COMENIUS
INDIVIDUAL PUPIL MOBILITY
2010-2011
A European learning experience for secondary school pupils
SPAIN-SWEDEN
10 August 2010 - 10 November 2010
"Learning mobility, i.e. transnational mobility for the purpose of acquiring new skills is one of the fundamental ways in which individuals, particularly young people, can strengthen their future employability as well as their personal development. Studies confirm that learning mobility adds to human capital, as students access new knowledge and develop new linguistic skills and intercultural competences. Furthermore, employers recognise and value these benefits. Europeans who are mobile as young learners are more likely to be mobile as workers later in life. Learning mobility has played an important role in making education and training systems and institutions more open, more European and international, more accessible and efficient."
EU Green Paper on Promoting the Learning Mobility of Young People (Brussels, 2009)
Madrid. 28 June, 2010
OAPEE
Jornada Informativa para la Movilidad del Alumnado
In preparation of an individual pupil mobility scheme under the Lifelong Learning Programme (Comenius Sub-programme), the Spanish National Agency OAPEE organized an informative session for teachers and students in Madrid on 28 June, 2010.
The new programme will enable secondary school pupils to spend up to a year studying in a school abroad with a grant from the European Union. Our students will spend three months in TIBBLE FRISTÅENDE GYMNASIUM, in Täby (Sweden).
Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.
Täby
10 August - 10 November 2010
COMENIUS IPM
GREEN CITIES PROJECT
Click here to access the Wikispace.
Stockholm. European Green Capital 2010. Click here.
Stockholm
August 2010
OUR NEW HOME
Kristina Westerberg, Anna Brinck, Katarina Fjelkner and the Swedish students
organized some perfect days for us in Stockholm.
The weather was balmy and the city was brimming with life and beauty.
We visited the Vasa Museum, Skansen, Gamla Stan, the Stadhuset (City Hall)
and enjoyed a guided visit of the school at Täby.
The students also started their Swedish lessons.
Tack tack
You're young, you're smart and you're beautiful, so be happy!
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Vicky & Linnéa |
Amanda & Nazaret |
Marcia & Alba |
Carla & Tanni |
Lisette & Jérémy |
The whole group a few days later. Welcome Antía!
Photos below: Kristina Westerberg
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LIFE AT TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM
SWEDISH FAMILIES
Our hosts in Sweden - teachers, students and families - are always willing to pamper us.
That's why we're always looking forward to coming back.
Look at the delicious smörgåsbord - a type of Scandinavian meal served buffet-style with multiple dishes of various foods -
prepared for us.
I would like to send my warmest TACK TACK to the Swedish families,
who make our exchanges and mobility programmes such a success.
GREEN CITIES PROJECT
Photos below: Kristina Westerberg
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Jérémy and Nazaret at the Institutet för Vatten och Luft (Miljöinstitutet) with expert Jenny Gode.
A heart-felt thank you, Ms Gode for your help.
Our COMENIUS students with Mr Mikael Jensen, from Täby Kommun, who lectured them on the subject.
Thank you very much, Mr Jensen.
HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD
In HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD, the street dimensions, block lengths, building heights, density and usage mix
were designed to take advantage of water views, parks and sunlight.
Restricted building depths, set backs, balconies and terraces, large glazed areas, and green roofs are just a few features required
to meet Hammarby Sjöstad’s environment programme with the aim of focusing on renewable energy, waste reduction, ecological
building materials, and alternative transportation options at the planning and implementation phases.
For futher information, click here
COMENIUS. SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY. STOCKHOLM
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Our students at the Swedish National Agency. (Left)
The whole Spanish group and with other Italian COMENIUS students. (Right)
TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM. COMENIUS IPM
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Information about the COMENIUS IPM programme at Tibble.
The students and Spanish teacher Faustino Martín. (Left)
Swedish teacher Katarina Fjelkner and the Swedish journalist. (Right)
TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM
CENTRUM FÖR INTERNATIONELL UTBYTE
At Tibble F. Gymnasium with members of CIU (Centrum för Internationell Utbyte),
an NGO focused on international exchanges for young people.
Our students introduced themselves in Swedish to a roar of applause from the audience.
ROTARY CLUB
Antía, Nazaret and Jérémy with Rotary Club president Maria Olausson and mentor Kristina Westerberg at Täby Park Hotel.
SNOW IN SWEDEN
Photographs below: Victoria Fernández Bettinelli
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October, 2010
The first snow in Stockholm. Winter is approaching. It's time for the birds to fly south!
OUR STUDENTS ON THE WEBSITE OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY
October, 2010
Our students are playing a pioneering role in opening EU mobility programmes to other young Europeans.
Foreground (right to left): Amanda, Jérémy and Carla
Background (right to left): Victoria, Lisette, Alba and Tanni
For further information (in Swedish), click here
AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER ...
Photograph below: Kristina Westerberg
Well, not exactly an apple, but a flower and a gift for Swedish mentor Kristina Westerberg.
Aren't they the nicest students in the European Union?
BACK HOME: AT BARCELONA AIRPORT
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10 November, 2010
A sunny day at El Prat Airport, Barcelona.
Spanish food at last!
Nazaret's famous boarding pass. Smile, please!
