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These are the six different locations of our mobilities during the project. Apart from those "mobilities" with students, we also held two transnational meetings, the first in Spain and the second one in Italy.
Therefore in chronological order these are our meetings and mobilities.
- Spain (Teachers' meeting) (3rd - 5th November 2015)
- Poland (14th - 18th December 2015)
- Italy (29th February - 4th March 2016)
- Bulgaria (2nd - 6th May 2016)
- Italy (Teachers' meeting) (12th - 14th September 2016)
- Croatia (24th - 28th October 2016)
- Finland (6th - 10th February 2017)
- Spain (8th - 12th May 2017)
Transnational Meeting in Spain
Transnational Meeting in Spain
The first transnational meeting of teachers participating in the project was held in San Fernando, Spain from 3rd to 5th November 2015. Fifteen teachers from six countries involved in the project got together and discussed the activities, new methodologies, project responsibilities, mobility dates, school calendars and other organizational issues.
However, it was not only hard work and no play, so apart from the official agenda, we, the teachers were given the opportunity to see, taste and experience the region which we fell in love with instantly. We were given a tour of the school in San Fernando, met the staff and some of its students, visited Cadiz (where we saw its magnificent Monument of the Constitution, the city museum and climbed the fascinating Tavira Tower) and Jerez (where we went on a wine-tasting tour to Sandeman wine cellar). Our hospitable and friendly hosts made us feel very welcome and we are looking forward to our next visit, and all the mobilities of course!
Mobility to Poland
Mobility to Poland
The mobility to Poland was our first international journey with students. Five students and two to three teachers per per country met in Warsow for this incredible week of leisure activities, workshops and lectures at University.
We were welcomed at school with an outstanding ceremony in which we listened to some music live, saw a pre-history fashion show, a fight between medieval soldiers and some regional polska dancing. On the first day we also visited the premises of the school and had the opportunity to talk to teachers and students.
On the following days we attended some lectures at Warsow University about Esperanto and English, Multiple Intelligences and ICT in education. We also visited the national football stadium and the old city with that beautiful red castle. We attended a conference about preservation of old documents at the Academy of Science and we could learn a lot from our Kopernico Centre visit.
A very interesting and full of activities week in which we starting making friends from everywhere. Special thanks to the school staff, who invited us to their Christmas dinner as a surprise.
Mobility to Italy
Mobility to Italy
We were welcomed at school with an outstanding exposition about the Time Line they were working on and a fantastic breakfast. The opening ceremony was full of typical medieval costumes and dancing, medieval performances, students' chorus singing and dancing, and some shows that the students had been preparing throughout the school year. It was a fantastic way of starting the mobility, and the best way to meet students and teachers.
After the welcoming ceremony on the first day, our Italian partners had prepared a wide variety of activities for all the week, including a guided visit of the Castle of the City, the Grotte de la Castellana (one of the largest caves in Europe), a visit to Alberobello with their famous trullis (conic houses), visit to Lecce and its Roman Theatre; a guided visit to the Arsenal of the city, where they showed us all the military machinery...we also could visit a real submarine! We attended an interesting conference about how important the military arsenal was for the city. The students enjoyed those visits very much and all the activities were fantastically planned.
It was a very interesting and full of activities week in which we started making friends from everywhere. Teachers were trained in ICT in Education.
Mobility to Bulgaria
Mobility to Bulgaria
During the month of May we had the Erasmus+ mobility to Bulgaria ready to embark on a great new adventure.
Full of enthusiasm and eager to learn we started this new experience with our students to promote social relations using English as the communication tool and wrapping in the culture of a different country.We will never forget this opportunity both academically and on a human level as we had a great reception from the center and all families made us feel at home.
All activities were very enriching; from the workshops in the school dealing with the topic of our project, i.e communication, to the cultural visits in which we could appreciate the historical richness of this country.
