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Year 22013-2014

EUROPEAN ECO-WARRIORS 21EEW21

INCREASING SUSTAINABILITY AND REDUCING COSTS

AT SCHOOLS

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CONTENTSEEW21 YEAR 2 PUBLICATION

CONTENT..…………………………………………………………………………..…..….…. p.2ABOUT THE PROJECT………………………………………………………………………... p.3GOOD NEWS! ………………………………………………………………………………….. p.4WINNERS OF THE FIRST CONSUMER CLASSROOM COMPETITION………………..… p.5

AT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION..…………………………………………….. p.6VIDEO by the European Commission..…………………………….………………… p.7

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES.………………………………………………………... p.8ELOS WORLD CAFÉ: European Day of Languages (dissemination)..……………. p.9

NEW WARRIORS…………………………..………………………………………………… p.10MOBILITY TO AGURAIN………………..………………………………………..……..….. p.11

ITINERARY …………………………..……………………………………………. p.12DAY 1: AGURAIN & ASPARRENA.PRESERVING NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND RESOURCES. ..…..………….. p.13DAY 2: PASAIA. AT THE HEART OF THE BAYREGENERATION OR DESTRUCTION…………………………………………… p.14DAY 3: VITORIA-GASTEIZ. EUROPEAN GREEEN CAPITAL 2012 …………. p.16DAY 4: AÑANA SALT VALLEY. UNESCO CANDIDATE. …………………… p.17

GROUP WORK : PRESENTATIONS AND DISPLAYS. EUROPEAN GREEN MARKET.. p.18EVALUATION, PLENARY AND FAREWELL……………………..……………………… p.19THE PRESS……………………………..……………………………………………………. p.20WHAT IS ELOS?……………………………..…………………………………………….… p.21

DISSEMMINATION OF eew21.ELOS TRAINING COURSE IN GLOUCESTER.LLP .…………………………… p.22

TEACHERS MEETING IN WORCESTER………………………………………………….. p.23PENPALS AND NEW WARRIORS..………………………………………………………… p.24FROM THE KITCHEN OF eew21: ………………………………………………………..… p.25

EUROPEAN RECIPE eBOOK…………………………………………………….. p.26CONSUMERISM……………………………………………………………………………… p.27

CONSUMERISM AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES…………….……………….… p.27CONSUMERISM AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES…………………………… p.28CONSUMERISM AND ONLINE COOPERATIVE PROJECT…………………… p.29

COMENIUS MEETINGS AT SCHOOL …………………………………………………….. p.30EUROPEAN STUDIES CONFERENCE: DISSEMINATION ……………………………… p.31ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS CONSUMERISM AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES……….. p.33EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS………………………………………………………………… p.34MOBILITY TO ÖHRINGEN, GERMANY……………………………………………….…... p.35

ABOUT ÖHRINGEN………………………..…………………………………….... p.36Do you wrap up your snack? ………….…..………………………………………... p.37DAY 1: AROUND SCHOOOL AND GROUP WORK……………………………. p.38DAY 2: ÖHRINGEN ON TOUR………………………………………….………... p.40DAY 3: THE FOREST AND ACID RAIN. WORLD CAFÉ ON CONSUMERISM p.41

AGENDA21 NOW! 2h INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE………………………………… p.43DAY 4: VISITING ‘A BIOENERGY VILLAGE’…………………………………. p.44

eew COMMITMENTS. RECORDING A VIDEO …………………………………………… p.45EVALUATION, PLENARY AND FAREWELL…………………………………………..… p.46SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT: A DRESS USING RECYCLED MATERIAL……………..… p.47SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT: BUILDING A CHAIR WITH RECYCLED MATERIAL…... p.48THE PRESS………………………………………………………..……………………….…. p.49DISSEMINATION: JUNK KOUTURE……………………………………………………..… p.50DISSEMINATION: EUROPE DAY………………………………………………………...… p.51DISSEMINATION: STREEET POLL AND ENERGY AUDIT……………………………... p.52DISSEMINATION: eco-warriors inspiring project……………………………………….… ... p.53DISSEMINATION WITHIN SCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS…………….………. … p.54PROJECT WEB PAGE………………………………………………………………………… p.55CREDITS…………………………………………………………………………………...…. p.56

The planned partnership has looked at how schools canincrease sustainability in their schools and communities,and how energy costs could be reduced. Our finalwebsite includes helpful teaching resources to worksustainability through a cross-curricular approach bydifferent subject teachers. Thus, each school analysedtheir curriculum to work out resources taking into accountthe diversity and different abilities among the students tofit the project interdisciplinary and sustainably.This included environmental, economic, social andcultural dimensions of sustainability. Themes like NaturalDisasters, Ecological Footprints, Green Buildings,Renewable Energy, Waste & Recycling, Healthy Eatingand growing, Environmental Problems and Loss ofBiodiversity, and Consumerism and Lifestyles (FairTrade, Organic, Free Range, Made Locally, Bio, FoodMiles) were included to create and share WebQuests,quizzes, surveys, digital presentations, essays, and anenvironmental calendar which includes pictures selectedafter research, sharing and discussing finds, a logo(chosen by a competition), and photos of localenvironmental problems. European seeds were plantedat school allotments to work on food miles and beingorganic leading to recipes. A weather station was used ineach school to share data.Students exchanged opinions through e-mails, essays,blogs and projects set on e-twinning and digital platforms.World Cafes evaluated the process in the mobilities.During the second year students designed sustainablebrochures, videos with tips to save costs at school, homeand the wider community. Their future commitments wererecorded in videos and joint in a presentation. Studentsdesigned a dress, a table and a chair with recyclingproducts. The final products include a web page and ane-magazine. This is the second part: Year 2.

