2002-2003: SOCRATES - Comenius 1 – School Partnership:

"Ornaments on Historical Buildings in Cologne upon Rhine, in Leipzig, in Brno

and Levice"

Participating schools from the towns stated above chose attractive ornaments on historical

buildings and made their imitations of stone, plaster, clay within the project activities. In the

end of every project week the exhibition of students´ works was organized. Students of 3

training branches - stonecutters, ceramists, stuccoworkers - met during the project work.

Socrates 2002 – 2004: Different Schools, Different Paths Towards the United

Europe

Project partners:

Escola Secundária Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugalsko

Lycée Privé Externat Notre Dame, Grenoble, Francúzsko

1st High School of Palero Faliro, Atény, Grécko

Technical School of Kryoneri, Atény, Grécko

Scuola Media Statale C.Casteller, Paese, Treviso, Taliansko

1st Istituto Superiore Archimedes, Rosolini, Syracusa, Taliansko

Escola Básica 2/3 e Secundária de Sao Martinho do Porto, Portugalsko

Escola Secundária Ibn Mucana, Alcabideche, Cascais, Portugalsko

Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar, Sibiu, Rumunsko

2007 Socrates Comenius 1.3 School Development Projects

PROJECT MEETING IN LEIPZIG (14. - 18.3. 2007)

In the 3rd - last project year representatives of 12 partner schools from 9 European countries

took part in the project meeting in Germany. They arrived from Cyprus, Denmark, Belgium,

Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The project has lasted for 3 years and its

tasks and objectives were distributed among the partners at 2 levels:

1. school headmasters and coordinators developed theoretical study materials about

modern school management in their country

2. students prepared presentations and CDs/DVDs about UNESCO natural and cultural

heritage (monuments, sites) and significant personalities in their country.

As the meeting was the next to last one, the participants balanced and evaluated project

contributions. Most important part of the meeting were students´ project results

presentations. Our Secondary Vocational Training College was represented by 2

superstructure course students - Peter Truban and Ján Kecskeméti, headmaster Dr. Ján

Krtík and Slovak teacher Mgr. Silvia Gunišová.

In the end of the meeting participants espressed a symbolic idea for the future:

" Cooperate respecting national and regional differences."

COMENIUS 2008 – 2010: SENTSUDER (Supporting Entrepreneurship in Schools and Sustainable Development in EU

Regions)

Project was aimed at the questions of sustainable development within the education in different types of schools.The partnesrhip was created by 13 schools from 9 countries that included primary and secondary general and vocational schools with the students aged from 12 to 18. The main topic of the 1st year was Historical routes in my region / country. Teachers and students were searching for information ( archives, libraries, internet ) about the historical route chosen that were connected in some way with their region or country. They also developed PC presentations with some printed materials. Results of their work were introduced at the Student ´s Conference during the project meeting in Paese / Mogliano Veneto ( Italy ). In the past times different routes connected different countries in order to develop the trade and get to know with new cultures and traditions. The idea of the routes that connected Europe without borders is getting nowadays a growing importance. Processing this topic as the marketing product was expected to develop further student ´s business ability and skills that are considered the priorities within Comenius Programme. Moreover, the cultural heritage is an important part of the conception of sustainable development in each partner country. In the 2nd year the main topic was a present – day sustainable development. The students got acquainted with the basic documentation provided by the teachers. Later they developed questionnaires related to common European indicators of town´s sustainable development and distributed them throught the towns in appropriate ways ( the questions were about the citizens ´satisfaction with the local community, ecological energy production, local mobility transportation, greenery, air pollution, local government and SME ´s, activities, products supporting the sustainable development, etc.). The results were again presented at the Student´s Conference that took place during the project meeting in March 2010 in Sibiu ( Romania ). When prepared materials they cooperated closely with local authority or business and chose and emphasized the examples of good practice from their region. All project results have been included into partner schools teaching process as the supplementary study materials. Working methods carried out: research in the field, visits to companies and local government bodies, questionnaires, PC data processing, conferences and supplementary activities. Second year of the project work influenced strongly students ´ business skills as they were processing a very current topic in a close cooperation with different local and regional bodies ( SME ´s, local authority, wide public ), analysed the information obtained and proposed appropriate solutions. Work within the wide international team brought a lot of new impressions, information and inspiration for all the schools involved.

