4th - 8th April 2022

The transnational mobility in Romania created the opportunity for students and teachers to understand different cultures and to become more tolerant in respect of various nationalities. The North of Romania is a region called Bucovina where more nationalities live: Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian with specific language, tradition, music, who work the land and respect the nature. All activities during the meeting in Romania (workshops, discussions with other Romanian students and teachers, discover the representative elements of their culture and traditions, folclore, study of environment in natural and urban area) gave the participants a chance to broaden horizons using the results to open the minds for the knowledge of ecology, preserving the environment, sustainability. At the same time it improved their foreign language and ICT skills, the collaborative social relationships between teachers and students, student-student based on trust, mutual respect, respect for their own and others' work, the spirit of initiative, the ability to work together.

The general topic was ENVIRONMENT.

The students developed some activities:

• analyzed and compared urban and natural environment,
• discussed the measures necessary to keep clean the nature, to recycle waste materials, to prepare for sustainable employment,
• participated at workshops in the Romanian partner school, worked at our common dictionary.

Exchange of information, attitudes, experiences in the project fostered students' love and respect for both local and European problems, issues and goals. The project results or outcomes (mini dictionaries, photo albums and videos, workshop products made from recyclable materials) were uploaded and published in eTwinning platform and were used in lessons.

The activity during the project meeting were continued by eTwinning platform, for to share information and good examples, to communicate and express own opinion, to upload materials (videos, PPT, photos). This will help students to achieve personal skills and competencies used at school and in future, for their employability and active European citizenship. All materials were used in lessons by students and teachers. The students and teachers from other school could see and use our products. Before the mobility all the project team members worked virtually on Twinspace, shared their findings and knowledge gained at the regular lessons at their schools in classes of biology and chemistry or civics. The aim was to be prepared for the topic of environment which was the theme of the mobility. World Meteorological Day was celebrated at the end of March right before the mobility so we discussed online the different climate types in participating school regions, compared the findings and shared the knowledge on Twinspace. Statistics data were compared regarding the climate change and the rising temperature. It was interesting to share some basic facts about the measures taken by each partner country government to tackle the issue of environment protection and global warming. The calendar which was planned as an online activity to serve as a Christmas gift for 2022 was presented during the mobility as well as other virtual work finished between 10/2021 and 04/2022.

Direct participants (students and teachers from project team) and indirect participants (other students and teachers from school involved in project) had a big benefit: more information and knowledge, a better attitude about environment protection, better interpersonal communication and English communication, new information about sustainable employment, improving communication in English language, make new friends and better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism, European values and more competences to live together. They had a chance to visit north-east of Romania where they might not have ever been, experience the life and traditions, language and typical cuisine. The school has also a vocational branch so there was the possibility to see their peers prepare for their future careers, the issue of employability was discussed, we could compare the jobs typical for each partner country and talk about the influence of certain jobs on environment (industry, fishing, forestry...).
Participants benefited from the location of the partner school near Moldova which might become a new member state of EU in the near future - we could discuss the whole process of candidate state to become a member of EU, what it takes, describe the process, talk about advantages and disadvantages of becoming a member state. What was beneficial for the participants was also the cultural and religious experience because Romania is the only partner in our partnership with orthodox church and for example the architecture of the monasteries is so unique.

Programme:

Photogallery from the mobility is HERE.

Article in media: read HERE.

Another article in the local press: read HERE.

Video from our mobility:

Video made by PL team:

Newsletter from the mobility in Romania:

Questionnaire results:

1) What was the BEST experience this week for you?

What was the WORST experience this week for you?

What would you prefer to do during the next meeting? What would you change?

What do you think is the most attractive thing about your work in this stage of the project?

Add any comment you think might help the coordinators to improve in their work on the project.

 

Was the meeting well organized? 4,36 /5,00

 

Were all objectives of the meeting achieved? 4,64 / 5,00

 

Were all the topics from the agenda covered? 4,41 / 5,00

 

Did you like the programme of the meeting? Was it interesting for you? 4,45 / 5,00