About the project

Year 1

e-magazine

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GOODNEWS!!

Coming back to schoolwith such good news inSeptember

September was going to be a very hard month. We had to getready to host more than 40 partners in the Basque Country.We had to check that all the visits we had chosen were fullyplanned and that all members were ready to go on working.However, the beginning of the school year was different. Whenteachers told their students that we would go to Brussels, theycouldn’t believe it. Those who had read it on Twitter or Facebookkept the secret and it was a real surprise for the oldest studentsin Agurain. The products they had produced for the Comeniusproject had won the Fist Consumer Classroom Competition

WINNERS OFTHE FIRST

CONSUMER CLASSROOM COMPETITION

September 2013

Students from Aniturri BHI School (Agurain,

The Basque Country)

won the first edition of

the Inter-School

Competition on

Consumer Classroom,

an interactive website with useful materials on

consumer topics, launched by the EU in

March 2013. The winning team designed the

project “Environmental problems the Earth is

facing”, a digital poster focused on sustainable

consumption. The prize included a trip to

Brussels!!!

Aniturri used the products designed for the

Comenius project and spread the work of their

partnership at the European Commission.

Interactive poster including opinion essays and videos

We won a trip to brussels

Moreabout

the event

During the visit to the European Commission on 25th

November, students had the chance to ask the

European Commissioner some questions. This is Neven

Mimica, Member of the EC in charge of Consumer

Policy.

The first question we posed was related to our

Comenius project:

1. We are working on a Comenius project and

researching about reducing energy costs at school and

at home. We have held a meeting with our partners

from France, N. Ireland, UK and Germany, and we

have seen that there are differences among us when

we talk about implementing Directive 2009/72/EC.

There is a big concerned in our country due to the high

cost of electricity. The consumers in the Spanish State

pay the most expensive energy in Europe. We have

undergone several reforms, but it seems

competitiveness never arrives. Is there a way not to

dismantle the renewable energy sector? We learn at

school that renewable energy should be promoted and

used, but then, the sector is at risk. How can we

understand this? How are we going to meet the target

20-20-20 if renewables cannot be implemented in our

country because of the reforms in the sector?

At the Europeancommission

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questionsand

answershere

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24Nov

25Nov

FINAL VIDEO OF THE VISIT TO

BRUSSELS AND THE European commission

About the video

Students speak about sustainable consumption and the prize theywon. It was explained that the poster had been designed as aresult of our work for Comenius project. It is a pity the videodoesn’t include all the clips the ‘paparazzis’ recorded for threedays non-stop. Still, we got to highlight how to important it is towork connecting subjects and cross curricularly.This is the results of two subjects working together: MGZ (Sciencein Society) and English and two school years: 1 Batx and Year 4

Published by Consumer

Calssroom and EC

EUROPEANDAY OF

LANGUAGES26TH SEPTEMBER 2013

WORLD CAFÉ

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGE2013

Five Elos schools from the Basque Country met

the educational authorities at their headquarters

to celebrate the European Day of Languages.

Students had the change to disseminate their

experiences and their work as a Comenius school

during the World Café. Students sat at four

tables, answering questions for 15 minutes at

each. It was a very rewarding practice for all of

us: authorities, teachers and students.

TABLE 3: What type of activities related to

Europe are organized in your school? Do you take

part in?

Do you know any school in Europe?

How do you consider them in comparison with

your own school? What ideas would you import

from them to your school? Which aspects of your

“I will go on learning English, French and Imay take on German”

“Speaking English is a must in Europe”“We'll go to university in two years”“I'll take a gap year before entering

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New warriors meetings. Getting to know eachother. Exchanging personal information beforethe mobility to the Basque CountryStudents got to know each other exchangingemails and on social networks before the mobility.They sent their profiles with a letter to match eachother, and then they exchanged their accounts.The communication was very fluent beforecoming to the Basque Country.Several meetings including parents and studentswere held to plan the week for our partners.The youngest students set the boards for thedisplays we had organized and decorated theschool to welcome our hosts.The press was called and a description of ourComenius partnership was published on ourschool blog to explained them what we weredoing.

