STEP to Europe: IES Francisco Ayala visiting ITE Tambossi Battisti in Trento

IES Francisco Ayala visiting ITE Tambossi Battisti in Trento

^{From the 11th to the 21st of March a group of students and teacher of IES Francisco Ayala are visiting ITE Tambosi Battisti in Trento, coordinator of the Erasmus+ programme KA2 "STEP to Europe", whose complete title is "Studying and Travelling for an Environmentally-friendly promotion", which is a scholar association of three educative centres, the two mentioned above and Halesowen College in Birmingham. In the language of the European Programmes, the action of a person visiting a school in another European country as part of the activities planned for the development of a given project is called a 'mobility'. So, now we have altogether 27 mobilities in this case, 4 teachers and 23 students (18 of 2º bilingual Bachillerato and 5 of 2º bilingual DAW, Upper VET course in Desarrollo de Actividades Webs).}

^{As it is common in this type of mobilities, they are not only working together on the implementation of the three main products of this project (the design of environmentally-friendly touristic routes in our respective provinces, CLIL contents and materials related to scientific, geographical and cultural aspects of the provinces and the design of a digital platform in which those contents will be loaded and communication can be established for that environmentally-friendly promotion), but also contrasting and learning about important socio-cultural aspects such as similarities and differences about their educative systems, ways of life, economic sectors, familiar relationships -most of them are hosted by their Italian partners- and enjoying visits to museums, as the MUSE (a 'brand-new' Science Museum) or trips to the impressive National Park of the Dolomites and the gorgeous cities of Trento, Verona and Venice.}

^{Our Italian colleagues have been working hard to make arrangements for our students and teachers to enjoy a varied plan of ludic activities (see below) and, at the same time, have a broad perspective of life and education in the region of Trentino as well. As it was the case when our Italian partners visited us in April last year, a special relevance has the meeting with educative authorities, they had a rewarding visit to la Delegación de Educación de Granada while last Monday our colleagues took part of an important educative encounter with educative authorities and head teachers of Trentino.}

 ^{In this meeting under the title of "STEP To Europe, a step towards multilingualism"}, they had the opportunity to exchange information about the educative system of this autonomous region, particularly contrasting the implementation of bilingual schools through the CLIL approach. In this sense, our colleagues Francisco Echevarría, ICT teacher and Head of Studies, and Pilar Fernández, Science teacher, both members of the bilingual team of our school, did an insightful presentation about the Andalusian bilingual programme, its development in the province of Granada, and how it is applied in IES Francisco Ayala. Evidence of the relevance of this meeting is the fact tha it has been news in the two most important newspaper of the region of Trentino being reported in two interesting articles:

http://www.ladigetto.it/permalink/52255.html

http://www.regioni.it/dalleregioni/2016/03/14/trento-il-benvenuto-del-governatore-rossi-agli-studenti-di-granada-ospiti-del-tambosi-448684/

^{For the comments and messages both teachers and students are sending us, we can presume that the visit is being really rewarding from a personal and professional perspective. Could a school ask for more?! Could anyone learn about European life and culture in a most enjoyable way? Could any scholar activity be more productive to build-up European links than these types of Erasmus+ programmes?}

ERASMUS+ KA2 - STEP TO EUROPE

11^th to 21^st March 2016

Visit of Students and Teachers from

IES Francisco Ayala – Granada – Spain

Date	Time	Activity	Location	Students
Friday 11	19.00	Arrival and check into hotel and families	At School	families
		Teachers dinner	PEDAVENA
Saturday 12	09.30	TRENTO TRENTO ROMANA CASTELLO BUONCONSIGLIO CASE AFFRESCATE	Meeting at school	Filomena, Kristina, Francesca, Lisa, Caterina, Giada, Giulia
	Afternoon	Free time
Sunday 13	08.00	VERONA (Castle, Arena, Giulietta house, Bra Square)	Meeting at train station Departure at 8.33 Arrival 9.51	Student guides 4 TA + free choice
	Evening	Free time
Monday 14	09.00 09.30 10.30	Visit school Official meet and greet STEP to Europe project activity (group activity)	School Hall Aula Magna LAB/AdV
	Afternoon 16.30 19.00	Meeting “STEP to Europe, a step towards multilingualism” Buffet	Aula Magna Agenzia Viaggi	4TB, 4TA Filomena Romano Ilaria Piffer Franca Lilian
Tuesday 15	7.45 15.30 17.00	RIVA DEL GARDA IT company visit IBT( informatica bancaria trentina) Autobus 7 o 8 via Guardini, 31 Trento tel 0461 1733333 TRENTO	Meeting at coach station at 7.45 departure at 8.00 return at 13.25	Laura – Giulia – Silvana – Mark - Mounir – Lisa-Francesca – Giada - Caterina Mazzon -Luci –Rossi -
Wednesday 16	09.00 10.30 -13.00 15.00	Visit to MUSE STEP to Europe project activity (group activity) NATURISM – IMPACT HUB (Maura 3358074220) Fabio	ADV	Mark – Mounir – Elia
Thursday 17 March 2016	All day	DOLOMITI Paneveggio National Park	Meeting at school	Students: Laura, Ina, Elia, Mounir, Mark
Friday 18 March 2016	09.15 09.45	Departure Calliano Castel Pietra come back	Coach station	Students: Mounir, Laura, Silvana, Mark
		Free time
Saturday 19	:00	Robotics contest at school Rock concert	School Gym	Mounir
Sunday 20 March 2016	All day	VENEZIA	Meeting at train station	Students: Free choice
Monday 21 March 2016	???	Home Time 