Erasmus+

Message from Oide Murray to parents/students going to Leipzig/Germany for Erasmus Trip.

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Welcome to the Erasmus+ page of Luttrellstown Community College!

Since 2018 we have been involved in Erasmus+ programmes for students and staff. With our partners we have been working on several topics for Europe in Dublin and abroad. While staying with their partner’s families and visiting European countries’ tourist attractions, our students get to know the culture of other European communities better. Students and staff involved in this programme get the opportunity to live and develop the European spirit.

Find out more about our current and past projects for LCC students and staff.

Erasmus 2020-2022

Week beginning April 4th saw the arrival of our Erasmus partners from Poland, Italy and Germany. Our international student visitors stayed with LCC Host families for the week. The students along with their Irish counterparts had a very active, educational and entertaining week. See below for a snapshot of our week. Many thanks to our LCC students and their families especially host families. Thanks to our visitors and their teachers for a wonderful experience. A special thanks to our fantastic LCC Erasmus team of teachers, Oide Murray, Oide Craven, Oide Fennell, Oide Maguire and Oide Reid.

Monday: What an amazing week we had with our lovely Erasmus partners. All participants got to know each through team building games led by Oide Mahony & they gave presentations about their country. The students also designed a logo for our current programme.

Tuesday: In preparation of LCC's Erasmus week, TY students prepared envelopes with sunflower seeds as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. The sunflower is not only the national flower of Ukraine, but also stands symbolically for our current Erasmus programme: "Our Environment Is Our Future". At the end of the week, each student participant received an envelope with three sunflower seeds to plant in their homes. Once they produce seeds, we will bring them along to our next meetings in Poland, Germany and Italy.

Wednesday: We enjoyed several workshops in the fashion and furniture upcycling department in the Rediscovery Centre, Ballymun, toured the Centre and their Eco store and learned about a more sustainable lifestyle. Then we visited Dublin city centre.

Thursday: On Thursday we had great fun doing more team building exercises. In the afternoon we visited Glendalough with its beautiful scenery.

Friday: Friday saw the final day for our Erasmus partners. We had a surprise visit by Minister Jack Chambers who has been a great support in our plea to make the Strawberry Beds road safe for cyclists & pedestrians. A fantastic week!

2018-2020 Youth Vote for Europe

“The main aim of the project “Youth Votes for Europe” is to enable young people to take an active role in the political and social life of European society as well as to reinforce their participation in the democratic process in Europe. This will convey common European values, intercultural awareness and the feeling of belonging to the European community.”

The European Election 2019 stood at the centre of the workshops in Ireland and abroad (Germany and Poland). The main goal of the project was to engage more young people in the democratic life of Europe. Participating students were able to find out how exactly they can take part in the democratic processes towards developing Europe further.

Activities involved workshops in Berlin, Dublin and Elk with our partners from Germany, Poland and Italy. There we met MEPs, visited our countries’ parliaments and places that had been financed by European support programmes. Other highlights were strolling across a German Christmas market or zip-lining in an out-door park in Elk (Poland).

Back in Dublin we held a junior European election and a Europe Day to pass on our newly gain knowledge to the school community of LCC.

Working together – the European idea

Visiting Halle/Germany

Friendships for life are made

Sightseeing in Warsaw

BBQ in the Polish countryside

Think tank Erasmus style at LCC

Bye, bye Dublin

2020-2022 Our Environment Is Our Future

Our project has been inspired by global concerns about climate change and the international protest movement "Fridays for Future". It aims to raise awareness of the problematic use of natural resources that endanger the survival of future generations.

Due to the pandemic we have only been in touch with our partners remotely. However, we were creating collages to introduce ourselves and our environmental passion to our Erasmus family. We each also started a personal sustainability diary and measured our daily water consumptions. In April we attended an online ”Fast Fashion” talk by Rethink Ireland during Eco-week.

Here are some examples of our work so far.

Find out more about our current Erasmus+ programme for LCC staff:

2020-2022 Staff exchange with Martinique (France)

In March 2019 we received a visit by Science teacher Valérie Telle from Martinique (West Indies/France) as part of her school’s Erasmus programme. We hope that in the future we can send teachers and perhaps student to the Lycee Victor Schoelcher.

Erasmus Exchange Novemeber 2022

12 students and 2 teachers from the "Beethoven Gymnasium" in Berlin visited LCC and CnT this week for our first Senior German Erasmus + Exchange Programme.

German learners from all three senior years enjoyed hosting their exchange partners and introducing them to everything Irish.

Auf Wiedersehen Berliners, see you in four weeks in Deutschland!

Erasmus+ Finale 2022/23

Last Thursday our Erasmus+ group "Our Environment is our Future" walked from LCC to the Liffey and tried out a local amenity that could be 100% save to reach if only a Strawberry Beds footpath was there. This was their last activity of a three-year-programme which saw many such environmental awareness projects.