Le projet Sun water wind of renewable energy – S2WRE
, planned over two years, is coming to an end with the visit of partner delegations from Poland and Turkey to the Pablo-Neruda high school in Saint-Martin-d’Hères. They arrived on Saturday February 18. While Mustapha Nour, the project’s lead teacher for his electrician CAP class, is busy preparing for this week’s meeting, he learns that his class has won the Hippocrene Foundation prize. “It is recognition of all the work done by the students and the teaching team, which gives greater visibility to the project on a national scale. This sum of money will make it possible to carry out additional visits with the pupils who were not able to participate in the two mobilities”, he declared.
“Developing the European civic awareness of young people”
The Hippocrene Prize for Education in Europe rewards the best partnership and European mobility projects designed by a class, with its teachers, throughout France. According to Dorothée Merville, director of the Hippocrène Foundation, “it is a matter of supporting training in Europe, mobility, exchanges and joint projects which contribute to developing young people’s awareness of European citizenship”.
Since its creation in 2010 by the Hippocrène Foundation, this prize has already rewarded projects involving 40,000 students, for a total endowment of €360,000. This year, 2,000 students took part in the prize in all categories, with projects from 28 European and neighboring European countries. It is organized in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and Youth, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, with the support of the European Commission.
“This class of Pablo-Neruda has been distinguished in the professional high school category and will receive a prize of €5,000. It is the teachers who take the step of presenting their projects for the Hippocrène prize. Then, a jury chooses one project per category,” explains Lucas Ryser, communications manager for the Foundation. The prizes will be awarded to teachers and student representatives of their classes on 10 and 11 May in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament. (1): see articles published in The Dauphiné liberated
of January 25, 2022, September 27, 2022 and October 27, 2022.
The program of the Turkish and Polish delegations The Turkish (Ankara high school) and Polish (Gdynia high school) delegations arrived in France last Saturday for an intense week of visits and joint practical work workshops with the electrician CAP class from the Pablo-Neruda high school. The delegations were welcomed on Sunday February 19 with a visit to Old Lyon, which ended with a meal at the Clos des Maronniers
in Saint-Martin-d’Heres.
The working week started very strongly with a visit to the technical platform of the Electrical Engineering Resource Center (CRGE), then to the EDF Hydro Alpes campus and the Schneider Electric IntenCity building. The programming should continue with the writing of an eco-responsible electrician charter, but also practical work in workshops and other visits to companies, museums and tourist sites.