We were fortunate to witness for example the prehistoric cave of Magura, Castle Baba Vida, spectacular landscapes, we had the opportunity to attend dances, and to know the the gastronomic diversity of the area, very different from ours.
In short, for all of us including students it was a unique opportunity to learn another culture, another way of doing things, to bring different ideas together, and to understand that although all countries have a culture and different traditions which are entrenched in the country culture, all of us seek a common by educating our students and this is achieved through good communication and culture.
Transnational Meeting in Italy
Transnational Meeting in Italy
From 12th to 14th of September 2016 took place the second transnational meeting of teachers participating in the project “Communication and Culture” in Taranto. Twelve teachers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Poland and Spain came to our Italian partner to Scuola Secondaria di I grado “C.Colombo”.
The purpose of the meeting was the summary of all activities done during the first year of our project with particular attention to personal responsibilities. We could also see The First Year final product “Proverbs and Sayings Dictionary” which was showed and done by the participant from Croatia. It was a great pleasure to see the Communication and Culture Website created by the Spanish partner. During this meeting teachers organized the work for the second year of the project. Attention has been focused on new Times Line Activities, TV Commercials Activity, Conceptual Maps and Future Inventions.
Apart from work we managed to visit beautiful places like Martina Franca, Matera and Ostuni. We tried delicious local food and tasted different kinds of olive oils in Oil Mill. We had great dinners in Antonella’s and Angela’s houses. It was an amazing time and we are looking forward to our next meeting in Croatia.
Mobility to Croatia
Mobility to Croatia
(see official programme) - (radio interview questions)
In October, in the middle of the most beautiful autumn, we had an opportunity to visit Croatia. Mobility number 4 in Communication and Culture project gathered young people from Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, Italy and Finland to the town Pozega in Slavonia in eastern Croatia.
We were first greeted by the Croatian teachers in Zagreb, where we had a guided walking tour of the capital. The most fascinating parts of Zagreb were the tunnels under the city, built during the II world war for hiding and storage. When we finally arrived in Pozega it was midnight, students were greeted by their host families, and we didn’t really have any idea where we had arrived.
During the week we had an opportunity to see the sights of Pozega which were proudly presented by the Croatian students. We also visited the local Zvecevo chocolate factory where we could test and give opinions on their new chocolates. We also were given some chocolates to take home.
One beautiful sunny day was spent at Papuk nature park in Jankovac. There we had a very interesting guided educational trail and we also saw some bats in a cave and a beautiful waterfall.
We visited the Ekonomska Skola Pozega, had an opportunity to follow some classes. The national TV made news broadcast from the school and they interviewed some students and teachers. The students also visited two radio stations were they were asked questions about their own countries. So they had an opportunity to be a part of a radio show.
We visited also Vukovar , the city in eastern Vukovar was heavily damaged also during the Croatian War of Independence from 1991 to 1995.
In the town of Osijek where we had a guided tour, which was quite long, but the information of the war history of Croatia was interesting. Then we went shopping to the Portanova mall, the place the students had really looked forward to. We surely can say that our mobility to Croatia gave us knowledge of local history, experience of beauty and hope and a lot more memories of internationality friendship! Thank you, Croatian Team! We love to be your friends!
Mobility to Finland
Mobility to Finland
In the middle of the coldest season, from 5th to 11th February 2017, our Finnish colleagues gave us a warm welcome in their country. Teachers and students from Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Poland and Spain were greeted in the town of Kaarina in the Southwest of Finland.
The week started with the welcoming ceremony in the Piispanlähteen School where we were charmingly surprised by the students singing a song from each country in each language. During the same day we were able to visit Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, the cathedral and the library in the nearby city of Turku where the students, as well as the teachers, could exercise the Problem Based Learning. The following day was also a PBL day since the students had their assignments and the teachers were exploring the ships which were taking them to and from the island of Mariehamn in the heart of the Baltic Sea.
