DEAR PARTNERS

SEASON'S GREETINGS TO EVERYONE,,,

WE WISH YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY, CREATIVE NEW YEAR TO YOU , YOUR COLLEAGUES , YOUR FAMILIES AND TO YOUR STUDENTS ...

WITH MANY MANY KISSES

VASILIS, MARIA, OURANIA, ARTEMIS, KATERINA

To our best frienfds
From the Greek partners

Hello our best friends !!!

It's Suturday night .. we had our meeting with students and we decided

1. In this week we will constract CV + foto of our students

2. email of our students

3. We'll send it to all partners

Please do it with your students and they will find their partner to communicate

We miss you ...

With our friendly regards

Vasilis-Maria- Artemis-Ourania-Katerina

Dear partners
We came back home richer in expiriences, emotions, images nd ideas that your communication and cooperation has offered to us.
We tahnk cordinally our partners in Marmara for the heartily hospitallity and thank all of you who contributed to the essential communication.
We are beging the ralization of the project full of inspiration and creative spirit which we believe we have already started to instile to our students and teachers .
With best reagards
Vasilis Lubos
Kalaitzaki Maria,
Katsoulaki Ourania
Mania Ekaterini
Patrelaki Artemis

Some Photos

Thank you

Dear Turkish hosts and friends,
I would like to thank you for your exceptional hospitality. I am still abroad, but I will go home soon and start working on the project with our students. The meeting in Istanbul gave us many ideas and a prospective for the future cooperation. Which is exactly what a kick-off meeting like this should give to the participants.
It was very succesful!
See you all in April in Budapest.
ILDIKO

1^st meeting of Comenius program, Istanbul, Turkey 25-30 /10/ 2009.

Day 2. Project meeting

Methodology of each partner

GR: Themes

1: Cultural heritage, monuments

2: Traditional cuisine through time and civilization

Method:

· essay from pupils

· photographs

· exhibitions

Outcomes:

· cd on blog-spot

· text

PL: Themes

1: Cultural heritage (castles fortresses, palaces, churches)

2: National regional cuisine dishes connecting to national religion days

Method:

· find recipes

· make the dishes

· collect information

· take photographs

Outcomes:

· photos and video

· multimedia presentation

· a book of recipes

· photograph exhibition

HU: Themes

1: Architectural heritage of Budapest. Ancient Greek, Roman, Baroque, Austro-Hungarian, Turkish architecture

2: cuisine

Method:

· taking photographs and

· making of video.

· cooking, teach the students how to make the dishes

Outcomes:

· reader publishing (for supplementary teaching)

· photographs

· video

BG: Themes

1: Cultural heritage (old houses in Slivan and its region, 18^th- 19^th century)

2: Social events : wedding ceremonies. Customs connecting to the wedding ceremonies.

Method:

· searching

· contact the historical museum

· interviews.

Outcomes:

· reports

· essays

· pictures (photograph exhibition and multimedia presentation)

TR: Themes

1: wedding ceremony, jewellery, traditional clothes

Method:

· survey and interviews

· documentary films about wedding ceremony

· handmade jewelleries

· exhibition about clothes and jewelleries

· photographs

Outcomes:

· documentary on clothes

· paintings by students

· exhibition (fashion week)

· drama

· photographs and videos

· cd

Decisions to be made questions to be answered.

1. deadline for informing hosts about what to prepare, what to bring

2. informing each other what to accomplish until meeting in HU.(frameworks)

3. How many students/ teachers are going to be mobile?

4. When/ how are we going to exchange emails( communication), details of students?

5. Accommodation (hotel, families)?

6. Duration – kind/ standard of accommodation?

7. Expectations of guests on host cities

Decisions of partners.

