team within Europe.

This program will widen the teachers, students and parents thinking trough participation in festivals in different countries that allow the discovery of a new story, new musical styles or a new cuisine.

Objectives of the project:

-To make aware teachers, students to preservation of tradition and culture of different regions in terms of nutrition and the context of diversity
-To enhance the change, cooperation and mobility of education systems in social life to be a good reference in high standards
-to develop skills such as: ICT, foreign language, curricular integration, exchange of good practice
-To support English and other foreign languages learning
-To support creativity and enterprise by observing the way of working in different European countries
-To increase social and civic competence of our pupils indirectly
-To develop the belongings to wide a cultural reality: Europe
-Organise activities related to European and national celebrations
-To promote the integration and support the pupils
-To create a net for cultural exchange among the schools to develop pupils interpersonal skills

To complete our objectives, we are going to carry out the following strategies:

-A multidisciplinary and transversal work of the different community members
-Sharing methodological practice between teachers
-Intervention and participation in local project with the community
-Using the social network for the communication of the educative community: (Facebook, Skype, emails...)
-Celebration of common activities in terms of nutrition in Carnivals, Easter, Christmas...
-Elaborating a common blog containing the results the results and product of the project

This project is innovative as it works in terms of Mediterranean food and one modern concept as it ecological nutrition to have a healthy lifestyle.
For this, the project can move the adoption of a Mediterranean “diet”, while respecting the local cuisine, but also the increased consumption of fruits and vegetables that is very good for health.
In this direction, Italian school has been working in the last 7 years with local public health organizations to increase pupils and families awareness about the importance of good nutrition. Moreover the Italian partner will involve all the stakeholders organizing some events (exhibitions, healthy food, sport …) linked to the project and during other schools visits.
This project will at the same time be a motivation to discover and compare habits of each one. Indeed, the proposal is to visit all the European countries involved in the project, i.e. Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Turkey.

This project will be prepared and integrated with focused lessons and activities in the classes involved: an Erasmus + dedicated space will be set up in school and in the school website to gather material concerning the partners and the project.

In order to make the project known, a common blog with introduction and image where students can share culture, traditions will be realised. In this blogs there will be links directing to the partners blogs. These blogs will be in English and in the partner's language.
Added to this, it will be a digital magazine, who will be a complement to the blog. It will be written in English and the partners national language.
Moreover a power point about the topics can be realised.
Finally, establishing a healthy race to promote a healthy lifestyle among the educative community can be benefit.

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