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International Projects, implemented by Bulgarian NGOs, attracted the attention of ministerial experts
A meeting between NGOs, governmental experts and professors from theUniversity of Sofia took place on June, 9th 2009 in the building of theMinistry of Education and Science. CEI, “Roditeli” Association and DITT presented the educational platforms of the projects Patch World, BridgingInsula Europae and EUCLIDES. The Ministry’s experts expressed theirheightened interest and appreciation of our work. For more that one hour all participants discussed the possibilities for adequate use of the projects’ products and results in our Bulgarian educational reality.
LETHE: Acknowledgements for a work well done!
CEI awarded students from 104 SOU, Sofia who took part in the experimental phase of the LETHE project with honorary diplomas.
This happened during their last work meeting with experts, that took place on June 2nd 2009.
The final PATCH-WORLD quiz is coming soon
The fourth working meeting of PATCH-WORLD project was held in Malta on 25th of May. The project is co-funded by the European Commission, in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme.
The goal of the meeting was to discuss the results of the project testing phase carried out in the participating partner countries and to define the rules of the final quiz contest which will end the game as well as the testing phase of the project.
The Quiz contains questions from the following categories: Sports, Music, Time machine, Health, Sciences, People and Places.
Each country presented the results of the National level of the game and the problematic moments for the families involved. At the International level of the game 18 families will be competing - 2 families from each country (Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Finland, Turkey, Malta, Germany and The Netherlands). The final 4 winners in the game will receive attractive awards - weekend in Florence, PC, handy cam and I-Pod.
Participants for Bulgaria in the final Quiz are Vladimir Raichev and Presian Genkov. They will compete with the families from Italy and Malta. We wish them LUCK!
The final project conference will be held in Turkey.
Start of the Insula Europae Game
If you want to check your knowledge of EU history, culture and literature or your rights and obligations as an European citizen, you need to play the “Insula Game”, designed by members of the Insula Europae Youth Clubs for their fellow-students.
During our project meeting on April 11th 2009, the game was presented by the Youth Club at “Hristo Smirnenski” SOU in Bresovo in the presence of students from Sofia, Roman and Polski Trambesh. The competition has begun, the ranking list is open! The contestant with the highest score by May 09th will be awarded a book.
PATCH WORLD project brought together kids and parents
The experimental phase of the PATCHWORLD project began on March 14th at the Bulgarian-Korean Internet center in Sofia. With help from the experts of Roditeli Association (Marieta Radulova) and CEI (Petar Tsvetkov and Tzvetan Tzvetanski) parents and children walked for the first time trough the different levels of the platform, became acquainted with the different tasks, which each family as a team will have to fulfill during the period 01.04.2009 - 26.04.2009. The first four teams will continue in the international competition in May 2009, where they will meet their opponent from Italy, Finland, Germany, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Turkey.
Start of Educational game and LETHE project platform – Learning trough emotion
For about two hours a group of 6th graders from 104 OU Zahari Stoyanov slipped into pirates’ roles and searched for a hidden treasure. Their emotions were their guide trough this virtual adventure. Based on Emotional Intelligence the game showed them how to recognize, manage and foremost how to isolate their emotions during the decision-taking process.
The module “European Civic Education” was used for the training of students from “Prof. Vassil Zlatarski” International School.
The module “European Civic Education” was used for the training of students from “Prof. Vassil Zlatarski” International School. The students, aged between 16 and 18 years old are to take part in the Euroscola’s visit to the European Parliament in the end of the same month. They were trained in the European Civic Legislation, which was the subject of the following discussion. The training was organized on 5-th of March in IT cabinet of the school. The next training will be on 11-th March and will be continuation of the Civic Education topic.
Feel the unique Lappish nature and Midnight Sun!
An excellent opportunity to become acquainted with educational cooperation and collaboration on the Internet !
Introduction to Suomi identity, culture and language ! Feel the unique Lappish nature and Midnight Sun!
The Finnish success in PISA and some reasons behind it !
You can find all the information on the website of the course
http://www.ejournal.fi/lapcom2
A press conference presents 4 European projects under the Lifelong Learning Programme
The computer, the mobile phone and the Internet changed the way of life – the way we work, communicate, have fun and even the way we learn. But did the schools and the teachers changed? How do they response to the challenge of a world, where the information is only “a Google” away? Is the teacher ready for a new role – not the one of the information’s monopolist, but the one of the guide, who turns the information’s abundance into a tidy and structured tale? Is he ready to accept the student as a partner, when it comes to dealing with the present’s challenges?
Did we, the parents, change? Do we study or play with our kids in front of the computer? Are we ready to study with them? They play, surf and chat online. But not with us! We have fun, too. But not with them! The children are the wizards of the keyboard, the gods of the games! On that account, we are masters in thinking and being careful with the information. But not the kids!
Answers to these questions were given by representatives of “Parents” Association, Center for educational initiatives and the Department for Information and In-Service Training of Teacherse during the press conference in the Bulgarian News Agancy building on December 14. The theme was “Partnership for modern education – four European projects under the Lifelong Learning programme"
See here: Newspaper Expres, Newspape Monitor, Newspaper Novinar, Newspaper Telegraphe
Work meetings on the projects Bridging Insula Europae and Euclides took place in Sofia
On December 12 and 13 in Sofia the European partnership organizations carried out work meetings on the projects EUCLIDES and BRIDGING INSULA EUROPAE, which develop modern education methods and the use of ICT in the education.
