The project includes three schools from Trebon in the Czech Republic, Skjervoy in Norway and Guerande in France. Each school has 20 pupils directly involved in the exchanges (mobility). Altogether there are 60 pupils from France, 60 from the ČR and 40 from Norway, preparing and realising the project. The project aims at comparing (processing) the cultural and natural wealth linked with water, typical of the respective region. The thematic content of this project has been enlarged, thus more students can be involved. The main impulse for the project came from pupils interested in project activities of the school. The school looked for possibilities of a further international cooperation. The representatives of the institution took part in the National Agency’s seminars, where they obtained information on the transformation of the current programmes. The concrete objective is to process the obtained materials from certain areas (cultural and natural wealth, and the wealth of folk literature) as a printed publication and a DVD. All outputs will be published in the project language. The most essential objectives include opening up to new cultures and traditions and communicating in English for the future career. Our project work aims at supporting the national awareness within Europe and at the sustainable landscape development. We will also meet a number of secondary objectives, raise motivation to study foreign languages, meet and establish contacts with the students of the partner schools, use IT, share experience, support the pupils’ interest in European language programmes, link foreign language tuition and that of specialised subjects at international levels, involve students in the project work by eTwinning. The project activities are especially: vocabulary seminar, project team assembly, communication with the local government (if possible), selecting “regional treasures”, photography and video course, recording video, editing the video, compiling and editing the brochure, creating texts and commentaries, preparation of guided tours for visitors, photographic documentation, preparation of the exhibition. The project output will be the brochure; each school will prepare the highlights of its region, with a text and photos. This will concern the natural and cultural wealth linked with water. The brochure will contain a traditional story related to the respective place. The highlights of the region will be presented to the partners within the exchanges. The brochure will also serve as a tuition material. Each participating school is responsible for the content part and its translation. Another visible output will be the DVD; it will contain three short films presenting the respective region including the school. The second part will consist of a photo gallery of the individual regions, and the third will contain photo galleries from mobilities and exhibitions.
The project included three secondary schools - Střední škola rybářská a vodohospodářská Jakuba Krčína, Trebon in the Czech Republic, Nord-Troms videregående skole, skolested Skjervoy in Norway and LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL GUERANDE -O.GUICHARD, Guerande in France. The three schools were traditional partner schools in COMENIUS projects. All three schools teach fishery and aquaculture. Previous projects were focused on this field. But schools from Norway and France have more fields of study. That was the reason why we were looking for different, general project topic. This project was focused on comparison of cultural and natural regional wealth linked with water. The thematic content of this project was general, thus more students from different branches of studies could be involved. Each school had from 18 to 20 pupils directly involved in the learning activities and others involved in the project at home schools. Totally there were about 90 pupils working or helping with the project, 7 teachers responsible for the project and about 45 other teachers or school emploees helping with project activities. The main impulse for the project came from pupils interested in previous project activities at schools. The representatives of the institutions took part in the National Agency’s seminars, where they got information about new ERASMUS+ programmes. The actual intention was to process materials from certain areas (cultural and natural wealth, and the wealth of folk literature) as a printed brochure and a DVD with videos from chosen places. All outputs were published in the project language - English. The most essential objectives include understanding other cultures and traditions and communication in English. The project was connected with water, so they could get some professional information from the branch of fishery and aquaculture, too. Traditions of fish production were a part of national treasures. Our project work aimed at support of national awareness within Europe and at the sustainable landscape development. Other outputs were a project logo, an eTwinning platform for shearing materials from the project and a project exhibition in home towns of partner schools. One part of the brochure contents local legends connected with the regions. Thus we wanted to attract attention of pupils to literature and history. Through written or oral communication, writing screenplays, translating texts and playing in videos or little plays we increased motivation to study foreign languages, meet together and establish contacts with the students of the partner schools. During the project work students had to use ICT, share experience, work in teams. The project supported the students’ interest in European traditions, lifestyles and European citizenship. The project activities were namely: vocabulary seminar, project team assembly, team work, selection of “regional treasures”, creating the common logo, photography course, creating screenplays for videos, recording videos, editing videos, compiling and editing the brochure, creating texts and commentaries, selection and translation of local legends, preparation of guided tours for visitors, preparation of presentations about treasures and project work, photographic documentation, preparation of the exhibition, work in eTwinning. The Czech partner entered the project to the competition of International language award LABEL and the project was awarded. All the goals and tasks of the project were fullfilled and we hope, that our regional authorities will be interested in our outputs and they will use it for promotion of our regions. At schools the materials will be used for teaching in geography, history and languages.