Coenecoop College, Waddinxveen would very much like to take the next step in the cooperation with IES Las Canteras, Madrid, Spain. This will be our third project that contains an exchange of students between the Netherlands and Spain. At this moment we expect that this would involve a group of around 50 third year students (aged fourteen+) from the bilingual group of both schools and two coordinators, as well as the engagement of colleagues, other students, administrative staff and parents.Our objective is to broaden the horizon of our students and enrich their world-view by strengthening the relationships between these two schools. This would be supported by the development of cooperative skills used by the students during the project in a third language (English). The project would involve discovering the effects of cultural diversity, for example due to fluctuating migration of people throughout the ages, including the present day. The exchange programme would provide the students with actual first-hand experience of daily life in each other's country, and could confirm or eradicate certain 'pre-conceptions' about the other's culture compared to that of their own. For the long-term, we believe that such an exchange project would help both schools as a whole to understand Europe's diverse and rich cultural background and be more accepting of others. By making our findings known on the school websites and the social and classical media, would further help in promoting the impact of the project. In short, it would pave the way for more open-mindedness and understanding for the future on both sides.The methods would be as follows:- The students of both schools will be involved in surveys in several subjects to learn about the other country, culture religion etc. Before the visit:- The students would gather information about the other country and compare it to one's own ideas and prejudices as well as the prevalent image of the other country presented by the media- We will prepare the students how to deal with circumstances that are new to them, and which qualities and attitudes they need to apply and develop, like flexibility, hospitality, humility, politeness, obedience and responsibility. During the exchange visit:- get to know each other through interviews and playing games and through sports.- show each other one's own environment (village, house etc), for example by way of a scavengerhunt- visit a big city in the neighbourhood of the school and see different historic buildings, visit a museum and learn about the history of the visiting country.- work in small groups (Dutch-Spanish mix) together on a project: involving the shared history of inclusion and exclusion of minorities in immigrant groups - comparing the past with the present; for example the expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula to the Netherlands. Or the trade with and the exploitation of far away peoples in the 16th/17th century, compared to the present-day position of minority immigrant groups.- Finally, give a presentation of the findings and conclusions of small groups, using video images to their parents. A local newspaper will be invited to view the presentations of the project results so as to make these findings known to the general public.Finally, we aim to continue this European relationship and even include a new member in our network, the Greek school (1. Gymnasium of Mikra in Trifolos, Thessaloniki) and enable new generations of students each year to gain these experiences as well. The Erasmus Plus grant provides us with the security that it will be possible for all these students, and not only the lucky few, to be included in this exchange.

Coenecoop College, Waddinxveen would very much like to take the next step in the cooperation with IES Las Canteras, Madrid, Spain. They would like to this with a second project that ,among other activities, also contains an exchange of students between Holland and Spain. At this moment we expect that this would involve a group of around 50 third year students (aged fourteen+) from the bilingual group of both schools and two coordinators, as well as the engagement of colleagues, other students, administrative staff and parents. The background of the project stems from the ever-changing face of what is considered to be Dutch or Spanish. Many students in the Netherlands nowadays, have a very diverse cultural background. The question is whether Spanish students have just as a diverse background and how does the influx or lack of such diversity affect their view of life and other people? Our objective is to broaden the horizon of our students and enrich their world-view by strengthening the relationships between these two schools. This would be supported by the development of cooperative skills used by the students during the project in a second language, (English) The project would involve discovering the effects of cultural diversity, for example due to fluctuating migration of people throughout the ages, including the present day. The exchange programme would provide the students with actual first-hand experience of daily life in each other's country, and could confirm or eradicate certain 'pre-conceptions' about the other's culture compared to that of their own. For the long-term, we believe that such an exchange project would help both schools as a whole to understand Europe's diverse and rich cultural background and be more accepting of others. By making our findings known on the school websites, through Facebook and the media, would further help in promoting the impact of the