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The outcomes of the meetings were announced on a press conference, organized by the leaders of Center for educational initiatives, “Parents” Association and the Department for Information and In-Service Training of Teachers (DIUU). The theme was “Partnership for modern education – four European projects”
January 2009 the execution of the projects BRIDGING INSULA EUROPAE and EUCLIDES starts in more than 80 schools...
January 2009 the execution of the projects BRIDGING INSULA EUROPAE and EUCLIDES starts in more than 80 schools in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Spain, Finland, Cyprus, Romania, Sweden, Turkey. In November the preparation of the partners’ teams went into its final phase. The experts carried out videoconferencing, where they specified the details around the choice of E-learning platform, project scenarios and time schedule of the project. The team of the Bulgarian partners put through meetings and methodical consultations with their colleagues from Gotse Delchev, Roman, Plovdiv, Shumen and Sofia.
Consultation with teachers about Bridging Insula Europae and Euclides projects have begun
On November, 11th the representatives of Center for Educational Initiatives (CEI) and Department for information and In-service Training of Teachers (DITT) Tzvetan Tzvetanski and Zahari Zahariev held a work meeting with teachers from the Language High School “Ivan Vazov” in Plovdiv, who participate in the Bridging Insula Europae and EUCLIDES Projects. The meeting was attended by Anelia Miteva and Yana Nikolova – philosophy teachers, Sylvia Paskaleva – German language teacher and Galina Hristova – teacher of mathematics. The teachers held a consultation about project designs and methodological aspects of planned activities with students for the period January-April 2009.
Cyber festival for students
In the period 4-8 November in Hall 2 of “Inter Expo and Congress Center” on boulevard Tzarigratzko Shose 147 Sofia Municipality in the framework of the annual exposition Bait Expo organized the first of its kind five-day students’ festival of computers under the motto “The computer – my friend” . During the exposition different institutions and organizations will present their activities and projects, directed to the safe Internet for children and the use of the new informative and communicative technologies for education, communication and fun.
The Centre for educational initiatives and “Parents” Association acquainted their colleagues with the results the conducted research “The influence of ICT on the family life: ICT’s role in the parents-children and family-community relationships”, which was financed by the European commission and was done in the framework of the project PATCH WORLD – “Parents and children working, organizing and learning togeth
For a second year the conference “The challenges of the present and the quality of the education” was conducted in Shumen.
Over 160 experts participated in The Second science-practical conference “The challenges of the present and the quality of the education”, which took place in Shumen on 3o and 31.10.2008. The conference was organized in 3 main sections: “Modern role models in the educational space”, “Social reality and the effective 21st century’s school – reality and perspectives” and “Quality in the educational process and education. Specialists in the educationsphere from Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Italy and Austria carried out their reports. The centre for educational initiatives and “Parents” Association presented their experience from their project activities in the reports, which were delivered by Tzvetan Tzvetanski – “E-education – perspectives for the Bulgarian school”, and Eva Borissova - “Building life skills – two possible approaches”
Educational meeting for the project” Development of Insula Europae’s clubs” was carried out
Educational seminar for the project” Development of Insula Europae’s clubs” under the operative program “Human resources development” took place in Sofia on 25 and 26.10.2008. The seminar was implemented in the building of the “Information and teachers elaboration department” on boulevard “Tzar Boris III” № 224
The research phase on the projects Bridging Insula Europae, Euclides and Patch World came to an end.
The research’s focus was pointed to the examination of the educational approaches, connected with the active learning, problem based learning, cooperative learning, learning by doing. The elaboration of the ICT, based on an educational platform for open distance learning, was also discussed. An inquiry research reveals the opinion of 37 teachers and 32 parents, all participated in the project. Interviews with experts of different institutions like The Bulgarian Science Academy,
Information about the results of the researches and the video materials of the interviews you may find on:
Participation of Bulgarian experts in a European educational project.
On 29.08.2008 in Istanbul representatives from Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski” - the Department for Information and In-Services Training of Teachers (Bistra Stoimenova and Zahari Zahariev) and from Center for educational initiatives (Emil Jassim) took part in a working meeting, organized by the Turkish partner Bolu Directorate about the project EUCLIDES.
Center for Educational initiatives sets up a network of school clubs in the frame of the Human resources development programme
On 01.09.2008 the execution of the project “Development of a school club’s network “Insula Europae” started. The project is financed by OP “Human resources development”. The schools from the municipality Sofia, Roman, Polski Trumbesh and Bresovo take part in the project.
A seminar in the building of the Department for Information and In-Services Training of Teachers - DIITT
On 19.04.2008 Center for educational initiatives along with DIITT and Association “Parents” organized a seminar for schools that have shown interest of participating in the international projects Bridging Insula Europae, Euclides, Patch World. 10 schools from Sofia, Gotse Delchev, Bresovo, Polski Trumbesh, Shumen and Lovech take part in the seminar. The lectors introduced the projects and the way of participating in the activities.
Bulgarian educational organizations take parts in the formation of a European educational network.
On 27 and 28.03.2008 in the Italian town Citta di Castello, 30km from Perugia, the beginning of the development of the educational Montesca Network started. Non-governmental organizations, universities and educational centers from 23 countries participate.
