2019-1-FR01-KA202-063096

Meetings

First Transnational Meeting in France

Place of the meeting : Castres (France) 6^th January - 10^th January 2020

The 1st Transnational Meeting of On the way Erasmus+ project was an event that brought together representative participants of the 5 partner institutions involved in this strategic partnership.

The main objectives of the 1st Transnational meeting of the partners project was for all partners to meet, become acquainted to the project and discuss potential issues and significant matters at hand concerning the materialisation of the project. We have used the meeting for planning the project, dividing tasks, establishing methods of communication; how to accomplish the activities and tasks of the project.

Day 1 : Tuesday ==>

09h00 – 11h00

Welcome
Meeting with the headmistress and the school staff

11h00 -12h00

Presentation of all partner schools involved in the project
Talking about drop out in each partner’s country /meeting pupils from the second chance school.

12h00 – 14h00

Lunch

14h00 – 17h00

Project meeting

Timeline and destinations
Implementation: topics, learning activities , expected outputs & Visit of the hosting school

20h00 Welcome Dinner

Day 2 : Wednesday ==>

09h00 – 11h00

Project meeting

Task and responsibilities
Communication
Dissemination events

11h15 – 12h15

Evaluation
Risks

12h15- 14h00

Lunch

14h –11h

Leisure and cultural program:
- Unesco heritage town of Albi
- The Festival des Lanternes, the biggest Chinese lantern festival in Europe. During the event, the Parc Foucaud transforms into an illuminated splendour, representing several Chinese provinces. And we can tell you that it is a true feast for the eyes!
- the visit of a wine cellar in Gaillac

Day 3 : Thursday ==>

09h00 -11h00

Budget
Miscellaneous

11h00 – 12h15

Project meeting

12h15 – 14h00

Lunch

14h00 – 15h30

presentation of workshops
- “ ways of learning by doing” ( to motivate pupils and to avoid early school leaving)
- ( dissemination event at school with teachers, pupils and local press)
Videos
Visit of Castres ( 1/Ter ARCU)
Free time
20h00: Farewell dinner with a band " TradaLam" which plays traditional Occitan music in a contemporary style

Workshop "Saveurs des Ters" = learning by doing

Seda and the mascot of saveurs des Ters

CA visit of castres guided by some pupils

All the partners

TradaLam

Occitan music and dance

The working sessions included the official opening and closing of the meeting and roundtables focusing on discussing all priorities and agendas, such as development of the project and the best approach to it.

Transnational Workshops

We considered crucial to start creating a common understanding of the concepts we are going to explore and spread during the project. It was important to share what we think about each of them in order to start planning the educational paths. Thus, we brainstormed about the specific topics that should be tackle on each international workshop. So the sketches we agreed are the following:

making a website : the country responsible for the website is France.
creating two logos ( one for early school leaving and one for our mock agency) by pupils from each partner country
all the pupils and the teachers will vote for the 2 best logos during our meeting in Bulgaria
discussion about the implementation of actions in the upcoming months

To-do list for next period

the participants pupils will create two logos
pupils will create a slideshow or a video to present the jobs they might do in Europe
pupils will create a short video to introduce themselves

To be continued in Croatia

To be continued in Bulgaria...

Meeting in Valpovo, Croatia (7th March -11th March 2022)

Five European high schools supporting the colors of EUROPE

After a first transnational meeting in Castres in January 2020, the dream project has finally become reality.

After many postponements and uncertainties linked to the pandemic, Bulgarian, French Romanian and Turkish students and teach,were finally able to find all their Croatian partners as part of their ERASMUS project, “On the way to the future”.

About fifty participants met in Valpovo, a small town in Slavonia and were able to share moments of work, cultural visits, ecological, rural and sea tourism and relaxation and exchanges for 5 days.

The different workshops allowed them to vote for the logo that would represent their project, the logo that symbolizes their travel agency and the logo that represents dropping out of school. Together, they discussed the skills expected for their professional future and all together talked about interpersonal skills to avoid any dropout;

They also talked about the jobs they could do one day and tried to imagine their future business. For this, they benefited from the advice of Igor Medic,

Department of Economy - Head of Office at City of Osijek and they made an oral presentation, imagining their future.Igor tried to make the students involved in their future.

The many visits and meetings and the guide Daniel allowed them to discover Croatia with its rural tourism, its magnificent cities of Zagreb, Osijek, its gastronomy, its legends and of course the pretty little town of Valpovo and its castle.

Magnificent photos, unique places and legends to discover in our “Travel agency” section.

A real cultural openness, a unique human experience and wonderful encounters for all! This European adventure, mentioned on Romanian television, will continue in Bulgaria in April 2022 thanks to funding from Erasmus+

Srednja škola Valpovo

Voting the logos!

LOGO CRITERIA

1. VISUAL IMPACT

2. SIMPLE AND WHEN YOU SEE IT, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS ABOUT

3. CATCHY

4. ORIGINALITY

5. CREATIVITY OF THE TEXT AND COLORS

LOGO OF OUR PROJECT

Dropout

Our travel agency

Zagreb

New friends!

Friendship

ALL TOGETHER!

Igor, our guide for a better future

Discover our first trip to Croatia.

France is so far away!

Most of us had never taken the plane before!

OUR MEETING IN BULGARIA

Meeting in Targovishte, Bulgaria (11th April - 15th April 2022)

Another rich and unforgettable experience for all of us who, thanks to Erasmus + funding, had the opportunity to go to Bulgaria, this jewel of Eastern Europe, in the heart of Balkan Europe.

Going to Bulgaria was really an opportunity to discover a new culture, another alphabet ,a varied landscape of mountains, forests, lost valleys, fertile plains, lakes, full of traditions and rivers, not forgetting the beaches of the Black Sea, of course. !

It was also a great opportunity to bring Europe to life with the meeting of other students from the 5 partner countries of the "On the way to the future" project and to visit the Bulgarian high school, "PROFESIONALNA GIMNAZIYA PO IKONOMICHESKA INFORMATIKA "DZHON ATANASOV " in Targovishté, organizer of our meeting and activities.

Thank you to Yulyiana, our guide and teacher who offered us , with all her students, fantastic moments that allowed us to meet people, share moments of life and to work on common projects, sharing European values helping us to get out of our comfort zone and to have another vision of school and teachers.

We shared our life during our workshop " Who am I?" , we talked a lot in English and we discovered each of our region.You can discover each region in our Travel agency section.

This stay in Bulgaria was for all of us a total change of scenery.

We had the chance to discover the unique relief of the horseman of Madera, the charming town of Veliko Tarnovo, "the queen of Bulgarian towns" crossed by the Yantra river, the treasures of the Thracian civilization in Sofia, Targovishté, Varna, the "pearl of the black sea" but also the magnificent fortress of Tsarevets and finally, the museum of the Cyrillic alphabet.

A real journey through time that we really enjoyed. A concrete contact with another culture and another history, which made us want to know our own history better. We are ready to write our first name in Cyrillic from now on. What a funny experience!

The meeting of other European students from the 5 partner countries of the “On the way to the future” project allowed us to meet wonderful people and gave birth to European friendships that they now keep alive thanks to social networks.

A real wealth for the eyes but also to see the world with another eye and make it live differently and in complete serenity!

Today, we have new projects, new ideas for our future . We think about visitng Romania and we will do our best to find money to meet our Romanian friends in their country.