Background/context of the project: Our topic is building on results of our previous Comenius-project “Our Past is unifying us”. In there we concentrated on the “positive aspects” of a regional cultural variety and on the economical unity open to inside outside influences. Nevertheless for centuries there was a kind of lingua franca and a common currency which both combined had been providing a high degree of mobility. There were neighbouring networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea. Since and throughout the Greek Antique we find statements against war and mention of living in “harmony with the neighbours and the nature”. These ideas of a perpetual peace were linked up with Kant and modern pacifism of the late 19th century. The modern destructive wars do not fit the specific context of these European intellectual traditions. In view of findings that emerged during this project a new idea originated for a new project on the topic “war and peace”. The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War was a convincing reason to choose the “Great War” for our research.The goals of our project:-Research on the First World War from a regional perspective;-Cooperation with local and regional institutions, museums, archives, associations and scientific organisations;-Introducing scientific methods to the students getting practical and theoretical knowledge by their own research on the local and regional level concerning the First World War; -Raising awareness and understanding of our special responsibility for security and peace in Europe;-Initiation of further activities beyond the project.Number and profile of the participating institutions:-Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium (Planegg, Germamy);-1 EPAL MOUDROU (Lemnos, Greece);-Ciszterci Rend Nagy Lajos Gimnázium (Pécs, Hungary);-Bayramic Mustafa Gulsen Cinaroglu Anadolu Lisesi (Bayramic, Turkey);-LP St Joseph Tahiti (French-Polynesia); -ASS Gestion Collège Lycée Catholique (Réunion, France) ; -Rigas pilsetas Plavnieku gimnazija (Riga, Latvia).These are mainly secondary schools, Greece and French-Polynesia are vocational training schools.All school were dealing with the subject “The First World War” before starting our project. Via eTwinning we found each other looking for a partner on this project. Description of the main activities:-Organisation and implementation of all Transnational and Learning, Teaching and Training Activities according to the application;-Textual elaboration of the key content in the three phases of the project: pre-war period, 1914-1918, post-war era;-Individual occupation of each partner school with the given topic of the project;-Preparing collections of material, reports, short movies, reports and handouts for the theme-orientated meetings;-Cooperation with the local authorities relating the maintenance of the regional commemorative culture in regard to the First World War (exhibitions, major public events, memorials etc.);-Efficient PR activities (involving the media, neighbour schools, local communities, associations and public authorities).Outputs and impacts achieved:-Publications, lectures and reports on the results of searches in public and private archives and museums -Interviews with families, still in relationship to the First World War (by wounded or killed family members);-Music, songs, drama scripts, related to the First World War-Public events in reference to the regional commemoration of the First World War (together with the French President Hollande in Tahiti, with representatives from the government in Réunion, with members of the Canadian and Australian Embassies in Lemnos amongst others;-Special activities (for example “Earth form Verdun”, involving a “guest-partner-school” from Perth/Australia to our project);-Construction of memorials associated with the regional victims of the First World War in St. Joseph and St. Pierre (La Réunion), in Papeete (Tahiti) and in Moudros (Greece);-An intensive involvement with the own regional history in the context of the First World War;-Awareness of our common European history and responsibility;-Clarifying the global character of the First World War by our partners from the overseas territories of the EU.Long-term benefits:-Continuation of the project with regard to content (annual summer school by yearly turns in Lemnos and Canakkale/Bayramic) ;-Follow-up meeting october 2018 in Lemnos, anniversary of the armistice of Mudros between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire);-Educational Seminars promoting the European ideal in all partner regions.

European Citizenship and Multiculturalism (ECAM) is an Erasmus+ project involving strategic partnerships henceforth known as school exchanges.This project gathers four partners : St-Joseph Pirae Tahiti vocational school (coordinator), St-Charles La Reunion High School, Classic Diekirch Luxembourg High School and IPSSEOA Karol Wojtila Sicily-Italy vocational school.Duration : 22 months, from September 2017 to June 2019.ECAM has a dual purpose: promoting the European peace space by studying European Union moral values and defending its citizens’ cultural identities.This dual challenge aims to show that all these notions are far from being competing against each other but are complement one another.In other words, the goal would consist in clarifying and defending the EU motto: « United in diversity ».In order to achieve this double purpose, the teaching staffs assign the students activities which allow the discovering and learning about European citizenship and which also ask students to consider the characteristic elements that shape cultural identities.Among activities relating to generally speaking citizenship and particularly European citizenship, one can find examples as follows: studying legal texts and European values - dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity, justice and democracy; guided tours of European and regional institutions; meeting in Schengen; round tables and debates with Members of the European Parliament and of a National Parliament; participation in demonstrations or official events.Cultural identity affirmation activities include: language classes, visits to historical sites, cultural tours, cultural events.The main achievement of this project is an epistolary novel that recounts all its stages and, at the same time, encourages students to verbalise their impressions and learnings.The writing of this novel attests the development and the construction of the students’ thoughts about citizenship, identity and culture issues.This epistolary novel is also available in a video format as it is staged and filmed by the students.Besides, a play, “The extraordinarily peaceful life of Europe”, is imagined and written, performed and played by the project’s participants.The play, which appears to be more synthetic than the novel, also calls to mind and defends the high values of the EU, respectful of differences, opposed to nationalism and all forms of cultural identity isolationism.A set of pedagogical and didactic tools are thought through and conceived for the requirements of this project.Works, activities and tools are available on digital platforms designed for the project: websites, eTwinning. These platforms are used as communication tools as well as workspaces.All media channels were used to promote and broadcast the project: press, radio, TV, websites, social networks, posters.Several public and private partners provided support to the ECAM project such as financial sponsorship, material assistance and moral support.Thus, the Erasmus+ programme could get a broader promotion.Evaluations are conducted with stakeholders so that the impact and efficiency of the actions carried out in this project can be assessed.These assessments reveal a strong awareness of EU values in particular.During Transnational meetings and Learning Activities, 60 student and teacher mobilities make learning easier and allow all great productions to achieve. Mobilities give meaning to the project. Thanks to them, participants get the opportunity to understand current realities, issues and challenges of the EU: democracy principles, the question of migrants, national identities, tolerance…Students, as young people, are the main beneficiaries of the project.Nevertheless, teachers and schools get great benefits from ECAM as well.By going on training courses, teachers adopt new practices, use new tools, gain motivation. Thus, they boost their teaching technics.And consequently, even their school systems take advantage of these improvements.By combining and promoting EU values and cultural identities, by considering them as complementary and not competing, ECAM project helps to keep the Erasmus+ momentum and hence that of Europe, in its peripheral areas and the French overseas.In these peripheral and overseas countries, the European feeling stands ready to develop in the same shared understanding and mutual tolerance mindset.