Teaching basic sciences to young people with fewer opportunities: towards inclusive education

"The project ""Learning from science to a young people with fewer opportunities: towards inclusive education"" referred to as TIE Project, the purpose was to put YWFO at the heart of the project through the exchange of good practices between teaching colleagues from the different partner institutions with the implementation of project pedagogies involving different subjects in the different and with the aim of enabling many young people to meet, exchange, on different themes. In order to put this project in place, a thematic week prepared by the CRF in Rome was set up from the beginning of the project. This mobility dedicated to the different teachers and staff of the partner institutions brought together more than 35 teachers and administrative staff who were able to benefit from the training provided by the CRF and the different partners on the topic “How to manage the inclusion and mobilization of youth with fewer opportunities in their school learning.” Then the learner mobility was put in place. This first mobility (called C3) which took place in Greece in Thessaloniki had the theme «chemistry in health». It was an opportunity for 35 learners, including ¾ of YWFO (11 with disorders), to exchange on the topic in question. It was an opportunity for many young people to realize the value of knowing how to speak a living language other than the native language in order to be able to exchange. The next mobility, C4, took place in France and had the theme «chemistry in wine and cheese». It was also an opportunity for 35 learners, including ¾ of YWFO (11 with disorders) to exchange and carry out practical sessions in European pairs on acido-basic titration on milk, looking for the presence of antibiotics on the same matrix and counting the flora. The last staff training in Palermo in November 2019, was an opportunity to explain the different reverse classroom techniques that can be implemented, and the tools used in this pedagogical practice for more than 30 teachers and administrative staff from the partner institutions of the project. The mobility of learners that took place in Sofia in February 2020, named in the C5 project, brought together more than 35 learners, including ¾ of YWFO (10 with disorders). The theme of this mobility was chemistry in water, which enabled the participants to exchange views on this subject and to carry out practical work sessions on the calcium hardness of different waters brought by the various partner institutions.The C6 mobility, which had the health and safety theme in the laboratory, was scheduled to take place in Rome in April 2020, however the COVID-19 pandemic and the various plant and border closures prevented its realization. Thus, in December 2020, and through the ZOOM platform, virtual mobility could be implemented. The students who had been able to meet and prepare explanatory videos on the theme shared them via a YouTube channel dedicated solely to the «Tie Project Channel» project. French learners had decided, long before the COVID crisis, to produce a humorous English video on the theme. The students of Rome were given exceptional permission to meet and make the video while respecting the barrier gestures.The young Bulgarians put together a powerpoint from the photos they had taken during their practical sessions. This was more complicated for young Sicilians and young Greeks who had not been able to return to their schools since April 2020. But all of them were present on ZOOM, (more than 60 people ) to meet and exchange on the topic, but especially on what COVID had changed in their lives.The C7 and C8 mobilities could not be realized because of the mandatory confinement for the different partner institutions and the management of the distance courses for many young learners who already have difficulties in the classical school follow-up and a fortiori this made teaching complicated in the distant."