Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
City Fréjus, France
Website https://www.lyc-albert-camus.ac-nice.fr/
LPo Albert Camus is situated in Fréjus in the South of France between Cannes and St Tropez on the French Riviera. It was built 25 years ago by British architect Norman
Foster and offers general studies (literature, humanities, sciences, languages, history, economics), technical studies (programming, mechanics and environment) and professional studies (cooking, waitering and cosmetics). The languages taught are English, Spanish, Italian and German. We welcome around 1200 students from 15 to 18 years old for their 3 final years of secondary studies (among which 100 in professional studies) and 150 adults (direction, teachers, general staff).
The families of our students are mainly middle class with parents working in the touristic industry, services, trade and agriculture. Our region, the Var, is the most touristic in France and thus particularly open to exchanges with foreigners from all over the world. What’s more, Fréjus is a very old city where you can see Roman remains (theatre, arenas, aqueduct…), middle-aged constructions (XIII century cathedral), 1920ies Belle Epoque villas as well as beautiful beaches and preserved forests.
In a world always on the move and sometimes suffering from the pleas men have inflicted it, it is necessary to seriously focus on what is linking us rather than what separates us.
As such, trying to be more united seems vital and it is our duty to teach our youth the way to peace and how to live in harmony with our neighbors on our planet.
Maybe the first important issue we now have to face is climate change and that’s why learning how to respect our planet must be taught at school and our different international experiences need to be shared.
At the Lycée Albert Camus in Fréjus and in our region, we live surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of the Alps. We can regularly see that nature has to be respected and protected as we have experienced lethal floods or fires in the recent years. Our pupils are well aware of these problems and would like to know more about our European neighbors’ ideas and solutions to try to improve our way of life in order to protect nature better. Of course, our experience with the sea more importantly could be shared and discussions followed by activities in situ on the beaches, diving to discover the sea life, hiking in the forests to learn about their fauna and flora would be a great experience for our guests from other European countries. Our geography, biology and other science teachers and local and regional specialists and scientists are eager to share their work and passion with new foreign partners.