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Background:Our students' needs and motivation are changing, some drop out, others lack interest. To tackle this problem, fight against their parents' reserve or indifference and the increasing rudeness, we have decided to make our students actors in their studies by offering them to discover four emblematic people together with the students from three other European countries : Poland, Spain and Hungary. IN MEMORIAM is a strategic partnership between for European schools. It highlights people, events that made European history:Miguel Hernandez, Jean Moulin, Kertèsz Imre and Marek Edelman, a poet, a resistant, a writer who witnessed the holocaust and a doctor who initiated Warsaw ghetto uprising. Objectives :The aim was to arouse the cultural interest of the participants not for their own history but for the history of other countries, therefore for the history of Europe. This was an original way to pass on essential European values like courage, respect, tolerance. They were in a position to exchange, research, write, create for or together with their partners in French, English and Spanish while largely using the new information technologies (eTwinning, social networkds, various presentation software...) or in face to face communication during mobilities. We aimed first at making them feel more responsible, open-minded, motivated, proud of themselves while increasing their linguistic, multicultural and IT skills, secondly our purpose was to get their parents involved in their studies and proud of their children. Number of participants :120 students were directly involved, they were often from a working class background, not to say underprivileged. 8 teachers were responsible for the project and the estimated impact amounts to 6,000 people (people from the school community, local and regional responsible people, audience at large, partners, press)Methodology :2 preliminary meetings attended by school directors and two teachers from each country in Oct. 2015 and Jan; 2016 to set up the basic organisation of this project. Since these meetings, regular emails and what'sApp messages between the teachers in charge of the programme.Three transnational meetings allowed teachers to confirm the chosen objectives, improve assessment tools, control budget and confirm the impact and the diffusion (meeting 1 in France), half-way assessment (meeting 2 in Alicance) and final assessment (real impact and difffusion) (meeting 3 in Budapest). Activities :The four learning mobilities were preceeded by a preparatory period to enable the students of the four classes to learn about the symbolic person of the country they were to visit, the historical background of the time, the European values he embodied and get the requested activities ready. During the mobilities (one per country), the students made presentations, a quiz, sketches, roleplays, designed posters, leaflets, discussed the films already watched in class, attended the conferences given by a former camp prisoner, a writer, members of the Résistance, association in favour of Historical Memory. The students wiere in charge of the trilingual site of the project (eTwinning). They preprared the final exhibition, which was held in each partner school in June 2018. As a consequence they were always in a position to practice English, Spanish and French and improve their master of IT. Dissemination:Parents, members of the school community, local, regional and national administration respresentatives regularly attended the various steps of this project (launching, meetings before and after mobilities, interviews on web radio2B, conferences, preview of the final exhibition). This experience together with the final exhibition were and will be on display during Open Days in 2017, 2018 and 2019, it will be lent to local Alicante European high school, local primary schools (form 6), Alicante teachers'collective, Franco-Hungarian Foundation for Youth, local libraries, especially during the International Francophonie Week, Alicante University. We set up a twinning agreement with our Hungarian and Spanish partners and regular exchanges with Poland. This project will provide our students preparing a two-year degree or a technical school certificate in sales, tourism, catering... with better opportunities for work placements abroad. It is available on the school internet sites, the regional education authority for European and International Relations sites of the four countries, the European platforms School Education Gateway and eTwinning and social networks.
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