5 European Quality Labels

This is the list of the 1131 schools awarded the European Quality Label in 2013.

http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/news/news/schools_awarded_the_european_l.htm

Congratulations for our own European Quality Labels:

For Germany

for Spain

for Greece

for Cyprus

for Italy (Nettuno)

The Greek school received the following text with its european quality label on October 29th. Also similar texts have been sent by the eTwinning Team to the schools in Spain and Germany:

"Αγαπητή/έ Katerina FYSSAKI, Συγχαρητήρια! Το σχολείο σας βραβεύθηκε με την Ευρωπαϊκή Ετικέτα Ποιότητας για την τελειότητα της εργασίας σας στο έργο eTwinning "Human Rights in Europe between Ideal and Reality - Rights and Challenge for Students in the 21st Century by means of Poetry, Arts and Music". Αυτό σημαίνει πως η εργασία σας, η εργασία των μαθητών και του σχολείου σας έχει αναγνωριστεί στο υψηλότερο Ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο. Σαν αποτέλεσμα, θα λάβετε ένα πιστοποιητικό το οποίο μπορείτε να επισυνάψετε στην ιστοσελίδα σας και να το εκθέσετε σε μία περίοπτη θέση στο σχολείο σας. Επίσης, το έργο σας θα εμφανιστεί σε έναν ειδικό χώρο της Ευρωπαϊκής Διαδικτυακής Πύλης στο www.etwinning.net. Για μία ακόμη φορά, συγχαρητήρια για αυτό το μοναδικό επίτευγμα και ελπίζω να συναντηθούμε σε κάποια από τις εκδηλώσεις eTwinning κατά τη διάρκεια του έτους. 

Με τους καλύτερους χαιρετισμούς μου 

eTwinning Team

...................in english:

Dear Ms.......................,

Congratulations! Your school was awarded the European Quality Label for the perfection of your work in the project eTwinning "Human Rights in Europe between Ideal and Reality - Rights and Challenge for Students in the 21st Century by means of Poetry, Arts and Music". This means that your work is the work of students and your school has been recognized at the highest European level.

As a result, you will receive a certificate that you can attach to your site and expose it in a prominent place in your school. Also, the project will appear in a special area of the European Portal at www.etwinning.net.

Once again, congratulations on this unique achievement and we hope to meet you during an eTwinning event during the year.

With best greetings

eTwinning Team"

Afterwards, Katerina Fyssaki wrote on Facebook group:

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Katerina Fyssaki

The european quality label is now a reality! I know, I am becoming, again and again, so importune and tedious. But without you, dear colleagues, dear pupils, we, the five schools from Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy and Cyprus, we would not have anything. No prize, no award, no experience, no nice collaboration! I thank you, you and your students, because we worked together so beautifully for two years. I miss you all!

Carmen Flores added:

Carmen Flores 29 Οκτωβρίου 10:52 μ.μ. Great news for all of us!!! We've got the same in Spanish ;-)  and

Anna Curto Naffissi 7 Νοεμβρίου 12:17 μ.μ. The coordinating German school has also been rewarded for the work at the common project. As Katerina underlined this is the result of a wonderful and fruitful cooperation among nine countries. Thank you to everybody, teachers and students, who made all this possible.

5 eTwinning Quality Labels

This is the 5th eTwinning quality label for Ms Vivian Toffi Choratidou and the Upper Secondary School in Agia Fylaxi, Limassol, Cyprus, which is awarded to our project "Human Rights in Europe":

Just now (23/10/2013) our project won the 4th eTwinning Quality label through our colleague  Mr Max Quattrini from ITIS "Luigi Trafelli" in Nettuno/Italy.

Congratulations to all in Nettuno Team, teachers and students.

It's nice!!! Τhe quality of our project is already recognised  3 times...

After the German and the Spanish school now the Greek one and Ms Katerina Fyssaki have been awarded for our project "Human Rights in Europe" with the Etwinning Quality Label by the Greek Support Service. 

This award is encouraging and motivating our teachers and pupils. Congratulations to all schools.

The second award was for the Spanish school and the teacher Carmen Flores.

The first award came for the German school and the teacher of English language Ms Anna Curto Naffissi, one of the co-ordinators of the Comenius project.

Final Report Form - Project description (E1)

The main objective of this project was to make students aware of being part of a historically grown community that shares a common system of values based on freedom and equality. As these rights have unfortunately often been violated, there is the necessity for all the members of this community to respect and defend them if they want to become constructively critical European citizens. Our students have dealt with this topic by the means of Poetry, Arts and Music. The project was created by 9 schools from Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain. The teachers, Anna Curto and Holger Schmidt from Karben/Germany, had the responsibility of the coordination of the whole project.