At the same time, we also desseminated our workand informed the institutions we weregoing to visit about the partnership

EEW21 2013-2014NEW WARRIORS

COMENIUS IKASLEAK Aniturrin

Aguraingo ANITURRI BHIk urriaren 20tik 25era Alemania, Ipar Irl

anda, Ingalaterra eta Frantziako 46 ikasle eta irakasle

jasoko ditu Arabako Lautadan. Aniturrik eskarmentua du europar proiektuetan eta laugarren COMENIUS proiektu

honetan ingurumenari heldu diote. A

rabako lautadakoak ELOS ikastetxe-sareko partaideak dira beste lau institutuekin

batera. Europako Gaitasunen Marko Bateratuan oinarritutako europar eta nazioarteko curric

uluma uztartzen dute

euskal curriculumean. Ikasleek atzerrik

o hizkuntzaren ikasketa nazioarteko ikasleekin sarean lan egiten burutzen dute.

Lankidetza horietako bat Comenius programa da, baina beste sare batzuetako partaideak dira ere bai: EUROPEAN

STUDIES, e-languages eta etwinning, besteak beste. Aurretik kirola eta nekazaritza landu dute eta orain

ingurumenarekin lotutako gaiak lantzen ari dira web honetan: http://e

ew21.weebly.com/. Bestetik, arabarrek Consumer

Classroom Europako eskolarteko lehiaketa irabazi berri d

u, eta azaroaren 23tik 25era Bruselasa joango dira saria

jasotzera. http://elosaniturri.w

ordpress.com/2013/09/02/consumer-classroom-europako-eskolarteko-lehiaketan-

irabazle/

EUROPEAN ECO WARRIORS 21 (EEW21): INCREASING SUSTAINABILITY AND REDUCING ENERGY COSTS AT

SCHOOLS Europako Comenius proiektua bi urtetako elkarlana da eta Etengabeko Ikaskuntzako Programak diruz

babesten du. Iaz Ipar Irlandan egon ziren eta aurten Aguraingo ikastetxeari d

agokio atzerritik datozen kideak hartzea.

Ondoren, Alemaniara joango dira udaberrian. Ik

asleek 16-19 urte dituzte eta kostaldeari buruzko jakin-mina dute.

Batzuek ez dute itsasoa inoiz ikusi edo oso gutxitan ikusi dute oso urruti dutelako. Ikusi dutenek, oporraldian egin

Iazko ekintza batean, adibidez, Ipar Irl

andako ikasleek Stormonteko Parlamentuan Aniturrikoak ordezkatu zituzten

CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT goi-bileran. 12 ikastetxek herrialde bana aukeratu zuten klim

a aldaketak izan ditzakeen

eraginak azaltzeko eta Irlandako kideek Euskal H

erria aukeratu zuten. Aguraingo ikasleek informazioa bildu eta,

irlandarrek Euskal Herria

ordezkatu zuten Stormonteko goi-bilera horretan.

http://elosaniturri.w

ordpress.com/2013/02/13/eco-schools-climate-change-summit-stormont-14th-february-2013/

Proiektuaren aurreko fasean hondakinen kudeaketari buruzko lana egin dute. Taldeko ikastetxeetan han eta hemen

hondakinak nola biltzen dituzten aurkeztu zuten Irlanda bisitatu zutenean, bideok sortu, eta Irla

ndatik kudeaketa

sistema hobetzeko ideiak ekarri zituzten. Aurtengo ikasturtean hobekuntza plana abiaraziko dute besteengandik

Eew21 Comenius mobility to

AGURAIN

October 20-25

Mobility to the Basque CountryDuring the visit, we had to draw upconclusions on environmentalhazards. Therefore, each partner hadshared, previous to the mobility,presentations by means of videos.Some of them were chosen to beproojected during the visit toAniturri.

We had also planned a display whichincluded stands from each school todisseminate the project thoughoutthe school and the town.The visits included organizationswhich work towards a moresustainable society and reducingcosts and energy production.

We also learnt about botheconomical and sociological impactsdue to environmental problems.The visit to the European GreenCapital 2013 included criticalthinking and awareness.

Tour around school and Agurain. Civil reception at the

Council. Learning some Basque: survival kit. Working on

e-twinning, planning displays and lessons. Nestle ice factory.

Meeting the mayor in Asparrena: visit the charcoal klin, sport

centre (geothermal heating), Mitxarro (Nature Interpretation

Centre) and hydroelectric station.

Pasaia: Azti-Tecnalia: measuring the quality of water. Boat

trip - civic reception and projection of the video created by

students. Talking to Goiener: nonprofit energy supplier

cooperative. San Sebastian.

Vitoria-Gasteiz European Green Capital 2013: Ataria and

Dehesa House: European forest and community allotments.

Walk in the city.

Añana Salt Valley. Group work and European stands and

displays. Farewell lunch. World Café, evaluation and plenary.

Petrified dunes in Gorliz

OCTOBER 20th-25th

ITINERARY IN

AGU

RAIN

Itinerary shared with ourpartners and plannedvisits

After meeting the host families on Sunday, on the following day weshowed our school and town to our parents. We had prepared thetour to be the guides during the visit with the help of the historyteacher. A reporter came with us and she published a doubled-pagereport on the regional paper. It was just the start of the coverage ofthe visit, as two more news were to appeared: one in the historicalterritory of Gipuzkoa and another one in the Basque newspaper soldall over the country.The group work in the morning

included some presentations from

different countries and getting

ready for the displays and stands.

