2010-2012: The Green Travel Guide

Upon closure of the first school partnership, our school immediately searched for new partners to ensure the continuation of the internationalization process. We found our new partners in Germany (Aloys-Fischer-Schule, Deggendorf ) and France (Lycée d'Enseignement Agricole Privé Gabriel Deshayes, Saint Gildas des Bois ).

In the next two years we will work together with 36 travelling pupils and approx. 300 staying at home on the creation of a "green tourism guide", i.e. an investigation into the possibilities our local regions have to offer in the field of sustainable tourism.

Here you get to "The Green Travel Guide Website" with all you need to know about the goals, tasks, participants and meetings.

Next to this school partnership, our school (Miniemeninstituut) has also applied to participate in the new Individual Pupil Mobility programme, together with our existing partnerschool in Italy (Vieste) and our new partners in France (Saint Gildas des Bois). We hope our application will be accepted, so we can send 7 pupils abroad and host as many Italian and French guest pupils in Leuven.

2008-2010: The Art of Free Time

Our school is vividly finding its way on the international stage: our first Comenius project is born! We have been working together with the Lyceo Lorenzo Fazzini in Vieste, Italy and Ozel Gulbaharhatun Fen Lisesi in Trabzon, Turkey. Teachers and pupils from different classes have participated in several ways, e.g. by completing questionnaires about our free time activities and travelling habits, as a host or a visitor to each other, by discussing similarities and differences between our school systems, both in classrooms, the teachers' room and staff meetings.

The project title is "Getting acquainted with the art of free time", i.e. a search in three countries as to how we spend our free time. Perhaps there is something we can learn from. After all, the organisation of free time activities has become a real challenge, a piece of artful craftsmanship even?

This website is dedicated to The Art of Free Time, i.e. the project title.

How it began:

In 2006 we organised our first contact seminar in order to write the application for our first Comenius project. At that time we also hosted our first Comenius language assistant (Nuno Ferreira from Portugal). The other visitors came from schools in the Czech Republic (Opava), Germany (Storkow), Romania (Baia Mare), Italy (Vieste) and Turkey (Trabzon).

One last preparatory visit to Poland (Opalenica) in 2007 resulted in the written application "The Art of Free time" for seven schools originating from Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Turkey and Belgium.

Eventually only the national agencies in Flanders, Italy and Turkey were able to provide the necessary project budget, so we were three schools to start with...

Click here to find out more about Comenius and the Lifelong Learning Programme supported by the European Commission and the Flemish Ministry of Education.

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