"The project ""Future Food Cultures"" aims to raise students' awareness about climate changes and the European sense of community. Based on the theory of Knud Illeris's three dimensions of learning we will design learning processes to activate the students in order to enable them to build their own opinions from the gained knowledge about climate changes, food cultures and the European society.By activating the students and let them interact with each other in different ways, our goal is also that they develop their communication strategies, also when speaking a foreign language. Inspired by the research of John Hattie we also believe that students' learning will progress more when they play an active role in their own learning process, both regarding subject knowledge, social skills and language acquisition. We are aware that the succes of this peer tutoring depends on teacher guidning and propper scaffolding during the proces.As mentioned above, this project aims context wise to raise the students' awareness on climate change issues, in this specific case changes about food cultures and food productions due to climate changes. In connection to addressing this problem the project also means to focus on how strong the sense of European community is in today's Europe, in this case specifically whether each country prefers to address the climate change issues alone or together."

"Project context: IPSSEOA “Giovanni Falcone” and the “Lycée de l'Hôtellerie et du Tourisme de Gascogne” have among their strategic objectives that of favoring the European dimension of learning in formal and non-formal contexts, for a social integration policy respecting diversity and for an employment policy turning to an international context. The project ""Food, Culture and Traditions in Comparison: the Richness of Cultural Diversity"" was carried out fully responding to the aforementioned priorities and to the expectations of students and parents, who enthusiastically joined. This experience has allowed us to enrich and expand our educational offer, and to develop a planning in line with our partnership. The project focused on food, meaning it as ""food for thought"" : food to get in touch, food to communicate, food to socialize and to tell about the territory and the culture it belongs to, at the center of the cultural activities and visits during transnational mobility . Although not directly involved in it, students and teachers of the two schools took part in some of the planned activities and the whole school community contributed to the success of the project. The communication to the territory, to educational institutions, to local and regional cultural and professional associations was excellent as well as the visibility of the project on the media (television, newspapers, magazines and web) throuhout its steps, at local, regional, national and international level. The tools used for an initial evaluation of the results have revealed a very positive overall effect Achieved objectives - direct knowledge of lifestyles and customs of the host country, - comparison with a different school system - interaction with ""native speakers"", which made it possible to improve communicative skills in French and Italian; - openness towards different cultural realities, development of the spirit of collaboration, overcoming of some stereotypes and development of critical thinking; - deeper knowledge of one's own territory and of its cultural heritage; - development of a sense of responsibility on which to base one's life project. In mobility project each institution involved: - n ° 10 students from different school sectors, aged between 16 and 19, selected by merit and willingness to host, accompanied by two teachers on each side Description of activities and methodology: The cultural-linguistic exchange included reciprocal family hospitality and participation in educational activities and cultural initiatives organized by the partner school. The workshops offered students the opportunity to come together in order to share and experiment their culinary knowledge, discover and ""tell about"" the raw materials, design and create dishes reinterpreting the tradition. There were show-cookings, workshops, lectures, meetings with chefs, pastry chefs, wine experts , sustainable tourism operators, cultural visits and naturalistic walks. In some cases, the students of Tourism provided the information about the planned itinerary. The privileged methodology was that of learning by doing, observation and peer to peer learning. Results and effects: Mobility has accustomed students to confrontation with other cultures, contributed to open-mindedness and developed intercultural competences necessary to build a European society that perceives cultural diversity not as a limit, but as an extraordinary source of wealth. The interest in the language and culture of the host country has grown. In Sicily, back from the period of mobility in France, one of the students took part to the contest ""Goût de France"" organized by the Regional Network of Francophone Hotel and Catering Institutes, promoted by the French Embassy in Italy and ranked first in the Waiting skills category , so winning two weeks of internship in Nice, in a lycée hotêllier . Moreover, the French teachers at school have recorded for all the students engaged in the mobility a remarkable improvement of their performances in French . Expected long-term benefits: - encouraging students (not only those directly involved in mobility) to undertake medium and long-term mobility experiences too, and possible company internships; - increasing the number of families willing to host students from abroad; - further strengthening the partnership and presenting new Erasmus plus applications in order to expand the actions of our internationalization plans with scheduled exchanges of teachers as well; - increasingly involving local institutions, the territory and partners in our project activities."

