This [email protected] -project is a primary schools’ project which is striving to a better future for our pupils. We aim to provide them with some skills that will ease and consolidate their life and education. We aim to give them opportunities to become aware of the relevance of healthy lifestyle, and the importance of finding their own strengths of character as well as the importance of cooperating among our own corporate body, and the other European countries. We aim to work together with the parents and official bodies of our institutions, and thus confirm the natural collaboration that should be part of the modern schools. During this project the pupils will have chances to use their skills of foreign languages, train their social skills, and use ICT-methods as communication tools. The children of today are the adults of tomorrow, and we aim to prepare them to be readier to attend the entire European education and labour market in their future life. Throughout the project we will involve as much pupils and staff from the participating institutions as possible. The entire number of people participating will be over 3000. From this number over 1000 will be pupils, and over 100 will be teacher. The concrete theme-day-based activities in the schools will be designed so elementary and easy, that even the youngest of our pupils will be able to participate, and thus be able to experience the European cooperation. We will invite the parents and other stakeholders to participate and be audience in our local and international events, and thus distribute our activities and achievements. We will produce a “Heart Healthy Recipes’ Cookbook/Calendar”, and print so many copies that each home and other relevant stakeholder will have one. This final product will also be found on-line, so that the results can be found, and utilized by anyone. We will disseminate the results and findings of our project in our eTwinning site and project’s blog, which will be open and accessible to familiarize the contents. We want to involve the pupils also to the mobilities. The participating pupils will have a primary experience of the new culture, and they would be the best messengers of their own culture to the pupils of the host school. The visitors will make the project even more visible and concrete in the institutions. The host families will have a major role, and they themselves will gain a beautiful experience with the foreign pupils. The theme of the project is about learning and recognizing healthy life-style, and increasing self-confidence by learning to identify the virtues or strengths of character in oneself. We will use easy questionnaires, and surveys in order to follow the change in the knowledge and behaviour of the participants in these issues. We know that the changes cannot be radical or prompt, but hope to see and find some changes, and good attitude. This project is established for the staff members in order to offer them a chance to meet their colleagues from other European countries, to open their mind and spirit wider and more tolerant. The schools’ adults will see and learn new pedagogical methods in new circumstances. The results of the project will be disseminated to the other schools in our area, and we hope to encourage them to seek international liaisons. We aim to establish lifelong contacts, and high quality professional partnership.
The [email protected] -project was a primary schools’ project which strived to a better future for our pupils. We provided them with some skills that will ease and consolidate their life and education. We gave them opportunities to become aware of the relevance of healthy lifestyle, and the importance of finding their own strengths of character as well as the importance of cooperating among our own corporate body, and the other European countries. We worked together with the parents, NGOs and official bodies of our institutions, and thus confirm the natural collaboration that should be part of the modern schools. During this project the pupils had chances to use their skills of foreign languages, train their social skills, and use ICT-methods as communication tools. The children of today are the adults of tomorrow, and we wanted to prepare them to be readier to attend the entire European education and labour market in their future life. Throughout the project we involved as much pupils and staff from the participating institutions as possible. The entire number of people involved to the project was about 2500. Of this number over 1700 were pupils, nearly 200 staff members, and lots of parents, volunteers and officials were involved. The concrete theme-day-based activities in the schools were designed so elementary and easy, that even the youngest of our pupils were able to participate, and thus were able to experience the European cooperation. We invited the parents and other stakeholders to participate to our local and international events, and thus distribute our activities and achievements. We produced a “Heart Healthy Recipes’ Calendar”, and printed enough copies for homes and other relevant stakeholders. This final product is also an online “Cookery Book”, so that the results can be found, and utilized by anyone. We disseminated the results in eTwinning and project’s blog, which are open and accessible. The pupils also participated in the mobilities. The participating pupils had primary experiences of new cultures, and they were the best messengers of their own culture to the families of the host schools. The visitors made the project even more visible and concrete in the institutions. The host families had a major role, and they themselves gained a beautiful experience with the foreign pupils. The theme of the project was about learning and recognizing healthy lifestyle, and increasing self-confidence by learning to identify the virtues or strengths of character in oneself. We knew that the changes couldn’t be radical or prompt, but we could see some changes, and good attitude. This project was established for the staff members who had a chance to meet their colleagues from other European countries, to open their mind and spirit wider and more tolerant. The schools’ adults saw and learned new pedagogical methods in new circumstances. The results of the project were disseminated to the other schools in our area, and we hoped to encourage them to seek international liaisons. We established lifelong contacts, and a high quality professional partnership.