Partners had researched on the

whys of the Green Capital, the do’s

and dont’s of the European award,

so we wanted to listen to their

opinions.

It was stated that the activities

started late and that not

educational resources had been

offered to schools outside the City

even if they were as close as 20km

away.

After lunch we

visited the Nestle

ice cream factory.

Many parents work there, so we

saw them at work. We wanted to

know how the factory optimises the

environmental performance of

products along the value chain. The

environmental performance of a

product starts with good ecodesign,

so it is important to know the

impact of its lfe-cycle.

The factory aims at improving the

efficience in the use of resources as

well as at closing water cycles and

reducing waste towards Zero Waste.

‘Mitxarro’ Nature Interpretation

Centre in Araia, Asparrena.

We learnt about

‘Mitxarro’, an edible

dormouse, after which the centre

has been named. It is a small

mammal rodent which is in danger

of extinction. We watched a video

sitting at the ancient kitchen and

heard stories of local

people talking about

the animal and the

local fauna. The

panels and photos

gave us an idea of the flora we can

find at the Natural Park of Aizkorri-

Aratz.

We also saw how the mini

hydroelectric plant works and learnt

that it produces enough energy

from water to supply the town.

There is also enough energy left

which can be sold.

Morning presentations at AniturriD

Preserving natural ecosystemes and natual resources

Sports Centre in Araia

Agurain Asparrena

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Natura 2000 network

Nature protection areas with the

EU

Aizkorri-Aratz protected area

We thought that a video would help our partners understand thecomplex arrangement of a town around a port. As most of ourpartners live inland, the fresh air of the bay and the richness of thisnatural location would be interesting for the project. Researching on adegraded area and urban economic development inspire us for thenew Erasmus+ project.

Pasai Donibane

Trintxerpe

Pasaia: at the heart of the bay

San Pedro at the back

Azti-Tecnalia

Pasaia is the second most important harbour in the Basque Countryand one of the most important ones in Spain. It is located in theOiartzun estuary (SouthEastern Bay of Biscay).The recovery of the water quality has been a strong aim. That’s whywe contacted Azti-Tecnalia and arranged a visit. Azti-Tecnalia workson stopping the negative impacts of future changes along the coastand in the marine environment. They contribute to the developmentof the economic and social environment using and promotingTechnological Innovation. Azti-Tecnalia transforms science intobusiness, and finds solutions for institutional managers and agents,the fishery sector, sea users, food sector and consumers, and thescientific community.Although technicians were really busy and they couldn’t affordopening the centre to every body every day, they were very kind withus. They found the Comenius project very interesting and we werewelcome to do some measuring with two of the technicians.We even saw a yellow submarine!!!

Last year, just a month previous to our visit, AZTI-Tecnalia explored for the first time the inside ofocean eddies located off the Basque-Cantabriancoast. READ MORE on their web page. The datagathered will provide more knowledge about thistype of oceanic structures and the effect on themarine ecosystem, including larvae of the species inthe area.The big group split into two to go on a trip boat andattend the civic reception. The press covered theevent and the article was published in the mainnewpaper of the territory of Gipuzkoa.The previous day we had covered how green energyis produced. Now we were going to see how it couldbe supplied in a cooperative way. We were going tomeet Goiener and exchange our European views onthe topic.

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Ongi etorri lehorrekopiratak!

The major greeted us before the visit.

Towards Zero waste: the Door-to Doorcollection has led to reduce by 80% theamount of waste that goes to landfillsand prevented the construction of anincinerator.People who sign up tocompost at home receive a 40 percentdiscount on the municipal wastemanagement fee.

A port of call!

The members of the council welcomed us and we projected the video we had created

about their town. Afterwads, Goiener (non profit energy supplier cooperative) explained us

their project and we had a very interesting discussion about renewable energy generation

and purchase. Although their is a European law about renewables, it is not applied the

same

way in

each

coutry.

It is more difficult to buy green energy and to start up projects which generate renewable

energy in the Basque Country and Spain than in the countries within our partnership

because of the oligopoly companies and the tariff deficit it is said Spain owes. More

information about Goiener in English. Their web page..

We told them that we would ask the European Commissioner in charge of Consumer Policy

about the tariff deficit on our visit to the European Commission, and so we did:

QUESTION 2: On the other hand, when we check our bills, we see that we are paying for

a tariff deficit which seems to have no end. We are told that we owe 28.000 million euros

to five energy suppliers. However, these energy companies seemed to have earned

40.000 million euros in the last 10 years. Is there a way to audit these 5 big energy firms?

An audit would let us see if we are really paying such big amounts of money because of

the distribution and transportation costs, capacity payments, incentives for renewable

energy and domestic coal, the cost of non-mainland generation, repayment of previous

deficits, and other costs of the system.

Find the answer on the school blog.

