Short-term joint staff in Iceland in 2019
The first training meeting hosted in Iceland during the 13th – 16th of September 2019. Thirteen participants took part in the meeting, from 6 countries (Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, and Iceland) met in Reykjavík to kick start the CreAtive Project by the Erasmus Plus program.
This teacher training event was a fundamental basis for success in an international strategic partnership formed by different mentalities and cultures. Our goal was to start our collaboration with our mutual vision of respect, fun, friendship, and creativity, those same values that underpin a European project of this caliber. We all agreed on the importance of having the opportunity to have the Project meeting was essential to distribute roles and responsibilities for Project Quality.
Our topics
Exchange of good practices and Job shadowing:
- We got a lecture from our colleague and UN Women member Unnur Gísladóttir. She informed us about gender equality and the situation in Iceland and how we teach gender equality in our school.
- Wealso got a visit from two representatives from our NA office. They had an introduction to eTwining the community for schools in Europe. They informed us of the online community working on a safe internet platform that provides a range of activities including joint projects for schools at a national and international level, collaborative spaces and professional development opportunities for teachers.
- Our partner in the Project Kirsten Rigterink showed us how she used eTwining in her former Project.
- Two students in our school Borgarholtsskóli informed us about social media and how young people use them. The taught us about the basics skills on how to use Instagram.
Workshops: discussions and dissension making:
- Patners discussed the milestone reached by Project as well as the next steps and priorities of implementation. We covered several areas that were task-related, intercultural, linguistic, and risk-prevention.
- Task-related preparation refers to activities of mobilities. We sherd good practice and material related to the content.
- Intercultural preparation. Since the in-service training is intercultural, the course provider will most likely ask the participants to prepare a presentation about their country, organization, and their work.
- Shere some relevant information about the culture of your host country.
- The risk-prevention of participants is essential. We made some rules to ensure safety for mobilities.
This meeting was overall very productive, interesting, educating, and fun. We went to the countryside in Iceland for two days to work in a pleasant environment. We worked and made dinner together and did a lot of cultural things. We got the chance to get to know each other very well, and it was delightful.
I think I can say on behalf of everyone that attended the training event that it was great!
2019 CreActive!_program .pdf
Evaluation of training event Iceland 2019.pdf