Collège Université

description of organisation

Collège Université is a public intermediate school for children between 11 and 15 years old. They provide regular education for 554 pupils. They also provide specific education for children who have special needs. A specific class called ULIS and also several pupils with handicap and supported by a scholar assistant for daily activities.
The College is located in Reims, a city of 220.000 inhabitants and located 150 km at the North East of Paris. College University develop different activities and projects besides the regular lessons (Slam, cooking workshop, project to aware about bullying, etc.).
By hosting a European volunteer Collège University aims to educate and aware the pupils to European diversity. Most of the pupils in the area do not have the possibility to meet Europeans. Through this project, it is also an education to “alterity”. The volunteer will take part in three kind of activities:
- European projects of the school like eTwinning projects. This is concrete opportunity to propose non-formal education activity to the pupils
- Bringing a European dimension to the non-formal educative projects of the school (education to media, gender and equality, bullying, week of taste – semaine du goût,…)
- European projects in link with the activities of the Regional youth information Center which is the coordinating organisation. These activities are the information campaign “Ambassadeurs européens”, Forum Time to move, European month,…
The volunteer will do a part of his activities in another College in Epernay. The purpose is to offer the opportunity to make more diverse the activities.