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FROM ANITURRI TO PASAIA.

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VITORIA-GASTEIZ:EUROPEAN GREENCAPITAL 2012.

Vitoria-Gasteiz gained the European Greeen

Capital 2012 Award as a result of 30 years of

commitment to sustainability and good practice.

It involves leading the way towards healthier and

more sustainable lifestyles. Green cities-fit for

life’. It means the city meets the stardard for

green urban living.

The indicators judged are:● Local contribution to global climate change

● Local transport

● Green urban areas

● Sustainable land use

● Nature and biodiversity

● Quality of local ambient air

● Noise pollution

● Waste production and management

● Water consumption

● Waste water treatment

● Environmental managenent of the municipality

CEA: Dehesa Etxea. Iraide and Idoia are going to enter

the draw to get an allotment.

ATARIA: Wetlands Interpretation Centre

CEA: Environmental Studies Centre and a community

allotment. From environmental education and

awareness to the development of the green belt,

reach and mobility actions.

EUROPEAN ARBORETO

Ataria

Vitoria-Gasteiz

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Wooden structure

CONTAñana town

The saltworks

Cultural landscape candidateWorld Heritage Site of UNESCO

Wetland Ramsar Convention

Archeological remains from

the Middle Age

Particular architecture

Geological features,

biodiversity and landscape in

harmony

Heritage and environmental

The Salt Valley of Añana in the BasqueCountry: inland saltworks.

The value of the Salt Valley

AÑANA THE SALT VALLEY:UNESCO CANDIDAE

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Each country had to prepare a display and a

stand for the European Green Market.

Previous to the visit Year 3 students

decorated the hall and set up boards for

each country.

1. Partners walked around to get

information, brochures, posters, watch

videos and enquire.

2. Students from Aniturri walked around and

visited the stands. The whole school could

get to know the visitors and talk to them. At

the same time, younger students were

informed about the project. We motivated

them to take part in the forthcoming years.

he last day. After the visit to

the Salt Valley, we came back

to school and learnt about

UNESCO’s projects in the

countires of our partnership. We projected

some videos about eCars in Cookstown,

Northern Ireland and environmental hazards

in Öhringen, Germany.

Aniturri created a brochure about reducing

energy at school after discussing the issue of

energy waste in their Citizenship and Civic

Education lessons.

Video projection about Germany

Brochure

Visiting standsEuropean GreenMarket

Aniturri’s brochure

T“We waste too much energyat school. We should pay

more attention. Forexample, we shouldn’t

forget the lights on. Weshould take tell the

caretaker whenever we findthe room is too warm. We

are looking forward to visitthe German school to learnabout passive-house andhow it is implemented in

their building”

Stands and boards

GROUP WORK.PRESENTATIONSAND DISPLAYS

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Farewell lunchPlenary andevaluation

We said good-buy at school, but still they had to meet in Araia for the farewell dinner

he sun was shining, so after lunch we thought that the

plenary would be held outside, in the main square.

The questionnaire was printed and later on, filled online.

Questionnaire, responses and pictures

on web page

QUESTIONNAIRE

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Online editionsAs the articles had their digital edition, they were also published on the school blog and linked on Twitter, as well as on

the project web site. After the visits, we sent the link to the institutions which helped us with the visits, and they linked the

articles on their web pages, too. Students shared the articles via Twitter and Facebook, but the social network they used

most was Whatsapp.

The pdf documents can be downloaded from the project website and online editions

can be read clicking on the pictures above.

The pressThese three articles were published on the main regional newspapers. Although our school is located in the territory of

Araba, on of the articles about the Comenius partnership was published on one of the papers with largest readerships

in Gipuzkoa historical territory. The article published in Basque language could be read in the only Basque language

circulating paper edited in the Basque region. The third article was published in the territory of Araba, on the

newspaper with large readerships.

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WHAT IS ELOS?

IN GLOUCESTER

ELOS TRAINING COURSE

VIDEO

NOVEMBER 2013

Sharing good practices and Comenius project at the course

About Elos

Elos seeks to promote the European andInternational dimension in education. The Elosconcept defines the learning outcomes forstudents, describing the various dimensions forstudents participating in a European andinternational context. These outcomes are statedin the Common Framework for EuropeCompetence (CFEC). The CFEC offers acomprehensive and unique set of developmentalcompetences that students gain by studying at anElos school and which prepares them to study,work, live and thrive in an internationalenvironment. The Elos school standard describesthe requirements for a school to call itself an ‘Elosschool’.

Twenty two teachers from Elos schools in tendifferent countries attended the training course atthe Global Language Immersion Centre inGloucester. It was a very productive weekdeveloping understanding of the Elos concept andresources, strengthening the Elos network ofschools across Europe and making lastingfriendships. Elos NewletterAniturri has been part of the Elos project for sevenyears and we have fully contributed to the net.This is the article we wrote for the Elos 10 yearsanniversary and that will be published in abooklet.

Download Elos flier for schools and students

EUROPEAN SCHOOL NETS

DISSEMINATIONSharing practices

While the teacher was at the training course, just a week after the mobilty in Agurain,students and teachers at Aniturri recorded a video to evaluate the project so far.

