"""I, you, we, Mediterranean Citizens"" was a project born from the collaboration between five countries: Spain, Greece, Croatia, Italy and France.We wanted to participate in an ERASMUS + partnerships strategic project in order to meet common needs: the difficulty of acquiring basic skills of our students, the lack of citizen awareness and increased school dropout.To meet these needs, we have decided to work on a topic that joined us, the Mediterranean. The main objectives was :- To fight against school dropout through an innovative project,- Develop disciplinary skills (language, history, geography, French, art)- To promote the use of ICT (use of different word processing software and images, a TwinSpace, ...)- Develop knowledge of European culture and Mediterranean- To strengthen cooperation between teachers and students,- Improve the quality of our teaching through exchanges with our partners- To germinate the idea of common European identity and intercultural awareness,- Promote the integration of students in the Mediterranean European area,- Personal development in relation to respect for other cultures- Improving building an active and responsible citizenship- Develop the feeling of belonging to Europe- To enhance students' skills and promote social and professional integration.We worked with pupils of the same age group 13-17 years but of different horizons: an English-Spanish bilingual school to Montoro (Spain), a high school of Syracuse (Italy), two vocationnal - high schools to Hvar (Croatia) and to Naoussa (Greece) and a Regional Establishment of Education Adapted to Bevons (France). We wanted to make of these differences a strength to propose to our pupils a totally different working methodology.Our activities during two years quite clung to a theme, the Mediterranean which we declined in sub-themes the main things of which are: the cultural identity, the Mediterranean history (Greek and Roman origins), the geography, the Mediterranean gastronomy, Mediterranean art, Mediterranean music, the Mediterranean architecture, the Mediterranean poetry, the ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea. We worked most of the time in English, even if a discovery of our languages was made during our exchanges.We worked in partnership with the MUCEM of Marseille during the first year of collaboration on the theme of the Mediterranean urban spaces, then during the second year with the local collectivities of the European partners. Thanks to this support, we realized by means of an artist architect, Olivier BEDU, a common artistic production, "" Small Mediterranean utopias "", which we exposed to the MUCEM on June 3rd, 2016 during the second exchange in France. Of our collaboration was born three modules which represent the urban spaces of our pupils. These objects were exposed 15 days in Marseille, a structure was given to the EREA of Haute-Provence.To dissiminate this work in the partner European collectivities and museum (Spain, Greece, Italy and Croatia), we printed models of modules in 3D and create a multimedia program explaining the committed work. This key usb will contain our whole work in collaboration.We wanted throughout the project to share our experience by spreading at the most our results (movie, blog, key usb, eTwinning) with diverse public (pupils, families, teachers, local collectivities, radio, local channel, local, regional authorities). All the partners respected the plan of scattering established during the elaboration of the project and more still, different support were used: the press, the digital spaces, the local television media, the professional conferences...To estimate our project "" Me, you, us, Mediterranean Citizens "" throughout our collaboration and to straighten our practices, we enormously communicated and realized intermediate balance sheets(assessments) during the exchanges. At the end of project, pupils and educational teams were requested for a quiz balance sheet(assessment) which allowed to estimate our project. To verify his(her,its) impact, we chose clear indicators to verify his(her,its) success with our pupils: increase of school results, the reduction in the early school leaving, the validation of the disciplinary skills of bases, in languages(tongues), in TICE and the improvement of the school climate.The ERASMUS + program, strategic partnerships between schools only, give us a beautiful experience with our five nations during two years in our projectlie, ""I, you, we, Mediterranean Citizens""."

Knowledge of EU history, awareness of the cultural and historic values, of the UNESCO patrimony values help us analyze the past, understand the present and efficiently manage the social, cultural and identity problems confronted by present day society in order to build a better future. In the same time, knowledge of contemporary history helps students better understand Brexit, the recent refugee crisis, their causes and consequences on the EU, the impact on our society and develop their tolerance and respect for human rights and boost their desire to eradicate racism and xenophobia.By joint effort, the six schools focused on finding the most efficient and attractive strategies towards an integrated approach of history at formal/non-formal, curricular and extracurricular level as well as on the best solutions to motivate students to comprehend their belonging to the common historical and cultural European space.Objectives:1.To stimulate the interest of 150 students in knowing the national and common European history, art and culture2. To raise awareness and motivation in 150 students through knowing, respecting and protecting the UNESCO cultural heritage at European level by placing it centrally in a transdisciplinary teaching approach3. To develop the skills of 40 teachers from the six schools to use modern transdisciplinary methods of teaching-learning-evaluating history and other subjects.4. To improve the quality of education at school level by efficiently integrating cross curricular elements of formal, non-formal and informal education to prevent early school leaving. All activities within the project involved in a direct, indiscriminating manner , 160 students between 13-18 years old and 48 teachers from the six partner schools, interested in the theme of the project.The project activities focused on:- students - in order to develop their interest in history, art and culture from the past-present-future perspective so that they become capable of managing the problems of a future society and make them aware of their belonging to the common European space without discrimination, racism and xenophobia (visits/thematic trips, activities, curriculum integrated activities within different school subjects, putting together thematic exhibitions, collecting information about painters, musicians, writers, famous inventors, parades, plays, humanitarian performanc-es, conferences on historical topics, elaborating materials about the town history, UNESCO objectives, traditions, customs, myths, legends, development of educational games, logos etc.)