Preparations for the visit

• Students make presentations that will be shown during the exchange visit
• Meetings with the parents

Mobility

• Day one
• Visiting Bronte schools, walking through the streets of the historical center of Bronte, watching murals referring to events from the history of Bronte, getting to know fichi d'india, visiting Pinacoteka - a museum with paintings and ceramics, the oldest Collegio Capizzi library and a chapel.
• Day two
• Visting Adrano - Castello Normanno (11th century): guided tour and seeing excavations. Getting to know the olive oil production line, tasting oil and olive paste in Oleificio Consoli. Students went to Parco Salanitro to plant 3 friendship olives. They also visited the doll museum (Museo dei Pupi), nature museum (Museo delle Scienze Naturali) in Randazzo.
• Day three
• Visit to the Town Hall - meeting with the mayor and heads of the education department and other officials. The mayor prepared and gave a letter to the President of Rybnik with a proposal to establish a closer cooperation between Rybnik and Bronte. Visiting Parco dell’Etna - a walk with a guide from the Mountaineering Societ around the nature park admiring the views, landscapes, lava (several hundred years old), they also learned about endemic vegetation and plants grown experimentally in this area
• Day four
• Visiting Catania and Taormina
  Catania - city tour: visit to the City Hall, Piazza del Duomo, fishmarket (Pescheria), a cave with a spring, which is in the underground of the restaurant, city walls, Via Etnea - the main street of the city, Piazza Vincenzo Bellini (theater and opera house)
  Taormina: visiting the Teatro antico, Piazza Catedrale, Funivia di Taormina
  Day five - working at school in groups - preparing a presentation about each day of the exchange - visting Castello Nelson - the chapel and the park. Certificate ceremony. 

Participants

• 8 students (aged 17) and 2 teachers from the Polish school in Rybnik and 8 students (aged 16-18) from the school "Benedetto Radice" in Bronte and a group of Italian teachers involved in the Erasmus + project.

Summary
The meeting with Italian culture and the great cordiality and openness of Italian families that hosted our students, stimulated the positive feelings of Polish students to Italian culture, to foreigners, etc., stimulated their motivation to learn foreign languages, taught how to become open to others, in how to show hospitality. Students had the opportunity to confront stereotypes about Italians and their lives with their own experience. Morevoer, Polish students noted that Italian students improved in English so the first meeting in Poland gave them a lot of motivation to learn English.