project. In short, it would pave the way for more open-mindedness and understanding for the future on both sides. The methods would be as follows: - The students of both schools will be involved in surveys in several subjects to learn about the other country, culture religion etc. Results of these surveys will be shared through Twinspace Before the visit: the involved students will gather information about the other country and one's own ideas and prejudices + prevalent image of the other country in the media. But also teachers of several subjects provide students with information about the other country during their lessons. Furthermore, there is a project of Maths and Arts about Medieval Andalusian geometrical patterns During the exchange visit: - get to know each other through interviews and playing games and through sports. - show each other one's own environment (village, house etc), for example by way of a scavenger hunt - visit a big city in the neighbourhood of the school and see different historic buildings, visit a museum and learn about the history of the visiting country. - work in small groups (Dutch-Spanish mix) together on a project: involving the shared history of inclusion and exclusion of minorities in immigrant groups - comparing the past with the present; for example the expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula to the Netherlands. Or the trade with and the exploitation of far away peoples in the 16th/17th century, compared to the present-day position of minority immigrant groups. - Finally, give a presentation of the findings and conclusions of small groups, using video images to other members of the bilingual stream, parents and other classes at school. A local newspaper will be invited to view the presentations of the project results so as to make these findings known to the general public. The results of this project will also be shared through Twinspace. The coordinators of this project of both schools will assemble a summary of all these results and share this on the eTwinning platform, thus giving other schools who are looking for an international project some inspiration.

Context.This has been a project of association of school exchange between the secondary schools José Marín de Vélez Rubio (Andalusia. Spain) and the Willibald-Gymnasium of the Bavarian city of Eichstätt (Germany).Goals.The objectives of the project have been the development of the basic and transversal competences of 28 European high school students, aged 15 to 17, belonging to two European regions, from the execution of a task focused on the learning and promotion of the Heritage of the Humanity or World Heritage declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the two regions: the cave paintings of the Region of Velez in Andalusia (Spain) and the walls of the border of the Roman Empire (LIMES) in the Eichstätt District in Bavaria (Germany).Description of the activities carried out:The tasks have been developed by two mixed working groups each consisting of 14 students from each country and whose final product has been the development of a Pedagogical-Cultural Route on the Heritage analyzed, as well as a Poster-Poster. Each group has worked in virtual contact through the digital platforms Facebook (1), email and whatsApp) taking place an on-site confrontation at the end of the 2018-2019 course with a mobility of students and teachers to Germany (2) and the Beginning of the 2019-2020 course to Spain (3). These direct contacts have allowed cultural immersion and language management and have had the format of a school exchange, where students have lived with the host family of their European colleagues.With the objective of updating the training on the pedagogy of the World Heritage of the teaching staff of the project, they have participated in two joint training courses for short-term teachers that have taken place one in each country, in the district of Eichstätt (Germany ) (4) and in Spain in the Velez Region (5). Each course has lasted 3 days excluding travel days.Results and expected long-term benefits.The Pedagogical-Cultural Routes (6) as a result of the research work carried out by the students have been presented during the mobility of the students in both Vélez and Eichstätt to the school community: students of the center, teachers and parents, who They may be beneficiaries of the results of the task.In the training course for teachers, they have participated in pedagogical workshops of Roman-era atmosphere such as entertainment games of Roman hosts on the border of the Empire and workshops of carving of flint, archery and cave painting in Spain (7 ).The Spanish-German teachers and students have carried out a workshop for the preparation of Neolithic clothing and beads (8) with which a theatricalization of the Neolithic environment has been carried out in the surroundings of the Cave of the Signboards (9) spreading the ERASMUS project to all schools in the region of Vélez and attended by 180 schoolchildren dressed for the occasion with Neolithic clothing participating in the so-called RUPESTRES PAINTING DAY that is intended to be repeated in the next courses.The regional TV channel of Andalusia Canal Sur has made a documentary about the World Heritage of Andalusia in which Erasmus students participated with their Neolithic clothes and beads (10).