First mobility, Stigliano, Italy (5th- 11th April 2022)
On the road to Stigliano...
Croatian team
Introduction...
Enjoying Italian hospitality...
Participants...
Let`s start to work...
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REPORT (7th April 2022)
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The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
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The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
Teams are on their way to Antalya
REPORT 25th March 2023
We had to be at school at 9 AM where we met students from other countries. Firstly, the Turkish coordinator had an introductory word and announced the Black Theatre. The Black Theatre performance took place in the dark. After the awesome performance, we listened to the song of the project - "True Colors" by Cindy Lauper. During the song, the Turkish coordinator showed a video from mobility in Croatia and also showed some posters from mobilities in North Macedonia, Romania and Italy. Ice-breaking activities were fun and we had an opportunity to meet other students even better. We had a coffee break, ate and drank Ayran, a popular drink in Turkey and Asia.
At 2 PM the bus came and we went to Manavgat Waterfall, Side Ancient City, Side museum, Side ancient theatre and The temple of Apollo.
We had an opportunity to see the sea and take photos, buy souvenirs and try traditional Turkish ice cream.
At 6 PM we had free time and decided to go to the mall where we were bowling. After a long, but fun day, we went to our accommodations.
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
REPORT 25th March 2023
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
25th March was the first day of activities during the mobility in Turkey. We had to be at school at 9 AM where we met students from other countries. Firstly, the Turkish coordinator had an introductory word and announced the Black Theatre. The Black Theatre performance took place in the dark. After the awesome performance, we listened to the song of the project - "True Colors" by Cindy Lauper. During the song, the Turkish coordinator showed a video from mobility in Croatia and also showed some posters from mobilities in North Macedonia, Romania and Italy. Ice-breaking activities were fun and we had an opportunity to meet other students even better. We had a coffee break, ate and drank Ayran, a popular drink in Turkey and Asia.
At 2 PM the bus came and we went to Manavgat Waterfall, Side Ancient City, Side museum, Side ancient theatre and The temple of Apollo.
We had an opportunity to see the sea and take photos, buy souvenirs and try traditional Turkish ice cream.
At 6 PM we had free time and decided to go to the mall where we were bowling. After a long, but fun day, we went to our accommodations
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
Teams are on the way to Turkiye!
REPORT 25th March 2023
25th March was the first day of activities during the mobility in Turkey. We had to be at school at 9 AM where we met students from other countries. Firstly, the Turkish coordinator had an introductory word and announced the Black Theatre. The Black Theatre performance took place in the dark. After the awesome performance, we listened to the song of the project - "True Colors" by Cindy Lauper. During the song, the Turkish coordinator showed a video from mobility in Croatia and also showed some posters from mobilities in North Macedonia, Romania and Italy. Ice-breaking activities were fun and we had an opportunity to meet other students even better. We had a coffee break, ate and drank Ayran, a popular drink in Turkey and Asia.
At 2 PM the bus came and we went to Manavgat Waterfall, Side Ancient City, Side museum, Side ancient theatre and The temple of Apollo.
We had an opportunity to see the sea and take photos, buy souvenirs and try traditional Turkish ice cream.
At 6 PM we had free time and decided to go to the mall where we were bowling. After a long, but fun day, we went to our accommodations
REPORT 26th March 2023
Today is second day of our turkish journey. We started it with interesting and loud ride to Antalya by bus. We sang and danced to songs from all countries. Firstly we arrieved to "Aspendos" - ancient theatre. It was anourmos and in really good shape. Than we visited Düden waterfalls. They were beautiful. Our last activity was tour around center of Antalya. We walked through street market, tried their tee and nagotiated with street sellers. Our day ended with coffee we drank all together in one of the most famous caffes in town.
REPORT 27th March 2023
Today is second day of our turkish journey. We started it with interesting and loud ride to Antalya by bus. We sang and danced to songs from all countries. Firstly we arrieved to "Aspendos" - ancient theatre. It was anourmos and in really good shape. Than we visited Düden waterfalls. They were beautiful. Our last activity was tour around center of Antalya. We walked through street market, tried their tee and nagotiated with street sellers. Our day ended with coffee we drank all together in one of the most famous caffes in town.
REPORT (7th April 2022)
Describe your image
The first set of activities today were presentations about similarities and differences of school systems presented by the students.
