The first short term exchange of groups of pupils was realized in Italy from 22^nd  to 27^th March 2015. Students created posters which are represent the project by this activity. In addition, the best short film about school drop outs,created by each partner, was chosen in Italy.

The activity was held at Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “E. Fermi” in Lecce, Italy.
77 students from 10 countries participated in this meeting.  

Countries	Number of Teachers	Number of Students
Greece	2	5
Turkey	3	4
Latvia	1	3
Lithuania	1	3
Cyprus	1	3
Portugal	2	3
UK	2	3
Bulgaria	2	4
Norway	2	4
Italy*	10	45
Total	24	77

The activity started with the opening ceremony on the first day. Students showed short presentations about their cities and their schools.   Funny photos of the European Teachers' warm greetings to the Italians:

Anne and Sara from Norway

Chryssa from Greece

Roumpini from Greece

Elita from Cyprus

Andrew from U.K.

Catrin from U.K

 

Ali Osman from Turkey

Erkan from Turkey

Gonca from Turkey

Volkan from Turkey

Milena from Bulgaria

Tsvetelena and Eli from Bulgaria

 

Loreta from Lituania

Aina from Latvia

Italian and European teachers

with students

After the visit of the host school the students presented their own school experience within the discussion:    

“ Being a student in my school “ to introduce the 10 short films about drop outs, which was made by each country. Then the students voted for the best short film. In this selection, Italian students’ short film was chosen as the best film. 

As a second step, students were involved in a workshop to create the poster of the project representing the drop outs’ problem. The activity was designed to make the students express their creativity.

During the activity, all students worked in 6 international teams. These teams, coming from different cultures, collaborated on creating posters representing the project. They were also asked to to prepare a short presentation about  their poster to promote communication among students from different countries, the level of  their communication skills  in English, the exchange the ideas and above all, feeling of mutual respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence. At the end of the activity, six different posters were designed as results of international creativity. 

A democratic election was held to determine the best poster

This video is the contribution of the Portuguese team