National reference number: COM-I3-PM- 221-DJ-TR
European reference number: 2013-1-TR1-COM06-47699 3
Type of visit: 6th mobility in Portugal
Period: 27th to 31st October 2014
Place: Miranda do Corvo, Portugal
Participants: 15 teachers and 21 students from Turkey, Poland, Norway, Italy, France,
Greece and Romania
Not present: Spain
Host school: Agrupamento de Escolas de Miranda do Corvo, Portugal
OBJECTIVES OF THE MOBILITY:
TEACHERS:
 to see the teaching environment in Portugal
 to discover important elements of history, identity, traditions and culture;
 to choose the best digital messages created by students from each partner country
 to compile the best digital messages into a e-booklet
 to coordinate students activities and to offer the necessary support during the workshops
 to arrange the seventh project mobility (Romania).
STUDENTS:
 to attend educational workshops in the school on different subjects: Video Editing, Art (painting), Creating Stories with Storybird, creating cartoons with Stripgenerator and creating a video using students’ digital messages.
 to develop/ improve the students English and ITC skills;
 to take part in different social activities together with the other students involved in the project or with the hosting families;
 to increase students’ knowledge about the European Union;
 to increase students' motivation for learning;
 to develop students team spirit and their sense of belonging to common European space;
 to develop/ improve the students English skills and to learn basic words/expressions in Portuguese (dictionary and word puzzles);
 to discover important elements of Portuguese history, identity, traditions and culture;
DAILY ACTIVITIES:
27th October 2014
The partners were met at the railway station in Coimbra and were escorted to the hotel while the students were taken to their host families.
28.10.2014
Activity 1: Reception at school with a flash mob prepared by the Portuguese students;
Activity 2: Watching a video with the digital story of the first year of the project prepared by the Portuguese team; Welcome by the Director of the school.
Activity 3: Cultural visit to a typical schist village, Gondramaz, nearby.
Activity 4: School tour and classroom observation;
Activity 5: Workshop 1 for teachers to present and discuss the results of the questionnaires
As there were several new delegates and adult learners, some time was spent on introducing each person, who gave a short resume of their role in the project.
Activity 6: Workshops for students supervised by teachers on video editing, painting (art), on creating stories with Storybird, on creating cartoons with Stripgenerator and on creating a video using students’ digital messages.
Activity 7: Workshop 2 for teachers to choose the best digital stories created by the students from each partner country;
The evening meal was prepared by an avant-garde Portuguese chef who makes adaptations to traditional dishes to enhance their healthiness and ease of digestion.
29th October 2014
Activity 1: Cultural study visit to Coimbra: the teachers and students learnt about the history of The University of Coimbra as well as the city and its most important monuments. They were also given the chance to visit the theme Park Portugal dos Pequenitos (Portugal in a miniature version) on a guided tour and learn about a new culture.
Activity 2: Visit to the factory of Tentúgal pastry where the group also had the opportunity to taste one of these famous conventual pastries.
Activity 3: The teachers had dinner at a very emblematic restaurant next to the University of Coimbra where they enjoyed the sound of the Fado of Coimbra sang by a group called Tertúlia do Fado de Coimbra.
30th October 2014
Activity 1: Workshop 3: the work initially on the agenda was slightly changed due to the proposal of the Polish team to change the dates of the mobility to this country in March considering the fact that the mobility is going to coincide with Easter, a very religious period for them which will make it difficult to organise the visit programme.. This situation was fully discussed and a new proposal was drawn but it was not possible to meet the Polish needs. So the dates remained the same for the mobility to Poland. The preparation of the Romanian mobility was delayed for later.
Activity 2: The students carried on with the workshops initiated on Tuesday.
Activity 3: The Portuguese team prepared a peddy paper to get to know Miranda do Corvo. All the teachers and students took part in this activity which started with a Zumba dance at school and after accomplishing some tasks he group ended this activity in Quinta da Paiva. Here the group enjoyed the local cuisine at this restaurant in a nature reserve, Parque Biológico da Serra da Lousã, in the mountains nearby. The afternoon was spent in the nature reserve, and then the group travelled to Ferrer Correia school where the teachers attended workshop 4.
Activity 4: In workshop 4 the Romanian Coordinator presented the draft of the seventh mobility of the project which will be held in Romania. All the tasks to be performed were clearly explained as well as the activities of the whole stay. The partners had the chance to interact with the programme and chose from the different options presented.
Finally it was agreed that the Portuguese team would send the evaluation form in order to be filled by all the participants online.
Activity 5: Some traditional games were prepared for the students to play but as it was a bit late and dark it was not possible to fully develop this activity. The students socialized at school with one other while waiting to enjoy the farewell dinner.
Activity 6: The farewell dinner took place at Ferrer Correia school and was prepared by a Chef who is the father of one of the Portuguese students. The group was then surprised by a folk group which danced some Portuguese traditional folk songs. Some of the guests had the chance to dance with this group. The certificates of attendance were also delivered to all the guests.
31st October 2014
Departure of all partners to their countries.