1. Partners will inform hosts 3 months in advance, prior to the meeting, for the students and the teachers

· Number

· Names

· Duration

· Kind of accommodation

· Official invitation( needed for some of the partners to travel)

2. Frameworks until April 2010

· GR- 2 activities 50%

· TR- 1 (ceremonies) 100%

· PL- 1 castles 100%

· BG- 1 old houses 100%

· HU- Reader publishing 100%

3. Mobility

· GR-8students/3T

· PL-8students/3T

· TR-(4-6)students/2T

· BG-4students/3T

· HU- 4students/2T

4. 5-7 nights Saturday-Friday or the end be on Saturday

5. Ask in advance for the expectations.

Tasks

· Inform the students about the meeting and its results

· Present the points of the meeting

· Push the students to work

· Promote communication between students and teachers, partners

Evaluation

· Meeting discussion in each school among teachers, students, families and local community

· Final internal evaluation by questionarries and brief interviews for each year and school

· Results for each partner

· Final report from coordinator

Summary

Partners agreed on the tasks they have to accomplish until the next meeting, which will take place in Budapest, Hungary in April 2010, the ways they work separately in the schools and as partners, and the means of evaluation for each partner.

An evening at Bridge restaurant

Mr Mehmet Alkan, Mr Nevzat Kulaberoglou ,Ms Özsel Afacan,
Thank you for your hospitality, and the good time we had in this beautiful part of the city tasting delicius foods, enjoying your company and the view of Istanbul.
I believe that we can find the bridges that unite us, and make our cultural walls strengthen our partnership.
teşekkür ederim, благодаря, Dziękują,σας ευχαριστώ,köszönöm!

it was a nice evening in Istanbul

hajra friendship

1st meeting of Comenius program, Istanbul, Turkey 25-30 /10/ 2009.
Lifelong Learning Programme Comenius
“From difference to integration: cultural paths searching for a new European identity,,
1. The basic idea and activities
2. Communication
3. Evaluation
4. Meetings
The basic idea and activities
Project aims: Focus on the cultural heritage.
Walls we keep to protect historical heritage

1. cultural heritage, tradition, mythology
2. historical aspect, (monument castles, fortress, walls, mosques, churches)
3. social aspect, (peoples migration – integration)
Discussion on the basic idea and the activities:
What do we do when students do not want to participate?
How to get connected?
What is common?
Communication between students and partners.
Ideas for the activities and the ways of presentations.

Connect the students then they can start to work together
Each partner works on his own activity, concentrate to some of the issues, separate the activities until the next meetings
Presentation of the jewellery, wedding ceremonies, cuisine, important persons. Work not only for students and teachers. With this project students should do something together for disabled people. e.g. a disabled can read in a presentation or see through an exhibition a cultural tradition, monument etc.
Each school put emphasis to the countries they come from, through photographic exhibition, internet
Study tradition, Presentation of traditional customs, prepare songs, essays.
Communication channels, sites, blogs, chat. Give tasks to the students – the students should be guided. Common cultural issues through globalization, films, sports, music, fashion. Create an English language reader, (text and pictures) from 5 countries. Create a common internet site.
Central idea – activity
• Presentation of traditions, customs
• Acting at the tradition of other countries (performance)
• Photographic exhibition
• Singing songs( brass band, choir)
Presentation of
• Traditional jewellery handmade
• Old houses
• Cuisine
• Wedding ceremonies
• Important persons


This means – for the first year the activities are worked by the students, and they get prepared during this period, and at the end they present their work.
Based on these activities each school prepares report, in order to present, as the final report to the coordinator of the program.

Agreement
Each partner will work on the following activities.
Common activities:
1. Tradition – old houses, monuments, clothes, jewellery
2. Cuisine, nutrition culture
3. Social aspects ( family, wedding, woman and man position in family society)

Each school chooses what they want to work on, but must be at least one of the elements.
The means of the presentation could vary. (, writing, exhibition, video, internet)

Project for a Logo – students can form opinion, to work on giving an,
Identity, a logo under which they work

Partners agree on:
• 3 themes on what we work
• Each school works on preferred theme but must be at least one
• Each school decides they way, methodology of project – what, when, how, purpose.

Summary

The discussion about the central idea ended after the first meeting with the partners’ agreement, and the next meeting scheduled for the next day.

First meeting in Istanbul

The first project meeting was taking place in Istanbul between Oct.26-30.2009