COMENIUS PROJECT

2013-2015

TODAYS EUROPEAN
E-MAGAZINE

April 2015

In this e-magazine we present you a glance of our collaboration: all the

common final products. Looking back it seems easy to create and update a
web page, a blog and a facebook account, to produce an e-magazine,
posters brochures and other educational material, but when these
products represent the collaboration between five/ four European
countries, youll understand that its not very simple. (At the beginning of
our project we were five partners, but in November 2013, The Turkish
school left the partnership. At the beginning of the school year 2014-15
the Spanish school left it, too due to some difficulties. So, during this
school year only, the last one of the project, Greece, Poland and Portugal
keep on working together.) These activities involved a lot of effort
because all partners had to coordinate their work, communicated in a
common foreign language - English - and constantly developed their
managerial skills. But we have to recognise that, despite the difficulties,
the national and transnational teamwork gave us great professional and
personal satisfaction and that this project allowed us the opportunity to
meet personally the teachers and the pupils from other European
countries, during the project meetings and we could see their realities
directly. We had the possibility to exchange good practices between
members of our schools, we have seen teaching methods and materials
and we shared solutions to solve school situations and others.
We believe that our partnership will remain a beautiful memory for all the
participants and in the future we will continue working together with
schools weve already met.

Most sincerely,
All the project teamwork members from
Greece, Poland and Portugal

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THE MULTILINGUAL COMMON

QUESTIONNAIRES
In 2013 at the beginning of the school year all partners applied a
questionnaire about students, parents, teachers and local communitys
expectations through the project.
Each school adapted the questionnaires to the age of their students. The
results were presented and discussed between all the partners.
Likewise other questionnaires will be applied at the end of the work to
evaluate the impact of the project in each school.

Students questionnaire:
Would you like to become a member of a NGO?

Question 4
No
I don't know
Maybe
Yes

Do you think this kind of projects is a big opportunity for your school?

Question 7
No

I don't know
Maybe
Yes

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THE WEB PAGE

The Webpage was built and updated by the Portuguese team. It is a
simple webpage and it has a nice design in order that students, parents,
the local community and others could easily access to. All the articles were
written both in English and in the native language of the country which did
the activity and uploaded with photos. Materials (articles and photos)
were sent by the partners to the Portuguese team to be processed and
published. On this web page we can find links to the Project Blog and the
Facebook account. The website address was registered in some published
materials allowing thus a wider dissemination.

http://todayseuropean.weebly.com/

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THE PROJECTS BLOG

Making the Projects Blog was an important milestone because most of
the common and local activities were presented here. The activities listed
here, in chronological order, are also found on the Webpage and on the
Facebook account. The Spanish team was responsible for it during the first
year of the project. During the second year (2014-2015) the Greek team
was in charge of updating it.
In the Projects blog all the articles are written in English and in one of the
partners languages (Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish).

https://todayseuropean.wordpress.com/

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THE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

We opened also a Facebook account where we shared with a lot of
different people our activities.
The Polish team built and updated it with all the information sent by the
other partners. As in the Webpage and the Blog all the information was
written into two different languages Greek, Polish or Portuguese and
English.
To have all these three tools updating and working increased our ITC skills
and they can prove our great collaborative work.

https://www.facebook.com/aneta.stawczyk.3?ref=ts&fref=ts

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THE PROJECTS LOGO

The elaboration of the Projects Logo was one of the first important
moments. Each partner organized a contest of drawings and the best one
was chosen to represent its country. During the first meeting in Izmir,
Turkey, we made an exhibition with all the winners national Logos and
voted for the best model. The Spanish Logo was elected and since then all
common products have the Logo printed.

The Greek Logo

The Spanish Logo

The Portuguese Logo

The Polish Logo

The Turkish Logo

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THE PROJECTS POSTER

Making the Projects Poster followed the same path as the realization of
the Projects Logo. There have been many drawings made by all the
partners students. During the second meeting in Mytilene, Greece the
Polish Poster was selected.
It was a great competition and we are glad that it has stimulated the
artistic sense and competitiveness between all the teams who have
worked hard and very seriously.

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THE PROJECTS BOOKLET

The Booklet achievement was made in the same way as other products of
the partnership collaborative work.
The Greek team gathered all the information sent by all countries and
organized the final product which can be read at the Webpage. It was one
of the first products to be produced and gives information about the
schools partners and their countries.

Our Projects Booklet

Todays European
Together we can make a difference

Created by the:

Greek

Spanish

Portuguese

Polish

Turkish
. school teams

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THE PROJECTS CALENDAR

We had the idea of creating a School Calendar which could be hanged in
each class, sold or given. During the meeting in Portugal (October2014) we
distributed the months between the different partners. Each country team
chose suggestive pictures and labelled them. Then they were sent to the
Portuguese team who was in charge of organizing all the information and
giving it a final form: The 2015 Calendar.
Students and teachers evaluated this product as very interesting and
especially useful for them in their everyday life.

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THE PROJECTS LEAFLET

One of the final common products was the Leaflet which was made by the
Polish team, using all the suggestions given by the other partners. This
beautiful product shows all the collaborative work done during the two
years of the project and its a way of disseminate it, since it was
distributed in the partners schools and local communities.
It can also be found at the projects webpage.

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Making this issue of the e-magazine was a way of putting together all the
common products of the partnership. Theres one yet to be done: a final
DVD showing not only these products, but also the volunteering activities
done during three of the four meetings in Greece, Portugal and Poland.
When working on these products (writing and translating articles, taking
photos, choosing the best ones, doing the local volunteering activities...)
students developed different skills: communicative skills in their own
language and in English, increase the understanding for other cultures and
fostering values based on tolerance, solidarity, mutual understanding and
dialogue. In conclusion increase European citizens' understanding of the
building of Europe, and of their common yet diverse cultural heritage,
especially related to democratic values and human rights that underpin
the process of European integration.
The meetings were one of the highlights of the project since students
could use all those new skills and knowledge in loco.

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