Evaluate where we are. Redefiniton and next millestones

Project development

ICT sessions: linoit platorm, website and e-twinning- Basque

Consumerism and lifestyles- French

European allotment- English

Resources- Irish

JANUARY 9-12

We assess the project and

thought about the areas we

had to improve.

The tasks were redistributed

and millestones set for the

final evaluation.

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RCESTER 2014TEACHERS MEETING INWORCESTERJANUARY 2014

Recipes- English-Basque

Recyled products-presentations in Germany

Next mobility-Germany

Ecological footprint- decision on resources

NEW WARRIORS-PENPALS

We set new eew21 teams atschools and although some ofthem got to know each otherduring the visit to the BasqueCountry, we recycled ourEnglish lessons (foreignlanguage) assignments and

shared them with our partners. What’s more, weused Edomodo platform to disseminate theproject and used the letters back again to meetnew friends, many of them from the United States.

We had to exchange profiles to start planning themobility to Germany. A lot of students used socialnetworks for communication, kept in contact andexchanged project work. Everybody was willing to

Schools organized regular meetings with warriorsand work was done transversally. Subjectsinvolved: Citizenship, Civic Education, Technology,Science and English (and foreign languages). Thiswork involved interdepartamental meetings andassessment.

Parents meeting were held regularly too. Eachschool had acquired a regular system to informparents about the project. Open Days, Parents’Day, School Council and School Boards,depending on the schools, as well as writtencommunications and face-to-face meetings beforeand after mobilities.

Warriors-meetings

PENPALS AND NEWWARRIORS

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EUROPEANRECIPE BOOK

KontsumoBIDE: The BasqueConsumer Affairs Institute

In January our Irish partners shared someresources to start working on sustainableconsumption. At the same time, Aniturri hadorganized a visit to KontsumoBIDE withYear 3 to work on Fair Trade, consumerismand lifestyles.What is a balanced diet?What do you do you to reduce waste? Howdo we manage waste? What can wecompost?How can we reuse everyday items?But first, we shared the recipe of a paella,which was professionally cooked by ourpartners.

Kingfisher, UK, cooking

a paella

The warriors had agood time cookingrecipes.

CONSUMERISMAND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

SUSTAINABLE RECIPESFOOD MILES

At KontsumoBIDe

Foregoing work to the visit toKontsumoBIDE included:Research on Fair TradeReflection on healthy and balancedietsFuture work to the visit toKontsumoBIDE included:Cooking recipesFood miles conceptCalculating ecological footprintsReflection on responsibleconsumerismSpeaking lesson on consumption:

Speaking lesson

European

Sustainaible Recipes

on web

Sustainable society and you

In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of

Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200

countries over 200 years using 120,000

numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life

expectancy against income for every

country since 1810, Hans shows how the

world we live in is radically different from

the world most of us imagine.(YouTube)

The video was shared by the Irish school

and was used in Citizenship lessons and

Economics.

We also watched other videos Mr Callan

shared with us: Unseen, inpirational trailer

and Global Food Security.

Mr Callan shared this

material to carry out the

energy audit. Students decided

that they would start working on the audit

prior to the visit to Germany, but they

thought that they might finish it afterwards

to be able to complete it properly. At that

time, at Aniturri, they had started their

work with the technology teacher: a

sustainable chair. On the other hand, they

were recording videos for the Consumer

Classroom Competition. In France, they

were working on a sustainable table with

their landscaping teacher. Irish were

working on Yunk Kouture, outfits using

%100 recycled material. English were

taking care of the allotment

The videos we shared:material

Hans Rosling's famous

lectures combine

enormous quantities of

public data with a sport's

commentator's style to

reveal the story of the

world's past, present and

future development. Now

he explores stats in a

way he has never done

before - using augmented

reality animation.

CONSUMERISMAND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

SUSTAINABLE RECIPESFOOD MILES

Getting ready for theenergy audit

2nd Consumer

Classrooom Competitio

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Online shopping

First we shared the collection of opinion essays with our partners. Students found out what changes the EU

was going to pass at the beginning of the summer concerning online shopping and recorded some videos

with some questions that were answers with more videos. Read more on Aniturri’s blog. The writings were

added onto the canvas where we published the videos about online shopping.

What do you think about online shopping?

Digital Publication

Opinion essays

Collaborative project

We used the products we created for the Comeniusproject to meet other students in Europe. We sharedthe work with another school in Germany and wemade up new friends with another Elos school.Therefore, we disseminated the work thepartnershop was doing another school and workedtogether for the Consumer Classroom Competitionfrom February to April. We got to be finalist, but thevoting system didn’t help us. We cannot usefacebook at school and that was how it had to bevoted.

OUR COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

●It includes videos which are on Youtube too:

●‘I have a problem. What should I do?’

●Interviews about online shopping. Students ask

their partners to give their opinions

●Opinion e-magazine

●DOs and DON’Ts when Online-Shopping presenta-

tion

●Answers and comments

●Pictures

●Drawings

●Interesting links

●Polls

●European Commission information

●Open to anyone!