"<< Objectives >>Our project aims to increase the attractiveness of our institutions as well as vocational training in general. Focusing ""Sustainability and combating climate change"" we study three controversial subject areas: ""Volcanic rock industry"", ""Volcanic regions tourism"" and ""Volcanic regions & cultural heritage"" providing to all participants the possibility to cooperate in international, multilingual teams in order to meet better than before the requirements of the increasingly international job market<< Implementation >>We meet with entrepreneurs on company tours, interview them about sustainability, recycling and renaturalization measures, contact representatives of environmental organizations to learn more about their work to protect natural habitats in volcanic regions. In this context, we analize the negative role of mass tourism and develop alternative concepts. We interview conservationalists and engineers to get an insight in sustainable materials and recognize their benefits for today's builders.<< Results >>We envisage PPT-presentations, posters, an eco-friendly tourist manual and a """"VolcoDramaDesignDiner"""". In addition short learning videos, schemes on ""padlet"" or ""miroboard"" as well as a ""wall of waste"" frieze and a project logo are designed and realized by the participants who can not only contribute their knowledge and experiences, but also their imagination and creativity. The results will be exhibited in our schools and presented digitally on our eTwinning project page."

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"Context: In a changing world, more particularly in Europe, where the displacement of populations and therefore cultures is increasing, it seemed relevant to think a project, that we named ""Sharing from here and elsewhere"". This project will bring together four countries affected by migratory flows and intercultural exchanges (due to their past and current events), namely Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal. The team will be composed of teachers from different subjects: as Foreign and Native languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese), History/Geography, Visual Arts, Physical Education, Technology, Moral and Civic Education, Integration and Citizenship; as well as students from different backgrounds, in order to bring together, share and enrich each project´s activity with our differences and particularities. Our mission is to contribute effectively for educational policies based on cooperative work, as a main factor leading to success in the European Union.The project's objectives are:- Develop benevolence, empathy, nonviolent communication,- Show that cooperative work turns differences into strength,- Share and learn from each other as a way to enrich ourselves,- Develop body language (SHOW).Number and profile of participants:- Students with different profiles in vocational fields as social-medical education, Hospitality, Catering, Marketing, Commerce, Tourism, but also students from general and technological school;- Students mostly in connection with the professional world, although they are not necessarily fully benefiting from foreign languages education, which is more than necessary, if they would like to work in the European Union.- About 300 students from the 4 schools will participate in the 2 years project. Indeed, whole classes will work interdisciplinary on the project´s theme, locally and collaboratively through videoconferences, etc.- 96 students will benefit from mobility during the2 years.Description of activities:- Multiple activities will be settled using new technologies to increase learning and exchange practices (Videoconferences, creation of slideshows, comics, eTwinning platform, etc.)- Various art workshops- A show about cultural miscegenation.- An educational eBook based on the exploitation of songs in language´s classes.Methodology used:- Work using creativity through collaborative workshops ""invent together"": creativity will be developed over exchange and practice of artistic techniques specific to each country, which will be mixed and coordinated according to the needs and goals of the project.- Encourage the use of new technologies not as a substitute of traditional tools, but as a great complement to increase learning and student´s autonomy.- Cross curricula (subjects and fields).- Reinforce sharing, listening, enrichment, collaborative writing.All these techniques and strategies will become levers for learning and training a critical and informed view of the European citizen.Description of the results Expected impacts Long-term benefitsThe creation of a final show will be the result of exchanges that took place throughout our meetings. These meetings and exchanges will have developed communication and language skills to carry out a project. Working in collaboration with partners outside the school system, other organizations involved and parents will strengthen the social and cultural bond and will have set up an exchange dynamic, in order to demonstrate, when working collaboratively, solutions can be found. Art, as a way of communication and expression, will be understood and will continue to be used. Cultural crossbreeding will have shown its richness.Having worked in video conferencing will show that distances are no longer an obstacle to exchanges and will have awakened the desire to learn the language of others."