Meetint point for all the associated schools to learn, teach and share experiencies related to the common project that we are developing.
Good way to share with other schools and the rest of the world breaking barriers and stablishing links between diferent people and cultures.
The main aims of the project are:
a) To promote the intercultural awareness/education through the change of information and of experiences among the different European schools.
b) To foment the partnership and the team work.
c) To increase the students and teachers horizons in what regards cultural knowledge.
d) To motivate the use of ICT.
e) To contribute for the implementation of the Decade of the United Nations for the Sustainable Development and for the practice of the thought to “Think Global / Act Local”.
f) To commemorate the International Year of the Planet Earth.
g) To increase the students awareness toward the anthropological intervention in the pollution of the environment.
h) To increase the students ecological awareness and necessity to protect the environment as an essential element of the sustainable development according to national priorities and European strategies.
Schools included in this multilateral project are:
- Escola Básica Integrada de Arrifes (Ponta Delgada - Azores - Portugal), is located in a rural area and most of the students belong to families with a low socioeconomic level. Also the participants are in a socio-economic disadvantage area (Azores is an ultraperipheric region) and teh partnership will be a very good opportunity to increase the students and teachers’ horizons and to promote a really intercultural education, recognizing and appreciting the European cultural diversity. Another important thing is that this school is an eco-school and holds a strong tradition in a continuous education on the envioronment.
- Itas Scalcerle School (Padova - Italia), is located in an area, PO PLAIN, that is a region with density of population and rich of economical activities. The strong contamination and the risk of loosing natural areas are very high. It’s very important that young people take conscience of the necessity to protect environment and to act a sustainable development. This is one of the main motivations in participating in the partnership.
- Ali Çetinkaya Ilkogretim Okulu (Afyonkarahisar - Turkey), is located in the central of the city which in not big and most of the students belong to families with a low socio-economic level. Teachers and students are very concerned with environment and pollution and through this partnership all of them will realize what happens outside Turkey, what the others students in the others partners’ countries are doing and learning in what concerns environment. And it will be also an opportunity to compare and contrast education systems.
- Scoala cu Clasele I-VIII (Siminicea - Romania), is located in a rural area and for this school it will be the first time it will participate in a project as Comenius Partnerships. So, the motivation is very high and the partnership will be a very good opportunity to develop the European dimension and to increase the students and teachers’ horizons. Besides, Romania is a country stongly affected by pollution and it is very important to implement an ecological education to enhance the children’s ecological awareness and necessity to protect the environment.
- Burgardens Utbildnings Centrum - BUC (Gothenburg - Sweden), was founded in 1994 and consists of 8 differents programmes, out of which there are with a mainly vocational direction. The school has general secondary education programmes within the fields of social science, natural science, and international studies, as well Scandinavias’ most modern hotel and restaurant school. In this project the BUC has planned to include teh mainly theoretical programmes.
- La Grande Obra de Atocha (A Coruña - Spain), is situated not far from the centre of the city but their studens come from other areas nearby, and it also has an important percentage of inmigrant students. It is a catholic and private school sustained with public funds in some of its levels. It has students from the age of two to the age of eighteen, even older who attend the Technical School.
All the participanting institutions consider this partneship will enforce the European dimension between countries with different socio-economics realities and will develop the capacity to do a team work, planning and doing jointly activities.
Teachers and students will also gain more knowledge and develop skills in science studies. Studying ecology and ecological problems is included in the curricula of each partner school and it will be a good possibility to attend some lessons in partner`s schools and to compare methodologies of teaching and learning. One of the most interesting field is sustainable development education and all the partners schools find globalisation important and think the interaction between those two are necesary. ” Think Global / Act Local” is a god starting point for a good discussion.
Another important thing is the mobility activities which will help to consolidate the cooperation between all and will get stronger the European citizenship.