BACK HOME: LUGO AND OUR SCHOOL
PARENTS AND FRIENDS
Photographs below: Pilar Fernández Illán
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10 November, 2010
05:00 p.m.
Our students arrive in Lugo, at our school. Their parents and friends were there, looking forward to hugging them.
Life's wonderful when you have parents and friends like this.
Are you really aware of how lucky you are?
It's been a long time abroad. They will never be the same again: they will be even better!
Madrid. 20-21 December, 2010
OAPEE
"Hacia la Cohesión Social a través del Aprendizaje Permanente"
We are very proud to announce that our COMENIUS IPM project has won the first Quality Award
granted by the Spanish National Agency for European Educational Programmes (OAPEE) as an example of good practice.
The awards ceremony was held in Madrid on 20-21 December
and promoters Juan Carlos García Lorenzo and Faustino Martín González, as well as student Antía García Fernández on
behalf of our six CIPM students, were invited to attend the ceremony.
We were also invited to take part in the workshop on the dissemination of good practice,
which is one of the key objectives of the OAPEE to promote the exploitation of the results obtained in European projects.
Quoting the OAPEE Annual Report, "the winners of these prizes, with their effort, time and disinterested work,
are the real creators of a Europe that is being conceived day by day in the difficulties of daily life in the centres, in the
desire to grow as teachers."
We feel very happy to have been selected as an example of good practice in Spain and will consider this award
as another milestone to undertake new and even more challenging enterprises.
Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.
Lugo, Spain
10 January, 2011
YOUR NEW HOME
VÄLKOMMEN TILL LUGO
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Marline Ballari Beckman
Amanda Crabo
Lisette Eriksson Marcia Muñoz Cáceres
Tannaz Najafipour
Josefin Sjögren
Linnéa Sundberg |
Juan Carlos García Lorenzo
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A very warm welcome from your Spanish mentor, Juan Carlos García Lorenzo.
What is a mentor?
Well, I'm here specifically to guide you through your time at IES "Nosa Señora dos Ollos Grandes."
Whether that's keeping you on track with your studies, helping you with family and accomodation issues
or even just to bounce ideas off and have someone here to listen when you need to voice frustrations aloud,
your mentor is the person you should go for advice and support,
your first port of call whenever you're having difficulties with anything.
I'm here to offer help when you need it most and, normally,
the quicker you ask for help the faster I can help resolve your problems!
Of course, you'll thoroughly enjoy your time here and I don't expect any problems to arise
but ... just in case!
Madrid. 24-25 January, 2011
OAPEE
On-arrival training for incoming pupils
and mentors from host schools
organized by the Spanish National Agency
Our school is once more invited to take part in a workshop
on the dissemination of good practice
The Spanish National Agency for European Educational Programmes (OAPEE)
organized a two-day on-arrival training meeting for incoming pupils and mentors from host schools.
We were once more invited to take part in a workshop on the dissemination of good practice,
and mentor Juan Carlos García Lorenzo and student Carla Serrano López
on behalf of our six CIPM students had the opportunity to explain our project.
Carla Serrano López did a wonderful job,
explaining her experience in Sweden and raising awareness of the project's activities and outputs.
Our Swedish students also had the opportunity to visit Madrid. Take a look at the photographs below.
Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.
USEFUL LINKS
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Insurance (AXA) (English - French).
Student Exchanges in Sweden / Stockholm. Click here.
OAPEE (Organismo Autónomo de Programas Educativos Europeos). Spain (Spanish).
OAPEE. COMENIUS. Spain (Spanish).
OAPEE. COMENIUS. Individual Pupil Mobility (IPM - MAC). Spain (Spanish).
Guía para la Movilidad del Alumnado COMENIUS (Spanish).
COMENIUS. Individual Pupil Mobility (IPM).
Guide to COMENIUS Individual Pupil Mobility.
Information leaflet on COMENIUS Individual Pupil Mobility.
European Commission. Education & Training. Lifelong Learning Programme. National Agencies.
SWEDEN / SVERIGE
International Programme Office for Education and Training
Box 220 07
S-104 22 Stockholm
- Tel: +46 8 453.72.00
- Fax: +46 8 453.72.01
- E-mail: info@programkontoret.se
- http://www.programkontoret.se
SPANISH EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM)
Ambassador: D. Enrique Viguera Rubio.
P.O. Box 10295,100 55 Stockholm - Djurgårdsvägen, 21 -115 21 Stockholm.
Tel: +46 8 52 280 800
Fax: +46 8 66 03034
Email: Emb.Estocolmo@maec.es
SWEDISH TRADITIONS
CRAYFISH PARTIES
The crayfish are accompanied by cheese, bread, beer and, of course, Schnapps.
Photo: Erika Lidén/Image Bank Sweden
As the Swedish summer draws to a close, you may be lucky enough to experience warm, clear August nights that are almost Mediterranean in character. That’s when Swedes have their crayfish parties ... by Po Tidholm
The crayfish party of an August evening is the most Swedish of Swedish food traditions. Eating crayfish goes back a long way. We know, for example, that crayfish were served in the monasteries in the Middle Ages, and that King Erik XIV ate crayfish prepared as special delicacies.