Our Houses In 20 Years

The fourth Learning/Teaching/Training activity of the ERASMUS+ Project “Our Lives In 20 Years” took place in Champagnole, France from Sunday, 13^th November until Saturday, 19^th November 2016 with 61 participants from 5 European countries: Lemgo (Germany), Italy (Catania), Poland (Nasielsk), the Czech Republic (Most) and Edinburgh (Scotland).

The topic of the meeting was “Our Houses In 20 Years”: students and teachers discussed and carried out a set of transnational activities about past housing, students created magazines; they also collaborated online on stories about families on the twinspace of the project. They also had to gather the climate datas for their city / country.

The objectives during the meeting in Champagnole were to organise activities in international workshops: collaborating on reading stories with sound effects, imagining a commercial for the magazine made by another school , and imagining the house of the future in a given country with a given family living in.

Different excursions were organised in order to discover different types of architectures: in Besançon, the citadel by Vauban is a model of military architecture of the XVIIth Century, the Royal Salt Works of Arc et Senans created by the King's architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux in the XVIIIth century. We also discovered the old city of Lyon , so famous for its Renaissance facades and "traboules"; we visited the new district of Confluence in Lyon, a typical example of sustainable development.

All the participants enjoyed the activities and the time spent together. The students were keen on all the activities and were so creative when building their houses! Everyone in the school was amazed by the models made during the workshops.

Françoise Moutenet

Article in French newspaper Le Progrès

Article in French newspaper Hebdo39

Article on the French school online newspaper La Voie du PEV

Article on the French school online newspaper La Voie du PEV (Polish partners' interview)

Article on the French school online newspaper La Voie du PEV (Czech partners' interview)

Article on the French school online newspaper La Voie du PEV (Scottish partners' interview)

Article in the German school newsletter