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The purpose of the initiative is to focus on building the Francophone

person, especially French school students, and to break their
isolation

and the competition was between teams; each one represented a
students, as they were providing them with information about
specific country. The Second World War was chosen as the these three countries - France, Britain and Germany - and about
European countries in general. The students were divided into
leadership was clearly prominent in its seven leaders, including
three groups according to the language, so that each team was
Hitler, Mussolini, Charles de Gaulle, Stalin, and others.
provided with sufficient information about the country they
2018-2020 end, the parliaments of the three countries
The third event was the "Presenter" event, which was held at the
represent.
the
At
French Institute in December 2017, which aimed to work on
were simulated, in which the students exceeded expectations.
presentation skills among schools of high school age. Among the
They were also asked to write a book, furnish a video, and
goals set was getting used to reading, but due to the short time
present information about a specific country, which was related
they were unable to do it. This event ended by dividing the
to the Library “El Nashee ”.
participants into random teams, so that each team reads a small
We also mention the "Anglophone World Project" founded by
book, in different fields, and summarized and presented it in terms
Farah Muhammad Reda, which was held at the Faculty of
of getting used to reading, research, summarizing and getting to
Economic Studies and Political Science in Alexandria under the
know more than one field.
supervision of Dean Dr. Qadri Mahmoud Ismail, whose idea
These three activities were among the mini projects that they
was to work on the anglophone countries. Despite the
undertook, which ranged from four or five days to two weeks at
initiative ’s interest in French speakers, they wanted to provide
most. But there are two other projects that were among the mega
information about these countries as well, given the historical
projects undertaken by the Francophone Youth Initiative, and their
relations between the two countries - France and Britain - and
expected duration was five months, but they, under some that it is impossible to study the French culture without paying
attention to the corresponding culture, the English culture. On
circumstances, extended for a whole year.
this basis, a whole project was organized to explain this culture.
This project mainly involved Britain and America, which are
The first one was the "cultural exchange" project that was
present in all international organizations, for this, the initiative
established with the Library of Alexandria in cooperation with the
was interested in simulating the existing global organizations,
Library “El Nashee ”, which aimed to a cultural exchange between
then they held an imaginary conference between the most
three cultures; The French culture, represented in the French
powerful countries in the world and considered that there is a
schools, the English culture represented in the English schools and
third world war at the gates while there is a global catastrophe
and the participants had to choose between them . These two
the German culture represented in the German schools. This
projects lasted for a full year, starting at the beginning of 2018
project included students from 12 to 16 years old, i.e. preparatory
and ending at the beginning of 2019.
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