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At a time when the founding values of Europe are being questioned, and because we strongly believe in these values and the power of education, we are 5 European educational institutions that have decided to work together for a better future. By combining best practices, educational innovations and by taking into account our students diversity, we wish to improve their education and therefore enhance their prospects in the professional world. Our project «united colours of diversity», brings together students and teachers from France, Greece, Italy, Finland and Spain. We hope to unite each educational community around common values and ideas.

The consequences of climate change are causing ever growing concerns. Countries are willing to fight them and therefore societies are changing: awareness has been raised and time for change has come. Together we’ve decided to create a project based on the teaching of sustainable development with, for example, the creation of educational gardens in 5 European countries.

We would like for our students to understand the importance of sustainable development. This transnational collaboration, through the use of the European E-twinning platform will enhance the European dimensions of our work. This program will aid communication and will enable us to learn from each other’s differences. Encouraging our student’s curiosity to explore and practice new languages will lead them to personal enrichment. It will demonstrate the importance of the ability to communicate in foreign languages.

 In order to highlight the uniting link between all of the participants, a collaborative plan has been developed with» Europe» as a guide. A fashion show presenting clothes or accessories made of recycled materials will be organised as well as outdoor classrooms to reconcile pupils and nature. A multilingual e-book will be created to share the work of our students and all the activities carried out during this partnership.

These activities and their analysis will lead to the creation of two educational kits «how to create an eco-friendly green wall in schools?» and how to and why create an outdoor classroom?

Travelling to visit each other’s’ schools will allow students to see for themselves the progress of the project and then to report back to their home school. During these visits, students will join classroom lessons and participate in field trips in the iconic natural parks. Staying with local families and taking language lessons in the host country will help to improve language skills essential to ensuring the project’s success. The main aim of this project is to encourage pupils to stay in education despite their differences and difficulties and join in our 9 partnership. Most of the work will be shared through the e-book as well as via the project website and the European platform «E-twinning».

 We would like where possible to move away from the traditional framework of the classroom to learn better and differently, including through the use of modern technologies such as video conferencing. A combination of home classroom activities and other European classrooms activities will increase the enthusiasm and the interest of both students and teachers. We hope that our Europe, whose territories are too often seen as individuals can finally be the symbol of strong and lasting friendships between all participants.

Lastly we will rely on the distribution of our educational kits to carry on what has been started and we hope to see the colours of our gardens and classrooms of this project becoming the colours the world.