The final result was a graph comparing the systems.
What followed was an icebreaking activity in which each team had to draw fruit typical for their country and explain how it is connected with inclusion. The drawings were then put on an inclusion tree.
In the afternoon we visited the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park and Accettura, a beautiful small town. A group of students showed us a few of their traditional dances and then all students danced and had a great time
REPORT 8th April 2022
Describe your image
We started the day with a lecture by Bruno Francesco, a jurist who talked about education being right and/or duty.
Then the students had to write whether they think education is right or duty. They also filled in a survey about the same topic.
What followed was a game of human chess which was played outside on a chess board. Two students led the game while other students moved on the chessboard according to their instructions.
Next was an interview with a local journalist and the meeting of the project coordinator with all the teachers from the partner schools.
REPORT 9th April 2022
Describe your image
Today the teams participated in a lecture given by the former headmaster Mr Leonardo Giordano who talked about the importance of inclusion especially during the pandemic.
After the lecture, students put leaves on the inclusion tree. The leaves were painted in flag colours of each country and had one word on them related to the topic of this mobility - inclusion.
Then they watched a movie called Bad Seeds which depicts the topic of inclusion, empathy and helping others.
In the afternoon all guest and host students went to Policoro museum and ruins of Heraclea.
REPORT 10th April 2022
Describe your image
On the last day of our stay in Stigliano we visited the beautiful monastery in Pandula. In the evening we had our last dinner together. As part of the dinner, participants showed different talents through an entertainment program called the Talent Show.
11th April 2022
Leaving...
Bernalda team
Thank you Stigliano!
See you in North Macedonia!
Second mobility, Kavadarci, North Macedonia (18th- 24th May 2022)
First team in Kavadarci... Italian teams
Enjoying Macedonian food
Describe your image
REPORT 19th May 2022
After meeting the Macedonian project coordinator Gjurgjica Kosovska and other partner countries, we had a tour of Kavadarci which included visiting a museum-gallery and the museum of traditional food and drinks. After that, we visited the municipality in which we were introduced to different departments and people who work there. We were also welcomed by the mayor of Kavadarci.
In the host school, the Macedonian students presented their school and briefly explained their educational system. In order to get to know each other better, students from every partner country chose one song to present themselves.
REPORT 20th May 2022
Describe your image
The host school organised a day trip to the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje. Some of the places we visited were the archeological site of Skopje Fortress, the Old Bazaar, the centre of the city, the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and other interesting places.
REPORT 21st May 2022
Describe your image
The first activity of the day was a football game with teams of mixed students. They were supervised by a PE teacher.
Activities in the school followed. Students formed groups with a task to highlight the most important aspects of the Declaration of Children's Rights and draw a flip chart. Then the representatives of each group explained their choices. The second activity required the students to draw symbols of democracy, equality and law on apiece of paper and then cut each paper to make a puzzle.
Next, we went to Tikveš Winery where their guide talked about the importance and specifics of this winery.
The last activity of the day was a ceremonial dinner which was an opportunity for students from partner countries to enjoy some time together.
REPORT 22nd May 2022
REPORT 23th May 2022
At 8:30am wr started our trip to Ohrid. We drove by bus for about three hours. First we visited The Bay of Bones where we saw reconstructed village with gazebos. After that we continued our trip to thw Monastery of St. Naum. There we had lunch and free time, so we visited a lot of shops. Then we went to the city of Ohrid which is known for its pearls and the Ohrid Lake. We had a tour around the city with our tourist guide and then we had free time. During our free time we rented a boat to see Ohrid from another perspective. After a full day tour we came back to the hotel around 9:30pm
On our last day we went to school in Vataša around 8:30am. In school we divided into groups and we made posters about EU Legislation. After we were done we presented those posters and learned a lot from other groups. We spent time with students from other countries and improved our English. We finished around lunch time and then we had free time since it was our last day. Later we had dinner and hung out with all the new people we met. In conclusion, this was a very positive experience and a chance to meet students from other countries and lern about their cultures.
Thank you Vataša!
See you in Croatia!