- teachers - who diversified/developed/practiced their competencies by sharing their experiences, comparing/exchanging ideas and good practices with students( at national and international level) so as to approach and integrate history by means of communicative teaching-learning methods and develop critical thinking and creativity.The products realized during the activities:- students: the project logo, quizzes, puzzles, educational games, brochures, virtual libraries, virtual albums, films, the materials made by students for conferences on history themes, the refugee crisis, human rights, equity and inclusion, the UNESCO patrimony, etc. from within the LLT, the plays, the collections of information about inventions, inventors, discoveries, photography exhibitions, etc.)- teachers: the methodological guide, workshops on the topic of communicative methods, formal and non-formal activities, curricular and extracurricular activities, the site of the project, the project diary, etc.The webpage of the project, the project diary, the eTwinning platform, the EU dissemination platform, Youtube incorporate the most eloquent results that can be used without restrictions by a large audience interested in the project topic.The project had a positive impact on students, teachers, school and community: the development of respect regarding the history of Europe and UNESCO culture, the feeling of belonging to the EU, of the attitude of fighting against racism and xenophobia, critical thinking, creativity, social, civic, digital competences together with those of communication in English, access to freedom of speech, spirit of initiative, active citizenship, motivating students to carry on studying, to improve their school performance, motivate teachers to train students in the spirit of critical thinking, development of inter institutional collaboration relationships, consolidation of the school-community-parent triad.The exchange of good practices among teachers at European level, the student intercultural exchanges, the opportunity of both teachers and students for national, intersectorial and international cooperations brought numerous long-term benefits to the partner schools which became more capable of providing qualitative education at European standards.

"We know that approximately 40% of European teenagers and children have already faced a situation of bullying at school. In Belgium, one person out of two has already witnessed a situation of bullying. When we consider the serious impact of school bullying on mental health, physical health and school leaving, we understand the urgency of targeting this problem. Indeed, school bullying can lead to anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, absenteeism, disengagement, early school-leaving as well as low concentration and social difficulties. We are, as teaching institutions, responsible for these problems as they are due to our inability to create a safe learning environment for our students. Of course, we know that this issue has been tackled by many international organisations. That is why we would like our approach to be a bit different. Indeed, the objective of the project would be to use our students’ ways of communication in order to address the victims, the bullying perpetrators and the witnesses directly. In fact, the lack of communication is an issue these days (in spite of all the modern means of communication available), especially when it comes to teenagers. Bullying isn’t talked about enough, parents, teachers and students don’t know about its causes and effects and emotional health isn’t a topic that is talked about on a regular basis. We would like to work on communication and use modern means of communication in order to create an anti-bullying campaign and to turn all the project participants into anti-bullying ambassadors. The participants will be selected among the four European partners that were chosen because of the numerous actions they have already implemented against bullying. Belgium has created an anti-bullying cell and is also the coordinator of the project. Italy has taken part in staff training sessions against cyber-bullying on eTwinning and has met the local police on the subject. They are also planning to create a specialised figure in the school to support teachers and students facing this kind of situation. Spain has already created this figure: student have been trained to become ""mediators"". They have also attended talks about bullying and cyber-bullying that the local police officers gave in their school. Finally, they have created an anonymous email address for anyone who has something to report about bullying. Croatia has already participated in a similar project on cyber-bullying. Within the framework of this project, they wrote and performed a play on bullying. We think that we can say that all the participating partners have been highly concerned by the issue of bullying for a long time. Each partner will create a Project Team of 20 students and approximately 6 adults chosen on the basis of their eagerness to become anti-bullying ambassadors in their school. In order to do that, the project will be divided into four mobility activities. Before each activity, the Project Team will meet to prepare the activity (accommodation, transport, flight, programme, ...). Between 6 and 7 students and 2 adults will travel. The first mobility activity will aim at getting to know each other, sharing truthful experiences, gathering information and assess the various situational contexts in which bullying can occur and how each is best addressed. At the end of this activity, boards and leaflets (translated into each partner's mother tongue) will be created and broadcast in each school. The second mobility activity will be aimed at writing, filming and broadcasting three videos on bullying made with the help of a trainer. The third activity's objective will be to train the participants to become anti-bullying ambassadors by deciding how they will present the material created so far to their peers. The fourth activity will aim to assess the ambassadors' presentations in each country and improve it for the future generations. During each activity the welcoming country will present its educational system and school organisation. The welcoming school will also show the participants what has been implemented against bullying. The results of the project will be the boards, the leaflets, the videos and the presentation of our ambassadors (all the participants). These presentations should be attended by all the students of each participating school but also by students from other schools. Indeed, the ambassadors will also give a talk in other schools in an attempt to make more and more students, teachers and parents (thanks to the leaflets) aware of the problem of bullying and its solutions. On top of that, our ambassadors' presentation should be reused at the beginning of every school year in order to make new students aware of this problem and its solutions."