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Europe, our Shared Home

Europe, our Shared Home as a partnership arises from the current European paradox acknowledgement by the partner schools and from their wish to contribute, within their reach, to the formulation of a new narrative for Europe, as it was urged by the European Commission.
On the one hand, Europe is going through a crisis, and we watch its evidence every day; on the other hand, Europe is still seen as a transnational success story, with the capacity to attract masses of migrants from elsewhere.

To cope with this paradox, at the school level, we need to work in a new concept of European citizenship that, far from erasing regional identities and cultures, has to renew our interest for our regional traditions, under the scope of the humanities, the social sciences and the arts, but just to place it in perspective along with other regional identities and cultures. We also want to promote awareness to ongoing phenomena in Europe, like the migrants’ issues and to cope with the school failure and early leave within each school.
To do so, we, the partner schools from France, Poland, Greece and Portugal, define a set of clusters common to all the partners – in fact, to all Europeans – to research about within each school and to compare with all the schools in the partnership: Democracy, Migrations, the Age of Discoveries, the World War II and Regional Identities. Moreover, we allocate to each school in the partnership the deepening of one of this clusters, which will be the subject of our transnational teaching and learning activities as well as the subject of our research and presentations in school work.
Those educational activities will be based on J. Dewey’s progressivism and will search for curricular relevance, both in subjects as in methodologies. Therefore, the research and the results will combine the utilization and production of digital and interactive resources, like films, quizzes, tour guides, presentations, art performances, with the investment in local assets like world heritage sites, oral traditions and local cultural events that will thus become relevant for our students, instead of mere designations.
Like this we will have more motivated students, thus helping the schools to cope better with school failure and early leave, and better citizens for an after-paradox Europe.
By making relevant local history, sites and culture, the project will promote local synergies between schools and local authorities, building local partnerships for the future.