TURKEY

Before the activity to be realized at short-term exchanges of groups of pupils, each country carried out a number of preparatory work within itself. First, a brief presentation was made to the students to introduce Erasmus projects. Information about the content, methodology and purpose of the work to be done had been shared.

Within the scope of the activity, Turkey first formed its own student parliament and discussed educational problems, reasons for schooling, measures to be taken to create a better schooling environment and to prevent students from dropping out of school. Their friends, who were elected by voting, were responsible for the management of this session. Especially risk groups students were allowed to participate in this work. These students, who expressed their ideas to prevent school drop-out and sought solutions to educational problems from their own perspectives, were actually able to express their own problems. The 3 students who were active in the study and selected from the students in the risk group were offered the opportunity to transfer their education problems to the European Parliament simulation in Portugal.

Selected students have been given foreign language preparation and cultural preparatory training. Moreover, these students, who had never seen parliamentary work before, were allowed to monitor the work of the municipal councils in local governments in order to be informed about how the parliamentary work was done

 

BULGARIA

​Project students in Bulgaria initiated and created the school students' council:

http://dropoutbg.blogspot.bg/2015/10/students-council-in-88-school.html

Debates - preparation for the EU Parliament in Portugal​:

http://dropoutbg.blogspot.bg/2016/02/debates-preparation-for-eu-parliament.html​

Students wrote letters to the Bulgarian Ministry of Education:

 

LITHUANIA

PORTUGAL - the students meant to integrate the European Parliament all have Integration Area discipline classes, which syllabus includes the European themes, studied over a participative methodology, what prepared considerably the students for this activity. Besides this, the teacher of this discipline specifically prepared the classes in order to participate on such an event.

LATVIA

In order to participate in the project work session, extensive preparatory work was carried out. The learning activity included the establishment of a pupil's parliament in his school, discussions about educational problems, and problem solving. During our two-month work, our students, along with teachers support, came up with the following conclusions. The problem of the educational system in relation to the child's "retreat", in our opinion, is divided into two parts; 1. Educational content problem
2. Problem of interest education (children's leisure opportunities)

ITALY -  We have organized a citizenship workshop from November 2015 to end of February 2016 where our students started preparation for the EU Parliament meeting in Portugal. Two hours weekly meetings held by the Law Teacher.  First they got informed about how to make a law in Italian Parliament then in EU Parliament. They created their parliament. Discussion about educational problems in Italy followed. They worked in commissions and suggested reformative measures in favour of students. Their interest and commitment in this activity was really unexpected also taking into consideration that they knew from the beginning that only three students over 27  participating in this workshop would have taken part in the short mobility in Portugal to represent the school in the Euro-parliament session

CYPRUS

GREECE

NORWAY - For the Norwegian team there was a challenge to find a way to prepare for the EU-parliament.  Norway is not a member of EU and the students didn`t know very much about the democratically system in EU. We learned about democracy and dictatorship. We started the learning process with seeing a reality show on Norwegian television called “Diktaturet”. Then the student learned about the democratic system in Norway and then we tried to compare it with the democratic system in EU. We had a debate at school on educational issues.

THE UK