Projekt-Nr. / Project ID VG -C1-SP-K-BY-04-00299-3
Projekt-Titel /Project Title
Culture and Customs
"My town yesterday, today and tomorrow"
Koordinierungsschule / Coordinating School Volksschule Eussenheim, Germany

1. What activities have been carried out by the partnership in the past school year?
Briefly describe the project activities which have taken place jointly and locally within the participating institutions, as well as the transnational mobility activities of staff and pupils. Explain what went well or less well and why.
The schools sent didattic materials made by the pupils:

Italian school:
"essays and drawings about the baroque city, the gardens and the history of the industry of Torino
"children described the famous painter Depero,
Turin as Olympic town, "Back to the future", "Turin is always on movie", Fiat factory at Lingotto

Romanian school:
"three meetings with people from the city
"presentations about the history, the present and the future of the town
"discussion with the mayor of Eforie
"art exhibitions with essays and draw arts of the town
"calendar 2005 with pictures
"excursions in the Danube Delta, in Constanta and Mangalia visiting museums
"updated regularly the common website of the project
http://efnord.eforie.ro/comenius/default.htm

Spanish school:
"presentations about a famous Spanish painter, born in Gijón, where the Spanish school is located: Evaristo Valle
"presentations of the Evaristo Valle's Foundation and research activities by the pupils about plants and birds in its gardens
"art exhibitions with draws of famous pictures of Evaristo Valle copied by the pupils
"theater plays about the life of the famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes and his novel "Don Quixote"
"presentations of the materials of the partners and about the meetings in Gijón, Eussenheim and Eforie in the Spanish school

German school:
"Powerpoint-presentation about the live in a Franconian village in former times
"exhibitions about the meetings in Torino, Eforie and Gijon
"producing play cards about the church castle in Eussenheim/Aschfeld
"exhibitions about the play cards
"selling the play cards
"presentations of the materials of the partners in all classes and during a school party

Meetings:
Spanish, Romanian and Italian teachers took part to a meeting in Eussenheim in January/February 2005
Spanish and German teachers took part to a meeting in Gijon/Spain in June 2005.
German and Romanian teachers took part to a meeting in Torino/Italy in April 2005

2. What kind of product(s) have been produced in the course of the past school year? - Which of these are "joint" project results and which have been produced separately by the participating institutions? How have these products been disseminated and to whom, both within and outside the partnership? How were they received?

The pupils in the participating schools prepared separately pictures, drawings, short written texts in English.
The teachers involved their pupils to deal with specific subjects and the pupils produced all the material which has been scannerized by the teachers.

All the materials had been sent by e- mail or in CD-Rom

The materials are published in a common website: http://efnord.eforie.ro/comenius/default.htm

3.How effective was the collaboration between the participating instituitions? - How was the distribution of tasks agreed and put into practice? How was communication organised? What communication language(s) has /have been used? Were there major obstacles to a satisfactory cooperation - if yes, were they overcome? How? How important were staff and pupil mobility activities for cooperation?

There were no obstacles because the schools had sent the materials in a CD if the e-mails were too large.

The communication language was English.

Most of the materials had been published in a common website.

All the decisions were planned during the meetings.

Staff mobility activities were important for planning the programme.

4. Has the partnership undertaken any joint evaluation of project activities and progress made? If so, what are the main conclusions of this evaluation? Does the partnership wish to continue its cooperation, within a Comenius project or otherwise?
A joint evaluation had been undertaken during the meeting in Torino:

The main conclusions of this evaluation:

"It's difficult to motivate the other colleagues to take part in the Comenius projects

"Its difficult to present the materials of the partner schools for all classes

"The foreign language are barriers for young children (in primary schools) to take part to a meeting or to make materials in English.

The partnership doesn't wish to continue its cooperation but to begin new Comenius projects.