Comenius 2007-2008

Mobility to Gotheborg

By Andrea Duchi (15 – 18 May 2008)

The "safety and health project" is now in Gotheborg. The meeting with teachers of three different countries, Sweden, Finland, Germany is going to start .The s.a.s aircraft is landing on time. At 11.30 Dan Hilmermann a Swedish teacher brings me to his school where I have a first meeting with Swedish staff.

The Berckengymnasiet is a vocational school specialized to train the students in transport and building and in horse driving.The Swedish colleagues make me very comfortable and

I have my first experience in the information technology class where I can follow a lesson with Swedish students. In the afternoon Susanne brings me down town and tells me about Gothenburg history and shows me the most interesting places to visit.

The second day I went to the other school located in the countryside.

The area is very beautiful and it’s here where there are courses to become riding horses teachers and bus-lorry drivers.

I can follow a lesson in mathematics with Bertil(the teacher).

In the afternoon I can have my freetime to visit some Gotheborg areas I had not seen before.

In the evening two colleagues arrive from Italy with three students.

We are all ready for the meetings! The following day we gather to see power point production by students about safety in the workplace and the rules coneccted with the laws from the different countries.

But I have to describe this episode because I was really surprised : All members of the school, headmaster, teachers students before starting the classroom are trained for fifteen minutes of physical exercises to the rhythm of disco music on the square in front of the school!

They say that it is intended to get fit before starting their daily commitments. During the meeting the students introduced through the projection of power point how schools are teaching to make students aware of safety standards in the workplace and the different regulations.

In Finland for example there is a specific course, with issue of license, which certifies skills acquired and is a compulsory in order to get in touch with the work market. It’s a common opinion that all member states of the European community should also issue a sort of " safety certificate "with the national diploma". On Friday afternoon, a Swedish colleague who is also an official guide of the Goteborg municipality shows us the most significant historical places and tells us about the city history from its founding to today.

On Saturday morning we met for the last meeting where we discussed about the organization of the next meeting to be held in Milan at the Maxwell institute. After the meeting, the headmaster and some of his colleagues made us spend an afternoon on some islands in the North Sea.

In one of them we had a nice fish dinner. It was a beautiful day even though the coast is beaten by the wind. We appreciated it a lot! We all meet again in Milan in November.

Sunday is all ready for departure. It has been a good experience and students are very satisfied because they have been able to improve their English knowledge and have an interesting experience with their German and Swedish peers.

The Milan city lights will appear from the aircraft windows.

We are at home again.

Gotheburg ( May 2008)

Project meeting in Gotheburg (15 – 18 May 2008)

The fourth project meeting was organized by Bräckegymnasiet during the second week of May.

Susanne Kjellin and Emma Wladimir arranged the meeting and the accommodation helped by their colleagues Carina Ylipää, Dan Hilmersson, Lars Sjöstrand Lennart Ahlin and the Senior Principal Marianne Moller .

Every team ( German, Finnish and Italian) was given a warm welcome and the Italian students ( two Brancaleon Matteo and Chindemi Andrea from Maxwell and one Mazzaferro Roberto from Settembrini) appreciated the hospitality a lot and learned more about the organization of the Swedish school and different way of life meeting the Swedish and the German students and spending 3 days with them.

The presentations were about safety teaching modules in every school in order to find out similar points of view.

Here is the preliminary program sent to everyone and that was successfully realized.

Program

Thursday 15/5

Three students and two teachers will arrive from Milan and Dan Hilmersson will meet them at the airport 14.55 (SK 438 Landvetter). He will drive them to Kville Hotel.

Four German students and four teachers/principal will come by car to Gothenburg

Three teachers from Finland will come by plane and go to their hotel.

Carina Ylipää Carina Ylipää will come to Kville hotel at16.30 and help the guests to find their way to our school. She will show them where to buy tickets (100-kort).

Welcome gathering at Bräckegymnasiet, Skanskasalen 17.00 – 18.00.

