First meeting - October 2018

Strategic Partnership KA229 “European Scholar Congress on Environmental Issues”

First project meeting

Title of the project: “European Scholar Congress on Environmental Issues”

Host school: ANNA GIRONELLA DE MUNDET, BARCELONA, SPAIN

Duration: 22nd  – 26th of  October 2018

Monday – 22^nd of October 2018

The teachers form the partner school met the coordinator and the Erasmus team from the host school and they visited INSTITUT ANNA GIRONELLA DE MUNDET. There was also a meeting where all the schools and the national school systems were presented.

In the afternoon, they met and discussed the following:

• -        resignation of Croatia; consequences;
• -        project revision;
• -        responsibilities;
• -        activities from October to December;
• -        diffusion;
• -        meetings with students;
• -        next meeting dates (21-25th of January 2019).

Tuesday – 23^rd of October 2018

In the morning, the partners met at school and attended a presentation about the PBL method. The coordinator of the project introduced them the procedures of this method and some of the projects done or being done at Institut Anna Gironella de Mundet.

At the end of the presentation, the partners got the task of doing a short project about the cultural heritage of their countries, using the PBL method. The project had to be ready until Friday, the 26^th of October.

In order to help them, the coordinator invited all the partners to attend a class where the students were working at different projects. Some of the students presented their final product, a short movie where they had to introduce themselves in the language of the partner countries.

In the afternoon, the teachers took part in the walking tour “Modernism route in Barcelona”. Accompanied by two of the members of the Spanish Erasmus team, they walked through the town, and followed the main buildings designed by Antoni Gaudi (Casa Batllo, Casa Milla and Sagrada Familia). They found out about the history of these buildings and about the famous architect Antoni Gaudi.

Wednedsay – 24^th of October 2018

This day was dedicated to discovering Barcelona. The teachers from the partner schools, accompanied by three members of the Spanish team, took part in a guided tour of Barcelona. They started with the “Labirint park”, one of the oldest parks in Barcelona, continued with the highest part of the city, where they could admire both parts, the one towards the sea and the one towards the mountains and ended the tour in the harbour.

Thursday – 25^th of October 2018

The teachers started the activities by preparing their projects. They could work in the computer room. After the break, they attended a class where the students were preparing another project – “Mini-companies”.  The students presented how they organize, the tasks and the members of the teams. The teachers could work with the students and get involved in their projects. They were announced that these students were going to assess the projects they had to prepare, about the cultural heritage.

Friday – 26^th of October 2018

In the morning, each team presented the project about the cultural heritage.  There were presentations of Poland, Italy, Macedonia and Romania. The Spanish students, together with their teachers, assessed the projects.

After the presentations, the partners met and discussed the following:

• -     the logo competition: Macedonia is the country in charge so they presented the rules and the timetable (the logos should include the symbols or the flags of the partner countries, the abbreviation of the project title, Erasmus+ symbol, the subject should be related to environment issues; they should be ready by 30^th of November and sent to the Macedonian school to be evaluated)
• -        each partner school has to make a short presentation movie until 15^th of December, so that the students  from the target group could see each other;

• -        the language test: the partners decided upon a common placement test in order to see the language level of the students from the target group;
• -        changes in budget because of the resignation of the Croatian partner;
• -        the activities which should have been done by Croatia (Water Pollution) will be done by each  partner school during the mobilities organized in their country;

• -        the Europass Mobility Certificates; each partner should discuss with the National Agency in order to get the certificate;
• -        a dissemination plan, which will include presentation of the project in social media (Facebook, Instagram);
• -        Poland and Spain will make the presentation of the project on e-Twinning;
• -        start the blog and send the Romanian partner a short article about the first coordinators’ meeting (until 15^th of December).