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Meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania 31 March - 4 April 2024

Teachers and students of participating schools from Denmark, Iceland and Finland visit Kaunas.

Getting started and making friends

We started our week with a fun bingo game to help everyone get to know each other. After that we introduced the main project for the week: creating social media content to support emotional well-being. We organized the students into four groups, with each group having a different task (event recording, writing, content creation, and editing). During the week we understood that students needed more support for implementing the task. So there is still a room to improve.

Our second group activity was baking an apple cake together. While the cake was in the oven, the groups held their first workshop - "Who’s in Control—Me or Social Media?". We all finished by enjoying the delicious cake that students made.

Culture, creativity & technology

During the week students visited the museum at our school. The local students gave a great presentation about Ugnė Karvelis, an important person in Lithuanian culture and ended with a fun quiz. Afterwards, students from all the countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Lithuania) gave presentations about their own schools and countries.

Later, students had a STEAM workshop where they learned about 3D printing and wind energy. We then continued with the workshop that started before and focused on discussion how social media apps keep our attention.

To see more of the area, we invited visiting students and teachers to explored the city of Kaunas using the ActionBound app. This turned our city tour into an interactive scavenger hunt, where our international teams worked together to complete fun challenges.

Art, fun and local experiences

One of the mornings participants of the project were able to participate in an incredible Virtual Reality (VR) experience called "Trail of Angels". This experience allowed everyone to travel through the famous paintings of Lithuanian artist M. K. Čiurlionis whos 150th birthday is celebrated through 2025 in the whole country. Inspired by his art, we then had a charcoal drawing workshop where everyone created their own artwork. This day we also continued and finished with the social media workshop by discussing different situations and thinking of ways to solve problems related to social media use.

For relaxation, during the week participants visited a local swimming pool with saunas and hot tubs. They were also able to take a trip to the Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology to learn about Lithuania's native wildlife. In the evening, everyone felt the local excitement at a thrilling basketball game, where the home team, Žalgiris, won in front of 15,000 fans.

We finished the week by teaching and performing traditional Lithuanian folk dances and songs together while enjoying local cuisine and having some snacks.