19.00 We will have dinner together at a restaurant (own expense).

Friday 16/5

08.00 Dan and Emma will meet our guests and drive them to school.

08.30 – 09.30 Two presentations (Sweden and Germany)

09.30 – 10.00 Coffee break

10.00 – 11.00 Two presentations (Italy and Finland)

11.00 – 11.30 Extra time

11.45 - 13.00 We will have lunch at Ester Mosessons gymnasium, Västerhav (Bräckegymnasiets expense)

15.00

Gathering at Gustav Adolfs Torg (square)in the central parts of Gothenburg. Lennart Ahlin one of our teachers who is also an

authorized guide will show us Gothenburg from his point of view.

17.00 Free time the rest of the day .

Saturday 17/5

9.00 – 10.30 Ending meeting at Bräckegymnasiet (evaluation and planning).

10.30 – 11.00 An informal little lunch.

11.30

Free time for the students the rest of the day. The Swedish students have planned some activities for the evening.

11.30 The "adults" are going on a westcoast tour by car. We will visit Skärhamn.

13.00 – 15.00 We will stay in Skärhamn and it´s possible for those who want to visit the famous Akvarellmuséet or take a nice walk.

15.00 We will go to Rönnäng.

15.25 We will take the ferry to the little island of Dyrön.

16.00 Dinner at Dyrö krog (Bräckegymnasiet´s expense). There will probably be time to take a walk in the lovely surroundings (walking shoes are recommended).

18.40 Time for returning to Gothenburg.

20.30 We will be back in Gothenburg.

Sunday 18/5

Journey home.

All the teams were satisfied with the results of the project, even if different departments were involved ( aeronautics , housing and construction, mechanical and electrical, business), they discussed of the future teacher exchanges in September and the next project meeting in Milan from 27 to 30 November 2008.

We know that it is a challenge but we believe that it is worth for us and our students!

Comenius project meeting in Lubeck

November 2007

The third Comenius project meeting was organized by Friedrich List Schule in Lübeck, Germany by the German coordinator Gudrun Mollnitz and her colleagues who kindly welcomed the teachers and the students of the partner schools from 29^th November to 2^nd December.

The Italian team was composed of the Principal ing. Giuseppe Sammartino who was paying a study visit about the organization of the German educational dual system , two teachers the Italian coordinator and the safety responsible, two students from the aeronautical department who had previously hosted the Finnish students from Leonardo project last March.

The four teams- Finnish, German, Italian and Swedish spent 4 days first of all learning about the organization of the German educational system, visiting the different labs and introducing their Power Point Presentations about institutions in charge of safety in the different countries. Even the students were involved in the explanation of the people and institutions in charge of safety in companies and in the airports( the Italian ones).

On Friday afternoon after the PP presentations all the members of the project were welcomed by the 2nd Town President Reinhold Hiller at the Town Hall who told them the links among Lübeck the main German harbour on the Baltic Sea and the rest of Europe dating back to the Middle Ages.

On Saturday afternoon one German colleague Henning Rohland, teacher of business and politics organized a walking tour of Lübeck for the European guests explaining the history, all traditions and habits of the capital of the Anseatic league.

On Saturday evening Friedrich List Schule offered an official dinner to the European guests at a typical restaurant "Schiffergesellschaft" meeting place of all skippers who had previously sailed all over the seas.

During the project meeting the coordinator Juha-Ville Makinen pointed out the importance of the mobilities, in fact the German teachers will visit the partner schools in Finland ,Italy and Sweden in September – October 2008, the Finnish teachers will do the same visiting Italy and the other countries in March2008 , the Italian teachers will spend 1 exchange week in Goteborg in May 2008, in Lubeck in September- October 2008 and 1 week in Vantaa in March, April 2009. The Swedish will decide the next mobilities with their coordinator the next weeks.

Mobility means improving our personal know-how, exchanging ideas for better teaching methodologies and creating strict links of cooperation and friendship among teachers and students all over Europe.