COMENIUS PROJECT MEETING IN LEIPZIG (GERMANY) 26.3.- 28.3.2009

Headmasters, coordinators, teachers and students from 13 partner schools from 10

European countries took part in under the project " Supporting Entrepreneurship in Schools

and Sustainable Development in EU Regions". The meeting was carried out in Arwed

Rossbach Schule that was the hosting institution and welcomed the participants from

Denmark, Cyprus, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Lithuania. The

author and the project coordinator is the SOŠ Levice.

In the course of the meeting the students introduced their presentations under the topic

"Historical routes in my region" that had been designed for the 1st project year. The

presentations were watched by the representatives of the Leipzig School Office, the

Chamber of Commerce and the European Parliament.

Our school representatives - the students of the 2nd form in study branch marketing in

tourism Simona Pašková, Radoslav Šebo, Martina Gondová a Róbert Lehocký introduced

the topic Magna Via - Historical Mail Route and the students´ activities that have been

done in the research project work.

The programme of the meeting was divided to 2 work days and the rest of the time was free

for various cultural activities. During 5 days the organizer prepared for the participants

interesting and fruitful programme - guided sightseeing tour around the old town centre - City

Hochhaus, Augustus Square (Augustusplatz), St. Nicolaus Church (Nikolaikirche) which is

the oldest one in Leipzig or St. Thomas Church in which the famous composer J. Sebastian

Bach worked. But we were impressed very strongly after the visit to "Monument of the

Nations" which commemorates the battle with Napoleon in October 1813.

The meeting participants were also invited to the new Town Hall and welcomed by the

vicemayor Mr. Wolfgang Tiefensee having a small sweet refreshment.

During the meeting the timetable of project activities by the end of the school year was

discussed about as well as discussions with the students about the project work and the

importance of the international cooperation among the schools were carried out. Next project

meeting of the coordinators will be held in Denmark in May 2009.

When it was the time for saying good bye, we all had together the farewel Champagne drink

changing e-mail contacts and last smiles.

We enjoyed the stay in our German partner school in Leipzig. We would like to say thanks a

lot to headmaster Mr. Ott, colleagues and students from Arwed Rossbach Schule for the

meeting preparation. We were leaving the town with a pleasant feelings because we know

we have made a lot of friends here.

COMENIUS 2012 - 2014: CREA (Creativity - Respect - Education -Activity)

CREA project is aimed at the development of the key competences of students and teachers.

During the 1st year of the project students worked on the topic of Energy and Cultural

Heritage in their regions, during the 2nd year on the topic of Technology. Students visited

interesting technical monuments or buildings in their area. They obtained information about

the history and the present of it and described its function and features. They used the

knowledge of sciences (mainly mathematics, physics, chemistry). The project is made in the

form of presentations or videos, and the study texts are written in English.

Partner schools in the project:

Arwed Rossbach Schule, Berufliches Schulzentrum der Stadt Leipzig, Germany

Bornemissza Gergely Szakközép-, Szakiskola és Kollégium, Eger, Hungary

Istituto Comprensivo "C.Casteller", Paese, Italy

Agrupamento de escolas Ibn Mucana - Escola Secundária Ibn Mucana, Alcabideche,

Portugal

Šolski center Postojna, Slovenia

Ataköy Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul Turkey

Cooperative methods were verified during the project meetings in cooperative workshops by

the teachers. Each workshop was aimed at the development of selected key competences of

students (foreign languages, ICT, mathematics and technical competence, sense of

entrepreneurship, cultural awareness, social and civic competences). Pupils created

presentations, tasks, creative workshops for their peers.

The project partnership was also aimed at key competences of teachers and transfer of

innovative methods and further teacher training. Topics for teachers were: “Teacher

Competences – the Current European Trends and Their Application“ and „Methods and

Forms of Further Teacher Training – Examples of Good Practice".

The project considers the most important factor in improving the quality of education

„encouraging of an initiative of students and development of their key competences as well

as the lifelong learning of school employees.