The Mediterranean has been for ages at a crossroads for travellers, migrants and tradesmen, where people, cultures and languages have became intertwined along time. Today, some regions around the Mediterranean experience troubles of identity, but those troubles are also opportunities for innovating experiences, enriching dialogue, and bridges may be created to try and transcend conflicts.
This section is at the students’ diposal so that they may use it to connect with their peers, to become familiar with other cultures and to learn about them.
Below you will find a list of current projects:
Exchange France / Israël 2009-2010
Our goal is to foster dialogue between high school students from both sides of the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on countries where questions of identities are especially sensitive, and do cause conflicts. Through educational tools, students will be given a chance to explore their own cultural identity, in order to develop, at a later stage, a space of exchange, a place for sharing, where those conflicting identities will meet and enrich each other.
We want schools to be open places where a reflection on those questions can be conducted, and we would like recognition of the students’ differences and common points to be promoted during the course of this experiment.
The project involves the following schools:
Jeanne d’Arc High School in Paray-le-Monial (France)
Nissuyi Experimental High School in Jerusalem (Israel)
Mar Elias High School in Ibilin, Galilee (Israel)