Third mobility, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (13th- 19th September 2022)
REPORT 12th-13th September 2022
Teams arrive at Slavonski Brod
Dinner with coordinators and host teachers
REPORT 14th September 2022
The first day of activities of the Erasmus+ project ˝True Colors˝ started with the programme of welcome which also had musical content. The musical part of the programme included the students of General Secondary School “Matija Mesić” and led by Mr Martić and Ms Stičinski singing songs to welcome the guests. Ms Nemet-Kosijer, Ms Mormando and Ms Jakovljević talked briefly about the project during their speeches. Students from all participating schools (from Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Stigliano and Bernalda-Ferrandina from Italy) briefly introduced themselves. The programme was hosted by Luka Štefanek.
The lecture “Is empathy a chemical reaction?” given by psychiatrist Bernarda Veseličić started with a digital questionnaire TEQ (used for self-checking one’s own level of empathy). The main basis of the initial statement claims that neurons and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and others greatly affect our empathy. After a break there was a workshop related to the lecture through which the students analysed videos, answered questions and revised their knowledge of empathy. Croatian student Mila Berišić presented a exhibition "Is empathy a chemical reaction?".
Slavonski Brod tour
The tour around the town started after the visit to County office. The guide was Mr Tihomir Katušić the teacher of History and Art. The tour started at the central square. Mr Katušić first talked about the city in general, said some interesting facts about it and talked about Franjo Tuđman, the first Croatian president, whose statue is there. The tour continued to the tiles made in honor of some important sportspeople from Slavonski Brod. A short explanation followed about the University of Mechanical Engineering and the model of the city. The short walk on the city promenade followed along with the showing of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić family house and statues of characters from her novels. The next station was the Brod Fortress, where we got some guidance and information, then the tour continued to the Ružić Gallery with which foreign students were especially amazed, and according to Nehir Kayis: “The best part of the city for me was the Gallery. It was beautiful.”
REPORT 15th September 2022
Theme for the second day was STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At the beginning students from our school Mihael Lovrić, Dominik Lovrić and Nikolina Žderić made a little quiz that contained five questions about STEM. The percentage of the quiz solved was 40%. After that, students from all the countries had to make a common poster and write S-T-E-M on it in their own language. The next activity was a short presentation of competitions in our school, such as informatics, physics, astronomy and GLOBE program.
After a short break, dr. sc. Dražan Kozak held a presentation about our Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and 3D printing. He said that the studies are not easy at all, but it is worth it. He talked about 3D printing which was very interesting to our guests. He mentioned 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam. The bridge is made of stainless steel that is much harder material to print than plastic. With 3D printer you can print whatever you want. People use 3D printer for aerodynamic mechanism, medicine, different kind of tools, jewellery and so on. In the end he said that 3D printing is not a process which only glues things together but it is much more complex than people think.
REPORT 16th September 2022
Short story workshop
One of the workshops was held by our teacher Biljana Mikić and involved reading short story or an excert form a book and write, draw, paint or in any other manner create there own ending. One of the tasks the students worked on was changing the negative events, words or feelings from the story into the positive ones. One group of students decided to express there empathy through a drawing, another through a poster and last group decided to make a cartoon. Whatever the form of expression was, all the works that students produced had a common topic of empathy. Each student contributed to this common goal in their personal way.
Peter and Paul – Ukranian refugees
Peter and Paul are twin brothers from Ukraine who were kind enough to speak with us via a Zoom call about their experience. They left Ukraine on short notice in February 2022. They were confused because they didn't know the exact situation in their country at the time. They only knew they left because of the explosions. After fleeing Ukraine they first went to Poland for two months and then to Croatia. They felt sad and afraid during that time. After settling in Croatia they said that Slavonski Brod was hospitable with kind and welcoming people. The things they miss the most are their friends form school and basketball practices. Their final message was that the most important thing to feel safe is to have kind people around you.
News story
Today we participated in workshop which was held by history teacher Jelena Jakovljević. The name of the workshop was „Us as refugees, us about refugees“ and students did a research on the role of the media in forming public opinion about migration. Firstly we asked prof. Jakovljević what the main goal of this workshop was and what side effects of refugees and migrations were. She replied that the main goal of the workshop was to raise awareness of the situation in which we can all find ourselves, so we should always be understanding.The teacher and students tried to connect examples from history with today's current problems. The most interesting part to students was the information that Croatia is an example of country of migration because there are more of the Croatian people outside the borders of the country than inside.
