Taking our pupils on a journey to Schoolovision partner schools after 12 years of online cooperation feels like an obvious step to take to develop our cooperation further. We can rely on well-established processes and trustworthy partners and wish to give our pupils and teachers the opportunity to finally meet in person. They wil get the chance to develop, rehearse and produce video and audio material as they are used to. This is combined with the added benefit that they will now do it together on an international scale, thus learning hands-on about the other partners' culture and language. Besides this, the planned workshop activities in various fields from dance choreography to video editing and digital programming will be great learning experiences that can be used together right away and also for the national entries to the usual Schoolovision project which thus will also benefit from these activities. "Schoolovision on Tour" is a combination of learning and fun through songs and activities, which is extremely suitable for our primary students in all aspects. Working on the project will bring satisfaction to all participants, and the emotional impact on students and their teachers will be significant. The topics of peace, friendship, nature, ecology, health, school, family and art, which were represented in so many Schoolovision videos for more than a decade, will be even more representational when our pupils finally get together and get rocking in "Schoolovision on Tour".
Due to the pandemic situation, we were forced to extend our project phasde to three years which resulted in even longer cooperation with our established partners, furthermore it gave us the opportunity to celebrate not only our emotional closing event after the prolonged project during the final mobility to Poland but also the 15th anniversary of the global Schoolovision project at the same time where even more partners were present during a surprize online get-together. As initially planned, we were able during all mobilities to offer our guests music workshops of various kinds as well as grand hospitality, be it in terms of joint activities, presentations and insights to cultural traditions and worthwhile places to see in and around the hosting countries. As expected (and experienced through similar mobilities and online meetings before), the participating pupils and teachers enjoyed their experiences throughout and gained knowledge around music, audio and video creation processes, so we could indeed fulfill our goal to add extra value to our existing online project cooperation by visiting each other, meeting and working together in person.