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Comenius School Partnership Project

2009-2011

Our partner schools

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• Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, Sillenbuch, Germany

• Goldberg-Gymnasium, Sindelfingen, Germany• Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium, Bad Tölz, Germany• Balerno High School, Edinburgh, UK• Zahles Gymnasieskole, Copenhagen, Denmark• Justus-Tranchell-Gymnasiet, Landskrona, Sweden• Eötvös-Jozsef-Gimnazium, Budapest, Hungary• Liceo Farnesina, Rome, Italy

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The topics:

Travelling and tourism:Social, ecological, cultural and economic effects

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The topics:

Travelling:Individual goals, such as “expansion of the human mind”

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The topics:

Travelling:In the past, present and future

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The topics:

Virtual Mobility:The role of the Internet in the world of travel

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The topics:

Mobility of ideas:Exchange of ideas and researchon a European scale

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The topics:

Mobility of ideas:Plagiarism and product piracy

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The topics:

The idea of Mobility:

Creativity and innovation:New creative developments dealing with mobility

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The topics:

The idea of Mobility:

The role of mobility in combating poverty and social exclusion

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Project procedure:

• Tasks for each topic provided by teachers’ teams

• Work within the same period of time agreement on deadlines

• Students work in classes or extracurricular groups

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Project procedure:

• Results: published in school(exhibitions, posters, folders etc) and …

• … on our website:

www.columbus-project.info

Thus …

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Project procedure:

• … results can be discussed in national groups

• New aspects may be published

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Project meetings:

Two project meetings per school year:• Work sessions for students (international groups):

Presentation and discussion of the results• Work sessions for teachers:

Discussion of past and future project tasks• And of course: Sightseeing and social activities

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First project meeting:

StuttgartThursday 19 November –

Monday 23 November 2009

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