We asked a few participants what they like here and what do they find interesting in Slavonski Brod. First we spoke with the Romanian girl named Julia Prilog about our city. Julia considers the city center to be the most beautiful part of it, she also considers Croatian people to be very kind and communicative. She wanted to point out that she liked the workshop because she could hear different opinions there and see the migration from the other perspective. Another student who shared her opinion was the girl from Italy named Lucia Colangelo. In her opinion, the most interesting thing about our city is that Sava river seperates it from another country called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also finds our one-flatted houses very interesting and she really likes traditional croatian food. Finally we can proudly say that most of foreign participants fell in love with our city and culture.
REPORT 17th September 2022
On Saturday we went to Zagreb. We visited centar of the city, Cathedral, St. Marko square, Uspinjača, main square, Dolac and after the lunch we visited Museum of Contemporary art. We visited appropriate exhibitions that also touch on our topic, empathy-
REPORT 18th September 2022
On the last day of mobility in Croatia, after the activities with Plavi Cvijet Organization, a game “Empathy Hunt” followed. The game was created by Ms Biljana Mikić with the help of students from 3. G and 3. H. The participants had to follow clues which led them through the whole school in order to come to the treasure. The winners got candies.
After the game, activities continued in playful spirit. Ms Marina Gojković held a crash course in traditional Croatian dances. Viktoria Ostojčić and Borna Pernar wore a traditional Croatian robe while Šimun Perković played a traditional Croatian instrument bisernica. Everyone danced and had so much fun.
The day ended with a ceremonial dinner for all participants. The dinner was served in Art hotel. After the dinner, the students participated in a pub quiz done by Mihael and Dominik Lovrić. At the evening’s end, tears, laughter and hugs were exchanged and everyone said that they were very grateful to come, meet new people and Croatian culture.
REPORT 19th September 2022
Forth mobility, Iasi, Romania (23th- 29th November 2022)
REPORT 23th November 2022
On the way to Iasi...
REPORT 24th November 2022
REPORT 25th November 2022
Today started with activities at school Primăria Municipiului Iași at half past ten.
There we were warmly welcomed by the students and professors.
At the entrance to the school, they offered us traditional bread.
First, each country presented its city and school.
Then followed workshops and tasks such as a round of questions, spelling names, flashcards asking what would you rather...
After the activities at school, we had a lunch.
Then we had free time until 7 PM.
At 7 PM, entertainment and dinner began.
On it, students from Romania danced and sang folk songs.
Everyone joined together in a common dance
And today started with going to their school at half past ten.
First we had a chemistry workshop.
In it, we assembled a bridge without glue, saw how alcohol burns and colored the fire, "revived" the marker with water, and finally made a volcano.
Then we had refreshments.
Then we listened to the presentation, which is also the topic of Erasmus in Romanian.
We played different games related to communication.
Like a broken phone, whisper challenge and then we learned how to properly lead a debate.
We were also coming up with plans to help Ukraine.
After the workshops, we had a tour of the city.
We visited the theater, churches and learned about their history.
It was very cold, so we couldn't go around much
REPORT 26th November 2022
Today we learned something about volunteering. Activities at the school this time started in the afternoon. We were divided into 3 groups and each group was given a different task. Our group had to come up with a campaign to raise money to buy laptops for poor students. By doing this task, we awakened the awareness of helping others. We presented our posters. We also shared different roles during the volunteer action that we present on Monday.
REPORT 27th November 2022
Sunday is a day reserved for an excursion. We met at half past 9 in front of the Palace of Culture. First, we visited the Ruginoasa Palace. Then we visited the Bukowina Village Museum and learned about the former life. We had a break for lunch, and after we were full, we went to Suecave Fortress with full stomachs. When we got back we had some free time which we spent watching the game.
REPORT 28th November 2022
REPORT 29th November 2022
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
It is time to go home! Thank you Romania!
See you in Turkiye!
Fifth mobility, Manavgat (Antalya), Turkiye (24th- 30th March 2023)
REPORT 24th March 2023
REPORT 25th March 2023
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.
And unfortunately today is the last day of our stay here. So today was our last trip to school. We had final activities. We performed the roles we were given on Saturday today at the press conference. We also had closing speeches and the Romanians gave us special gifts at the end. We also left them short messages on the tree. We are glad to have been a part of something like this. We are sorry to be leaving and we hope to meet again sometime in the future.