"Despite the difficulties encountered during the period of implementation of this Erasmus + project entitled ""The development of Common Curricula in Upper Secondary School Education and Baccalaureate in Europe: towards the Creation of a Common European Framework for Upper Secondary Education"", henceforth denominated EUROBAC project, we can consider this project to have been successful, since the objectives we had set in the presentation of the project have been achieved and most of the planned activities have been carried out.The Eurobac 2018-2020 project has been the continuation of another Erasmus + project that took place between 2015 and 2017, based on the development and consolidation of the binational programs Esabac and Bachibac, which involved the participation of the Lycée Molière de Paris, the Lycée Virgilio of Rome and the IES San Isidro of Madrid. The positive results that the previous project gave, encouraged us to involve the Romain Rolland Gymnasium in Berlin, which joined the three previous partners in the implementation of a new project and made it possible to include all the binational programs, with the addition of a secondary school that had the Abibac program, the equivalent of Esabac and Bachibac in Germany. Our project was meant for students between the ages of 15 and 17, most of whom belonged to these binational programs.As things stand, we are four educational centers located in the cities of Paris, Rome, Berlin and Madrid that have carried out the development and implementation of the project.With this project, we meant to encourage the joint effort of students and teachers for a better knowledge of the binational programs of our centers and to face a common study topic that we considered essential for the development of our collaborative work. Regarding the latter, we saw that an issue common to our four cities was that of urban transformations and gentrification processes, so from the beginning we dedicated ourselves to designing the objectives and features of this common study.All the meetings shared three types of activities in accordance with these objectives, albeit the original contributions given in each of them. First of all, city tours guided by the students of the host schools on the theme of urban transformations, followed by surveys among the population on the perception of these realities. Secondly, meetings with universities to have a deeper knowledge of their international programs. Finally, activities to promote European citizenship and a better knowledge of the EU, through workshops, such as the one held in Paris in December 2018, debates, such as the simulation of a debate in the European Parliament that was also held in Paris in December 2019, and institutional meetings. All these activities have been developed successfully and they have contributed to achieve the project objectives. These topics had already been designed in the presentation of the project, more concretely defined in the initial meeting which took place in Paris in October 2018 and then updated in the intermediate meeting held in Rome in June 2019 to define the calendar for the 2019-2020 academic year and to establish the priorities of the meetings in that year.Unfortunately, of the meetings scheduled for the 2019-2020 academic year, only the one in Paris could be held in person in December 2019. The following meetings were scheduled to take place in Rome, Berlin and Madrid between the end of February and mid-May 2020 but could not be held because of the health crisis. However, given the unforeseen and unprecedented situation, some activities continued to be carried out online, as far as possible, and the contact between the teachers was steadily maintained.In June 2020 we asked for an extension of the project, in the hope of being able to cover, throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, what had not been possible to be completed in the previous year, although the Romain Rolland Gymnasium withdrew because they were afraid that the German authorities were not favorable to this extension. Our partnership was granted this extension; even so, we did not manage to complete the face-to-face activities. However, after some initial moments of uncertainty, an improvement of our activities online allowed part of our program to be carried out.Moving on to another aspect, some local and international activities were carried out to disseminate the project:- Lycée Molière, with the material produced in different meetings, held a virtual meeting with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), of great importance in the dissemination of the project.- At IES San Isidro, a monthly film forum was held in accordance with the objectives of the project, until the school was closed on March 11, 2020 due to the health crisis, and consequently it was impossible to access the center in order to continue with this activity."

"The roots of this project are to be found in the association ""Pour la Mémoire des Déportés et des Résistants d'Europe"" (For the Memory of Deportees and Resistance Fighters), created by Yvette Bernard-Farnoux, resistance fighter and a deportee in Auschwitz ; by Abel Farnoux, resistant figher and a deportee in Buchenwald and Etienne Raczymow, resistant fighter ; as well as by about twenty members of the French Resistance, deportees or European politicians (Simone Veil, Elie Wiesel, Stephane Hessel...). In 2001, the association created the “Relais de la Mémoire Junior” in order to pass on the memory of deportation and resistance to younger generations. The Relais' annual 'Meetings' bring European A-level students together with survivors of the Second World War and of other recent conflicts in an attempt to pass on memory and humanist and civil values, and to fight against revisionism and Holocaust denial. The current students are among the last that will be able to receive firsthand testimonies on the Second World War. These meetings aim at introducing European citizens to a better understanding of history and to sharpen their critical minds. Five secondary schools from four European countries (France, Germany, Austria, Belgium) would take part in this project : 12 students and two teachers from Marseille ; 8 students and two teachers from Paris ; 8 students and two teachers from Norden ; 8 students and two teachers from Wien ; 8 students and two teachers from Tournai. The chosen students would come from different backgrounds ; however, they would mainly be students with an internationally oriented curriculum (""European section"", tourism students) and would be selected on their motivation.Four short exchange trips are planned for the meetings, on a basis of a rotating system between the different schools. Each year, two Meetings revolving around the same theme will be organised. Prior to each Meeting, the students will conduct research activities to increase their knowledge of the annual theme (2018 : “Women in the wartime” ; 2019 : “Removal, Deportation, Space”). These researches will result in multilingual works presented in plenary sessions during the meeting. Several other activities revolving around the theme will also take place (scientific conferences ; informal round-table discussions with witnesses ; memorial visits ; artistic workshops). Other activities will be dedicated to exploring more topical issues All through the project, the student and teachers involved will share their progression on the eTwinning website. This same platform, as well as the website of the “Relais Junior” and the partner schools' websites, will also be used as dissemination media after the Meetings. We are expecting manifold results : - A scientific impact : acquisition of in-depth historical knowledge and research methodology.- A civic impact : development of critical thinking ; reinforcement of democratic values ; confrontation with otherness.- A linguistic impact : improvement of second-language skills."

The present Project is based on the study of History and Literature according to the EsaBac and the BachiBac programs, the improvement of the student’s language skills and the deepening of the knowledge of the culture and the civilization of France, Italy and Spain, the European construction process and, as well, to change the methodology and the perception of the importance of these programs for each center.These objectives will be reached thanks to teacher’s meetings, exchange visits among the three High Schools and researches made by the students. Teachers will focus on the elaboration of didactic materials for the EsaBac and the Bachibac programs as to achieve the challenge that these programs imply, meanwhile students will analyse the European construction process in the three countries and they will work on a field study about the sense of the European citizenship in their respective countries. The vehicular language of the Project is French as it is the common one for the three countries.The three High Schools participating in this Project: Lycée Molière of Paris, Liceo Virgilio of Rome and the IES San Isidro of Madrid are pioneers in the implementation of the ESABAC and BACCHIBAC programs in their countries, clearly placing high expectations on the improvement of the language skills and the promotion of intercultural understanding. That’s why they are reference centers for other High Schools. Moreover the three High Schools have a lot of characteristics in common as they are located downtown with a rich historical and artistic heritage.