Léonard de Vinci middle school teaches 260 students aged 11 to 15, with 22 different nationalities. They are managed by a team of 20 teachers and a school life office of 6, headed by a chief education adviser. Along with 6 elementary schools in the area, the school is part of a Priority Education Network (REP) so that it may better address the specific needs of children from an immigrant and socially complicated background. Teachers and educators work together in order to achieve the school project's three main objectives: ensure that the conditions for success are offered every student, implement the means to obtain interesting course choices for senior students, and make the school more attractive. Interdisciplinary projects are regularly taken on, sometimes involving different classes and neighbouring schools, and an ongoing multilateral Comenius project on sustainable development with seven European partners will be over at the end of the shcool year. Our objectives with this project are to make our school more attractive, to enhance teachers' an educators' motivation through group training so that they may bind and better work together, to facilitate the implementation of a continuous artistic and cultural course for students from first to last grade, to broaden the content of the the students' art history final exam, to improve the general atmosphere within the school walls, an to encourage the development of a new European dynamic. We have chosen European courses according to these objectives. At the same time, we are stressing the importance of appropriating practical training through the development of cultural, artistic and linguistic knowledge and interactive tools and techniques. All this will be re-used with the school students through interdisciplinary teachings. The chosen courses will be provided by highly qualified trainers thanks to our partner Paysage et patrimoine sans frontières, in charge of organizing the mobilities. Their contents were also discussed with Aline RUTILY at the association. She is in charge of the project's step by step follow-up. The 12 participants in this project are teachers (mathematics, technology, art, history and geography, Spanish, REP coordinator), teaching aides, the school's intendant and the school principal. They wish to have the opportunity to meet other European teachers and educators in order to later set up a strategic partnership. Each of them will take one or more courses about European art history and will be able to reflect upon the courses' themes in different locales: "European gardens diaries, between literature, arts and science" in Venice/Padua, Italy, Oct. 20-25, 2014. "Teaching the history of the colour blue as a social fact, between literature, arts and science" in Faro/Lisbon, Portugal Oct. 27-Nov.1. "The garden, a living monument. Teaching heritage and history of the arts in Europe" in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, Feb. 23-27. "European gardens diaries, between literature, arts and science" in Granada, Spain, Apr.20-25. Planned activities will focus on the mobilities : -preparation for the courses (language upgrade, writing of a school presentation leaflet, slideshow, visits of museums and gardens in Ile-de-France, visits of exhibitions, participation in conferences, use of the preparatory program for the courses, consultation of the project website); -updates on trainings with the trainer and sharing with the staff upon each of their returns from a trip ; -refining of the last-graders' art history cursus ; -preparation of cultural and artistic courses for each grade. Effects are expected on several levels: renewed motivation for the staff and for the students, improvement of the work atmosphere within the school, imrovement of the school's image. The main results of this project will be the realization of the artistic and cultural teaching cursus, the expansion of the scope of the art history final exam, the improvement of the teacher's classes in terms of European input and information technology, and they will be broadly circulated outside the school. Lastly, we hope that this project will enable us to launch a new European dynamic with a strategic partnership.