Early in the first year a blog was created by the Greek team and it proved to be an important tool for the dissemination of our common work. As part of the project the team from the Italian partner of Nettuno composed a kind of "Human Rights hymn" and more verses were added to it by the students from the other partner countries. In addition to the common hymn the song "Don't give up" on human rights was created by the German partner. Both songs were sung by an international student choir in a concert during our end-of- year meeting in Chieti/Italy in May 2012.

Additionally, during the first year the partners worked for the production of logos, Power Point presentations on the evolution of Human Right in partner’s countries, poems and drama scenes, all based on the topic "Human Rights" and presented during the meetings.

During the second year of the partnership all members involved worked on a) photographs for a competition in Poland, b) drama scenes for the meeting in France and c) the final musical “A Flower to the Enemy” which was composed by the Nettuno team, translated in English by the Greek team and was presented in Germany.

All the activities carried out during the 2 years of the project implied a lot of coordination work from all partner schools, intensive rehearsals during the meetings but were at the same time an excellent opportunity for the creation of strong bonds of friendship between all the people involved.

Moreover, the students had the chance to participate in various workshops, discussions and excursions based on various aspects of Human Rights violations: racial discrimination, homophobia and sexism to mention a few. Thanks to the participation in the project all teachers and pupils alike had the chance to reflect on the subject of Human Rights, to express themselves through various forms of art but also to learn to use new forms of technology. Most of the products of the project have been uploaded on our blog at http://humanrights-in-europe.blogspot.com. The progress of the project was constantly evaluated through questionnaires for students and teachers separately, created by the Spanish team and all the relevant reports may be seen on the blog as well.

European Shared Treasure - Project description

http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/

The European project partners see Europe as a historically grown community that shares a common system of values, regarding freedom and equality for all human beings as its essential principles. We want to make our students aware of these cultural similarities but also of the fact that these high values are often violated so that there is a necessity for every single member of this community to take responsibility and to protect them in our daily lives.

This means that these rights also come along with certain duties and requirements like integration efforts, respect and tolerance instead of exclusion or intolerance.

We are convinced that especially the current threat of international terrorism which spreads not only fear but also xenophobia and generalizing prejudice must not put the liberal basis of Europe at risk.

So the project's aim is not only to make the educative community aware of the importance of human rights by using music, language and arts, but also to respect and defend those rights so as to become constructively critical European citizens.

Our purpose is furthermore to use creative means together with ICT skills to improve the target language and to develop solidarity and cooperation between students from the EU. The topic chosen will be Freedom, Equality and Human Rights so as to raise the students' awareness of these issues and develop their ability to deal with integration  within the EU.

Not only language helps bridging the gap to understanding and cooperation but also music and art as non-verbal means of communication play an important part in our project. Applied in lyrics, poems, songs, videos or drawings the aesthetic dimension will help to see beyond the pure communicational purpose.

Results list

PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITION IN KARBEN

For the final meeting in Karben,  delegations were asked to prepare a composition of photographs which summarised the activities taking place in their own countries during the two years of our project.

Here you are some photographs of that exhibition. 

 

Our project in etwinning platform - Quality Label of September 2013

Along 2011-2013 we have been using eTwinning platformand the Twinspace of our project "Human Rights in Europe between Ideal and Reality Rights and Challenge for Students in the 21st Century by means of Poetry, Arts and Music" as a tool of communication and coordination for the teachers involved in the project and a medium for the dissemination of our works to the eTwinners.

So, many Chat sessions and communication were held among teachers involved through the eTwinning platform.

Until now, the German and the Spanish Team have won the etwinning Quality Label and in eTwinning Newletter of September 2013 our project is referred as the project with the Quality Label of the Month.

This award is encouraging and gives us more motivation to go further...

Here there are some issues in various languages of partner schools:
in english

in czech

in french

in greek

in german

in italian

in polish

in spanish

Final Resolution

This document, which was passed at the last project meeting in Karben, Germany, on 19th April 2013,  is the result of our common work along the meetings in Čelákovice (Czech R.), Limassol (Cyprus), Chieti (Italy), Póraj (Poland) and Valence (France).

 It is our common resolution for our schools, local and national governments and the European Comission reflecting our commitment for the respect and promotion of all human rights regardless of sex, class, race, religion, opinion or any other issue.