ONLINE CANVAS

Submitted project

Comenius at Holy Trinity. Principal’s blog

COMENIUS MEETINGSAT SCHOOL

Holy Trinity Warriors

HTC warriors history inpictures

Junk Kouture

HOLY TRINITY ECO-WARRIORS

In Leuven

March 2013

European StudiesConferenceDissemination of theComenius project

The coordinator of the partnership, was awardedthe prize ‘Excellence in collaboration’ for herwork with J15 group.

She also presented the good practices carriedout by the partnership to 140 delegates frommore than ten different European countries. Seeit on blog.

ECOLOGICALFOOTPRINTSDO YOU KNOW YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT?

What is a CarbonFootprint?

This is how students from Kingfisherexplained us what Carbon Footprints are.Read their essay.

Students in the partnership decided thatthe best way to measure the average ofplanets that our schools need to supporttheir lifestyle would be this resource: afootprint calculator.At Aniturri they also used other gamesand resources. Read on blog.

April

2013

Working on EuInstitutions

Research on:●European Youth Portal

●Europe in 12 lessons

●The European Union in

slides

Games for whiteboards

Trivia Quiz

Final Group Task: create a

presentation and a game with

your group

Individual Task

ON BLOG Year 3

EUINSTITUTIONS

ARE YOU AN EXPERT ON EUROPE?

EU Institutions: review

Year 4 Read tasks: ON BLOG

ÖHRINGENEew21 Comenius mobility to

Mobility to Germany

April 6th - 11th

Tour around the school with engineer, ice-breakers

and group work: presentation of recycled products

and German school system

Sightseeing in Öhringen and meeting the mayor.

Sports and dancing.

Walk in the forest and research on damages.

Questionnaire and group work on Consumerism.

Agenda 21 Now! 24h International Internet

Conference

Group work: commitments. Recording final videos

and interview.

Visiting a ‘Bioenergy Village’.

Assessment, plenary and farewell dinner with host

families

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ABOUT ÖHRINGENRecylcing an article to rewritethe information we had aboutÖhringen. We also usedprevious presentations we hadcreated a year before to tell theparents and school mateswhere we were going andwhat we were going to do.Students researched on theGerman Educational Systemto find differences and find outwhat they would like to bringback to their schools form thatsystem.During the mobility studentshad to write a diary and at theend of the experience they hadto create a collaborativepicture canvas to share theirmemories.

Oehringen is the biggest cityin the Hohenlohekreis district,in the north eastern part ofBaden-Württemberg. Thecity’s history goes back to theRoman times and thesettlement of “VicusAurelianus.Located in the land of Ho-henlohe, the valleys are sur-

rounded by vineyards, hills,forests, lakes and the riversKocher and Jagst.There are nearly 23,000inhabitants and 6,000students.

The area is known as the"Land of Castles and Palaces"because of the number of

historic buildings found in theland. The houses, themedieval buildings and thehistorical sites have beenpreserved in good conditions.

Many students don’t live inÖhringen. They get up veryearly, around 06:00, to travelto school.

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The first hours were appealling.Interest, curiosity and desireevoked early in the morningwhen we woke up at three in themorning.

During the trip, we had time toreview the presentations andtasks each one was committed tofulfill.

We met some of our hostingpartners in October, but we weregoing to meet all those partnerswith whom we had exchangedemails, pictures and shared work,as well as Skype meetings.

Sunday time with the families.The following morning was a newstart in a new family and country.

First hours...WE ARRIVE INÖHRINGEN

Monday, a new week ahead.

What do you usually eat at schoolas a snack? Do you wrap up yourfood with aluminium foil?Cultural differences: timetablesand meals. Snack, lunch andbrunch are not the same in ourcountry because our timetable isdifferent.

Questions in the morning: ‘Whattime did you get up?’ Was it 5:45,6:00, 6:30 or 6:45? ‘How long did ittake you to get to school?’

The Principal and the schoolengineer were ready to meet us totour around the school.

Do you wrap up your snack?

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DAY 1AROUND THESCHOOL

The school is 4 years old, there are 90

teachers and 1048 pupils study there.

There are also three different areas: the

first area is for people who want to be

primary teachers; in the second area, they

work on agriculture; and in the third area,

they study common subjects. Besides,

students have metal, wood and agriculture

workshops.Students grow their vegetables in the

garden to use them for cooking lessons

After lunch we met for the icebreaker”

session. We got to meet each other and

practised English. Then each group met

together to get ready for their work and

project presentations.

RICHARD-VON-WEIZSÄCKER SCHULE

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It was a good idea to play some games to

meet each other. Sometimes, we are too

shy and we need some ice-breakers.

We had to adjust ourselves to understand

the Irish and English. It was hard at first, of

course, but they were very friendly and we

got to understand each other easily.

Those who had not registered for the

Agenda 21 Conference finalised their

registration, and presented our recycled

products: a table and a chair.