Our hosts gave us also the opportunity to do job shadowing at their school and to attend the lecture on Problem Based Learning by Martti Hellström at the University of Turku. We visited the local newspaper, St. Henry`s Ecumenical Art Chapel, Turku Castle, synchronised skating show and experienced the unforgettable frozen sea walk, further on the sauna and swimming in the frozen lake.
To sum up, it was an educational week with numerous shades of cultural diversity.
Mobility to Spain
Mobility to Spain
The first day of the meeting was unforgettable. The welcoming ceremony was rather original. Except the presentations of each school made by the partners, the Spanish students presented each country in unusual way. They performed the national dances and made acrobatic compositions with the raising of the flags of the countries at the end of the presentation. They did it with great enthusiasm and fun. Even when they fell and hurt themselves, they acted as if nothing happened. Great work!
The welcoming speeches of the Spanish principal Yolanda Coto and Project Coordinator Eduardo Ruiz were warming and pleasant. We felt like being welcomed to their own homes. And we felt like this for the whole stay in San Fernando. For which we are very grateful. Welcoming breakfast and lunch were full of delicious things of national cuisine, which we tasted with great pleasure.
We were also welcomed by the Official Town Authorities in Saint Romualdo’s Castle, after which we had a guided tour around it.
The visit to the Naval Museum was interesting and very detailed. We knew a lot about the history of the Navy Forces.
In the evening the teachers were invited to the “Camaron de la Isla”club, where they had dinner and watched and enjoyed the Flamenco singing and dancing very much.
On the next day we started our day trip to Seville early in the morning. Some of us watched films about this city, but we never supposed that it is so beautiful. We had a guided walking tour around the Alcazar and we felt as if we were in some Garden of Paradise. We saw a little of the Cathedral which was enormous and it was a pity that we couldn’t enter it.
It was our first time to go inside the Regional TV Studios. It was interesting to see how people work there. We sat on the chairs of the reporters and pretended to be like them. We saw the short video later in the regional news. Some of us became TV stars!
On Wednesday we all had classes: the students in the Colegio Ntra. Sra. Del Carmen in San Fernando and the teachers in the University of Cádiz in the morning as it should be during the school year. But they were unusual. For example, the teachers were at the Faculty of Humanities and had a conference about “Communication and Culture” through archeological evidences. And the students attended some real classes with their host students.
Then we had a guided walking tour around Cádiz and visited Gadir, a salting fish factory of the Roman period. We watched an interesting video about this factory.
In the evening the teachers enjoyed the music at the Europe Day Flute Trio Concert at the School Chapel performed by Anemoi Vientos. The musicians were great.
Who hasn’t heard of Gibraltar? But we saw it with our own eyes. We even took pictures at the place which is known as Europe Point. We could see the straits of Northern Africa in the distance across the Atlantic ocean. Our Geography teacher will envy us. We visited St Michael’s Cave with gorgeous stalagmites and stalactites which were illuminated in different colors. We also saw Moorish mosque and Trinity Lighthouse. And there were a lot of Barbary Apes walking freely all around us at the middle station, who tried to take our handbags or jumped on the buses’ roofs and even on people’s heads. Naughty apes!
We also had a Constitutional visit of San Fernando. We visited the Greater Church, where parliamentarians took the oath, and the Royal Courts Theatre. Then we went to the school at the
Communication Fair, which was prepared by the students and teachers. There were some performances and singing and dancing of different periods of the history of the mankind, of its ways of communication and culture. Radio and TV interviews were taken from the organizers of the Fair.
Lunch and the ceremony of handing in of the certificates of attendance and presents took place in San Fernando Naval Club.
Our last (or maybe not) evening was in a very interesting place not far from San Fernando, in Chiclana. We watched Dancing Horses show. I didn’t know that horses can dance Flamenco too. They were excellent, so were their trainers.
I felt very sad when we had to say goodbye to each other at the end of the evening. But everybody left with the words: “We’ll see each other again.” Why not?
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