(1)https://www.facebook.com/Erasmus-Para-ti-para-m%C3%AD-y-para-todos-Patrimonio-Mundial-de-la-Humanidad-850920128640990/?modal=admin_todo_tour(2)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/movilidad-con-alumnos-y-profesores-mobility-with-students-and-teachers/movilidad-a-alemania/(3)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/movilidad-con-alumnos-y-profesores-mobility-with-students-and-teachers/movilidad-a-espa%C3%B1a/(4)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/curso-de-formaci%C3%B3n-conjunta-del-profesorado-de-corta-duraci%C3%B3n-en-el-distrito-de-eichst%C3%A4tt-alemania/(5)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/curso-de-formaci%C3%B3n-conjunta-del-profesorado-de-corta-duraci%C3%B3n-en-la-comarca-de-los-v%C3%A9lez-espa%C3%B1a/(6)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/resultados-results/(7)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/cursos-de-formaci%C3%B3n-de-profesores-training/(8)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/taller-de-vestimenta-y-abalorios-neol%C3%ADticos-neolithic-dress-and-beading-workshop/(9)https://www.paratiparamiparatodospatrimoniodelahumanidad.com/teatralizaci%C3%B3n-del-neol%C3%ADtico-theatricalization-of-the-neolithic/(10)http://www.canalsur.es/television/programas/documentales/noticia/1549566.html

B&B: Building Bridges wanted to be a collaborative learning project by which the students would educate each other and good practice would be shared by staff. The main aim of the project was that students from each institution would gain a full understanding of their cultural identity and ethnicity, as well as understand and appreciate one another. By working together in a joint project it would make the idea of Europe seem less abstract. The students would be able to understand and learn about other ways of thinking from their fellow Europeans and from different ways of teaching. During the visits they were going to stay with families in order to learn their customs, traditions and also their language. After the project was approved, the British partner said the the familly hosting was imposible due to their laws. This matter was never discussed during the preparation of the Project. The project would familiarise students with the use of foreign language, improve fluency using a communicative approach and promote the sense of belonging to the European Union. Through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) and the frequent exchange of Spanish and English resources, students would overcome the obstacles in communication and have the opportunity to share knowledge, ideas, opinions and interests related to their daily life at school, home and in their free time whilst discussing their past and hopes for the future. Etwinning platform was chosen to develpo these exchanges but, again, the British partner said the this was imposible due to the data protection laws which made the common work very difficult. Nothing about this problema was said during the former discussions to prepare the Project.None of the proposed objectives were fullfilled due to the previos difficulties. Moreover, only very few of the activities were carried out.

This project is embedded into the frame of a linguistic enrichment process and of an international opening among two partner institutions.Wealthy from its long tradition of educational trips throughout Europe, of individual student mobilities and of interdisciplinary projects revolving around language teaching, Duruy high-school is now searching to strengthen its educational dynamism in Spanish language and culture within the institution.Setting a strong and long-lasting partnership with IES Pablo Serrano in Saragossa will offer Mont-de-Marsan pupils - among them more particularly the Spanish European section and the Spanish Language, Literature and Culture specialty students- actual opportunities to exchange with Spanish students. This way, they will be set into authentic communicational situations that are at the core of the development of their skills in the four principal language activities (speaking, reading, writing and oral comprehension). The project, which will include approximately sixty students from Mont-de-Marsan and fifty students from Saragossa, aspires to be, through project led educational methods and innovative learning situations, an encouragement to their inner motivation towards foreign language studies, in and out of the classroom. By involving varied student groups in varied ways, this project aims at experimenting multiple forms of international cooperation and at radiating into the institutions forming this partnership. First, during the two years of the project, several groups of students will be involved into group mobilities which will lead Mont-de-Marsan students to visit Aragonese students and the other way around. Then, the e-twinning platform will be used to run distance learning activities.By placing students at the heart of their learning process, the multiple activities carried out into the frame of this project will altogether favour the development of their autonomy, facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, and develop both practical and social skills.The interactions and experiences shared will firstly improve the students’ language skills (speaking and writing) and culture, but they will also favour their awareness of others’ differences. The activities led hand-in-hand during the second year will question their views on our planet and their vision of environmental preservation. This project intends to make our students European citizens aware of others and of their environment.The exchanges between teachers, indivisible from this project, should as well favour a fair sharing of good practices and innovative teaching methods among both institutions.