Pottery workshop in Póraj

Mural of Ceramic Tiles in Poland

One of the most successful art workshops in our 4th Comenius Meeting in Póraj, Poland, was a pottery workshop where European students and teachers made pottery tiles representing our support to human rights. 

The Polish Team dried the tiles, enamelled them and baked them, and finally produced two beautiful murals which are hanging on the walls of the main hall in Gimnazjum im. Kazimierza Górskiego.

Enjoy your summer holidays...

There really isn't anything more beautiful like the Summer Holiday. The feeling of anticipation and excitement in the build up; lazy days spent on the beach topping up your tan; nice afternoons on the hills enjoying the sunset; exciting nights, exploring  the stars on the sky with friends and beloved persons.

Wishing the very best for you, dear friends, I'll see you again in September.
Lots of love...
Katerina

Scopelos

Syros

Zante - Zakynthos

Musical in Karben

 

Musical play's title: A Flower for the enemy
Authors: G. Casentini - V. Rotondo (IT)
Translation from italian to English: St. Soubassi (GR)
Composer: V.Rotondo  (IT)

Number of Scenes: 11
Drama Director and assistants: Arnaud Alzat-Laly (FR)
Assistant directors: Sarah Delaby-Rochette and Margot Petro (FR)

• Poland prepared scene 1

• Actors: Radek Szydlowski,  Karolina Skora, Mateusz Skora, Julia Majorczyk

• Czech Republic prepared scene 2

• Actors: Lukas Hyka, Anna Kratochvilova, Vojtech Mrklas, Marketa Nemeckova, 

• Germany prepared scene 3 

• Actors from Germany: Adrian Bonke, Isabeau Kunter and Vanessa Rosenkranz.  

• France and Spain prepared scene 4, 5 and 6

• Actors from France: Julie Reyne  was playing Angelica in scenes 4 & 6, Lucie Charrel was playing Marco in scene 4, Valentine Poncet was playing Marco in scene 6, Lucile Teyssedou was playing the neighbour in scene 6 

• Actors from Spain: Imma García Roman, Alba Ortiz Torres, Ignasi Robert Vich, Meritxell Vizcaíno Cánovas 

• Italy ( Chieti and Nettuno ) prepared scene 7, 8 and 9

• Actors: Sara Papile (IT), Davide Quaranta (IT), Stefano Difederico (IT), Andrea Zuccarini (IT), Federico Malzone (IT), Grazia Rocci (IT), Sasha Genito (IT), Giorgia de Luca (IT)

• Greece prepared scene 10 

• Actors: Vassiliki Tsichritzi (GR) and Harry Ioannides (GR)

• Cyprus prepared scene 11

• Actors: Kyriakos Droussiotis (CY), Giannis Theofanous (CY), Rafaella Antoniou (CY)

The different characters were played by different students in different scenes.

The German Team prepared the instrumental part of the songs.

Choir - Music Director: Holger (DE), Veronika (DE)
Songs and Music: Max (IT), Giorgia (CY)

Backstage management: Julie Reyne  (FR)

Costumes and props: Lucie Charrel (FR), Sabina (DE)
Headsets: Valentine Poncet (FR), Giannis Theofanous (CY) and Vassiliki Tsichritzi (GR)
Settings installations:  Lucile Teyssedou (FR)

Camera, Video and Movie composition: Sebastian Allroggen, Patrick Jordan 

Vaso remembers the meeting in Karben

Impressions from the final Comenius Meeting...

More PowerPoint presentations from Comenius

Poraj Meeting: On Camera, Greek contributions

Poraj Meeting: Human Rights On Camera, Greek contributions
ARTICLE Nr 27:
The RIGHT to participate in the CULTURAL LIFE of COMMUNITY

At the International Book Fair in Zappeion Megaron, Athens minorities are exhibiting books in their languages

-Everyone enjoys the right to easily access the world literature since the price of most books less than 5 euro.-

Street Youth Comedy Theatre, Metaxourgeio, Athens

-A street theatre performance organized by some young students, shows the need to express feelings through art can always be satisfied as long as there is strong individual initiative. This fosters equal participation in culture despite financial difficulties.-

Unicef United for Syrian Kids Kiosk, Nationa, Athens

UNESCO and the 'Lonely Planet' Publishers organized a Syrian book exhibition in order to help the Syrian plague victims. The kids of the Syrian visitors of the exhibition were also offered papers to draw and colour pictures showing in this way their solidarity to the kids in Syria.

Photographers
The students:
Fabio Abazaj, Ledio Abazaj and Christina Michou

Exhibition in Poraj, October 2012