It was also very interesting to learn about

the German system. It is really different!!!

DAY 1GROUP WORK

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We met the mayor and he explained us

how the village had developed and their

future plans. He informed us about the

flower festival which is going to be

celebrated in 2016. We learnt that the old

castles had been built a long time ago.

It was inspiring for the new Erasmus+

project: urban landscaping. We had to

take notes for our diaries. Back to school

we had to tell our school mates all about

Öhringen!!

In the afternoon we had a sports session

and Basque dances with the German

Spanish teacher.

DAY 2ÖHRINGENON TOUR

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In the forest, we saw the damages caused

by air pollution and acid rain.

The walk was really entertaining as we had

to answer to the questions our guide

asked us. Mr Arnold even asked us to

measure a tree!!!

We saw the line that divides the forest and

the fields in the area. There are a lot of

birds and different types of animals, like

owls and foxes that live in this forest.

Trees are more or less 23m tall and 76cm

wide.

DAY 3THE FORESTAND ACID RAIN

50,000 years to regenerate

the damage we cause

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October 20-25

DAY 3CONSUMERISM

What a delicous lunch the German

students cooked for us!

Time for a questionnaire and discussion

about the use of mobile phones.

Afterwards, teachers had to work on the

final assessment and final report.

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Have you ever changed

your mobile phone?

What is a mobile phone

made of?

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TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF A SUSTAINABLE LIFE ACROSS ALL CONTINENTS,

FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, ONCE PER YEAR, IN AN INTERNET CONFERENCE.

What is Agenda 21? The general ideaof the plan for Agenda 21 is to livesustainably, to be aware of ourcommon future. That ‘s why the nameof the conference is a call for asustainable life. Let us live sustainably!Let the ideas of the Agenda 21 becomereality! Not next year, not next week,not tomorrow, right NOW!Agenda 21 NOW! Read more...Students took part from Germany andpartner countries

AGENDA 21 NOW!INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE

SEE ALSO OURCONTRIBUTIONYEAR 2013

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During the mobility to the Basque Country, we saw how anenergy cooperative can supply energy to a community. Wealso that Asparrena, one of our local towns, has planned to beenergetically self-sufficient.

After these two steps, we visited a village very close toÖhringen, which is energetically autonomous. The village hasa community biogas plant that heats the houses there. In casethe plant cannot supply energy for any reasons, they haveplan B, which is a pallets community heating. Last year, theydidn’t use it at all. The energy the biogas plant produced wasenough to heat Untermassholderbasch. There is a bigconcerned in the region, so the Hohenlohe-Odenwald-Tauberworks hard to achieve renewable energy and to fight climatechange as well as to reduce costs.

DAY 4 VISITINGA ‘BIOENERGYVILLAGE

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Agenda 21 Now!

Internet Conference

Thursday

Agenda 21 Now! 24 hours Internet Conference.

It was fun to see that our classmates weretaking part from the Basque Country.

We recorded some videos with ourcommitments. We also had to help ourteachers with the final report and evaluateprogress before its completion at the end of theschool year.

Each shool assess their work and then, we alltogether decided on the final steps and tasks,such as dissemination.

DAY 4COMMITMENTS

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EVALUATION,PLENARY ANDFAREWELL

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CREATING A DRESSWITH RECYCLED

MATERIAL

The outfits were created from soft drink cans andcarboard coffee cartons after being inspired by acampaign in which HTC Warriors took part and thatinvolved picking litter in the street.

Holy Trinity gallery of

Young Kouture 2014

Coffee cartons

Cans

BUILDING ACHAIR WITH

RECYCLEDMATERIAL

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The PressWhile we were in Germany, we could show our partner an article had been published in the

Basque Region the day before we left Agurain. There more articles were published in Germany.

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JUNKCOUTURE

RECYCLED PRODUCT

We liked voting to help ourpartners.

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Dissemination

The five Basque Elos schools met in Bilbao to celebrate

Europe Day. Educational authorities were invited to take

part in the event. Read more...

Subject: Ethics(Civic Education)

Street poll to knowabout

recycling habitsshopping habitsnot clean detectedareasImprovements andneeds

To be used for2014-2015 Agenda21 campaign

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HTC eco-warriors

The eco warriors team at HTC has been

inspiring not only at their school, but also

overseas. The partnership is proud of

being part of their European eco-

warriors teams with whom they have

shared so many memories, tasks,

practices and experiences. We are aware

that Mr Callan has done a rewarding job.

Awards

‘ECO WARRIORS.INSPIRING PROJECT

BBC School Reporters

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In June we visitedour future Europeanmates at school

These are the students who will be with us at Aniturrinext year. We visited them and explained whatEuropean projects are, what we have learnt and howwell we have felt.

DISSEMINATIONAT SCHOOL

AT PRIMARY SCHOOLS

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EEW21WEB PAGE

VISIT OUR PROJECT WEB PAGEEXPAND THE MENU!!!

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EEW 21 YEAR 2BY ANITURRI BHI 2014

ON BEHALF OF THE PARTNERSHIP

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