During the meeting in London,

we took the following decisions:

We think Collaboration is essential in our project both teachers – teachers, teachers – students and students – students. The collaboration will be done at the meetings and between at each school and between the schools (students and teachers) with mail, our blog and maybe Skype.

Four meetings are planned:
November 2012 - Zaragoza, topic: Literacy. The meeting starts with presentations of each school and hometown. The presentations are digital and made and presented by the students. During the meeting, a debate will be prepared at groupdiscussions and in the end the debate will be realized. The meeting ends with a delivering of a new commission: Make a “MTV-video” of an European song. All the countries work with the same song.

March/April 2013 – Ankara, topic: Music. Together the students will organize a concert where they play 1-2 songs live (each school choose their own songs). The meeting ends with a delivering of a new commission: Make an advertising (poster) for a new chocolate bar.

November 2013 – London, topic: Innovations. During the meeting, the students will have the commission to create a real chocolate bar, using their science skills. And the keywords will be Food and Tehnology, Healthy living. The meeting ends with a delivering of a new commission: Make an presentation in some way optional way of “What is an innovation to you? Keywords: design, creativity

Spring 2014 – Lund, topic: Mathematic. We start the meeting with the creative presentations of thoughts about innovations. During the meeting, the students will discuss and solve different mathematical problems together and the solutions will be presented in different creative, multimedia ways. Evaluation of which competences you need as an successful European citizen will also be done as an final.

All the activities during the meetings are made in mixed, international studentgroups. All the students will live in hostfamilies during the meetings. If some of the applying countries don´t recieve the project, the countries who recieve the project will help each other to organize the meetings.

Competences we think are essential for the students and teachers to have and further on develop during the project are:

• Communication (in english)
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Collaboration

This is what we have decided and what we will work for. In December I will together with my collegue Thomas Nilsson, write the formula and as soon it´s ready, you will all be able to read and comment the contents.

The last thing we all agreed about, is to cross our fingers that we will have the project!

/Viveca

Preparatory meeting in London

From the 7th to the 11th of November, Cristina Moya-Sánchez and Raphaelle Goodrich from London (England); Viveca Dahl and Thomas Nilsson from Lund (Sweden); Mine Bodur from Ankara (Turkey) and Eva Flores and Carlos Guallart from Saragosse (Spain) met in Harris Academy South Norwood (London) for preparing a Comenius project. Zhivka Nikolova from Varna (Bulgaria), couldn’t come to this meeting in London but she is project-partner too. Before commencing work, Mr. Sam Hainey, Principal, came to greet and welcome us personally.

Joining words for an active Europe.

Our objective is to develop a project concerning dialogue, that is the central activity at each international meeting should be communication. As the title of the project say, we think about working with keywords, themes that are of common interest and affect us all as European members. We´re planning for a project with students in the age of 13-14 years old.

Keywords are those that join us or we have in common like music, languages, gastronomy, sports etc. These words gives us cause to do activities in each school and to present them at our international meetings, for example: to sing a song, to recite poetry to cook and present a typical meal, to comment a work of art or monument of the city where the meeting takes place, etc. These plastic, artistic and/or academic works will be exposed at the international meetings and in our common blog.

We come together for a better Europe

Hello there!

I am very happy to write here. Thank you Carlos for this friendly blog. I am from Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. I have been teaching English for 10 years. For a long time I have been trying to be in a project on communication like that. And my wish has come true... Thank God!!

And here is the first photo on the blog. My students and I were on a school trip. I hope we will go on trips together:))

Hello everybody!

I am happy to work with you on a Comenius project on this generous topic, communication.
It will be a new beginning, the topic is generous, the partners are from seven European countries, lucky number, the preparatory visit couldn't have a better location.
I am teacher of English, I went on a Comenius individual mobility, a course in Totnes, Devon in 2008, but my wish is to visit London. Now I can have this chance if the application is good enough!
It will be, no problem, I have done two successful applications for preparatory visits.
London, what a dream location!